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....

Today / 1000 days / Don't mess with my rock 'n' roll!

Now, this is primarily meant to be a blog about my Sims 3 story, but you know, sometimes I got something else I want to share.

Today is 1000 days ago since the R*ssians launced their full scale invasion of Ukraine. Which they had no right to launch.

This is the shape of Ukraine. This is the terroritory that belongs to Ukraine. And may they one day succeed in driving the R*ssians out!

This is my opinion, and no threat, sable rattling or propaganda will make me think otherwise.. if you don't like it, you're not welcome here...

Also.. rest in peace to Bjørn Müller, the vocalist of one of the last true rock'n'roll bands, Backstreet Girls.

Here's to you  - and here's to living in a free country, a free world, where everyone is allowed to say what they want, do what they want, wear what they want, to love whoever they want, to listen to, to play the music that they want to play and to be excactly the kind of Misfit that they want to be!

Here's to freedom!

Don't mess with my Rock 'n' Roll!

Discovering a new place for family trees and the next update on the students...

 Yeah, so through a random search (I forgot what I searched for, but it was probably something like "sims" + "family tree") I found this site: "The Sims Tree" which is a new site to create family trees for "The Sims" families, working not to differently from the old Plum Tree App, and if you had your family trees at The Plum Tree app and made sure to download them before they closed down, transferring them to this new site is pretty easy. I just did it with the Motorsen family tree, as seen here:

Of course, this one is currently a little outdated as the kids have now become teenagers and the toddlers (as far as I can remember) have become kids, but I'll work on updating it.. and uploading the remaining family trees too.. bit by bit..

The point of showing the above family now is also to show the link between Thomas' family and Oliver Freddys family.. err, which is essentially the same family... and to sort of tie the Sunset Valley and Lake Onebega/University Life stories together..

And now, for the latest update on the university sims life..

Chapter 6.2 – February 2024 - Just get married already.../ Such a good, good boy....

 

Quick Summary:

https://app.thesimstree.com/public/tree/QyJJzM7n15QHUvuB5lHkEsinGQeyTL1o?ref=27c6cddf

https://app.thesimstree.com/public/tree/QyJJzM7n15QHUvuB5lHkEsinGQeyTL1o?ref=27c6cddf

https://app.thesimstree.com/public/tree/QyJJzM7n15QHUvuB5lHkEsinGQeyTL1o?ref=27c6cddf

It continues in the same vein as the last one, with Oliver Freddy being more focused on his studies and scientific research, and Inge wanting to gain more popularity by throwing and attending parties...

..but the story does take a somewhat unexpected twist when Oliver Freddy gets a phone call from Inges mom, Iselin. She has packed her bags and his now headed north to Lake Onebega and tells him she will be there in just a few hours.. and with that, she has a question for him...

..about something she wants to see happen as soon as possible, preferrably this summer. She is pretty certain this is what her daughter wants, and for whatever reason, she wants it too... Oliver Freddy is slightly more hesitant, but he still agrees to meet up with her at the Grotto a little later..

While Inge rushes home to arrange her party, he heads over there to meet up with Iselin in secret where she continues to insist they get married this summer, before she begins to act a little.. strange.. if not downright lewd and should I say pretty disgusting.. this makes Oliver Freddy uncomfortable enough to leave a little earlier than necessary for his lecture...

Inges party doesn't turn into the bonfire party she wanted, because 'the snow is to deep' Which I think is absolute nonsense... I'm from Scandinavia, since when was snow to deep to light a bonfire!? Never! ..but what should I expect, playing a game from a company whose home base is in California... ;)

Well, anyway.. what I wanted to say is.. in spite of this, Inges party is still enjoyable, though pretty calm, as she gets to hang out with her now old friend Samantha to talk and reminisce for a while, until Samantha to turns on her heel and acts a little strange and abruptly leaves to prioritize her studies as she says...

...but Inge thinks she knows why, as she is well aware of Samanthas sometimes dual nature, one that isn't met with the same level of understanding by everyone in town...

Thomas birthday party

 

 Yup, just posted the lastet chapter about Mortens birthday party. Here's his family tree to explain the family relations.

Now, on this one, just like on the last one, I have included a 'non-family' relation, since also Lise Veronicas girlfriend Kristina is on ther, as well as the familys kitten Pelsdott.

Link to chapter:

Chapter 18.3 - January 2024: part III - Thomas' birthday

Quick summary:

The birthday kid is the first one to wake up, to wander across the hallway to what is soon going to be his bedroom to play with his sisters old toys - that will soon also be his of course. :P

While Monica and Lise Veronica is at school, his father wants to take him to the park, but ends up neglecting him in favour of reading a book and being hit on by the towns elderly female population - here exemplified by Iliana Langerak doing her best to be cute and charming.

Lise Veronica had an excursion with her class to her moms workplace, the science centre. Excursions are cool, but she wasn't to happy about going there for a couple of reasons, one of them being that it is her moms workplace, and the other being that they keep animals for testing and research.. those poor animals...

Then it's time for the main event, and an assortment of family members are invited over to cheer for the boy, eat cake, play video games and do other random things...

..such as doing homework, playing video games, being sore losers, giving out inaproppriate flirtatious remarks, borrowing the shower without asking and engaging in pillow fights..

A typical Sims 3 birthday party I guess. :P

January continues with more fish and bait

New chapter Chapter 18.2 - January 2024: part II – The graveyard, mystical stones and voices of the past (and present). posted. This chapter overlaps in time with Chapter 6.1 - January 2024 - The nerd, the loser and thank you for the fish... (Lake Onebega/University) and continues off right after Oliver Freddy and Inge left for university.

Quick Summary:

 

As usual Ranveig stands outside for a while to wait as she watches them drive off into the distance...

The next thing on her mind is to catch a death fish, so she heads up to the grave yard, because she has heard rumours that they may be swimming around in the pond there..

Her brother Knut is also seen visiting the grave yard with his sons Anton and Bjørn-Yngve. Knut is as expected pretty terrified of the grave yard.. there are voices... but his sons are not. Anton points his father to a strange rock that has created a crater in a corner of the graveyard and wants to take it home, but his father is reluctant..



Bjørn-Yngve meets a new teenager that has just moved into town, Sonja Bjørnøy. Sonja begins to flirt with him, and he eventually catches on to it, but at the end of the night as far as I can tell they both end up rejecting each other.

Robert goes to the bookstore to buy the last of the books in logic and goes to the park to read it. When it starts raining he heads inside to the library and continues reading alongside another teenager (and Oliver Freddys cousin) Kleopatra Motorsen-Karlsen, as well as local police man Ethan Bunch.

Ranveig has to leave for the night without getting the death fish she wanted, but she did catch a frog and a kissing gouramis whom she put in a fish bowl and named Mari-Ann just because she thought it was cute to cute to be used as bait. :P

Robert gets his sleep interrupted by a phone call from Kristina Reppe (Inges sister) asking him to go to the school ball with him, which is inappropriate since both of them are already in a relationship, so of course he turns her down...