Wow, it’s been almost a year since I last updated this site! Lots of excitement in my own life, so I couldn’t take much in the Sim department! I did have a rather busy neighbourhood going, but then my OFB CD cracked and I had to reinstall the game to play only with Uni and NL.

God, it’s painful! I so want OFB, but it’s not available where I live any more. Of course, I have a new neighbourhood, along with a new Legacy family. Their name is Tenner. The founder, June, has two children, Dana and Mark. Dana is the heir.

June is a single parent, and cash are still pretty tight in the Tenner household. Dana has a part-time job after school to do what she can.

New neighbours have moved in next door, a bunch of rather mysterious people. They’re calling their lot Torchwood, and no one really knows what they do. There are three of them, Jack, Toshiko and Ianto, and they have a lot of money. I have a feeling they are going to be very entertaining!

~Janny

I did the unthinkable—I deleted my Legacy family in generation five!

I was getting so sick of them—they were too rich and there were too many of them. Anyway, there’s a brand new legacy now, the Lake family! Faith Lake was the founder, and *cough* I cheated a bit. I had her have a kid with Jan Carlsson, who’s one of the Sims I made. I know that’s against Legacy rules, but what the heck, all the townies were too ugly.

Anyway, Erik is on the verge of teen-hood now. Jan saw Faith making out with Benjamin Long (ew! I know!) and he stamped out of the house.

As for poor Jan, he has to cool his heels till his future partner safely negotiates childhood and grows up! It’s so hard when you have to plan so many lives!

~Jan

*cough cough* It’s been a long time since I updated. That’s because I took a long break from Sims. As for my Legacy family, I deleted them. In fact, I deleted the entire neighbourhood because I got sick of them!

Was up to generation 5 in my Legacy family, but it was getting out of hand. Moral of the story: make only one offspring per generation in the Legacy next time.

Since I deleted the neighbourhood Eternal City, there is a new one called Andara (the official name for the Eternal City). It has two families at the moment, the Carlssons and the Fullers.

Sabine and Otto Carlsson were the founder family of Andara. They had four kids: Jan (of course!), Kristina, and the twins Evert and Mia. It was a tough job playing this family of six because only Otto was going out to work. When Sabine was not busy having and bringing up the kids, she was running a home business selling flower arrangements. Money was always tight.

Now Jan and Kristina are grown up. Kristina went to university, dropped out, and is now a single mother with a son, Henrik. Jan has also moved out, and his future is, of course, related to the Fullers

Helen and John Fuller have two kids: Laura and Stephen (aha!), both teenagers now! I’m trying to get Laura fixed up with Evert Carlsson.

And I have to SOMEHOW get Stephen and Jan to meet and fall in love! *sigh… what a romantic* (And in case anyone’s interested, I made Otto and Sabine really ugly so they’d have ugly kids, but Jan is quite pleasant to look at. Stephen, on the other hand, looks like a… well… not too good!)

But with the Fullers and Carlssons breeding with each other, I think I’ll soon need some more families in the neighbourhood.

~Janny

Well, generation 3, Maya, grew up… in fact, she’s on the threshold of old age. She seems to have had a rather full life. Following in the footsteps of her late granny, the Legacy founder, who died when Maya was a baby, she entered the politics career track and reached the top.

In between she managed to have and sort of raise three kids (Sara, the heiress, Alicia and Yazid). She also managed to have a long-standing affair with Jan Lindahl, and two of those three kids are his!

She married Seth (I forget his original surname) and it’s a tribute to that man’s trust that he has never questioned why Maya produced two very pale kids when he is certainly not pale himself!

Generation 2, Yazid, finally died at 85. He was on a platinum high since mid-elderhood, so he was greeted by the Grim Reaper with a glass of fruit punch as two hula zombies danced for him. Somehow I don’t think he’ll be bored in heaven.

Anyway, his grandkids are gearing up to carry on the glorious Kassem legacy. Two are in teenage, and one is still a kiddie.

~Jan

Eternal City is getting too confusing for me now. I cannot keep track of who’s married to whom any more!

