tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47509041471968425542024-03-06T21:00:18.066+01:00SimsVilleSimsVille is a Sims 2 neighborhood.Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.comBlogger690125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-14363619836958751442016-03-26T09:00:00.000+01:002016-03-26T09:00:06.982+01:00A note about SimsVilleAfter months of just poping in, and occasionally leaving a note, I think
it's time to admit to myself that I'm uninspired by SimsVille at the
moment.<br />
It really breaks my heart saying this, because I really love SimsVille, but it's true :(<br />
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My
last actual blog update was in June, after that I had the rebuild,
which I was so excited about, but now I'm still stuck in the same place I
was in December, and there's no progress at all!<br />
I've played one
family since the rebuild, but that's already months ago, and haven't
actually played another one after that. I've loaded the game several
times since then, and I played around with the hoods a little bit, but
the spark just wasn't there. Some days I even loaded the game and closed
it hours later without doing anything.<br />
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I don't want to quit
playing the game, I love it too much, but I'm putting SimsVille on hold
at the moment and I'm starting a new hood; for the first time in 6
years!<br />
This new hood is called Linfort, it will go by allmost all of
the same rules I had in SimsVille, but there are things in SimsVille I
did wrong from the beginning, and stories I never told that were all in
my head, and I'm going to try to avoid all of that with Linfort. I will
start a new blog about Linfort!<br />
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As for
real life, that hasn't been great since the beginning of this year. I don't think things will change much, but there's hope anyway.<br />
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I hope you'll all enjoy seeing/reading things about this
new hood, and who knows, maybe this will spark me to start playing
SimsVille again! I really am going to miss those sims :(<br />
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You can find the new blog <a href="http://linfortsims.blogspot.be/">here</a> (<a href="http://linfortsims.blogspot.be/">http://linfortsims.blogspot.be/</a>) - I hope to see you guys there!<br />There isn't much yet, but I hope to post the introduction of the first families later this weekend!<br />
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Thanks for the following all these years!<br />
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- Tanja Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-45428639737439921292015-12-27T12:00:00.000+01:002015-12-27T12:00:03.324+01:00The Rebuild - Update 4So it's been a while, I'm sorry. I have been simming, but there has been a lot of things going on IRL to make me focus on playing instead of writing updates.<br />
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The rebuid isn't done yet, but I'm getting there. I've created all of my playables, moved them all back in to their houses or build them new ones in case they needed one. All the house and apartments are furnished and decorated, and I feel quite good about that.<br />
I let the families with babies have their babies again, made
the sims pregnant who were pregnant, added the pets (since I was stupid
enough to forget them when I created the families). <br />
A lot has been done in SimPe as well, but not everything. I also need to recreate my dead sims, so I can do all of the relations, set all the relations and familytrees back in order in game, and get their businesses going again, but that will come eventually.<br />
I have started playing again though! As much as I want all those empty spaces to be filled with lots, I started missing my sims, and really wanted to play again!<br />
I'm having a lot of fun building and (re)decorating all these lots though, so I'll be continuing with that while I play.<br />And I'm still hoping to get my already played updates written and published as well as the lot tours, but that seems like a far away dream at the moment. <br />
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Anyway, in this update I thought I'd give you guys a tour of South SimsVille, to let you guys see what I've done the last couple of weeks.<br />
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So this is SimsVille as it looks at the moment. The part at the bottom of the map is South SimsVille.<br />
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This is a more detailed map of South SimsVille, with the 4 streets all linged out, as well as the househumbers.<br />
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This is Farewell Lane. The community lot on top will be a cemetary and the other one will be a park with a view and a playground.<br />
At the moment there 5 families living here, the Sels' (playable NPC), the Zanobi's, the Mokara's, the Mishoen's and the Zang's.</div>
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Part 1 of Farmer's Way, with still a lot of empty lots, South SimsVille Radio and the Church (no name yet).</div>
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Part 2 of Farmer's Way; still quite a lot of empty lots. But in the middle live the Terrano's and the de Leeuws. Across street of their houses we have a playground, community garden, and another community lot, but I don't know yet what that one will be. I now too happy with the playground either, so that might change.</div>
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Part 3 of Farmer's Way, where we'll find the farms; the Mertens-Savage-household, and the Gradonni-houshold. We also have Gradonni Market and the Garden Barn. </div>
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There's also the equestrian center, Maison Mama (a restaurant) and a camp ground (which kind of fell of the picture...)</div>
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Moving on to part 1 of Concrete Road, again a lot of emtpy lots, but there the Concrete Garden, and the outdoor swimmingpool is also part of this street.</div>
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Part 2 of Concrete Road with the beach lots. The beach lots are; South SimsVille Beach, an actual beach, and South SimsVille Mini Marina, which is a restaurant with a view of the marina. It also have an actual beach, but I don't think I'll be using it like that. In the middle of those 2 lots is the South SimsVille Promenade, a big lot with lots of shops (I'll be posting an acual tour of this one).</div>
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Across the street from the beach, we have the Tora-household and the Spits-household.</div>
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Part 3 of Concrete Road, with some community lots. Here we have 2 restaurants (The Purple Chandelier and The Parrot Diner), a Jazz club, a bookstore, 2 clothingstores, a coffeeshop, but also an outdoor coffeeplace, a grocery store and the doctor's practice.</div>
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At the right you see the Starry Nights Function Hall, and something I still need to decide one.</div>
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The last street we visit is Riverview Road. Which is kind of the more posh-side of town. Here we have the Rai's, the Landgraab's, the Roque's and the Penninkmeijer's. The community lots at the top are a salon, a club and a spa. </div>
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The lonely building on the right is the Claudette, a fancy restaurant. With the Green Strip (something like a park) across the street.<br />
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<i>Notes:</i><br />
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<li><i>First of all Merry Christmass to all of you! I hope you all had a great time! And in case I don't get another update out soon: Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true!</i></li>
<li><i>I actaully can't believe it myself but I got an update out! I've had this in my head for some time now, and I might have gotten it out last week, but I took a little break from Sims 2, and started playing Sims 3. Somewhere in between I got Sims 4 on a sale, and my sister gave my Rollercoaster Tycoon! So a lot of distractions last week. But now I'm back to sims 2, and loving it!</i></li>
<li><i>The picture with the colors and the numbers will be posted in the 'In and Around'-section as well. I'll fill in the families and community lots, so you all have a better idea of what/who is where.</i></li>
<li><i>I have some lot tours that just need to be written, as well as some already played updates, and I have some update-ideas as well . I'm hoping to get those out soon, but as usual I'm not making any promisses. </i></li>
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Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-65745208685446012702015-09-25T12:00:00.000+02:002015-09-25T12:00:06.448+02:00The Rebuild - Update 3As promissed in the last rebuild-update, I'll be showing you a little bit more of SimsVille this time.<br />
I'm still liking the terrain a lot! It's bigger than my previous one though, so it takes time to fill it. To be honest I don't think I have enough sims at the moment, and I know I have a lot of sims already. But it gives possibilies.<br />
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So this is SimsVille at the moment. The road leading out of the map on top is leading to Simmeria, the one going off the map on the left leads to DimSimTown (which I haven't even started yet).<br />
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So this is the 'north' side of town. I call it the north-side, I don't know if it's really north in game. It's supposed to be the more busy side of town with the elementary school, city hall, some business lots, ... of course there are also sims living there, but that street (the one on top) isn't quite ready yet, but this are the families living there: the Warner family, the Collins family and the Forman family.<br />
The street on the right (but on the left side of the right bridge) is where the Min family lives, and the one with the waterview is where the Belio family and the de Leeuw-Lillig families live.<br />
The part on the right side of the right bridge are just empty lots at the moment. The beachlot there is some kind of campground, still in a building process. <br />
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And this is the 'south' side of the town. Here I've placed almost all the lots already, and even 3 streets have names already!<br />
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Riverside Road (all the way to the right), with the Penninkmeijers, the Roques, the Landgraabs and the Rai's. I think it's the kind of fancier part of town. I've added 3 community lot (right across the street from the Penninkmeijers) with a riverview; Riverview spa, Riverview Club and Riverview Salon.<br />
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The other street I named already is 'Farmer's Way', it's the one on the bottom, and it's also the one leading to DimSimTown. As you may have guessed from the streetname it's the road where my farmer families live, the Gradonni's and the Mertens'. I've also moved the Terrano's and the de Leeuw's there, and I've just finished their houses.<br />
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The 2 houses looking out on the beach(lots) are the houses of the Tora and the Spits families. They used to live in Simmeria, but I wanted some more families living in SimsVille, and they seemed like the kind of families that would want to move to SimsVille instead of staying in Simmeria.<br />
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I've also kept Farewell Lane, I've had that streetname before and I basically moved in the same families, Mishoen, Zang and Mokara, I've also added the Sels family and the Zanobi family, it's also where I'll build my cemetery.<br />
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So this is basically what I've done for SimsVille at the moment. I've moved in almost every family, and I'm busy decorating for the ones who moved into a new house, of the ones who moved in to an apartment (I'll promis I'll put up lot tours soon).<br />
I still have to recreate 1 family, and all my dead sims, but that's not too much work. I did almost all the changes in SimsPe for the families I've already created.<br />
So I think I'm really making progress!<br />
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I've decided to not take all of my playable NPC's with me to the new hood. Herman Davis (he was dating Sophie Zanobi) and his daughter won't be in the new hood, as well as Clara Solis (she was dating Jason Draper) and Erica Marlow (she was dating Morgan Penninkmeijer). I've thought about leaving the Benson's behind as well, since neither of them have any connection with one of my playables at the moment, but they have 2 adorable (blond) kids, who I really love!<br />
The Savage family (Jason, Margot and Vincent) moved in with Margot's parents (the Mertens family), and so Ludo and Mia will become regular playables instead of playable NPC's.<br />
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Another change I made is the skincolor of the Terrano family. Stella and her kids all had the alien skintone, which really didn't fit into SimsVille, so I gave them a regular skintone.<br />
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And so this is how the Terrrano-family looks like at the moment. Sorry for the spoiler of Enya as a teen, but I already dit my January-birthdays where she became a teen.<br />
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I do plan on putting up some lottours of new and old buildings, I hope you'll all enjoy those. As well as I still plan on getting a real update out. My 3 week-holiday is ending this weekend, and I know I haven't posted much, but I've focussed on the rebuild.<br />
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I'll be moving in November, so maybe the updates will be even less untill I'm settled into the new appartment, but I'm not giving up on SimsVille at all!<br />
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I hope you all like these updates!Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-18376268664296675272015-09-06T21:00:00.000+02:002015-09-06T21:00:00.111+02:00The Rebuild - Update 2Here I am with another update on my rebuild. My 3 weeks off from work started and I'm very much looking forward to progress with this rebuild so I can add my sims back. I miss the actuall playing!<br />
As I'm typing this, I'm loading my game and I plan to add the first 2 families when it's loaded, I'm so much looking forward to that.<br />
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On to the hoods now. As I already thought I changed the terrain from Simmeria. As much as I loved that my armybase would be in there, it's just not happening, it was way too big to work with, at least for me.<br />
So I went back to the terrain I had in the old hood, but changed things a little bit.<br />
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This is the terrain. When you come from SimsVille you come from the bottom of the map. The long road is SVU, together with the first square and the little road leading to the rest.<br />
All the rest is downtown Simmeria.<br />
When you follow the road leading to the left, you leave SimsVille/Simmeria.<br />
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And this is kind of how the downtown-part looks at the moment. I've done some changes since this picture was taken.<br />
On the right of this map is SVU, where I haven't done anything yet.<br />
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The view from one of the lots. The lot has been moved to another part since this picture, but I like the look of the buildings in the background.<br />
