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Our last check of our house goals:

House 011 Building Goals:
2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons (k)
*Include a designated party space
House 011 Generational Goals:
Complete the Master Mixologist Aspiration
Achieve Level 10 of the Mixologist branch of the Culinary Career
Craft Each one of the following potions:
Confident, Energized, Flirty, Focused, Happy, and Inspired
Raise the heir to Young Adult age and give them the Mean trait (teenage)

.. And we're back for the second part of the last two weeks. And the generation wrap-up, of course.

We start with Ariana finding the Karaoke Machine. And she's BAD. My hubby, who sits at his desk next to mine, begs me to fast forward through it, but I'm laughing too hard.

The other thing we're starting with - the twins' birthday.

Again - no job for her, she's a Drifter spare.. but interesting rolls all the same.

I have to say, in looks, she's probably my favorite from this family.

Go Derek! Your turn! (And who left their Fruit Loops on the counter!!??)

Congrats on teen, there, Derek!

He looks quite proud of himself. Deservedly so.

Hey. Excuse me... girl, there's food in the fridge. PUT. THE. KNIVES. DOWN.

Sigh. What did I just say? I mean... really. Guys... There's no reason to cook!!

Trevor Rambler stops by with a gift, and Blaze is actually home, so we invite him in this time. He gives us a Carved Guitar. Umm... thanks? Nobody's ever used the regular guitar we have.. LOL. Not going to be putting the carved one out. But we'll keep it. For a memento.

It's New Years Day, and I find these two toasting to themselves in the office. How cute. *grin* They sure have a lot to be proud of. They made a great family!

I have Blaze and Lyric spend some last bonding time together, because she's getting really close to age-up now. I try to figure out how to set this as a positive memory.. but I give up because I have too many screenshots in the folder to figure out where this one is. LOL. Perhaps I ought to archive some....

This ... whatever that is... is what they seem so proud at having made. LOL. Silly Sims.

New Year's Eve dinner. At least some of them found the table. And - since it was so cold outside, I made them all a nice warm bowl of Clam Chowder. Apparently the popcorn was better, though.

... !!  The entire family autonomously ends up celebrating together. Don't think I've had another family do that. There's always one who gets "lost" on the way to the party. Nice, guys!

Since it's New Year's... I figure they can have one last woohoo.. even if Blaze runs the risk of possibly dying from exertion. We're close enough to the "end" now, anyway. I also have just gotten a message about Blaze's time coming to an end, anyway. So Lyric better hurry up and age already.

... WHY is Blaze sparkling??  Little whitish then green stars. I've NEVER seen that happen before?? I watch in consternation for a while, but luckily it goes away. I have no idea what it was, and he had no moodlets that would have explained it. Anyone else ever seen this??

Uh-oh. Lyla's down. And that position seems really painful for the neck... oww.

The next day, everyone rotates in and around the hot tub for some reason while Blaze is at work. I watch for a while, and then decide I ought to take a screenshot, because it's kinda funny. Also amusing: the fact that Lyric has the same swimsuit as her mama in a different color. I don't like the melon color on her, so I'll change that, but It'll let her keep that suit.

Blaze... really. A Strawberry. On his last day of work. Too funny! (At least it wasn't a dirty dish!)

Guys.. You do realize you're completely ignoring your mother's birthday in the other corner of the screenshot??

... See?

Ariana complains about her back, the twins continue to ignore the world.. and Lyric stomps by on her way to her cake.

Did I say cake?? Yep. Yes, I did. Blaze is making Lyric her last meal at home, too.

Congrats, Lyric!!! And congrats me, of course! Because this was the last goal I had left - getting Lyric to Young Adult.

... What a mess of traits she has. I have no idea what is in store for her, because I'm playing spoiler-free. I haven't even peeked at the next house's rules. That being said... time to wrap up this house.

The house value. I think I managed to get there... LOL

The points Blaze has left. I didn't do any other aspirations on him, he just didn't really need to. So we didn't.

His status at work. He managed to get another promotion after getting to the top of his career, even though I had him call off with vacation days a couple times since his level 10 promotion.

Blaze's skill-set.

And the Traits Panel. As you can see, we cut his age bar very close!

The final household and the funds we have. Also, the effect of that darn "Sunny Aspect" lot trait. I hate it. I really do. I am SO tired of energized sims!!

I did remember to upload the final house (I cleaned it up a little bit first) under the #drifterchallenge tag. So it's there if anyone is interested.

Hooray! House 11 is FINALLY done. One more house and I'm at the halfway point of Drifter. I'm so excited to get started on the next house, but I'll hold off until it's time to play this family again. (Which is in a day or two. Have two other saves to play first.) You, however, will only have to wait through tomorrow, since these guys are getting posted every other day during July! See you next time!

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