February updates, 2047

February 2047 (Summer)

Collins 2 + Gentry 2

Collins 2

Rebecca Collins is 38, Nathan is 37 and Byron and Noel are 3. 

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Lot tour: Mitchell and Caitlin set up house!

I have a very short lot tours for you today! I finished Caitlin and Mitchell's house a little while ago but it's taken me this long to get the tour up! They had quite a bit of money left over when I finished, so I was able to pay off a decent chunk of their mortgage as well. 

So this house started its life as a house built by Starr, over at Apple Valley. You can see the original in its pixelated, neighbouring lot form to the left in this pic. 

Quite a while ago, I saw this house on one of those house design shows. It's in Sydney, not far from the part of the city where I grew up and it used to be a small carpark until an architect converted it into a house. And for some reason, it always stuck in my head and one day, I decided I'd try to recreate it in the game, using Starr's house as a base. And this is the result. I took it as a very loose inspiration, so it's not an exact recreation! It sat in my hood empty for a couple of years until about a month ago.

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You say it's your birthday, February 2047

February 2047 (Summer)

Lucy Lachance has been pretty anxious about the arrival of Baby #3.

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January updates, 2047

January 2047 (Summer)

Gottlieb 1 + Romilly 1

Gottlieb 1

Athena Gottlieb is 87, Amelia is 58, Wade is 57and Michael is 16.

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You say it's your birthday, January 2047

January 2047 (Summer)

 

Soon-to-be big sister Mia Benton is 1!

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Round 37 Summary

Wow, the last time I did one of these was four years ago! I'm hoping I can complete Round 38 in a slightly shorter timeframe!

 Births: 9 (Jonathan Novak, Caroline Novak, Gavin Lachance, Jeremy Halmi, Mia Benton, Piper Gentry, Imogen, Jordan and Logan Jacobson)

Deaths: 1 (Trent Kirby)

Engagements: 2 (Justin Moretti and Louisa Gentry, Chris Draper and Veronica Moretti)

Marriages: 1 (Josh and Elspeth Royce-Nihill)

Break-ups: (Matthew Lane and Alice Jacobson, Georgina Nott and Adrian Schehl, Joaquin Miguel and Daphne Kirby, Felix Lane and Keira Romilly)

Graduations: 4 (Brendan Lachance, Caitlin Romilly, Annabel and Georgina Nott)

Total population (including playable NPCs): 93 male, 91 female

Babies: 4
Toddlers: 8
Children: 20
Teens: 20
Adults (including Young Adults): 97

Elders: 34

You say it's your birthday, December 2046

December 2046 (Summer)

Audrey’s third trimester has been a rough one. 

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Lot tour: New Draper house

I mentioned in the comments on my last post that my next update would be delayed because I needed to decorate a huge house. I thought it would take me a long time to finish but I got into a bit of a groove with it and basically finished it the same day I started, apart from a couple of minor finishing touches. The backyard still isn't done and I will need that for the update too...but I'm not planning on going crazy with it and don't anticipate it taking too long!

So here is the house! It's been sitting empty in my hood for ages and I no longer remember where I downloaded it. I changed the doors and windows (still might change the roof colour) and made some changes to the layout inside as well. It is now the new home of Lake, Kendal, Rose, Joanna and their sons Levi and Will. 

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Born secular

Round 37: November 2046

Mitchell Carmody is 27 and Eddie Gentry and Tim Lane are 26.

Malcolm is 36, Marius is 26, Lauren is 25 and Caitlin is 23. 

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Quick update

 Hey everyone! I am currently awaiting an email telling me I can pick up my new hard drive. My secondary drive (where all my Sims content is stored) is dying and is making everything on my computer incredibly slow. With the help of my BIL, we tried a new SATA cable, a different SATA port and a spare hard drive and the one thing we figured out is that everything works fine as long as this damn D drive is not connected!

The D drive is actually fairly old. It was the secondary drive before I did my big upgrade last January, so it's really old - 7 or 8 years old, probably. That drive was a 3TB HDD and I'm replacing it with a 4TB SSD, which is pretty exciting! I was going to replace it with another HDD but I found a great deal on the SSD, including a cashback, so I went for it. 

I ordered it on Friday night, with the distant hope it might be ready for pick up sometime on the weekend! Unfortunately, it was not and it's now Tuesday morning and the order is still "processing", even though it's in stock. I can't pick it up until the weekend anyway, so I'm going to wait until tomorrow and chase it up if I still haven't heard anything. Hopefully, I will be able to get set up this weekend!

No need to worry about any of the sim stuff on the D drive, by the way! It's all backed up on my external HD. I was even able to do a quick backup on Scrivener and get that on there too (unbearably slow but it got done). The actual game is installed on the C drive, so once I get my new drive, I should be able to just drop in my folder and go!

You say it's your birthday, November 2046

November 2046 (Spring)

Jeremy Halmi wasn't supposed to turn one until February but with his early arrival, his birthday is now in November. 

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Gray

Round 37: October 2046 (Spring)

Noah Gottlieb is 28 and Brigit is 27.

(Wade is 56, Maia is 44, Anthony is 29, Annabel is 22 and Michael is 15)

Narrated by Noah Gottlieb

We had been scraping by on just my salary and Brigit’s occasional shifts at the campus coffee shop all last year and most of this year but now, Brigit has a permanent part-time job.

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