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So this is it for now. Next time I'll focus on SimsVille, which has changed quite a little bit from last time.Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-27944975995197596272015-08-20T21:11:00.000+02:002015-09-06T12:10:19.946+02:00The Rebuild - Update 1Before I give you all an update on this rebuild, I want to take minute to thank you all for the kind words and support. I know I haven't been around much. I haven't posted a real update in months, and I haven't commented on other people's blogs, or posted much on N99. Unfortunatly real lilfe has keeping me busy. <br />
I've changed jobs 9 months ago, and I like what I'm doing now, but I think it's kind of tireing having to talk/think/write French all day, when French isn't my motherlanguage. I do think that's part of the fact I have been so absent lately, I just don't seem to find the energy to do any writing in English when I get home. I hope that I can adjust, and that in a few more months I'll be able to combine the 2 much more, after all it's not like I do anything productive at home when I'm home anyway.<br />
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I really do want to thank you guys for commenting even though I don't do that much lately. I really appreciate it a lot!<br />
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Now on the rebuid-update; one of the most exciting things about having to rebuild, is picking out new terrains! This was actually one of the things I was actually looking forward to!<br />
I've been thinking about a new terrain for SimsVille for some time now, but never felt like replacing the terrain and re-organizing.<br />
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So what I have been looking for in a new terrain for SimsVille, is a terrain a little bit bigger that the one I used to have. It had to be a flat one (I got so tired of the hill in SimsVille!), it had to have 2 exits, one to Simmeria and the other one to DimSimTown (which might not happen in the end, but more on that later), and wanted to be able to create some different "area's".<br />
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So this is the one I eventually choose:<br />
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The road next to/under the white arrow is the one leading to Simmeria (which about a 15 minute drive away). The part above the river is the norths-side. The orange square is where the farmers live (Gradonni and Mertens). I've also added a campgroud with swimmable lake. The yellow square is where the Penninkmeijer's live; the richer part of town. I plan on building some fancy prommenades across the street from them. I didn't want any families living on beachlots anymore, so the 3 beachlots I have will be commynity lots only!<br />
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For Simmeria I wanted a terrain where I could combine my univeristy with my downtown. It also have to be flat, and needed to have 2 exits as well, one to SimsVille and one away.<br />
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This is the one I choose:<br />
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I have to admit this one turned out much bigger than I anticipated! I planned on building an armybase and a science-center in SimsVille, but now I'm thinking about turning the blue square into the armybase instead, because I have absolutely no idea what to do with a terrain this big! I'm even thinking about taking another one. The red area will be SVU. And the white arrow is leading to SimsVille, which might change to the left side of the map.<br />
There will be some kind art-area as well, with a theater, some appartmentbuildings, some museums, art park,... <br />
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As far as vacationhoods go; I haven't added any yet. But I'm tinking about just adding 2 instead of 3, since I never take my sims to Takemizu Village anyway, but I'm not sure yet.<br />
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So this what I've got so far. I might have changed everything by the next time I post an update! Lol!Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-63538598021837276172015-08-09T22:00:00.000+02:002015-08-09T22:00:00.153+02:00SimsVille on hold ...I think it's time to finally accept that I really need to rebuild SimsVille. I've been strugling with the pink flashing for some time now, and every time I thinks it's gone, it keeps coming back.<br />
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I thought it had something to do with the amount of CC I have in my game, which used to be around 17GB (I know I have a lot!), so I started deleting things, and it appeared that every time I got it under 16GB it was gone.<br />
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However lately it came back again, and I've been cleaning out my downloads-folder even more, I'm now under 15GB, and I keep deleting things, but the pink flashing keeps comming back. So I stopped thinking it was the CC, and started thinking the problem is the hood instead. And so I'll be doing a rebuild of SimsVille<br />
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I've been thinking about playing this last family before doing the rebuild, it's december in my hood, and so I'm almost halfway through my round, but my gave is pushing me in another direction.<br />
I've been trying to do that the last month or so, and it's just not working.<br />
Ussually I can play 2 or even 3 families during one weekend, if I have not much else do to, now my game hardly lets me play through 2 days without giving me the pink flashing. So finnishing this year is just not going to happen before the rebuild.<br />
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I admire <a href="http://sullivansims.blogspot.be/">Carla</a> for what she has done by completely starting over with her downloads-folder when she started her rebuild, but I'm just not that brave.<br />
So I'm going to keep cleaning out my downloads-folder, and I'll be rebuilding at the same time. I have to admit I'm not looking forward to it, but it has to be done.<br />
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This rebuild means there won't be much updates, and I'm aware that I haven't updated in months, but now you know why, I just kept thinking I could get it fixed.<br />
I have some updates, that I still need to write, and I'll try to get them up so you'll at least see what my sims have been doing. And I'll also try to keep you guys updated with the progress of the rebuild. I don't if I'll have much time now, but I have 3 weeks off from work in September, and I hope to focus in this rebuild then, so I'll be able to get back to regular playsessions, and updates.<br />
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This rebuild also means that SimsVille will look different, I'm looking for other terrains for both SimsVille and Simmeria, because I got tired of the once I had.<br />
It also means that some sims won't be living in the same houses afterwards, and for some families it's even possible they move from Simmeria to SimsVille of the other way around.<br />
Some community lots might disappear and new ones will be build, ...<br />
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So I'm very sorry for the lack of updates lately, I hope to make it up to you when I get the new SimsVille going!Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-46006041309365750572015-06-03T09:00:00.000+02:002015-06-03T09:00:04.211+02:00Lout Tour - Warner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As promissed in their last update, here's a tour of Lawrence and Kenneth's new house. They had to take out a loan to be able to buy it, but it's worth it for them. The house has a livingroom, kitchen, study, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.<br />
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The entry and livingroom.<br />
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The study.<br />
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The kitchen.<br />
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The downstairs bathroom.<br />
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The upstairs hallway.<br />
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Lawrence and Kenneth's bedroom.<br />
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Olivia's bedroom.<br />
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Julie's bedroom.<br />
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There is another bedroom upstairs, but it's not decorated yet. I hope to be able to decorate it soon, but they get news from their adoption.Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-28747111820537734462015-05-30T09:00:00.000+02:002015-05-30T09:00:05.882+02:00Warner - Octorber 2026<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2013/12/warner-august-2024.html">Last update</a>/Next update</span></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/lawrence-penninkmeijer.html">Lawrence</a> is 31, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/kenneth-warner.html">Kenneth</a> is 30, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/julie-warner.html">Julie</a> is 6 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/olivia-warner.html">Olivia</a> is 4</i></div>
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<i>(<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/frederik-penninkmeijer.html">Frederik</a> Penninkmeijer is 71, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/bianca-penninkmeijer.html">Bianca</a> Penninkmeijer is 66, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/sophie-mikkels.html">Sophie</a> Zanobi is 51, Ingrid Lamberts is 44, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/xiang-zang.html">Xiang</a> Zang is 43, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/sya-mishoen.html">Sya</a> Gerrits is 34, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/elisa-de-leeuw.html">Elisa</a> de Leeuw and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/jack-penninkmeijer.html">Jack</a> Penninkmeijer are 31, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/johanna-belio.html">Johanna</a> Penninkmeijer is 28, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/brent-de-leeuw.html">Brent</a> de Leeuw is 5 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/eli-penninkmeijer.html">Eli</a> Penninkmeijer is 4)</i><br />
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A few months ago the board announced some changes for the staff of the Simmerian Grace Hospital. The biggest thing was that they wanted Dr. Xiang Zang to be more in Simmeria, since he's our best surgeon.<br />
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Since Xiang is on charge of the small doctor's office in SimsVille, this meant we had to find some one else to take over that part of his job. Since I'm a general practicioner at the hospital it seemed logical I took over the office in SimsVille.<br />
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I talked it over with Lawrence and he agreed with me, that it would be the best option for me to take over the office.<br />
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And so a few days later Xiang gave me the tour of the office. He also told me that they expected me to be in Simmeria at least 1 day a week.<br />
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So it's up to me to divide my time between the hospital and the office. I can set the office hours I want, as long as the office is open 3 days a week.<br />
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The more I saw from the office the more excited I got. This was what I've been wanting to do ever since I knew I wanted to be a doctor.<br />
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Because I had to open the office 3 days a week, and Lawrence can arrange his time and work from home, Lawrence and I decided it would be best to start looking for a house in SimsVille.<br />
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We had a pretty good idea of what we wanted and because of that we thought it would be a difficult job for the realtor to find us a good house.<br />
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Bur Sophie Zanobi really understand her job. She showed us several houses that matched our preferences, and so it was harder for us to decide, than it was for her to find houses we'd like.<br />
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Eventually we decided buy this one. It has 4 bedrooms, a study, a nice livingroom, and great garden. The only thing, if you have to say something that is, is that the kicthen is a little bit small, but that's alright, neither of us are great cooks.<br />
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When we told the girls we were going to move, they got pretty excited about living closer to their grandparents, and having a house with a decent garden.<br />
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The garden is a real plus in this new house. And even though it's fall, and it's getting colder, both girls are spending almost every free moment enjoying it.<br />
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They have been very keen to help me and lawrence with the small vegetable spot we planted. They made it their mission to make sure there aren't any weeds.<br />
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There are downsides to having a garden, especially when there are trees in it and it's fall.<br />
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The kids love these piles of leave. When we had Eli over one afternoon, they enjoyed themselfes an entire afternoon playing in those leaves.<br />
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They have an amazing time, and afterwards we could rake them all up again. It thaught us never to leave those piles, but clean them up immediatly.<br />
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Living closer to Lawrence's parents has been one of the perks of moving to SimsVille. They are more then willing to look after the kids whenever we need it, and not it's even easier.<br />
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Unfortunatly we don't live as close to Jack and Jo anymore. But seeing we lived on the other side of Simmeria, we didn't actually live that close anyway.<br />
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So far living in SimsVille has had nothing but positive things. We live closer to Elisa and Harald now, and on his days off Lawrence always makes sure to meet with Elisa.<br />
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Our girls get along with Brent very well, which makes those trips to the park a absolute joy. And the kids are exhauted when they get home, so we have a nice evening to ourselfs.<br />
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Now that I don't work at the hospital anymore, I'm not on call as much anymore, so I have more weekends off to spend with my family.<br />
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I never used to have a 2-day weekend, but not I have and I love it. Spending time with Lawrence, relaxing when the girls are swimming, it is priceless.<br />
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Because of that extra time, Lawrence and I started rethinking about adopting again. Lawrence always wanted 4 children, and I would like at least 3, but we never gotten on with it, because of the small house and the fact that my career wouldn't allow me to be home more.<br />
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But now things have changed and we decided that we will be trying to adopt another child starting next year. We haven't told anybody just yet, but we're both very excited about expanding our little family.<br />
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<li><i>So some changes in the hospital staff, Xiang who ran the doctor's practice in SimsVille will stop that, and will focus completely on sugery. While Kenneth, who used to be a general praticioner in Simmeria will divide his time between SimsVille and Simmeria, with his main focus being SimsVille.</i></li>
