Back for the New Year

Things take time. I was planning to initially to have posted during christmas, but that was way to ambitious, as spending time with family took priority. Then it was a bit of a rough start for the new year with lots of interesting weather which meant that I got to spend some extra time with my family and missing a few days of work even...

This was the view from my kitchen window a few days ago..

Basically because of lots of snow and wind and stuff, the usual winter weather or maybe not.., my plane trips back got cancelled and I got rescheduled to travel a few days later, only to experience delays there as well for pretty much the exact same reason.. Long story short... 

 .............travelling during winter time sucks.

 Also, not to mention that for a lot of my time, I felt more like binge watching tv-shows on a streaming service rather than playing the Sims, but anyway.. I just posted the next chapter for my university sims yesterday.. so here it is..

Chapter 6.5 - May 2024 - Wolf Lake Whereabouts

In the previous chapter Inge had made a promise to Samantha that she would have a talk with the university administration to see if there was an opening for Samantha to switch dorms and leave the sorority behind - either that three of them, Samantha, Inge and Oliver Freddy could move to a different dorm, or if Inge could convince one of her dorm mates to simply switch places with Samantha. The first option would require that Oliver Freddy would accept parting ways with his little garden that he's built, the second one that Inge would find a dorm mate that would agree to switch places..

Inge didn't really want to ask Oliver Freddy to part ways with his garden, so she tried the second option first.. Since Samantha lived in a sorority, the person she asked had to be female, which meant that there weren't to many choices - the only girls living in their dorm were Liz Taylor and Ayana Yuki, and this particular morning Liz had already left to go to class.. it was only Ayana sitting there, putting the final touches on one of her many job applications... would Ayana agree to make the move?

This is where I would usually throw in a few more images to make a summary, but as much as I'd like to share stuff, I don't want to spoil it so.. but I think I may add that either way a little later Samantha has a place where she wants to take Inge and Oliver Freddy, probably a good fishing spot, but maybe the location can have some other uses too..

It's not even summer and school's out already?

 Hardly... but I got a new chapter about the Motorsen-Notesen in Sunset Valley.

The chapter turned out a little long again, so I divided into two parts. This is the link to the first part, the second part is linked to right at the end of this one. ;)

Chapter 18.6 - April 2024 - No class, no principles, no innocence..

Monica is just a regular mother who wants the best for her kids, to go to school, get good grades and maybe one day, oh I don't know, become scientists or something...

..but what do the kids want? Well, that's up to them, isn't it? Or is it up to mom and dad to pull those strings? And what happens if a string is repeatedly pulled to hard to many times?

Well, of course mom and dad knows better than to do that, of course.. but some times those strings need a little pulling anyway...

...don't they? ;)

New university update and a theme song

Yeah, so I have just made this theme song for the town (using Suno AI). This song does not relate much to students and their stories, not at all actually, but its more about the sometimes dark and dramatic history of this town by the lake.. from way before there was even a university there...
    There is a deep divide that has plagued this town since the first human set foot there, and then another one emerged a little later when the town was again (re)discovered in the 16th century.. and thus began the darkest chapter in this towns history..
    The university wasn't founded until the mid 19th century and is relatively young in comparison.. and the students are even younger...

 Chapter 6.4 – April 2024 – The Art of Unnecessary Drama

 Les quick summary:

It started off peacefully with Oliver Freddy getting up before sunrise to tend to his plants now that spring was here fully. It looked like it could be a nice day, with sun shining and birds chirping, but.. that was wrong, because it quickly started raining.. don't think this town has seen such a rainy spring since.. well, atleast since before Oliver Freddy and Inge came into town. ;)

So it turned out to be a good day for spending time indoors.. Oliver Freddy had gone to the grocery store though to buy a few more seeds to plant, but alas it turned out that some of them required a skill level he didn't yet posess.. so he went to the library to read up a little more on gardening..

Inge wanted to continue her painting of the parking lot, but as it was raining.. painting outside didn't seem like a good option, so her time was better spent finishing a few more chapters on her drama/romance novel..

