I have to admit, I didn’t play for very long this week, because I’m not quite ready for the alphabet to be over. (Help me decide what to do after a Baby Z is born: there’s a poll at the very end.)
I invited the girls’ dad, Vincent Holland, over for dinner. He and Xolotl started flirting almost immediately.
After dinner, Vincent and the girls bonded over a round of video games.
Then he died in the bathroom! Woe!
The next day it was time for all the girls to grow up. I held their birthday party at the beach. It was pretty successful, even if it got off to a late start, and the girls grew up in the dark.
Bye, girls! Good luck with spreading the Alphabetti name!
I picked Yeardley to be the heir. She seems the most relatable of the three of them (Loner, Clumsy, Bookworm, Mooch, to which I added Born Saleswoman on a lark). Plus she inherited her grandfather’s blue hair, which is spiffy.
While we were at it, I decided she should inherit her grandfather’s laptop, as well as his fondness for writing.
Turns out, Yeardley inherited something else: the secret/hidden skill, “Pyromaniac.” This means that when she’s on her home lot, if I click on her, I get the option to “set something nearby on fire.”
(Don’t worry, I put a fire alarm in there first.)
Yeardley stared serenely off into space while the floor behind the mirror burst into flame. A few minutes later, the fire went out on its own, and she walked calmly from the room.
Then the firefighter showed up, fined her §500, and chided her. Fair enough.
The next day when she stopped by the consignment store, she couldn’t stop talking about the fire! The consignment clerk was a little unnerved.
When she aged up, one of the Lifetime Wish options was “Gold Digger.” To fulfill this Lifetime Wish, she needs to marry a rich person, and then have them die before she does. (How could I pass that up?)
The project at this point is to wander around town, chatting and gossiping with everyone she meets, looking for a rich person. (To marry and then outlive.)
Oh, and to mooch frozen dinners off perfect strangers. (How does that WORK, exactly? “No problem, I happen to have a Salisbury Steak meal right here in my pocket”?)
Edit: So many people wrote in the same thing (start back through the alphabet doubling the letters – Aaron, Bbob, Ccarol, etc.) that I have added it as a proper poll option. And thank you to everyone who’s voting, I’m watching the results with great interest!
Don’t stop! I love sim’s Sunday and the Alphabettis. Maybe you could go with…the lazy brown fox jumped over the moss log.(or whatever it is). Love your chicken stuff too. I would like to have them but probably never will. thanks for the weird memories whatever you decide…Lori
Please dont stop! Start over at A. Or, remake the first alphabetties that you made on sims 3 and redo the whole thing and compare the generations. Idk, just throwing out ideas here. What hair is your sims wearing?! That is so adorable.
I agree, that hair is cute-o-riffic.
Keep Sims Sundays, do the freeform thing, experiment with the cheats…just basically have fun.
Definitely continue – I love Sims Sunday!
Don’t stop Sims Sunday unless u r tired of it. I enjoy it the rest of your blog!!
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I don’t have any idea what u should do, but I know I’ll enjoy reading about it.
Thanks, everyone!
Regarding her hair, I’m pretty sure it’s called something like “messy ponytail,” and that I got it in the Dr. Pepper promotion. They released a new batch of stuff in that promo, so it’s worth tracking down sodas again!
Don’t stop! And as for what you do next, I think you should choose what would be most fun for you.
How many people read this? Judging from the poll, I’d say there’s lots more who read it than actually comment.
How could anyone vote to end Sims Sunday? BLASPHEMER!!!!!
Absolutely not allowing you to end Sims Sunday! Your posts are the only good thing about being back to work on Mondays.
Actually, I have to read this blog at home b/c redshirtknitting.com has been blocked at work but I can still read dlisted.com. Try to explain that one!
Is there a link to redshirt on TheSplines.com? I can jump in that way, I think.
Aw, bummer! I try not to use naughty words, but I guess sometimes I fail!
There is a link, if you go to the About page on the Splines site. You can also try going to http://yarnscoop.com/redshirtknitting that’s a super-secret way in that I set up once for troubleshooting something and never bothered taking down!
Moar Sims! And I too love the hair, what exactly do you mean about the Dr. Pepper?
There’s a Dr. Pepper promo, where if you buy specially-marked bottles, you can redeem the secret code for in-game items on their website. The promo is for a bunch of different games, so look for bottles with Spore, Mass Effect, and a couple other video games mentioned.
Sundays would just not be Sundays without your Sims posts….but I agree with J–only stop if you aren’t having fun with it.
We jest lurves it round heah….
I have to tell you I love love love simsunday. You and postsecret are immovable items in my week! I have even been spreading the Gospel of Treesweateau at my work (I work for a woodland conservation charity in the UK). Go with whatever pleases you, but only if you still enjoy doing it! What if we all put in random generation challenges for you to pick out at random each time? I like the random things that come up that you pursue, like Yeardley being a gold digger!
Oooh oooh ooh and what about the Z names? Has that been discussed yet? Zeus! Zod! Zebedee! Zanzibar! Zorro! Zazzle! Zipzorb! Zambezi! Zuzu! Zsa Zsa!
I could go on.
Ha! I am loving Zipzorb! Thanks for the list, I had been drawing a blank as usual!
This is embarrassing, but ‘zipzorb’ is a friends quote, not my own creation. Does that make me sad? From the episode when Monica and Chandler buy a house, and Chandler uses ‘zipzorb’ as an example of another word (like wainscoting) that he doesn’t understand. I’m a loser.
Oh – hilarious! I liked it because it’s a word that Sims say!
I like the name Zod. You can make him Leader of the Free World. (Too bad you cant make other sims kneel…then you could have them kneel before Zod….sorry, flashing back to Superman II)
Or have him or her be a creature breeding robot thingie (or whatever that one is…cant remember…been awhile since I had my sims go for that one)
You could intermarry Zaphod Alphabetti with the Spline heir of the current generation, and have the largest family tree ever!
If you choose to start again from the beginning of the alphabet, I vote for choosing a theme for the names. You’ve occasionally used font names and punctuation, and I think something like that would be perfect with the last name Alphabetti. (Apostrophe Alphabetti begat Backslash Alphabetti…)