<li><i>I didn't build their new house, I just changed the outside a little bit. I got the house <a href="http://alienpod.tumblr.com/post/86349454469">here</a>. </i></li>
<li><i>So the Warners now live in SimsVille. In a house that actually will allow them to adopt another child, and give that child its own room, while the girls still have their own room as well.<br />I can see them both as enjoying SimsVille much more than Simmeria, and I love this house!<br />I'll post a tour later this week.</i></li>
<li><i>I decided to finally oblige to their wishes and allow them to adopt again. They'll be applying in January 2027, and I'll be rolling every month to see if they will be adoting that month.</i></li>
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Only 3 more months before Magda and Eddy welcome their first child, and so far Magda has had a pretty good pregnancy. The only thing bothering her is the fact that she can't wear the shoes she wants, because her feet are swollen.<br />
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Dr. Carette is happy with how the pregnancy is progressing and doesn't see any problems for the last trimester and the birth.<br />
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<li><i>I'd like these 2 to have a girl, I can really see them as parents of a little girl. My game has been really co-operative lately, so maybe I'll get what I want.</i></li>
<li><i>I'm looking forward to this baby. Maybe because I have so few babies this round :)But I'm also looking forward to seeing Magda and Eddy's genetics on a new generation.</i></li>
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Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-2661386737537092262015-05-25T09:00:00.000+02:002015-05-25T17:34:24.758+02:00The Liebster Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been nominated for the Liebster Award by Carla at <a href="https://aroundaleaton.wordpress.com/">Sullivan Sims</a> and Emma at <a href="http://sullivansims.blogspot.be/">Around Aleaton</a>. I never expect these kind of things, but it's always nice to get them though. <br />
Thank you both for nominating me, it is much appreciated!<br />
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1. Put the award on your blog<br />
2. Thank the blogger who nominated you<br />
3. Nominate 5 to 11 other blogs<br />
4. Answer the 11 questions that were asked<br />
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I would love to nominate others, but to be honest the once I follow and would nominate have already been nominated multiple times, so I think I'll skip the nominating and just answer the questions.<br />
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I'll be answering both sets of questions in this post.<br />
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Realising that people like reading about my sims, and seem interested in what I do with my hood. Thanks to those people I also try to follow my rules strickter. Before I would make rules, and follow them, but I would easily drift. Now I follow them more strickt because otherwise the story wouldn't be right.</div>
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<i>2. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to do in the Sims but never got around to?</i><br />
I would like to have a family with different generations. At the moment some of my families are in generation 3, which I think is the furtherst I've ever gotten, but I would like to see those familytrees get bigger.</div>
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I don't think I've ever read something like that, even though I do read quite a lot.<br />
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<i>4. How do you manage to keep up with reading all the blogs that you read?</i></div>
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I don't actually... I usually read blogupdates in the morning before work, but I don't have time to comment on those moments. And afterwards I never got to it, because of lack of time.</div>
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There are weeks where I'm able to comment, and the next time it takes me 3 weeks to comment!<br />
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Without any doubt TS2! My brother-in-law keeps telling me that it's outdated and that if I ever buy a new computer he'll refuse to install it, but it's my favourite!</div>
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As for favourite EP, I don't know actually. I think having them all makes the game to what it is, to what I like so much about it. But if I really had to pick one I think I'd go for Seasons, because I love the seasons so much, I love the effects they put into it. I sometimes get cold when I hear a snowstorm in my game, and the rain and thunder, ... I just love those things!</div>
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<i>8. What do you hope to express in your Sims stories?</i></div>
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I'm not a writer at all, so I'm glad when I get my point across, especially since my motherlanguage is Dutch and I have to speak and write French at work.</div>
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I just hope people like my sims/stories.<br />
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<i>9. What’s one of the funniest things that has happened to you or your Sims while Simming?</i></div>
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<i>10. What inspires you to continue Simming and blogging when you think about stopping?</i></div>
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I've never thought about quitting, I love sharing my sims' stories too much. I want my hood to progress, I want to see my sims age and go through life, I want to see new babies in my hood (allthough it's been a little bit too much lately), I want to see next generations start a family, and I want to share this with you all!<br />
There were times when I didn't feel much like playing, but most of those times I've had a backlog of posts to write, and writing those always gets me in the mood to play again. And if the game is loaded and a family doesn't inspire me, I start redecorating my sims' homes, adding new buildings to the hood, .... I keep myslef busy, and I like it.</div>
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<i>11. What else would you like to share with us that I haven’t asked?</i></div>
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That I have an insane amount of CC, and that my CC folder is kind of a dump? That I'm kind of a little bit too lazy to do something about that? That, right after I've rebuild SimsVille, I did something stupid and by doing that added quite a lot characterfiles to my game, but that I didn't feel like redoing the hood once again?</div>
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I know I'm terrible...</div>
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I've bought TS1 when there were already 2 ep's out, and have played untill TS2 came, where I've counted down the day untill it's releasedate. I've tried TS3 but it never got to me the same way TS2 got to me, and so I recently uninstalled it all. I've played the TS4 trail, and I do think it has potential, but there are just too much things missing for me, toddlers, pools, .... plus I have an old computer which I think would have trouble running it. </div>
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And I love TS2 too much, so I'm still playing that version!<br />
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I only write about SimsVille.<br />
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I've never considered myself as creative, I don't play any instruments, I don't draw, ... I do however love to bake, but I lack patience to decorate cakes, so it all tastes very good, it just doesn't look so good, thanks to my lack of patience and creativity.<br />
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I used to have a website, back when the community around Simmerville was still active, but due to school I had to give that up. Some time late I read Fortune Shores (the old one), and that one inspired me to start my own blog. Later my big inspirations became Sullivan, Millwood, Apple Valley, ...<br />
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I don't think so, my sims write their own stories, and if not, I come up with stories for them, but I don't think I take 'stories' from people I know.<br />
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I've already answered this one, see #5 above.<br />
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<i>8. What is your least favourite thing about simming or blogging?</i><br />
Pink flashing, and crashing problems!<br />
And sometimes I'm having a hard time coming up with stories for specific families. I don't want to tell the same kind of thing over and over again, but sometimes coming up with a nice story is hard. That might be why I have so many playbla NPC's, because I don't write updates on them. And it's seem I need a balance between the 2 things, because I don't think I could do without blogging...</div>
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<i>9. Do you plan your updates or just play and see what happens? Or do you do something in between?</i><br />
I think it's something in between; I plan things, like taking my sims to the park or any other community lot. But I also consider their wants, and that might mean I'm throwing my notes out of the window and I'm starting over because of my sims' wants.<br />
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Maybe that I always play when the TV is on, or the radio. I need some sound in the background, but that's about it. Oh and I don't start playing a family with an idea in my head. This may change when I play them, but I need something before starting. </div>
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I've already answered this one, see #2 above.Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-68729576873580506052015-05-23T09:00:00.000+02:002015-05-23T09:00:03.488+02:00SVU C - September 2026<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2014/06/svu-c-september-2025.html">Melina's last update</a>/<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2014/05/svu-b-september-2025.html">Benny's last update</a>/Next update</span></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/10/melina-mokara.html">Melina</a> is 22, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/10/benny-zang.html">Benny</a> is 21 and Joan is 20</i></div>
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<i>(<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/quan-min.html">Quan</a> Min is 56, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/chu-min.html">Chu</a> Min is 55, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/hans-mokara.html">Hans</a> Mokara is 54, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/yin-mokara.html">Yin</a> Mokara is 51, Marcus Young is 34, Logan Collins is 26, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/09/eleanora-roque.html">Eleanora</a> Roque is 20 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/10/emma-mikkels.html">Emma</a> Zanobi is 20)</i><br />
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Ever since I graduated, which is almost a year ago, I've been sending out my resume to every company I can think of, but so far no luck.<br />
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I've been checking the newspaper and the internet daily, but it seems nobody is waiting for me! I never thought to get a job immidiatly, but I did thought I would get one withing 6 months.<br />
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I have enough money to get through one year without a job, but mom and dad are starting to get worried. They talk to me almost every time I see them.<br />
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They even suggested me moving back in at home. I think it's sweet of them, but moving back home is kind of my last option.<br />
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If I don't get a job I want soon, I might take something just so I'd earn something! At the moment I'm keeping myself busy. I try to read a lot to keep up with everything in the science-world.<br />
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Ellie and Marcus finally set a date for their wedding, and May 2027 is approaching fast! So everyt time Marcus has a game we meet in the cafetaria to talk about the wedding.<br />
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Ellie asked me to be the maid of honor, and I'm taking that job very serious! I can't wait for May to be here!<br />
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When Marcus' game is finished, he usually joins us, to here our ideas. He's one interested guy, Ellie is very lucky with him.<br />
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Earlier this year, I've started seeing Logan Collins. Emma is thrilled about that, seeing he's her boyfriend's brother and she'd really like us to become family one day.<br />
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Logan is great. He's a veterinarian in SimsVille, and he really loves everything about animals. One of our first dates he took me to the Simmerian Museum.<br />
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They have some parrots there, and he started talking to them, which was kind of weird and sweet at the same time.<br />
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Of course it's not all animals all the time, we actually have normal dates as well, like a nice dinner in a pretty fancy restaurant.<br />
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I really like him, but I'm not yet dreaming of a wedding or something just yet. I'm just enoying things at the moment, and we'll see what will happen.<br />
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Benny and Joan are doing quite well also. I was a little bit anxious when they decided to move in together, I thought they were going too fast but apparently I was wrong.<br />
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Both of them are focussing on their schoolwork at the moment though. Benny is in his last year, and he wants to finish top of his class, and find a job soon. I just think he wants to end up like me.<br />
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But they try to have breakfast with his parents at least once a week. His parents want to get to know Joan, and so they insist on meeting once a week.<br />
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Joan is a pretty nice girl, so I don't see any problems for her and Benny's family. And seeing they are still meeting every week I think Benny's parents like her.<br />
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Once in while Benny also decides to have a men's night. He invites Morgan and Lars and orders pizza and directs us girls to go out for the night.<br />
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Joan and I ussually go out on one of those nights. Not just because Benny orders us to go out, but becasue we just want to hang out around the appartments when there are 3 guys drinking and gaming!<br />
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I ask Ellie go with us on those nights as well, and it's always a plus when we get Emma to come along as well, because she really doesn't go out that much since she had Austin.<br />
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<li><i>Melina hasn't found a job yet, but I think I'll cheat her in the one she wants next round. She has checked the paper and the internet daily but natural science doesn't come up at all. She did well in college, so I'll cheat her into her preferenced job.</i></li>
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<li><i>I like Melina and Logan togethern and I'm curious to see where they'll take this relationship. I do see a future for these 2</i></li>
<li><i>Both Benny and Joan did good this year, and passed. This means the Benny graduated. We'll see him in the January birthdays.</i></li>