A little later Inge got a party invitation from Samantha.. she was told she was hosting another pool party.. and to put on her swim wear and meet her at the Grotto.. why hold a pool party at the Grotto? How strange..

Oliver Freddy received a phone call from his aunt Monica, being curious about how his studies went and if he had made any progress on his research on plants... either way, he was pretty much guaranteed a job at the Landgraab Research Facility after his graduation.. Monica would make sure of that. ;)

At the bowling alley Samantha was busy playing a game of bowling that she just had to win, yet she wasn't playing against anyone...but it appeared to be a game of deadly importance...

Inge became a little concerned for Samantha, when she later turned to Inge and changed into her swim wear.. She was acting a little bit out of the ordinary, why insist on throwing a pool party at the bowling alley and not at their dorm? Well, she eventually got the explanation... Samantha had been in a pretty bad fight with her dorm mate Hannah Germanotta, who was usually pretty unbearable to share the same roof with, but this time she had said the most horrible thing that had left Samantha feeling really bad...

Inge didn't want to see her friend like this, so she offered a couple of possible solutions, but it would require a discussion with the university administration and most likely also a discussion with Oliver Freddy..

..would he be willing to part ways with his garden outside their dorm, now that it was just about to turn into something?

A fairytale of Bridgeport (Repost from ye olde forum)

 Yeah, this is just a repost of a post I made at the old sims forum about a year ago, meant as a tribute to the late Shane McGowan. Of course, in my naivety I suppose, I had thought that the post would stay in its orignal form a little longer than it did, hence I sort of didn't post it on my blog, and as such all that remains of it now is just a skeleton... so, for that reason, I post it again now:

Also, the original post didn't feature a link to the song, due to its controversial lyrics, and because I was actually unaware that a clean verison of it existed. Honestly, I feel like I should have know, but I didn't... So this post will link to the clean version. You can of course also choose to listen to the original by finding it on Youtube or Spotify if you wish.

Music:: The Pogues - A fairytale of New York (Clean Version)

Quite possibly my favourite christmas song of all time...

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

 

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

Rest in peace Shane MacGowan you dirty old punk!
The Bushweeds salute you - you've been a great inspiration for this band, more than you will ever know. ;)

And Kirsty MacColl, too. Thank you for the music..

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..and with spring comes prom, again (Sunset Valley chapter)

 Chapter 18.5 - March 2024 - Plants, pranks, a "party" and prom ("The floor is yours...")

Quick chapter summary:

Lise Veronica wakes up with some mood swings this morning, and decides to make several traps around the house to get back at her parents for opinions they might not even hold...

..but she also wants to remain on their good side, to make it a little easier for herself when or if they should discover the secrets she keeps in her room...

Especially her mom she thinks is an important person to please, so she hands her the unknown seed she found in the park as a gift since she knows how interested she is in plants and gardening. Monica as well went to the grocery store to buy some pear tree seeds to pant alongside this unknown seed because she wants to grow a perfect pear tree.

Ivar again took his son Thomas over to their neighbours house so that he could hang out with his cousins. This is Thomas listening to some gossip from his cousin Kleopatra who is barely an acquaintance due to their age difference, but now since he aged up to a child he gets the opportunity to get to know her better.

Lise Veronica goes to hang out at the local rebel hangout, The Blitzkrieg House, with her older teenage friend Margrethe, who finally wants to hang out with her.. Margrethe is being flirted with by Morten (in the blue t-shirt), but doesn't take him to seriously as he is the youngest of the teenagers. In the background is Mortens parents, Jonathan and Kathrine. Morten was probably just following his parents example, which is not necessarily a bad thing.. except that Margrethe is also taken, as she is in a relationship with Ranveigs son, Robert Bråge.

Something inappropriate happened between Ivar and Sofie again, which I didn't catch because I can't be everywhere at all times. I don't know who is to blame, but I'm assuming the same thing happened as it did last time, that Sofie began to flirt with Ivar, though Ivar got the blame for being an inappropriate guest. The picture shows Thomas in a pillow fight with his cousin Walter.

