Pleasantview Round 7 - The Oldies - Grass and Kari

Hi dear readers!  This is the home of Grass and Kari Oldie.  Grass is a PlantSim, and is the youngest of six made by Leo Wilkie, (who had an LTW to Marry off 6) Coral Oldie's second husband after Herb passed.

Not sure how Grass has the last name Oldie, unless ASimWen went into SimPE and changed it all those years ago.  His wife, Countess Kari is also Oldie, as is their daughter Shirley.  I had thought maybe when Coral and Leo got married that Leo took the Oldie name, but the other PlantSim kids he made spread thoughout the neighborhood are Wilkies.  So the only answer is SimPE.  I don't remember doing it 5 years ago!  Probably wanted to keep the Oldie name in the homestead.

Grass Oldie

Popularity - Have 20 Best Friends

First Wishes - Make a BFF, meet someone new, have a party, and ?  (Sorry was going on memory here)

Countess Kari Oldie

Pleasure - Become a Professional Party Guest

 First wishes - Ask a Sim on a date, go bird watching, go bug hunting, and stargaze with telescope

Shirley Oldie

Grow Up

Shirley - Get potty trained & learn to walk, be played with by Grass, and get creativity 6.

So what happened last round?   Right off the bat, Coral had her Grim party after meeting her LTW of raising 20 puppies or kittens.  Then it was Leo's turn to go.  Buh-bye Leo...your only purpose was to give Coral happiness after Herb died.  The rest of the week chronicled the married life of a darkness loving vampiress to a sun loving PlantSim.  Countess Kari bit Grass during a date.  Oh no.  He could not be turned back until someone wished for it.  ASimWen had no wish to play a sun loving vampire.  Luckily the next day Kari wished for Grass to be cured.  *whew*  Two litters of kittens were born, and so was little Shirley who aged up to toddler before week's end. 

Monday

Grass didn't work so had plenty of time to make those friends.  First thing Monday he hit up the wishing well and wished for friendship.  Whoops look at that...

It was just enough to give him his LTW.  Good for you Grass!  Now ASimWen doesn't have to fulfill your wishes unless you roll woohoo!  New LTW:  Become a Media Magnate.

Amin Sims asked Grass if he wanted to go to work.  Heck no!  At least not until Shirley starts school since Kari sleeps all day. 

Shirley realized her wish to learn to potty,

And also to walk.   Go you, Shirley and Grass!

Contessa Kari awoke at 7 PM with a wish to Ask A Sim on a Date.  And so it was!  Grass was more than happy to oblige.  5 wishes easily done.  And ONLY five.  Not that we have to worry about her living forever because she will unless she is turned into a mortal.

Grass's one true hobby was tinkering, so he hit the robotics table.  Need to use up his time somehow until his job comes up on the computer.

Tuesday

A nice deposit into the Pleasantview pet pool.  Kari immediately called for the kittens to be picked up.  These names came from the cast of the History Channel's Ancient Aliens program.  ASimWen happened to have it on the TV.  haha

Shirley started the day with three wish slots taken up by doing things with her mom.  The fourth was to get creativity 8.

Grass took Shirley outside to draw while he did the gardening.  She reached Creativity 8, only to be replaced by a wish to get Creativity 9. 

Kari arose with a wish to Ask Sim on Date.  Rinse, repeat.  5 wishes quickly won.  Then it was time to spend time with Shirley.  But not before....

Look at that.  Her job came up.  Snatched it up!

Talk, tickle...then Shirley wanted to do stuff with her dad.  Fickle kid!

Wednesday

Woo!  Go you, Grass!

At 4 AM Kari proudly headed off for her first day of work.  Good luck!

 Right away she got a chance card.

For once, a good outcome!  Maybe this is a good omen!

A promotion the first day!  ASimWen has a good feeling about this!

Shirley wanted to learn a nursery rhyme, grow up well, talk to her mom and be played with by dad.  Grass sat down and taught the nursery rhyme, and a sing along followed right after knocking out two wishes back to back.

Toddlers are so easy to keep happy.

Kari woke up at 7 PM and wanted to ask a Sim on a date.  That had to wait because:

Shirley's cake up day!  She realized the wish to grow up well.  Cutie patooty!  Wishes upon growing up:  Buy a birdcage, tell insider joke, make a friend, and max Creativity.

One date served up....5 wishes fulfilled.  This was enough to push Kari into full platinum, and filled up her needs that was not filled while she slept.  All before 10:00 when the carpool came.

Off to work she goes to the gas station.

Thursday

Shirley satisfies a wish after midnight by maxing creativity, then headed to bed.

Another promotion for Contessa Kari!  She has moved out the gas pump area at the convenience store and is now cashes out Sims spending simoleons on snacks and soda.  However this will be a real test for her.  It is a total daytime position.

Shirley got up at 6 to get ready for her first day of school.  Her wishes:  Get A+ report card, play with Gary Lothario (male cat on lot), play with Lutie (female on lot) and play with Teltu.  (A kitten somewhere???)  Outside she went to play with the cats.