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Neither Finn nor I ever thought having a baby would be easy, especially with school and work, but I think we're not doing too bad! We both adore Austin, and can't imagine our lifes without him anymore.<br />
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Finn has been amazing! His job is rather hard, but he always makes time for Austin when he's home.<br />
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Instead of going to the gym, Finn bought this work out at home dvd's, so he can work out and watch Austin at the same time.<br />
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On very hectic mornings he even tries to make us both some breakfast, which isn't easy when you're serving it to a chef!<br />
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All in all I think we're doing good. I have quite a lot of practical classes, so I can't be home all the time, but I manage to do most of the task and such at home.<br />
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I have to admit that I sometimes take a nap when Austing is napping.I know napping doesn't improve my schoolwork, but I just need it sometimes.<br />
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There are days when I have classes and Finn has to work, those days we can usualy rely on mom to look after Austin.<br />
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I just love her for making time for doing that for us, and I love coming home and finding a clean house and a happy baby.<br />
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Finn's family loves Austin as well. They try to spot by every week, to catch up but to spend time with Austin as well.<br />
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Alana, Finn's sister, spends all that time on the floor playing with Austin, and you can just tell he loves all this attention from his aunt.<br />
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Last time Logan told us he met a new girl. To my surprise this new girl is one of my friends, Melina. I knew she started seeing some one new after she broke up with Matthew, but she never shared much.<br />
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I'm glad they are seeing each other, they are both great people, and who knows, some day we might even go out on a double date, but for now we'll just have dinner at home as a family.<br />
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Having Austin made it really hard to go out on a date, and of course Finn's job doesn't make it any easier. So we hardly ever go out as a couple.<br />
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Seeing we both think my mom already does enough by looking after Austin when we really need it, we don't want to ask her to also look after him if we want to go out, so instead we're having dates at home.<br />
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Those dates really aren't much, just a simle dinner and a movie, to be really honest we're too tired to take it any further, but they are special to us.<br />
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Sometimes, in between classes, I meet up with Melina and Eleanora for coffee. Melina still hasn't found a job in the field she wants and it's starting to bug her.<br />
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Eleanora is graduating this year, and she is still very positive about it all, so she's always trying to cheer Melina up, but I think after looking for almost 1 year, you kind of stop being positive.<br />
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I always love katching up with Melina and Ellie, but afterwards I always feel kind of guilty for not going home and spending time with Austin or not spending that free time in my studies, it's not like I have a lot of time.<br />
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<li><i>I'm glad Emma and Finn are making it work, and I can definalty see a future for them. I think Finn sees a future for them as well, as he rolled the want to get engaged! I'm going to block it, but I'm not yet giving in, Emma's starting her 3rd year in college, and I think her focus is on that at the moment, but we'll see how she feels afterwards.<br />I'm thinking of making Finn a regular playable, but maybe I'll just wait untill they get engaged.</i></li>
<li><i>Emma's doing fine in school. Her classes and her schedule at the restaurant align pretty well with Finn's schedule, so neither has to drop a lot to make sure there's always some one at home with Austin, but going out together isn't one of the possibilities.</i></li>
<li><i>Next update you'll see more of Melina and Logan, they are just starting to date but they are doing pretty well. You'll also see more of Melina's job-situation.</i></li>
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<i>(<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/07/andrea-zanobi.html">Andrea</a> Zanobi is 45, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/dimitri-zanobi.html">Dimitri</a> Zanobi is 43, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/10/emma-mikkels.html">Emma</a> Zanobi is 20, Erica Marlow is 19 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/11/stephan-belio.html">Stephan</a> Belio is 18)</i><br />
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Classes at university are quite a bit different than the ones at high school. We do have the 'normal' classes, but I prefer the ones where we get to discus things with the whole group.<br />
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And I just love all the things I get to learn at the moment. I know you don't need a university-degree to become a fashiondesigner, but I'm getting so much out of this.<br />
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I never thought we would get started right away. I was expecting a lot of theoretical classes, and that the practical ones would follow in the next couple of years.<br />
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But they are actually expecting us to do it all right from the start, and you won't hear me complaining about that, because I just love it!<br />
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I do still have a lot to learn though. The feedback from the professors isn't bad, but it's not too good either.<br />
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Apparently I do great in the theoretical-area though. The Simmerian picked one of my essays to publish in their 'Best Essay'-section, and awarded my §370 for it.<br />
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I started SVU together with Steven, but we hardly see eachother thank to our classes. We occasionally run into each other at the breakfasttable, but I think that's about it.<br />
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It's mostly my fault though, because I have so many practicall classes, and he almost has none. He's in the dorm quite a lot.<br />
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He wants to be a teacher, and only the last 2 years of univerisity he'll be actually teaching 'real' kids. But apparently the classes and essays aren't easy.<br />
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One morning before breakfast, he came to my room, because he wanted to ask me something. He wanted to tell his brother he's gay, and would like for me to come with them, as some sort of buffer.<br />
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They are twins, and I'm pretty sure Stephan wouldn't hate Steven for telling him this, but I did go with him.<br />
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Things went according to plan. Stephan just accepted it, and you could see thise was load off of Stevens shoulders. He did ask his brother not to tell their parents just yet, he wanted to do that himself.<br />
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Living in a dorm can be a bit akward sometimes. Lars always has a girl over, and he really doesn't mind some one walking in on them.<br />
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I've seen him with only one girl so far, but I've heard stories of him bringing home a different girl every other day.<br />
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This year is his senior year though, so maybe he just decided to focus more on his studies instead of focussing on different girls.<br />
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Apparently Lars has always been able to combine dating with school pretty well, and his grades don't seem to as bas as any one would think.<br />
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The most akward thing about the dorm though, is walking into Morgan. When we broke up last year we both knew it we would be living in the same dorm. I just didn't expect to see him with Erica.<br />
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I'm glad he's happy, I just wish he wouldn't be this happy in front of me though, especially with her!<br />
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Things became a little bit less akward when we sat down together one afternoon, and he explained to me that he didn't start dating Erica right after our break-up, he didn't think that would be fair on me, but that he did wanted to try it.<br />
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I'm glad he told me this, and it's good to know, but it's not going to make things any less akward. I think it would be all different when he would be dating some one else.<br />
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After all I'm seeing some one myself, and I don't consider myself a hypocrit. But the fact that Morgan is dating the girl he cheated with, makes it difficult for me, and the fact that it seems kind of serious between them.<br />
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Stephan and I aren't serious at all.I don't think I'm ready yet for something serious again, I just thought that Morgan would feel the same.<br />
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One of the nice things of living in Simmeria is that I'm now closer to my cousin, Emma. Since she started collge it's been hard to meet her.<br />
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And it got even harder when she got pregnant and decided to keep the baby. Dividing her time between the baby, classes, assignments, and her work in the familyrestaurant isn't easy.<br />
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She seems happy now though, and I'm glad about that. Austin seems like a calm
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Mom and dad try to drop by every other week, and then they take me out to dinner or something. I can't remember if they did that when <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/09/matthew-zanobi.html">Matthew</a> was at college, but then again they had me still at home back then.<br />
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I think they miss having one of us at home, especially since they don't have Matthew living close enough to visit regularly.<br />
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<li><i>Marlys rolled this round's 'Win the Simmerian Best Essay-ROS'. Since she's majoring in drama/fashion, I didn't see her as one to send her assay to a paper, so I had the paper instead picking out the best essays. She didn't do much with the money, it's not that much and I just put it on her back account.</i></li>
<li><i>I imagine that Marlys is studying fashion design but will eventually speciallise in costume design for movies and tv-series and such. I do hope she'll become an ice-skater first! </i></li>
<li><i>Morgan kept rolling wants for Erica, the girl he cheated with last year, so I decided to let them try, and so far so good it seems. Erica is 19 years old, and if they stay together, I imagine that Erica will have a 7 year younger sister (I'm terrible, I know!). </i></li>
<li><i>Marlys and Stephan aren't serious, at least not at the moment. I don't think this will change, but we'll see what will happen with them. </i></li>
<li><i>We didn't see much of the boys in this update, but I hope to change that next time. Morgan and Lars will get an apartment together, so it will just be Steven and Marlys in the dorm. </i></li>
<li><i>I've known Steven to be gay ever since he became a teen, but never did something with it. There weren't any boys the same who were gay as well, so he never found guy. At college though he found himself one. We didn't get to see him here, but you'll meet him next time!</i></li>
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<li><i>This is a new dorm I build because I wanted to redecorate my other one, I moved all the sims already, but I haven't done anything with the old dorm yet, I hope to do that soon.</i></li>
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Ever since I posted <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/jason-young.html">Jason Draper</a>'s <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2015/02/draper-june-2026.html">last update</a>, the one where he finds out he has 13-year old twins, he never knew about, I've had this idea in my head about doing a series of background stories of some sims.<br />
I know I have <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2006/01/index-of-household-profiles.html">a page where I give information about specific families</a> (and a seperate page for my <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2006/01/playable-npcs.html">playable NPC's</a>), and I know they still need a lot of work, but they just give basic information, and I want to give you Kristianne's storie a little bit more in dept, her side of the story,...<br />
I don't know if any one here is interested in that, and that's why I have this post, to get some feedback.<br />
<br />If I go through with this I'm thinking of doing a post on <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/tao-zang.html">Tao</a> and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/wang-zang.html">Wang Zang</a>, because they are brothers, but I don't know any one who reads this blogs can tell, and maybe one on <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/fen-mishoen.html">Fen Mishoen</a> and the 'troubled' relationship with her son <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/nio-mishoen.html">Nio Terrano</a>.<br />
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So please let me know what you guys think! And if you want to know more about specific sims, just tell me, so I can add them to the list.Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-19328566331362029282015-03-28T09:00:00.001+01:002015-03-28T09:00:03.714+01:00Tora - August 2026<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2014/03/tora-april-2025.html">Last update</a>/Next update</i></span><br />
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/annie-gradonni.html">Annie</a> is 35, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/erik-tora.html">Erik</a> is 33, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/owen-tora.html">Owen</a> is 7, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/claire-tora.html">Claire</a> is 4 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/celia-tora.html">Celia</a> is 3</i></div>
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<i>(<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/debby-gradonni.html">Debby</a> Gradonni is 58, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/catherine-penninkmeijer.html">Catherine</a> Penninkemijer is 36, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/abby-gradonni.html">Abby</a> Gradonni is 35, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/sya-mishoen.html">Sya</a> Gerrits is 34 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/brian-gradonni.html">Brian</a> Gradonni is 7)</i></div>
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The kids are on summer break at the moment, and Erik and I have been lucky enough to have been able to work from home for most of it.<br />
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The kids mostly entertain themselfes, which makes working pretty easy.<br />
