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Tumbleton Blind Date second edition: Meddling Parents

participants: Aleisha Wolfe by allisas and Jack Daniels by sushigal007; Derek Farmlander by sushigal007 and Pam Westley by officialmonster

This summer, Aleisha and Jack’s daughter Leila graduated from college and moved back home. Since then, she’s mostly been blogging freelance, watching Simsflix and keeping horrible hours, and her parents are getting worried. She doesn’t even go on 2am taco runs anymore. When they were her age, they didn’t know where they would end up by sunrise. She should go out, have fun, break some hearts, live a little! Also, they’d really enjoyed having the house to themselves for date nights.

Fortunately, Aleisha’s friend from work and his wife are having a similar problem. The Farmlanders’ youngest, Theo, has recently come back from his sabbatical in Shang Simla, and while Derek and Pam have already given up on him helping with the rent or cutting his hair, they are desperate for him to do something, anything with his life.

The proposed blind date only happens because both Leila and Theo are feeling too apathetic to put up a fight. A few years down the line, they have three kids, accidentally wear matching clothes a lot and are happier than they ever thought they would be.

And here are their kids all grown up! Gemma (left) is the oldest; Louie (center) and Dana (right) are twins (although Dana favors her dad and a hair straightener).

This is so cute!

Woo! I survived the first week of college! It’s still just introduction week, but I’ve finally got my courses assigned. Apart from the Anglistics stuff (or English Studies for the British), which are very methodical, I’ve got one class about the basics of dramas, one about opera in the 18th century, one basic course about the history of theatre and one class about the “Irish Renaisscence” in theatre. This is bound to be interesting!

On an unrelated note: I’m loading up my game in the first time for weeks!

Idk why, but I’ve been in a world building and decorating mood lately instead of actually playing the game.

That’s a house from Veronaville, made over. You know, some of the houses in Veronaville look… lost on the big 2×3 lots. (First picture is more or less pre make over view of the hood) This house is approx. 9 tiles wide… So I turned it into a farm (and as you might’ve guessed, this isn’t Veronaville). Now it’s actually one of my favorites! off to make over more lots! *snickers*

Sorry for being so inactive lately, real life is pretty hectic. Anyway, here are some pictures I took while building today. Just for myself, no strings attached to actually play the neighborhood. They’re completly unedited by the way. I’m making baby-steps building stuff, but I’m getting better! I like especially how the two mansions turned out, I usually suck at these.

Why I suck at lot building… Is there any way you won’t get a plastered area when you use the terrain paint? Any shortcuts to light brushes or something I don’t know about?

Solved! It works pretty well on desert terrain if you first use a sand brush and then the brush you intend to use.

aondaneedles:

didilysims said: Argh, verb in second position! I should KNOW that! It’s only been a few months since I stopped taking German and already I’m forgetting so much. 😦 Thank you for correcting me, though. Can’t improve without corrections! 🙂

Ah, don’t worry! Your German is…

Wow, that’s sad! I actually learned English first by actually using it- in songs, short stories etc in Grade 3-4. it’s very playful and great fun. Years 5-8 is more about grammar (where I really sucked… almost failed it once). And after Year 8 it’s again mostly improving. I might have been lucky because after Year 7 all my teachers were really focussed on speaking. (In retrospective, I think I just didn’t care about grammar :D) Being abroad might’ve helped, too.

English is our main second language- actually, all I can do in Latin is insult someone as a donkey and impress my youth group kids by translating old church inscriptons. ^^ And we had the option to choose between Latin and French in Year 6, which makes a max. of 7 years to learn the language. And I’ve heared most of the ones to choose French (well, the one who chose it in Year 10- 2 years of French) can’t really speak it either. The most common phrases known are (no way I can get the punctuation right): “Je suis desole!” and “Sacre bleu, un piscon!” Don’t ask me about the last part, I think it was a running gag. So it’s very common for german kids to be able to fluently speak English, but depending on teacher and school, be unable to really communicate in any other language…

Oh, Latin is great for getting a basic understanding of grammar and all this stuff (I heard ;)). I can sometimes make out English words or the basic meaning of some words in a language I don’t speak by knowing it. (By the way, Latin was very theoretical. Vocabulary and grammar exercises and translating texts word-by-.word were the main content of our classes. It was sad, because even if I don’t really like the language (maybe because it was such a theoretical process of deciphering- and there’s no way you could call our chores there-), Latin is such a great language for getting a basic understanding of our “modern” languages and is a surprisingly complex language- more complex than German, if you compare what we learned about grammar in German vs. what we learned about grammar in Latin- even with the native speaker bonus.

German music and books? *stares at  bookcase and ITunes library blankly*