She managed to knock out two wishes before the bus came.  Once she left for school:

Lutie had three more kittens.  Grass immediately called for them to be picked up, and influenced Lutie and Gary to try for more babies.  It was a success, more were on the way!

Grass was awarded the silver in robotics which he held a wish for.  Then the phone rang.

His friend Troy Akagi wanted to know if he wanted to fishing with a bunch of pals.  Grass was like "Sure!"  In the group was a grown Chloe Gonzaga (far right) talking to Neil Leong, Lilith Pleasant's main squeeze.  Grass had a good time yukking it up with Joe Carr.

Then the group settled in to fish.  Already there was Dustin and Angela Broke.  The outing was a good time and everyone felt good for having spent the afternoon with Grass.

3 pm rolled around, and Kari arrived home from work with another promotion.

However working all day in the sunlight took a toll on Kari.  (look at her poor little ears drooping)

She would have a whole 4 or 5 hours to get some rest in the coffin, then she would be popping out of there.  Probably wanting a date.  (Hopefully!)

And she did.  She hit the energizer to fill up everything save energy, then she was ready to date to get her 5 wishes in.  Done.  Easy peasy.

The rest of the night Kari skilled in advance for her job, and Grass worked on the gold badge he harbored in robotics.

Friday

It was now winter, and Shirley wanted to see snow, play with the cats Lutie and Gary, and get the A+ report card.  The cats were played with before school....

And ran a gamut of wishes to do things with her dad when she came home from school.  5 wishes done.

Even though Kari was in platinum mood and had all her skills when she left for work, she came home without a promotion.  Off to the coffin to recharge. 

Kari felt good when she woke up at 7 pm.  Hit the energizer, then asked her husband out on a house date.  5 wishes in.  Then...

Skilling for the rest of the night to make sure this was not going to be an issue to keep her from getting promoted.

Saturday 

Shirley wants to still see snow (locked in), get the A+ report card, and play with both cats.  Since Gary and Lutie are on the lot to be breeders, they do not have any skills to prompt a spin up of command wishes from Shirley.  So play it is.

Grass earned the hobby plaque in tinkering.  He did not have a wish for it, but it was inevitable  with all the robots he had been building all day and all night all week.

Kari did one last thing before going to bed at 7 am.  She hit the computer to see if there was a job in journalism for Grass.  Here was a job in Slacker that was two promotions from where she currently was.  The best thing about it, was the shift ended after dark and would not be so hard on her.  She took it.  She gave up getting the promotion bonuses, but being that she was now having trouble promoting she needed this.

Shirley spent some times playing with both cats, fulfilling play wishes.

She then spun up "cooking skills" so it was in front of the TV she went.  Lutie joined her.  I love it when the TS2 pets watch TV with the Sims.

Woot.  Shirley had more than 5 wishes granted today.  heh.

Lutie stopped watching TV and headed to the kitty corral.  Three more, that makes 10 babies this round contributed to the Pleasantview pet pool.  As many sims that roll "raise 20 puppies or kittens" this kittens are needed.  Grass called for them to be picked up. 

Kari rose from her vampiric slumber at 5 pm to get ready for work.  This consisted of asking Grass on a date and getting a couple of date wishes worked in before the carpool came at 6.  Her needs dropped very little since she was dating her man, and she hit platinum quickly.  She headed to work at 6 with no problem.

Kari managed a card the first day as a projectionist.

Whoops.  She came home from work depressed.  No option on the phone to all her boss and beg for her job.  So she went back to the computer and was hired for the job again.

Yep, take that job again girl. Show 'em.

She didn't even wait for the next day to go to work.  She headed right back out, walking over to the theater.

Sunday

It wasn't until Sunday that Grass influenced Lutie and Gary to try for kittens again.  Success.

Contessa Kari returned from work at 3 am, still feeling sore about getting fired, but managed to stay on her shift this time.  Hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here on out.  She had a wish to "Ask Sim on a date". 

Yup, 5 wishes in for Sunday.

Shirley arose wanting to play with both cats, and the mysterious Teltu, and get the A+ report card.  A little research shows that Teltu was from Gary and Lutie's very first litter last round.  After playing with both cats, she felt like jumping a little rope (Wish done!) and then wanted more cooking skill.  She is so easy.

Monday

Kari's wishes:  Ask sim on date, stargaze, take a bath, and buy clothes.

Kari finally promoted up.  And this will be all for her until round 8.  Hopefully she will meet her LTW of becoming a Professional Party Guest.  But this will be difficult because now she is back on a day shift.

Shirley's wishes are: get cooking 9, get that A+, and play with both cats. 

However we will not see any of Shirley's or Kari's wishes met as the visit to this lot is over for now.   The cats are due to have another litter, Shirley will age up next round, Kari should reach LTW, and Grass is still on the job hunt.  Journalism did not come up all week.  In the mean time he can just work toward badges.  Maybe he will get on as a robot maker somewhere.

Ghostly Encounters

Herb takes a stroll around the old homestead

No need to be so scary, Coral!

Next is Dustin and Angela (Pleasant) Broke!

Have fun everyone, and thank you for reading..

~ASimWen