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But we did make time to play with them as well. I sometimes think about quitting my job, and become a stay at home mom, I've always loved the fac that mom was always there, and still is.<br />
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I know Erik isn't against the idea, in fact he would love for me to be able to do that as well, but financially it's just not possible at the moment.<br />
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We still have a huge morgage to pay, and we just can't miss my pay at the moment, especially if we want to send all 3 of our children to college one day.<br />
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So instead of being a stay-at-home mom, I'm trying to make the most of working at home, and I love the afternoons when we all come together in the study, the kids to color, and Erik and I to work some more.<br />
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It hasn't all been work this summer. Living across the street from the beach makes it pretty easy to pick up the kids for an afternoon of relaxing.<br />
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When I keep an eye on Celia, Erik takes Owen and Claire to the water and watches of them when they have a great time.<br />
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It's unbelievable that they all are getting so big. Owen really wanted to go sunbathing and made kind of a show putting on his suncream, which was really sweet to watch.<br />
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And when Claire had enough of swimming in the ocean, she went to sit with Erik for a father-dauhter-moment, instead of playing in the sand.<br />
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Erik also took Owen camping. They went to Lake Bear, where they have a nice playground, and a swimmable lake. He thought about taking Claire with him as well, but we eventually decided that she still is a little bit yougn for this kind of trips.<br />
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It was kind of a little bit back-to-basics there, but Erik came prepared, so he could prepare a nice meal for him and Owen.<br />
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Other campers joined them with their meals, and so it wasn't just the 2 of them, which really wasn't what Erik had planned.<br />
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Owen was really keen on swimming in the lake, and Erik let him, I don't know if I would have if I was there with them, but Owen loved it!<br />
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They did it all; the whole camping-experience, when it got chillier at night, they light up a campfire and even roasted some marshmallows.<br />
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I know Owen went to bed way too late, but I also know he had an amazing time at the campground, and he's already asking Erik to go again next year.<br />
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The next day, over dinner, we all got detailed stories from the trip. And thanks to that, Claire now is begging to go along with them next year.<br />
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The days Erik and I have to go to the office, we can always count on mom to to look after the kids.<br />
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All 3 of them love it when their grandma is over. I don't know how she does it, but she makes time for every one of them.<br />
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On top of that all, she finds the time to do some cleaning.<br />
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And bake a cake, so the kids have snack when they feel hungry.<br />
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We can always count on her when we want to have a night to ourselfs as well. She comes over, spends time with the kids, reads them a bedtime-story.</div>
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And makes sure the kids are in bed in time.</div>
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We don't have much of those nights, and when we do have them, they are not that special, but they are nights for just the 2 of them.<br />
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A simple meal, is more than enough, as long as I don't have to cook it, I'm happy.<br />
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And even though I'm not good at bowling at all, I can enjoy it just as much as anything else.<br />
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Erik is very competitive, and he takes all of these things very serious.<br />
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But in the end it's just a night for us, and we've both enjoyed it.<br />
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Sometimes I take Claire and Owen to my parent's farm, where they can play with Brain. Owen and Brain are the same age, and they don't like playing with Claire that much.<br />
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They do however tollerate her when they are playing in the tower.<br />
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When they start a game of cops and robbers however, they don't allow her to play along.<br />
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I know it saddens Claire, and I try to make sure Owen plays with his sister as well, but we can't force them to play with her all the time.<br />
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I don't go to the farm just for the kids. It's still one of my favourite places on earth! And when I'm there, I try to make the most of it.<br />
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Sitting down and having an adult conversation, with my mom and my sister is a huge part of making the most of it.<br />
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I don't see Abby enough, not do I see my friends enough. But we try to make time to meet occasionally.<br />
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We all have parterns who don't mind looking after the kids when we want to go out, just the 4 of us.<br />
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Last time we went to the karaoke-bar. Something Abby and Catherine really enyoed al lot. They kept singing one song ather anohter.<br />
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Sya and I never got a chance, which neither of us really minded since we don't like to sing anyway. So we just watched and listened Catherine and Abby, while we chated.<br />
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I always like those nights out, and I'm sure that it will be easier in the future to meet up, after all our kids are getting older, and won't be needing us as much.<br />
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<li><i>I really want Annie to be a stay at home mom, but it's just not happening for her at the moment. They had to take out a loan to buy this house, and they still need to pay quite a lot of it, especially since I used quite a lot of their savings to redecorate the house, and I really do want their kids to have to option to go to college.They do get some money from her parents sometimes, whihch helps them quite a lot, so I have hopes Annie can eventually stay at home.</i></li>
<li><i>I really like this little family, and I wouldn't mind them having another, but at the moment their family feels right, so they are on birth control. I'm sure they might roll the want for another one, and I might give in when they do roll it, because I just love their kids! Annie's IFS is 6 and Eric's is 5.</i></li>
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/mario-burrie.html">Mario</a> is 27 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/melissa-mertens.html">Melissa</a> is 25</i></div>
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<i>(Ludo Mertens is 61, Mia Mertens is 57, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/marcus-young.html">Marcus</a> Young is 34, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/jack-penninkmeijer.html">Jack</a> Penninkmeijer is 31, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/johanna-belio.html">Johanna </a>Peninkmeijer is 28, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/jason-savage.html">Jason</a> Savage and Eddy Sels are 27, Magda Sels is 26, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/margot-mertens.html">Margot</a> Savage is 25, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/eli-penninkmeijer.html">Eli</a> Penninkmeijer is 4, and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/vincent-savage.html">Vincent</a> Savage is 2)</i></div>
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Ever since we moved here, Melissa has been planning to invite over the neighbors to get to know them. Now that she has her summervacation it seemed like the perfect time.<br />
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I thought she would feel a little bit akward with one of the neighbor, seeing that she, Magda, is my ex-girlfriend. But Melissa, Johanna and Magda all seemed to get along very well.<br />
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Us guys got along as well. And it was really nice to meet them, and got to know them a little bit better.<br />
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Magda and Eddy announced that they were expecting their first child, and Eddy tried to connect with Johanna and Jack's son, Eli.<br />
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Since we don't have any kids ourselfs, we were a little bit afraid that Eli would get bored soon, but the kid is used to playing on his own, and really enjoyed himself chasing butterflies.<br />
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Jack and Johanna had to go home because Eli was getting tired, but Magda and Eddy stayed longer, just to catch up. <br />
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Magda and Eddy are really nice people to hang out with, and I'm glad that our pasts aren't getting in the way of our friendship.<br />
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Melissa is really enjoying her 2 months off from work, and invites over her sister whenever Margot is free.<br />
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Melissa adores her cousin, and loves it when Margot brings him along. I have to admit that Vincent is really cute kid.<br />
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Sometimes they hang out at Margot's place, other times Margot comes down to Simmeria with Vincent. We made sure to have some toys for him, so he doesn't get bored.<br />
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Even though Melissa has 2 months off from work, I haven't. And I have been spending almost all of my free time working out.<br />
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Or practising my shoots. I know it takes time to get to the top, especially in my field, but I always planned to be further at this age.<br />
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Sometimes Melissa joins me when I'm practising in the garden. But in all fairness, she's not that good, and really no competition at all, I do appreciate her efforts though.<br />
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Recently I've started practising with Marcus Young. He really made it in the basketball-world and I feel privileged to get this chance. He's hard, but fair!<br />
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He also tries to make sure I take time off, he sais that's just as important as practising, other wise you'll get too focussed.<br />
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I took his advice and took some days off to spend some time with Melissa. We went to the Blue Bubble, the renovated swimmingpool, to just enjoy the sun and the water.<br />
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I took my chances on the divingboard, and I have to say I wasn't great. I think diving just isn't my thing.<br />
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They really did some amazing renovations on the Blue Bubble, and Melissa and I was determinded to enjoy them all, including the hot tub, even though it was already warm enough.<br />
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The Bubble Complex is a complex for the sportslover, with all sorts of activities for sports lovers to enjoy. The restaurant there isn't high class, but it's perfect at the same time.<br />
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The meals are simple, but good. We really enjoyed our dinner there, after spending the entire day at the pool.<br />
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After such a nice day, neither of us felt like going home, so instead we went to Bear Lake, just down the street, and enjoy the perfect day some more.<br />
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Those days always make me think about how much time I spend on basketball, and how much I miss spending time with Melissa.<br />
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But we both agree that now is the time to do all of this. I really want to make it as a basketballplayer ant Melissa really supports me on that.<br />
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We do want want to get married and have children some day, but we agree to wait a little bit longer and focus on our careers for now, well mostly mine.<br />
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And maybe in a few years I'll be where I want in my career, and we'll both be ready for children.<br />
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It's strange to see that Margot and Melissa both want different things from life, especially seeing they're twins. When Jason, Dominic and I went for a drink the other night, Jason told us they were thinking about having another kid.<br />
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We're happy for Jason and Margot, but it's just something we, Dominic and I, don't see happening for us any time soon.<br />
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I know Melissa's parents would love another grandchild, sooner rather than later, because they keep hinting about it.<br />
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But they understand they we don't feel ready just yet for it, they just keep hoping that we soon will be.<br />
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<li><i>I think I have quite a lot of engagements already this round, and maybe some to come. By the way these 2 don't have the want (yet) to get engaged or married, but if by next round they don't have either of those wants I will have them get engaged. They have 2 bolts, so why not?</i></li>
<li><i>I do want them to have kids soon, but I see them as the couple to have everything else in order before getting there, so they'll be waiting some more. <br />Margot and Jason really are thinking about adding to their family, we'll see how that goes when I play them later this round.</i></li>
<li><i>Mario isn't very high in his career at the moment, but with some coaching from Marcus I'm sure he'll get where he wants before he has to search for something else.</i></li>
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Magda and Eddy Sels have been married for 3 years now, and they've always wanted a big family. However they decided to wait a couple of years before starting, and make sure they got settled in nicely.<br />
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And now they just found out they are expecting their first child! If they calculated correctly, they should be welcomming this little one in April 2027.<br />
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<li><i>I thought about letting them wait another round before taking them off birth control, but they've had the want for a baby for quite some time now, and they are financially pretty stable, so I eventually allowed them to try, and they were succesfull.</i></li>
<li><i>I excited for this baby, as I am for every baby, but there isn't any chance for them to get a black-haired baby (at least I hope there isn't). I'm hoping for a blond one, but I'm happy with a brown-haired baby as well.</i></li>
