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You might ask whether we’ve been sleeping for the past two months. If only. But after a lot of work, I’ve got my PhD done bar proof-reading errors, which I’ll finish next week, then I can hand it in and forget about it until my viva (oral exam) in November. However, I’ve also taken on a new role at work which means a lot more work for me, and there are a bunch of weddings and things on the horizon, so life doesn’t ever slow down that much. That said, I hope to update more regularly now, not least because Pets is coming out soon and Puddle hasn’t even had one of his five kids yet, who are all going to fill up this house. Of course, if the Dayes carry on at their slow, slow pace, we’ll not be getting any pets this side of 2020 but I live in hope.

After GaGa died, we got to keep the fire engine. I keep forgetting to check if we can recolour it, though I assume not.

Oh, EA routing fails, you never get old.

So we bought Town Life stuff. Excuse the texture loading issues. This save file is slower than slow. The double joys of a massive house with tons of objects and Bridgeport, I’m afraid. This is the new grocery store. Just a rabbit hole, I’m afraid.

The new gym’s quite cute and I like the new light boxes, posters etc.

I really like the building – although it’s nothing talented builders in the community couldn’t do.

I was so pleased that the four bubble windows were back as they’re going to be useful for a Taken set, however, I am gutted that the recolour doesn’t change each bubble but rather the different bits of the frame, which is really annoying. I liked those windows back in Sims 1. Stupid EA.

The park’s kind of cute, though nothing special.

The new Bistro place is really cute but another rabbithole.

Here’s Mona in the motive mobile. Love that thing, it really does keep their motives static, great in a huge hood like Bridgeport. She’s on her way to check out another venue.

None of the buildings fit that well. Stupid hilly terrain. Anyway, this is the launderette.

We never use a launderette, but it’s a nice little venue.

I like that they have things to do while they wait for their washing. It’s a neat touch.

More nice windows. The windows and lights are my favourite thing about this stuff pack, which I’m overall not that enamoured by. It’s OK but I kind of hoped there’d be more venues or at least more interesting items (there aren’t that many items all in all).

The library doesn’t fit well either and we couldn’t even fit the school into our hood. EA need to make hoods with more space in them.

Now Mona’s no longer a vampire, she’s become old. I’m still planning on her having the young again potion, but we thought we’d see what the fountain of youth could do. For a quarter of a million, it better be good.

She wished for youth. It was not forthcoming.

Bramble drank from the fountain. It gave her an extra day as an adult, much like life fruit.

She does nothing but mix drinks. And she still hasn’t fulfilled ANY of the skill challenges. This is mad. Or a glitch.

Speaking of glitches, I heard that the spellbook and fountain of youth conflict with each other so we thought we’d play with the spellbook and see. You could click on it and everything but Mona seemed to spend hours ‘learning’ a spell but in fact doing nothing. Hmm.

Lola: ‘Sigh. I want to progress in life’.

Alley: ‘Well, I’d like to progress up the star ladder’.

‘Maybe we can help each other out’.

Finally, my cunning plans look like they might bear fruit. The aim is to marry Lola in, see how that affects Alley’s star rating, maybe kill her off properly seeing as she never truly died back when GaGa saved her from a fire and she crumbled into dust – she’s just been glitching people ever since with them mourning her all the time. And there’s another cunning plan, too.

I asked my Facebook fans what kind of service sim we should try and marry Puddle off to (as well as him trying to have a mega-hybrid baby with Nadine) and they all said stripper… I mean ‘party dancer’, so Alley threw a hen do. She made the invites ‘dress to impress’ although I have no idea where she picked that outfit from. After hours of her standing there doing nothing, she finally joined the party.

She wanted to ask a sim to make a toast, so she asked Blaze who refused. The want didn’t fulfil, even though she did ask. Silly game.

She also wanted to spray a sim. Brady didn’t short when she achieved this.

Her last want was to flirt with a party dancer. Now I have no idea if these were party dancers or maids. They didn’t come in, we got a pop up saying we’d had ‘enough’ party dancing and the maids each charged us 125 simoleans for the privilege of standing outside. So that was all a big fat fail.

When I clicked on Alley, she had the option to sleep on the floor. So she did.

The day of the wedding came, and Lola didn’t show. So I used Master Controller to force her over, but however much I clicked ‘get married’, they wouldn’t. Then she tried to leave so I changed household to get her to stay. Eventually they married but I never got the moving in screen.

While all this was going on, Mona wished for youth again. This time the pop-up said she’d got her wish and would go back to young adulthood – except it just reset her to the start of elderhood. And all the family’s wants got wiped, as did Mona’s LTW tally.

I wondered if it might be the fountain, so I quit without saving and when I reloaded it, sold it – for over 400K which was a nifty bit of profit!

We tried the whole wedding thing again (LOVE the vegas arch, by the way, with the rolling fruit machine thing on top). It failed again. And again. So I cheated and moved Lola in.

Selling the fountain didn’t solve our problems, by the way, as Mona’s tally still keeps resetting and they keep losing their wants. These could be mod issues rather than game object ones, we’ll just have to keep testing for now.

Blackberry’s been playing with some of the Generations stuff. She’s had a go at the new toy oven (the same as the old one but a bit glitchier), the treehouses and has just started on the chemistry table. She was also meant to do dressing up and holding court and so on… but I forgot to change the age span after playing with the Knights…

…and this happened. Oops. Oh well, at some point Puddle’s going to have a brood who can do the Generations stuff Blackberry missed. No, he is. Honestly. Really.

Join us next time to see whether Lola’s presence in our family makes the game explode or not…

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