My first-born Legacy generation 3, Luc, was supposed to move in with the youngest Lindahl offspring, Vendela. But he fell for Laci Ying as well, and got her pregnant. As that was happening, Vendela was sneaking past Luc’s door, with a big bouquet of roses to thank him for a dream date, and she happened to peek in at the window (what a voyeur, I swear!).

Anyway, now Vendela walks by at periodic intervals knocking Luc’s trashcan over. I think she might ultimately settle for Xen Emon, and they might get married even.

I’d actually forgotten about the existence of the Emons… or the Anhels, which leaves poor Rehan doomed to be a child for ever! And I really have to play the Lindahls if I want to bring up Jan, who I intend to have a significant role to play in the production of Legacy generation 4 with Maya Kassem.

Yazid Kassem achieved his lifetime want of becoming a professional party guest. Now he’s ridiculously happy all day, cleaning bathtubs, playing on his computer and interfering with his kids. And if I don’t keep a close eye on him, off he trots to answer the perpetually ringing phone!

I wish he’d die—his job on this planet is done.

His kids Maya (the heiress) and Luc got into private school. Luc is now a teenager. He’s having it off with two local lasses… sigh.

As for Maya, I’ve already rolled the dice for her. She’s to have the Family aspiration. I’m really not looking forward to having little Sims running about. Hopefully by then Yazid will be a ghost and will scare the living daylights out of them!

I like being Sim God!

~Jan

Sara Kassem, my Legacy founder, died at the age of 73. As the Grim Reaper gave her her final marching orders, son Yazid stood by howling his head off.

But life goes on. Yazid married his university lover Melanie Wolosenko and soon enough, the third generation popped out. As you can see here from the profusion of pink, it was a boy. They called him Luc. However, for various reasons, the designated offspring to carry on the legacy is not him, but his sister Maya. You can see her here, learning a very important life skill, potty training.

With Sara’s death, the number of family friends has fallen drastically, and Yazid and Melanie have their work cut out with their careers, bringing up the kids and keeping their spirits in the green. It doesn’t help that Sara’s ghost roams the premises, scaring her family. I notice their bladder control is weak when faced with spirits.

Well, at least they have a nice house.

~Jan

Aizel Anhel graduated college!

Well, all right, I cheated a bit—I used the motive decay cheat to freeze his motives. He spent all his time between classes building skills. As a result of which he has maxed out all but two skill sets.

He’s moved back to the Eternal City and his university lover Aiyana Phelps has moved in with him. She brought in a whole lot of money (close to 17,000 simoleons), so if you have a Sim getting friendly with her, I’d say go for it!

~Jan

The Emon family’s letterbox has disappeared! I have no idea how—it was just gone one day. Maybe it’ll come back the next time I reload the game, but so far no other bugs have crept in because of it.

The two Emon kids—Zea and Xen (that’s pronounced Chen; Why? you ask. Well, I don’t know… I made up the name and decided it should be pronounced that way!)—are now teens. I managed to get them into private school, even though the headmaster (BJ Ryan this time) was such a stuck-up arsehole! I wonder if this private school business is more difficult in Nightlife.

Both the Emon parents want another kid, but I think it’ll be too boring to do the baby-toddler-child thing all over again, even though I can’t wait to use the custom baby content I downloaded!

~Jan

Went back to Pleasantview after a long time today. I’d forgotten what was going on there! I have two families of interest there—the Broke family and the Wield family.

Brandi Broke’s third child, of course, was a boy, Daniel. He’s now a child. Brandi met an eldery gent called Dominique Something-or-other downtown and one thing lead to another, which in turn led to yet another child. Thankfully, she had a girl. Daisy is still a baby, and her brothers seem to be rallying around looking after her.

Dustin grew up rather badly. He’s in the military now. Beau’s in school, and so is Daniel. Frankly, I’m bored with them all.

The Wield family consists of Edgar Wield and his partner Edwin Digweed. They’re characters from my beloved Reginald Hill books. Elderly-looking, rather sweet old gents. But I don’t really know what to do with them any more. They’re past the romantic dinners and slow-dancing phase. They need a new challenge, and somehow I don’t see Ed and Ed bringing up kiddies.

~Jan