<li><i>Their baby is due for April 2027, and I'm pretty sure they'll have more after this one! His IFS is 4, and hers is 5, so a second one will definatly follow.</i></li>
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Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-67799294132996825902015-03-14T09:00:00.001+01:002015-03-14T09:00:03.363+01:00Mishoen - July 2026<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2013/09/mishoen-may-2024.html">Last update</a>/Next update</i></span><br />
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/marc-mishoen.html">Marc</a> is 73, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/nuan-mishoen.html">Nuan</a> is 68, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/tika-mishoen.html">Tika</a> is 42, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/01/lewis-mishoen.html">Lewis</a> is 13, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/joshua-mishoen.html">Johsua</a> is 9 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/michael-mishoen.html">Michael</a> is 8</i></div>
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<i>(Kristianne Spits and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/10/tosca-zang.html">Tosca</a> Zang are 39, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/12/sam-mokara.html">Sam</a> Mokara and Anabel Spits are 13, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/ross-zang.html">Ross</a> Zang is 12 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/felix-gerrits.html">Felix</a> Gerrits is 5)</i></div>
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Mom and dad are really enjoying their retirement together. It seems like they've fallen in love all over again.<br />
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It's actually sweet to see, but it's a bit akward walking in on them when they steal kisses in the kitchen. I can't remember the last time that happened!<br />
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The boys spend a few weeks of their summer vacation with their dad, but the rest of it they spend at home. And both mom and dad have really enjoyed it.<br />
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They even invite Felix over to come and play with Joshua and Michael, so he doesn't have to play alone all the time.<br />
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Personally I think my 3 boys are more than enough for an entire day, but mom and dad really don't mind at all, they keep saying it keeps them young.<br />
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They even allow them to invite some friends over. The thing is that my boys aren't that outgoing. When they are friends
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Both Joshua and Michael get along with Felix, and Joshua found a good friend in Nathan, one of our neighbors. Michael on the other hand doesn't have much friends. He loves playing with Babs, and seems very content doing that.<br />
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And he's always asking me to play some game with him. It saddens me sometimes, I wish he'd bring home somebody to hang out with.<br />
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I'm not too worried at the moment though. Lewis was lucky he had a cousin living next door, who he could hang out with, so I'm sure Michael will be allright.<br />
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Now Lewis brings home friends to hang out with, or he goes down to their houses. It's a good thing both Ross and Sam live so close.<br />
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The fact that both his friends live so close makes it easy for him to meet him at the hang out across the street. Both of them are allowed out a little bit longer as well when they are haning out there.<br />
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Recently he even invited a girl over. Anabel is the daughter of a new friend of mine, but she and Lewis knew each other from school. It's really hard but I try not to be curious about her.<br />
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Since he started high school, Lewis has changed quite a bit. He never took much interest in his younger brothers, but now he spends time with them almost daily.<br />
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He used to ignore them when they said something, and refused to play with them because they were so much younger. I don't know why he changed, but I'm glad he did.<br />
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Over the summer Lewis and dad have been fixing up a car dad found online. It's been their project, and I know dad loved spending this time with his grandson.<br />
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They finished this car faster than both of them expected. Lewis is only 13, but he's already looking forward to the day he's allowed to ride it.<br />
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The car hasn't been the only thing to connect dad and Lewis lately. Lewis started thinking about his future, and one of the options at the moment it becomming a laywer. And seeing dad is a retired laywer they have spend hours talking about it.<br />
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I don't know who's more enthousiastic about it; dad that he can finally tell his stories to an interested audience or Lewis for getting to hear all those stories.<br />
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I unfortunatly wasn't lucky enough to close the salon for a coudple of weeks. I love my job, but I would have loved to spend some time at home with the kids.<br />
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I know Fran felt the same way, with 3 young kids at home, she would have loved to be there more often.<br />
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But the salon is doing great, and I was able to promote Fran to manager. This way only one of us needs to be at the salon at the same time, and each of us can spend more time with our kids.<br />
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I've used that time well by trying to get tan, in which I failed misserably.<br />
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On one of my days off I got a call from Kristianne, asking if I had time to talk. She recenly told the dad of her twins about them, 13 years later, and it didn't go too well. The meeting between the kids and their dad however went fine.<br />
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Kristianne is a bit worried that Anabel and Anthony will want to live with their dad now, but I doubt it will come to that, and not to worry about that for now.<br />
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I told her to support the kids as much as possible, because they might end up regretting her if she would try to set them up against their dad. She was quite happy with my advice.<br />
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When Tosca and I went out, I invited Kristianne to come with us, to get her mind off of things. Since the divorce Tosca and I don't see each other that much anymore even though we live next to each other.<br />
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And even though Tosca and Kristianne didn't knew each other before we went out, the 3 of us agreed to try to get togehter more often.<br />
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<li><i>I didn't know Tika and Kristianne were friends untill I saw it in Tika's friendlist. I'm glad they are though, Tika really needs more friends. Before she only had Tosca as her friend. They have been friends since they were teens.</i></li>
<li><i>Michael really doesn't have any friends. He knows some kids from school, and I let him talk on the phone with them but, it goes slow. I'm sure he'll have more friends when he's older.</i></li>
<li><i>Law is one of the options that came out for Lewis' future career. If I remember corretly it came out as the best option. Which I thought was great since his grandpa retired in that career.</i></li>
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/jason-young.html">Jason</a> is 48 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/lucas-draper.html">Lucas</a> is 12</i></div>
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<i>(<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/gunnar-roque.html">Gunnar</a> Roque is 65, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/ella-rai.html">Ella</a> Roque is 63, Olaf Verbon is 47, Kristianna Spits is 39, Celeste Drayer is 36, Clara Solis is 30, Anabel and Anthony Spits are 13 and Peter Spits and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/ross-zang.html">Ross</a> Zang are 12)</i></div>
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Last year I decided to sell my business. Even though I like cakes, I don't see myself serving them my entire life.<br />
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With the money I was able to buy a nice house in Simmeria, and so I'm no longer living in an apartment with a small balcony, instead I have a small garden.<br />
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Even though the garden isn't that big, the house is very nice. I finally have the kitchen I've always dreamed off.<br />
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Lucas has his own room when he stays with me, and I even have spare room, which I made my office.<br />
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Lucas was really excited about the new house as well. But I think he was happier about the fact that he could play his music loud without any of the neighbors complaining about the noise.<br />
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Lucas keeps surprising me. I thought he was a very outoging person, but he's always on the phone with one of his friends when he comes over.<br />
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I have to admit that he hardly ever brings one of the over to the house, which I don't mind at all. I wouldn't know what I would do with a bunch of teenagers in the house.<br />
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Instead they hang out at the arcade or comic book store after school, and during the weekends they go down to the beach.<br />
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Even though I don't live in an apartment I have some pretty close neighbors. Gunnar and Ella live ritgh next door to me, and they were the first ones to welcome me in my new house.<br />
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They are pretty good people, and I know I can always ring their doorbell when I need something. And they come by quite a lot just to check on me, which is kind of nice.<br />
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I also live right across the street from the trailer park, where Clara Solis, my girlfriend, lives. We started dating about 2 years ago, and it's getting pretty serious.<br />
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Even though it's getting serious, neither of us have the intention to take things to the next level and move in with each other.<br />
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I stay over at her place, and she comes down here, whenever we want to. She's not interested in moving in with me, and I'm fine with how things are at the moment.<br />
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She's a pop-musician, and so the time we spend together isn't that much at all. She's away with her band quite a lot, but she hopes to break-through on her own soon.<br />
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We see each other in between her shows. She has to travel a lot for her job, but neither of us mind it that much.<br />
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I was glad she was in town to celebrate my big promotion with me.<br />
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This promotion was the chance I've been waiting for. I've had my eye on a lot for some time now. I want to sell pre-cooked meals, and now I'm finally able to buy it. I took Olaf and Lucas there to show them around.<br />
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They both seemed to like the idea, or maybe they were just onboard because of enthousiasm. I'm going through with this plan anyway.<br />
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A few days after the tour Olaf dropped by, because he had some great news. He and Celeste were engaged! I'm so happy for him. He deserves something like this.<br />
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I know he loved my sister, but it's been 7 years since she died. It was about time he moved on with his life and found love again.<br />
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We decided to meet the next day. This way he could finally meet Clara as well. It was a nice evening. Celeste is perfect for Olaf and I'm happy they found eachother. <br />
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And it seemed like Olaf and Celeste liked Clara as well. Which is nice, even though we don't have any plans to take our relationship further.<br />
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It seemed like everything was going a little bit too well. I got a call from Kritianne Spits, a girl I used to date. She wanted to meet up with me, and catch up.<br />
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She surprised me with her call. All those years ago, she just disappeared one day without leaving a note, and I never heard from her.<br />
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But what she told me, blew my mind. Apparently she left me because she found out she was pregnant. Apparently I'm the father of twins!<br />
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I got pretty furious at her. I couldn't believe she kept it a secret from me all this years, and comes with it now, 13 years later.<br />
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She didn't she me as a father, apparently. I did remind her that I'm a father of a boy who's a year younger, and that I'm doing a good job.<br />
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Kristianne only met with me because Anabel and Anthony wanted to meet me. I was still overwhelmed but agreed to meet them.<br />
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Kristianne left us to talk, which was a little bit akward. Sitting there with 2 teenagers, who are my children, and I don't know them at all.<br />
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Things got a little bit more relaxed when we played some pool, but it still felt strange. I do want to get to know them, but I'm going to leave it up to them.<br />
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<li><i>I thought it was time Jason found out about his kids with Kristianne. It was always the plan for him to find out anyway. Kristianne's husband, Richard, always raisded as his own, but Anabel and Anthony always knew he wasn't their father. Kristianne left Jason back then because she didn't see him fit to be a father. She met Richard and they hit it off, got married and about 13 months afther the twins were born, they added Peter to their family. Peter is one of Lucas' best friends. Things are a little bit akward between Jason and the twins, but they just need to get to know each other a little bit better.</i></li>
<li><i>I have to admit, I forgot that I put Jason and Clara in a comitted relationship last time I played Jason. They roll enough wants for one another so I decided to just go with it. Jason didn't hook up with anybody else this round, so I see them as being quite serious. He's a romance-sim, and she's fortune/romance, so I doubt I'll take them anywhere further. I moved her in to the trailerpark, just because I wanted to, but I don't know if I'll add her as a playable NPC. We'll see about that.</i></li>
