Birthdays for All!

I played for another four hours without stop today, god damn. Made about two weeks of in-game progress! Lots of birthdays this time around.

I felt a little rusty taking photos last time, but I think I'm getting a good feel for it again. Aside from practice, it helps that I got a new mouse. I discovered that the jitteryness of the camera motions when using the right mouse button were not a game glitch but my mouse crapping out on me and intermittently dropping the click. I switched out my mouse and now I am enjoying sharp solid camera motions :) Still a bit peeved with the tab function though, I remember it being more precise. When I try to zoom in and out it's either exactly the same as without tab but a pinch closer, practically right up in their goddamn anuses, or the view from outer space. Despite that I think I managed to get some nice shots this time!

First, a fulfilled promise: I said in the last post that I would show you all of Suzy's new outfits in CAS, so here they are.

Everyday: shirt, skirt, shoes, earrings, piercing

Formal: skirt, shoes, hosiery, earrings, piercing

Sleepwear: piercing

Athletic: shirt, shoes, socks, piercing

 Swimwear: shirt, piercing

Another outfit update: I did indeed end up removing those earrings from my game and changing up the way I was using the piercing set. I have replaced the earrings with the lip piercing as left earring and the nose piercing as right earring so I can now use bracelets again, and have added my white spiked bracelet (as mentioned in my simself rundown) to Caitlin's everyday and formal.

I got that pregnancy mod working!! I noticed in the MTS comments that someone had got it to work by just deleting it and redownloading it so I tried that and I am back in business :D Caitlin is pregnant with their first child!! Here's Suzy giving the new baby some love.

Before the baby was born, I used some surplus funds to add a second floor to the house (Back to the Fushia pre-made lot in Bridgeport)! Maybe one day I will save up the funds and move the whole operation to a much bigger house on a much bigger lot, but for the moment they need more space right now, and since this house is already kissing the edges of this lot, the only way to go is up. It is presently unfinished and completely empty, not even any dividing walls. They almost ran out of funds just doing this; there was absolutely no wiggle room for anything else. I need to make a plan for how I'm organizing both floors before I play again tomorrow, because I'm thinking of changing some of the walls on the first floor too.

So far my vague plans include adding more bedrooms, adding a play room for the kids, adding a music room for Suzy and an art room for Caitlin, revamping the kitchen and dining and living room and downstairs bathroom, and adding a bathroom upstairs. The master bed currently on the first floor will be moved upstairs to free up some space down there, kitchen and dining will stay on the first floor, and there will be one bathroom on each floor. Otherwise I'm not sure which floor the other rooms will go on, but I'll play around with some ideas.

I also want to start adding furniture CC to my game before I start this project moving. I concentrated on CAS CC for the first little bit because I didn't have a lot to test things on, but now that I've got a file to check things in easily I want to get some of that good shit in there so I can use it in their house.

For now, I just shuffled a few things around on the first floor to make room for the stairs. The dresser also ended up by the front door after the baby was born to make room for the crib in their bedroom.

Speaking of the baby, here she is!! Her name is Lucy. This is Caitlin right after getting back from the hospital.

Suzy giving Lucy a warm welcome into the world :) As an aside, her elbow is really fucky in this picture :/ This shirt had proven to be not entirely functional, as will be seen in a few other photos.

The next day was Caitlin's birthday, but I forgot about it by the end of the day and consequently forgot to buy a cake, so they aged up in the middle of sculpting and I wasn't able to get any decent pictures. Another aside: I believe their face in this photo is the perfect combination of excitement and abject terror often associated with one's birthday.

That post-age-up knowing look. I fixed their hair immediately.

Y'know what really fuckin' freaked me out about this? In this photo and in CAS, this adult simself has an eerily strong resemblance to my mother, who all of my extended relatives say I look just like (and I have seen the pictures, the resemblance especially in childhood is indeed uncanny). I guess I made a decent representation of myself lol

Suzy playing guitar! I had her quit being a grocery clerk and join the music career as soon as their honeymoon ended. She got to start at level three because she apparently has a degree in fine arts! Despite not having any of the skills one would expect? Fuckin' NPCs, whatever. She immediately started earning three times more per hour than she was earning per three hour shift before.

I also had Caitlin take a new job the moment their maternity leave ended. They registered as a self-employed sculptor, which is what I wanted them to do in the first place, but they couldn't even afford a sculpting station when they first moved in so I had them take a job to get some funds going first. Now they stay at home with the little one while Suzy works her music career :)

Also forgot about Lucy's birthday until the end of the day, whoops. Here she is aging up! Don't you just love the glitched hair? :/

Everyday: outfit, shoes, shirt pattern, shoes pattern

Formal: outfit, shoes

Sleepwear: outfit, shoes

Also, here is her hair!

Below is the obligatory cute skill-learning montage lol

I had them blitz through the first few days so she learned all her skills - including maxing out the peg box and the xylophone - in three days! She's all set for aging up.

Some miscellaneous cutie pie shots :) (Of course I bought her Moe P. Cuddlebones, what self-respecting gothic parents wouldn't?!)

Family meal time!

Suzy aged up too but again, saw the pop-up, clicked the checkmark, and forgot about it for the rest of the day. Consequently, I couldn't get any good pictures of her because she kept clipping lol (I fixed her hair immediately, same as before)

Here is where I left them: Suzy sleeping, Caitlin sculpting, and Lucy wandering the house.

Suzy is going to age up in two or three days, and as soon as that happens I'm going to complete the construction on the second floor to the best their current funding can finish. I want to at least move the master bed to the second floor, make a bedroom for Lucy, and have all floors and walls covered with something. Might leave a few doorless rooms if I can't get that flooring and wall stuff done. However! They had around 6000 in funds thanks to wedding benefits when they did the first addition and that knocked them down to under 1000, and now they have about that much to work with again thanks to Suzy's new job and Caitlin's sculpting, so hopefully I'll be able to do a lot with that, especially since I'll have a few more days' worth of income to work with and I'm knocking a few walls down on the first floor.

I might not play tomorrow. That time will most likely be spent CC downloading and testing, as well as making floor plans for both floors.

Bonus photo: I was trying to find good angles to take a pic of Caitlin with baby Lucy home from the hospital, and this happened. It feels evocative of horror movies to me, like they're about to eat her.