Etsu Green caught her husband cheating with the maid.

Gabriel and Etsu Green had more than 20K simoleons in the bank, so they upgraded the house. Did they add two bedrooms for their kids? No. They bought this big, new kitchen for Andrea Shin to clean. It's the biggest room in the house.

He's on a mission. :]

Back in January this year, teenager Ellie Murray and two brothers (Ian and Philip Borland) moved into the then newly built New Changing Shed in Monopolis. Here they were learning the basics of cooking, something that virtually all my Sims do, even though I've had Squinge's No More Fires mod for most of the time I've been playing. My Changing Huts and Sheds are for CAS-created Sims who are destined to become townies. I used to only play such Sims for a few Sim hours, but now I usually play them for a few days, to give them a chance to get to know the neighbourhood they are moving into, and to give me a chance to get to know them.


By June I thought they should be ready to move on. As planned, Philip Borland became a townie. His brother Ian Borland had got into a relationship with with another boy, Tyler Hunt, whose mother was opening a lunch restaurant (one of my entries for Justpetro's contest). Ian moved across Monopolis to move in with Tyler and his mum. He is now, as a family member, helping in the restaurant. I was expecting Ellie to move out too, but first I let her get this promotion she wanted. Ellie, a Fortune Sim, was delighted at this promotion, but it was clear to me, that she really had her heart set on becoming a professional model, so I let her stay on to work for an important second promotion. So, the Borland brothers both moved out, and some new arrivals moved into the changing shed beside her. She set about getting to know them, while continuing to focus on her modelling career.


Today Ellie got the promotion she sought, and she was over the moon about it. I think she has the looks, the dress sense, and the personality to be a success as a fashion model, so I wish her well. I think she's now ready to become a townie, as originally intended, but I think we'll still see plenty of her, as she has got into a relationship with Henry Junor, a playable boy who lives nearby. I thought Henry was gay, but it seems he finds Ellie's forceful personality irresistible. When I see how forcefully she kisses him, I think I can understand why!


Ellie kissing her boyfriend, Henry Junor. Watching TV in the foreground is Timothy Ayre, one of her housemates.

Although it was 9 p.m. when she returned from work, she invited Henry, the Borland boys, and Tyler Hunt (Ian Borland's boyfriend) round to celebrate with her. Tyler brought another friend with him, and there were already some other guests there, so Ellie had to make hamburgers for fourteen diners! She comes across to me as competent and confident.

Ow, ow, ow. Please don't break his arms, Ellie!

Evil Witch weather!

Do Repo Men always look this evil?

It's now winter in Holtwood: time to invite relatives to visit and keep cosy by the fire. There was a little more fire than anyone planned...

I thought that you were going to say that Granny stayed playing the piano while everything burned down around her, like the orchestra while the Titanic was sinking. XD

Is puss hissing at the fire?



SimCity Savings and Loan regrets ... This man regrets nothing!

The repo man face is the best sim expression!

Sarah McGuire, whom I mentioned in this post a couple of days ago, has just invited Justus Bruenig to move in with her. This makes him playable (as @simsample recommended). Justus is the fourth Maxis paper boy / girl in Veronaville, but he never got a paper round, as it seems the game can't use more than three newspaper deliverers. In my game he has seven Cooking skill points and ten for Mechanical skill, so I think he'd be wasting his talents delivering papers!

Today of course is Christmas Day so he, Sarah and visiting teen townie Oscar Harter join me in drinking a toast and wishing


Now that he's playable, Sarah intends to take him shopping and buy him some nice new clothes. They can be her Christmas present to him! Even though it's Christmas Day, I'm sure the shops will be open in Veronaville! Justus (pronounced the German way to go with the surname Bruenig) knows Miriam Hunter, Bluewater's up and coming hairstylist. So I expect him to visit her soon to let her restyle his hair. (Miriam is still working from home, as she can't afford to buy premises, so I'll have to play her, and get her to invite him.)

Yes, the cat hissed and bushed up her tail at the fire - you can see she was backing halfway through the wall in an effort to keep out of range of sparks, but she stayed there to rebuke the flames until the situation was resolved! Brave kitty! I'm glad she didn't run away from home.

Yeah, I had a dog who ran away once through a combination of his bowl being empty and his sim being on fire when he went to ask for it to be filled. XD

Recently in Portland...

"It's so nice when my children get along!"


Imani has a long way to go to reach the top of the Dance career track.


The first friend Matrix makes after being initialized is, serendipitously enough, the only sim in Portland with a Robot turn-on!