<li><i>I didn't see "Cup of Cake" as something Jason would like doing his entire life. And I didn't like the lot that much anymore. So he sold and, and will open aother store soon, where he'll be selling pre-cooked meals, which is something I see more like Jason.</i></li>
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After hours of waiting, Emma's time finally has come. And Finn is overwhelmed by it all.<br />
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Soon they welcome their son, Austin Collins. They are both immidiatly in love with the little one.<br />
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<li><i>They had a boy! I don't know what's going on with my game lately, but it's giving me the babies I want! I'm not complaining, it's just a little bit unussual for my game.</i></li>
<li><i>I wanted them to have a boy, can't even remeber the girl's name I picked out for them, but I know I've have Austin in my mind ever since I found out they were having a baby.</i></li>
<li><i>Austin has brown hair like both his parents, and grey eyes like his dad. I'm glad he doesn't have black hair, which was an option since <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/lucas-zanobi.html">Emma's dad</a> had black hair, but I would have loved for him to have green eyes like his mom, I love green eyes!</i></li>
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/11/olaf-verbon.html">Olaf</a> is 47, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/12/morgana-verbon.html">Morgana</a> and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/12/zenzi-verbon.html">Zenzi</a> are 13 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/anthony-verbon.html">Anthony</a> is 8</i></div>
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<i>(<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/yin-mokara.html">Yin</a> Mokara is 51, Celeste Drayer 36, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/marcus-young.html">Marcus</a> Young is 34 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/12/david-mokara.html">David</a> Mokara and Chelsea Davis are 14)</i></div>
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The last couple of weeks Morgana hasn't talked to me, she's mad. When we do talk it ussually ens up in a fight. At first I just let it come over me, after all it was all my fault.<br />
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But when days turn into weeks it's time to get over it and act normal again, which she didn't, and now I'm answerring back.<br />
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It all started one evening when we went down to 'All for X'. It's just around the corner from our house so dad allows us to stay away a little bit longer.<br />
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It met with David there, and soon we lost interest in all the other things that were going on.<br />
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Morgana met with her friend Chelsea as well, and they had a nice time as well.<br />
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But when it was time to go home, I was a little bit occupied, and so Morgana waited for me, because she didn't want to walk home alone.<br />
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When we finally got home, dad was still awake, and pretty angry seeing we were an hour late. Since I was my fault, I took the blame for it, but still dad grounded the both of us. According to him Morgana should have done more to get me home on time.<br />
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And so Morgana and I are grounded, which she blames me for! She's pretty busy with school and all, and now she can't go to the library to study, which she hates.<br />
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She does the most she can with the things she has at home, but still she claims it's nog enough.<br />
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I don't like it that much either. Seeing there's not much to do at home, I'm stuck doing my homework, and a room with a sister who refuses to talk to me.<br />
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The weather had been great and so dad and Celeste took Anthony to the pool, but Morgana and I weren't allowed to come along.<br />
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Anthony couldn't stop talking about it afterwards, so we felk like we were there as well.<br />
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I just wished we could have gone with them, or even better could have gone alone with some friends.<br />
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Instead I was stuck at home with a sister who leaves the room every time I enter. I'm sure it will pass, it just sucks.<br />
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In the end it passed pretty quick, all thanks to dad's birthday pressent he finally decided to cash in. With his birthday in January we gave him a family photoshoot, and he finally decided to get it done.<br />
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Dad was pretty excited about it, and kept telling the the photographer (who is David's mom) what to do. You could just tell she wasn't impressed.<br />
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Eventually we got to the photo's. And dad had nothing to worry about, you could just tell that she understands her job.<br />
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After the photoshoot things went back to normal for Morgana and I. I think you can't be in room with some one an entire afternoon and stay mad at them.<br />
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It might have had something to do with the fact dad allowed us to go out again, but I don't mind, I'm just glad she's talking to me again.<br />
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Anthony has found a new hobby. He still plays the piano, but now he play basketball as well. I don't know if he's any good, but he begged dad for a hoop in the yard and got one.<br />
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Dad's not a sportsman himself, but he still wants to teach Anthony everything he knows, which I doubt is a lot.<br />
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He did promiss Anthony to take him to one of Marcus Young's games, when he does his chores around the house.<br />
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Anthony is a big Marcus-fan, so he was very eager to do everything dad asked.<br />
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And then the big day was there. I doubt Anthony got any sleep that night. He couldn't wait, and talked about it the entire day.<br />
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Dad even arranged for Anthony to meet Marcus.<br />
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And Anthony even got a picture with his big idol.<br />
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Anthony was beyond himself when Marcus came to sit with them in the cafetaria. And again Anthony talked about it so much, like it felt I met Marcus as well.<br />
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Dad is still seeign Celeste. I think she's great for him. She comes by our house quite a lot, and even makes us lunch during the weekend.<br />
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When we're all around the table together, it feels like we're a normal family again.<br />
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She doesn't always come to us. Sometime dad and Celeste need some time to themselfs, and so dad goes to her house instead. He always makes sure to be home for the night though.<br />
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One evening dad asked us all to sit down because he had to ask us something. He wants Celeste to move in with us, but not just as his girlfriend but as his wife.<br />
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He wanted to know how we all felt about that. He didn't have to worry though. Celeste is nice, and even though she will never take mom's place, she will be an amazing step-mom.<br />
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E few days later dad asked her to marry him and she said yes. Dad took us all to the Claudette, a fancy restaurant in SimsVille, to celebrate.<br />
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<i>Some of the pictures from the photo-shoot. I have some of each of them individual as well.</i><br />
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<i>Celeste Drayer and her house in Simmeria, which I will miss when she moves in with Olaf, because I really love her house!</i><br />
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<li><i>Another ROS in this household. Zenzi rolled the "Sibling rivalry. Fight between siblings"-ROS. Which I had quite some trouble with because she and Morgana get along very well, and I couldn't see her fight with her little brother. So I eventually went with her 'aspiration'. Zenzi is a little bit too much into dating and boys and such.</i></li>
<li><i>I didn't want to do another engagement, so I wrote it in like this. Olaf really did ask Celeste to marry him though, I just wrote it in differently. I haven't set a date yet, because I don't know yet if I want them to get married this round or if I want them to wait untill next round. When they do get married though, Celeste will be moving in with Olaf and his kids. After that she will get her own profile-page as well.</i></li>
<li><i>Another made-over house. I warned you I did them all! It stands out in the row now because of the color of the bricks, but I kind of like it that way. The girls share a room, and Anthony has his own small room. There is another spare room, the same size as Anthony's, for any future baby. Because I do want the to have at least one kids! I know Olaf wants it as well, he had the want for another baby last round, it rolled away, but I'm pretty sure he'll roll it again when he's married.</i></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">SimsVille Up Hill Elementary School</span></b></div>
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<i>Principal: <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2006/02/marie-gerrits.html">Marie</a> Gerrtis is 35</i></div>
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<i>Teachers: <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/elisa-de-leeuw.html">Elisa</a> de Leeuw is 31 and Magda Sels is 26</i></div>
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<i>Subject Teachers: <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/09/laura-penninkmeijer.html">Laura</a> Heaven and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/09/gabrielle-penninkmeijer.html">Gabriëlle</a> Penninkmeijer are 24</i></div>
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<i>Students: <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2006/01/enya-terrano.html">Enya</a> Terrano and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/george-roque.html">George</a> Roque are 11, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/bethany-alenis.html">Bethany</a> Alenis and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/mona-zang.html">Mona</a> and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/nora-zang.html">Nora</a> Zang are 10, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/joshua-mishoen.html">Joshua</a> Mishoen, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/charles-roque.html">Charles</a> Roque, Nathan Forman and Emily Spits are 9, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/michael-mishoen.html">Michael</a> Mishoen, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/sayda-terrano.html">Sayda</a> Terrano, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/anthony-verbon.html">Athony</a> Verbon and Bailey Ooms are 8, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/brian-gradonni.html">Brian</a> Gradonni, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/owen-tora.html">Owen</a> Tora and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/alex-zang.html">Alex</a> Zang are 7, Oscar Lamberts, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/wylco-terrano.html">Wylco</a> Terrano, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/carl-zang.html">Carl</a> Zang, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/tessa-zang.html">Tessa</a> Zang, and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/julie-warner.html">Julie</a> Warner are 6, Jill Forman, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/elisabeth-penninkmeijer.html">Elisabeth</a> and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/margaret-penninkmeijer.html">Margaret</a> Penninkmeijer, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/felix-gerrits.html">Felix</a> Gerrits, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/zoey-mishoen.html">Zoey</a> Mishoen, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/brent-de-leeuw.html">Brent</a> de Leeuw, and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/marcus-zang.html">Marcus</a> Zang are 5, Kevin Ooms, Vera Lamberts, Claire Tora, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/stephanie-penninkmeijer.html">Stephanie</a> and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/nicholas-penninkmeijer.html">Nicholas</a> Penninkmeijer, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/eli-penninkmeijer.html">Eli</a> Penninkmeijer, and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/olivia-warner.html">Olivia</a> Warner are 4</i></div>
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<b>Pre-school + Kindergarden - Teacher: Magda Kievits</b></div>
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When the weahter is nice, wich is quite a lot in May, the children can play outside a little bit longer when recess is already over.<br />
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<b>Grades 1 - 3 - Teacher: Marie Gerrits</b><br />
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Grades 1 - 3 took a field trip to the skate park. Some enjoyed it a little bit more than others, but I think they were all glad to spend an afternoon away from the school.<br />
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<b> </b>The older kids take a trip to Simmeria to visit the high school, where they get a tour from principal <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/hans-mokara.html">Hans Mokara</a>. They get an example of what a class in high school would be like and are even allowed to have lunch the school cafeteria.<br />
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<li><i>I don't know how it goes in other parts of the world, but here there's always a field trip near the end of the school year, in May or June, so I decided to go with that this time. </i></li>
<li><i>I planned on taking the younger ones to the aquarium (again), but realised it's not finished yet, and I didn't feel like doing it at the time, so I let them play on the school playground instead.</i></li>
<li><i>The skate park is a new lot, I'm really over using at the moment. It's in SimsVille, and it's not big at all, it's still needs some work, but I thought it would be perfect to take the kids to.</i></li>
<li><i>I only have 2 students leaving my elementary school this year (I'm sure I'll have much more who'll be starting elementary school), but I thought it would be nice to let them take a tour at the high school, and I really liked doing it.</i></li>
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Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-19975441058706573252015-02-01T09:00:00.000+01:002015-02-01T09:00:02.816+01:00Gerrits - May 2026<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2013/08/gerrits-january-2024.html">Last update</a>/Next update</span></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2006/02/marie-gerrits.html">Marie</a> is 35, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/sya-mishoen.html">Sya</a> is 34, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/felix-gerrits.html">Felix</a> is 5 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/caleb-gerrits.html">Caleb</a> and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/keira-gerrits.html">Keira</a> are 3</i></div>