Ivar gets an invitation to a party by his colleague at the theatre, Hans Ivar Nylenna, but it is mostly ruined by Margrethes father, Fredrik 'The Prison Warden', as he belittles Hans Ivars intelligence...

 

 

 

Monica then gets an invitation over to her sister-in-law Helenes house, so when Lise Veronica returns back home to prepare her outfit for the upcoming prom, she has to the house all to herself (minus all the pets, but they're not gonna say anything...), so she takes the opportunity to lay out a few more traps...

Spring is coming..

 As the title implies, spring is just arriving for the students at university, which probably means that it may just be time for a little [french accent]romance[/french accent].. maybe... but first.. the link to the chapter..

Chapter 6.3 – March 2024 - You're weird... and you smell bad... and that's why I love you...

 

Quick summary:

Well, like I said, spring is here.. but first it comes with a quick snow and ice melt, which results in an eerie fog.. and after a while it also comes with a full moon, which may just also have various effects on the population...

Of course after a while as the sun rose in the sky the fog lifted and this dreary morning turned into a fine spring day, perfect to do a little art work outside..

Then while Inge runs towards her lecture, I notice another known figure running a little bit behind her and to the right... this is her father, Jarle. Last month her mom paid a visit without notifying her, but atleast calling her boyfriend.. and now her father shows up completely unannounced to apparently stalk her from a distance... right.. well, Inges family was always a little weird...

Well, anyway, the day continues with the usual going to lectures and Oliver Freddy doing science and the full moon arriving, which always makes Oliver Freddy feel quite anxious.. there seems to be a thing in his family about having some issues with anything that's in, or comes from space one way or another, and this includes the moon...

Inge then gets a party invitation from Jefferey Dean, finally a bonfire party, and spends the evening talking to him.. under the watchful, and perhaps envious, gaze of someone that does not look very appreciative of this...

By the time she finally goes home its gotten really late, and she gets surprised by Oliver Freddy sitting up waiting for her, instead of having gone to bed.. she starts to feel a little guilty then, from coming home late and all smelly from all the test tubes thrown into the fire and begins to excuse herself because she expects Oliver Freddy to be a little upset, but as it turns out... it all has a rather different effect on him.... ;)

Good night. ;)

Sunset Valley Update: Snakes in the schoolyard

 Next update posted about the Motorsen-Notesen family in Sunset Valley. It's a long chapter so I split it into two parts.

• Chapter 18.4 - February 2024 - Snakes in the schoolyard
• Chapter 18.4 - February 2024 - Snakes in the schoolyard (continued...)

The first part links to the second part at the end, so there's no real need to use the second link, but it's there anyway.

 Quick 'summary':

 This morning Lise Veronica learns that if she's gonna keep pets in the house, she will also be held fully responsible for anything the pets do... Mother is still the boss of the household. ;)

Lise Veronica wants to make better friends with Margrethe - a teenager who is two years older than her - so she invites her to hang out at the arcade, but is stood up because she had more inportant things to do... however, there is a better alternative anyway, to hang out with her girlfriend Kristina.

Ivar wants to make better friends with his neighbour and his wifes sister-in-law Sofie, and though they do make friends he also finds himself in a slightly awkward situation with her in her daughters bedroom.. of course... now that just made it sound potentially worse than it really was, nothing special happened, but still a little inappropriate...

Monica wants to do science even in her spare time, and discovers the sleeping elixir. Monica is Oliver Freddys aunt and is a great source of inspiration for him to also do science (she is the reason he went to university).

Then its leisure time in the park for everybody except Ivar, because he's at work. Monica took Thomas there because she wanted to play games with him.

..and Thomas is still to young to be home alone, so he has no choice but to tag along. ;)

 

Lise Veronica brought Kristina there because she wanted to go looking for something.. .. but seeing her mom there, they went roller skating instead, because what she wants to go looking for is somethng she doesn't want her mom to figure out... because if she brought that home, then she fears that her mom would probably say no....