I needed a change of scene, so I threw together a row of narrow rainbow flats in my desert neighbourhood and let loose eight sims to try to learn how to survive with minimal interference.



Bluey Linseed, in the red flat, has an autonomous preference for red foods - he likes to make spaghetti with a red sauce, chili con carne, and of course sausages. Down the row a little, Furbish Linseed likes to make green salads!



Commonality Linseed, next to Bluey in the orange flat, is the friendly sort, always keen to play catch with a neighbour. She received a pop-up telling her she's gaining fame because more and more people are starting to see that she's a good Sim.

"Oh wow! Good things are coming my way RIGHT NOW! I've just met the cutest little fluffy critter and I think we're going to make friends!"

Uzochi was very excited to move out of his parents' house and into his own apartment. There's a lovely view from the private balcony, which was an unexpected bonus.

Calorific, Juicy, and Delicious...

CJ's BEEEEF! Home of the mad burger, you'd be insane to miss it!





(It's an cloned limonaire 4t2 Billboard with an upscaled GTA2 texture, and English fonts replaced with Simlish fonts... )

Vernous Fantasm's bedroom at the Beaker mansion.

Cora greets Corah
Cora Molloy, the daughter of Irene Molloy who has just moved into Bluewater, was out in the front street to recycle an old newspaper, and to greet Ken Yates, a boy she was expecting. Just after she hat met and greeted Ken, she spotted this red-haired woman coming along the pavement/sidewalk in the other direction, so she went and greeted her and then told her a joke. The newcomer turned out to be Corah Howden, who lives with the Hughson family (named after one of my favourite creators) in Marlborough Street, Monopolis. It was only when Cora met Corah that I realised that I had recently made two Sims with almost the same forename. Both were made in CAS in the autumn, but I only moved the Hughson and Molloy families from the family bin into houses in the last couple of weeks.


Beatrix Bouncing
Also visiting the Molloys' house was Irene's new love interest Beatrix Keanie. After Irene left for work (as Veronaville All-Stars new Llama mascot) at 3 p.m., Beatrix couldn't resist bouncing for the rest of the afternoon on Irene's trampoline.


Cora asks Ken Yates on a Date
After greeting and entertaining Corah, Cora Molloy returned to her original plan for the afternoon. She went back into the house and asked her visiting friend Ken Yates on a date. Until now Ken had only had a couple of same sex encounters, but neither went very far, so Cora was hopeful that her charms might surpass those of his previous male encounters. In the event Cora and Ken had a great date together. They might have turned it into real dream date if they gone out for a late meal together, but by 10:30 p.m. they were both feeling rather hungry, and Irene had returned from work (with a promotion to minor league player), and had cooked spaghetti for everyone. Both Cora and Ken agreed that Irene's spaghetti was just as good as anything they might have got in a restaurant, and possibly even better!


Sunny Delight?
After I took the picture of Beatrix bouncing on the trampoline, I was surprised to see two suns just above the rooftop. When I moved the camera slightly, one of the suns disappeared, so maybe I had just spent too much time at a juice bar, and was seeing double.

Some things TS2 does can be odd, creepy or funny... sometimes both, sometimes all three, and maybe even a 4th & 5th thing.




1- Little Syfia Spi twists her head too far -
2- Mom Zetta Zoink caught cheating on daughter Xandra.



1-Taffy Tunami discovers her mom passed out from exhaustion. Always a strange sight.
2- If Only We Had Real Pics Of Gene Simmons Little On The Toity. But it happened in a Sim Game & it's funny enough to look at.
3-Terminator Kids are indeed weird. So are their mothers.
4-Petunia the burglar walks past a No Burglars sign as cop drives by,



1- Even Evil Queen Fizzy Foobar must eat. Her foes liver.
2- "Always thought tossing a kid this high was a bit much..." said Xandra Zoink the baby to her mom Zetta.



1- Posh Poof the scientist is discovered by Orions - and they're in the mood for more than a probe.
2- Karl Khan the cheetah is in Zen Mode. He should be. He's a fragile greedy sim that breaks easily since my game is set up to be impossible for greed sims. They will always fail, no matter how hard they try.

Little Darren Fleming is teaching his overweight teenage friend Jimmy Parrat how to use the trampoline.

(This picture was taken on the Fleming family's last evening in the Downtown Changing Hut, before moving to their new permanent home, a renovated ranch house in Monopolis which we have been building as a play-along for CatherineTCJD's Fix It or Flip It contest.)