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<i>(<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/marc-mishoen.html">Marc</a> Mishoen is 73, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/nuan-mishoen.html">Nuan</a> Mishoen is 68, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/05/tika-mishoen.html">Tika</a> Mishoen is 42, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/xiang-zang.html">Xiang</a> Zang is 43, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/marcus-young.html">Marcus</a> Young is 34, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/06/elisa-de-leeuw.html">Elisa</a> de Leeuw is 31, Magda Sels is 26, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/09/eleanora-roque.html">Eleanora</a> Roque is 21, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/01/lewis-mishoen.html">Lewis</a> Mishoen is 13, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/joshua-mishoen.html">Joshua </a>Mishoen is 9 and <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/michael-mishoen.html">Michael</a> Mishoen is 8)</i></div>
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This month didn't start too great; on my day off I had to rush to the hospital because they called me that Marie had been in an accident. I was really worried, and couldn't get there fast enough. <br />
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I was happy to see everything was fine with Marie, but I wanted confirmation. It was a bit akward that my sister's ex-husband was Marie's doctor, but
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He assured me that Marie was doing fine, and that she could go home with me. She wasn't allowed to go to work yet, ant was told to rest plenty.<br />
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I couldn't stay home from work, but mom and dad offered to come over a few days a week to help around the house. They even told us we didn't have to take to twins to daycare.<br />
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They both love spending time witht their grandchildren. And all 3 kids love spending time with their grandparents.<br />
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Mom and dad have been a great help, not just with the kids. Mom made sure the house was clean, and that we didn't have to worry about anything.<br />
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She even made sure there was a snack for Felix when he came home from school.<br />
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And dad was more than willing to help Felix with his homework. Something we hardly have to time for with our work and the twins needing our constant attention.<br />
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When Marie was finally feeling better and didn't need to rest that much anymore, her collegues came by to keep her up to date.<br />
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When she told me about the visit afterwards I could tell Marie really missed her students and that she was very much looking forward to going back to work.<br />
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When Marie was finally allowed to go out of the house again, we took the kids to the playground across the street.<br />
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I was glad to see Marie just sitting there watching the kids play and enjoy it.<br />
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Even though Marie felt alright again, we both thought it was a good idea she didn't join me and Tika when we took the boys to the skate park.<br />
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Tika and I even skated, but that wasn't a huge succes. I do think we both did one lap before we decided to just watch the kids instead.<br />
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But when the boys were starting to join us by the bench, we decided they were done and we headed home.<br />
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Marie didn't go with us to the skate park, but instead took Keira and Caleb to my parents' house, where they got the undivided attention of Lewis, who decided not to go to the skate park as well.<br />
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Lewis never paid much attention to his younger brothers, but he's great with kids, and he loves playing with them.<br />
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Dad grilled some hot dogs by the time we got home, and the kids begged us to allow them a 'picnic' in the garden instead of sitting at the table.<br />
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So it was just us, adults, at the table. We were joined by Lewis, who thinks he's a little bit too old to be labled a 'kid'.<br />
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We don't go out that much anymore these days, it's just not doable with 3 kids. Instead we try to invite them over for a game or just to have drink.<br />
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Seeing last time Marcus and Ellie announced their engagement, I wonder how long we will be able to do this. When you have kids it's just a little bit harder to meet up with friends.<br />
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<i>I made over their house! I was in desperate need of a make-over (at least in my opinion), and this is how it looks now. You'll see more of it next round. Or maybe I'll do a lot tour one day, I'm not sure yet.</i><br />
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<li><i>Marie rolled the "Ouch! You've been in a car accident!"-ROS this round. I did what the 'instructions' said; she lost 5 body-points, and stayed home for 2 days, but nothing really happened. To make it more 'real' I had Sya's parents check in and help out as much as they could.</i></li>
<li><i>As I've said before I'm giving almost every one's house a make-over, and since this house hasn't changed since I build it years ago, I couldn't just let it pass :)</i></li>
<li><i>This is the last round with Keira and Caleb as toddlers. As always I'm very much looking forward to aging them up to children! I can't wait to see how they'll look.</i></li>
<li><i>Lewis really never paid much attention to his little brothers. He doesn't hate them, but they're just not interesting to him it seems. He did play with one of the toddlers (can't remember wich one) all on his own though. Maybe he was just too young when his brothers were born to pay them any attention.</i></li>
<li><i>I know the family profile-page is empty at the moment, I really should start writing those again! I hope to have them updated soon! </i></li>
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Tanjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07054869544598274885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750904147196842554.post-47638270774803534662015-01-27T09:00:00.000+01:002015-01-27T09:00:08.792+01:00The Simmerian - May 2026 Issue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2009/09/laura-penninkmeijer.html">Laura</a> Heaven is now a week overdue. She and husband, <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2005/01/dennis-heaven.html">Dennis</a>, check in at the hospital to initiate the birth.<br />
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They have to wait some time for the doctor to show them their room.<br />
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But soon <a href="http://simsvilleprosperity.blogspot.be/2007/07/xiang-zang.html">Dr. Zang</a> comes to take them to the birth room, where he will be initiating the birth.<br />
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And not long after that, Laura actually is in labor.<br />
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And a few hours later they meet their new daughter, Lily Heaven.<br />
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When they are able to take her home, Dennis is constantly near Lily's crib, and more than willing to oblige in all of her needs.<br />
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<li><i>I was pretty happy these 2 had a girl! Mainly because I didn't have a boysname :) and partly because I just wanted them to have a girl.</i></li>
<li><i>Lily has black hair and grey eyes just like her dad, I can't wait to age her up :) I know I always want something else than black hair, but here there just wasn't an option for anything but black hair.</i></li>
<li><i>I don't know how it goes somewhere else, but here the labor is initiated when the baby doesn't come naturally 10 days after the due-date. And so I went with that sotry for Dennis and Laura.</i></li>
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I have to admit that I didn't have to think long when I came across this trailer for rent. I was pretty excited to move out of mom and dad's place.<br />
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I know mom wanted me to live at home longer, but it was just time to move out. So now she drops by almost 2 days a week to check up on me.<br />
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She wasn't too happy about me living in a trailer, but I think it surprised her how it actually is, I think it turned out better than she expected.<br />
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Whenever she comes by she brings me something to eat. I have to say I love that part of her checking up on me, I'm not a great cook.<br />
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And she insists on cleaning the trailer when she's over as well. Another you won't hear any complaints abouts.<br />
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Even though mom comes by 2 days a week, she asked Jo to check up on me as well. I don't mind Jo coming over, because most of the time she brings Eli with her, and I just love that kid.<br />
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Jo also invites me over for dinner occasionally, an invitation I happily accept, because anything is better than something I cook myself.<br />
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I know dad is worried about me as well, but he plays it differently. He invites me to drink a coffee somewhere to talk about business.<br />
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He does talk to me about the business, mostly that I'm not there enough. Which gives him the perfect excuse to hear me out on my doings.<br />
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I actually don't think I'm doing that bad. I'm never late for work, and the place isn't dirty or anything.<br />
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I admit that the meals could be better, but microwaved meals, are meals as well, so you won't hear me complaint about that. I mostly eat what mom brings me, at Jo's or at the station anyway.<br />
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I know I could put in more of an effort to be more at the store, but I'm there in time to deliver the toy's I've made. I don't feel like running the business anytime soon anyway.<br />
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Bea has dropped by occasionally as well. She love it that I'm living in my own now, and that we don't have to sneak around my parents anymore.<br />
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She thinks my job is exciting, and she's already planning on moving in with me, which I don't see happening any time soon.<br />
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I like Bea, and I like spending time with her, but moving in is something completely different. She was quite shocked when she heard that. Walked away, and I haven't heard from her since.<br />
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After some days at the trailer park, I decided it was time to meet some of the neighbors. So I went to introduce myself to my next door neighbor, Niels Bleek.<br />
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We get along pretty well, and we spend quite a lot of nights sitting on his porch with a beer, just talking about all kind of things.<br />
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We don't sit in the porch all the time though. One night he took me down to a club at college, Bar Le Coin.<br />
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It was there that I saw that Niels is quite the ladies man.<br />
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I don't know what he does, but after a small conversation he has them eating out of his hands.<br />
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When I was out with Niels, I ran into Marlys Zanobi. We used to go to school together, and she's at college now.<br />
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We kind of hit it off there, and we had a great time.<br />
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And before I knew it, I had her in my livingroom. I don't know if it were the drinks, but we had a great night together. <br />
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It wasn't all my doing, of that I'm sure. And we didn't make any arangements on what we are going to to do next, it was just a fun night.<br />
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The guys from the station insist on having at least one night a month where we all go out, playing pool, going to a pud, it's all fine, as long as it's just the guys.<br />
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I don't mind going out at all. And the guys aren't that bad to hang out with, even though they are all a little bit older.<br />
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Those nights out usually don't end early, nor do they end with me meeting a girl and taking her out, but they are fun.<br />
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One of the things I miss most is seeing my twinbrother every day. He started college earlier this year, and moved into one of the dorms there.<br />
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We try to meet as much as we can, wich is hard with his classes and studying, and my schedule but we make it work, at least at the moment.<br />
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On one of those outings with Steven, I ran into Marlys. Apparently she and Steven are living in the same dorm, not far from the pub.<br />
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We flirted a little bit, and agreed to meet each other again soon, but that was it at the moment.<br />
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I was out with my brother that afternoon, and we don't see each other that much.<br />
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On one of my rare moments at home, I was surprised to see Niels meet with a woman, I've never seen around, and a little girl.<br />
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They sat there for some time, talking. I couldn't hear them, and I haven't asked Niels about it yet, but I'm pretty curious about it all.<br />
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<li><i>I </i>love <i>playing Stephan! He really is so much fun, and I never expected it to be, since I really don't like playing single sim households that much, but Stephan had a lot of things going on. I have to admit that I could have scheduled this update and the one before this one a little bit better, but I realised it too late.</i></li>
<li><i>I have to say I forgot all about Stephan and Marlys untill I reread my notes on this update. They make a nice couple, they have 2 bolts of chemisty, so we'll see where they'll go. <br />I never saw Stephan and Bea going to long run, they aren't broken up at the moment, and next round I'll have to age up Bea. I don't know what I'll do with her, I have so many playable NPC's already, but they have some good chemisty.</i></li>
<li><i>So Niels is meeting with Tina and Zoey. I couldn't wait untill Tina's update, which isn't for some time, so I added some things in this update. Since Niels ans Stephan are kind of alike I thought they could be friends, and we could see some more of Niels through Stephan's eyes.</i></li>
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