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First, we check on our house goals:

House 012 Building Goals:
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons
House 012 Generational Goals:
Complete the Friend of the World aspiration
Have The Drifter Declare another Sim an Enemy
-Then raise the relationship between The Drifter and their Enemy to BFF
Have The Drifter Engage in and WIN 5 fights
-Each win must be with a different Sim opponent
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage

I'm not doing very well, am I? Well, unless you count on my Simnano Goals, which yesterday looked like this:

Here is what our little home looks like after I loaded in and realized that 1, the bed was still outside, and 2.. the strawberries were out of season. It felt wrong to just give her a greenhouse and make her still sleep on the lawn - so we built a secondary roof. The house still counts as a "micro" house for the purpose of skill gaining - which I plan to keep until she graduates. Or as close to it as possible.

She is still studying in the dark, however. Lights cost too much. =P

Only existing on naps isn't turning out quite the way I'd hoped, though. And the bathroom breaking woes have clearly begun.

Social and Fun are perpetually low, so we invite Sione over. We try to start a romance, but with his Unflirty trait (He's also Childish and Dog Lover) - he refuses because .. well I don't know. But he didn't want any part of it, so we just socialized and played with sand castles.

The final task of the week (that and final exams) .. can I be the first to say presentations are annoying in how you have to schedule them only at certain times!

The first week's grades come in.. and I realize this past week went by so fast and so boring that I don't have enough photos for an actual update. However, we did get to a 4.0 GPA, which I am thrilled about.

Since we don't have enough photos, I continue play for an extra week.

We still have no lights, but things continue to break. I can't imagine that fixing a sink in the dark is very easy....

At about this time, I realize two things. One, I'm bored stiff with grinding out grades as a solo sim.. and Two, I'm going to have to start thinking about the heir pretty soon. A friend calculates out exactly when I have to have the heir to have them grow up at the beginning of spring - and we have to get pregnant at the very beginning of Winter. Which is only a week away, and will mean that we have to spend the last week of school pregnant for part of it, and with a new baby for the rest.

So - expecting it to take a while to romance Mr. Reluctant.. I invite him over and get him to be "BFFs". After a couple of flubbed attempts at romance, we finally get him to accept some flirts.

Finally.. full success.. we got the First Kiss. Should be smooth sailing from now on.

We hurry up and ask him to be a boyfriend, just to make sure he says yes while being really flirty.... (although he doesn't really look hugely happy about it - he looks more shell-shocked than anything.

And then I send them to have some fun, because, as usual, Lyric is extremely low on fun. Apparently college and studying all the time isn't fun. Who knew... (LOL)

Since he's being so pliant, I decide to go ahead and ask him to marry us. This would be the successful proposal. They elope right away, and I quickly expand the house as far as I can without losing the Micro bonuses. Which means that I can't fit in a double bed - so they're just going to have to sleep in the same room.

The next morning, I notice that the garden is a disaster area, so Lyric works on that and her studies basically all day.

I get the presentation and the term paper out of the way as fast as possible this week, and try to keep up with the homework. Again, we have no time to work on House goals, but having Sione around means that we can keep Lyric's fun in manageable ranges.

... Lyric.. what are you doing. I don't think you get bonuses to skills if you're not actively on your own lot...

I also figure out that we have to meet another Sim in another location for her aspiration - and that we can afford to travel with all the scholarship money - so we head to the park after Friday's classes are done. We take advantage of the basketball court for a while, then have Lyric go find someone to say "hi" to.

In the interest of getting into House goals, I try to pick a a fight with this girl, but I keep getting routing errors and get frustrated, so I just send them home instead.

And Saturday arrives with our new report card. I don't know what happened to that one class, but at least it didn't hurt our average. Sometime during this week, I realized that Lyric's fitness skill is actually quite a bit higher than I had thought it was from all her studying - in fact, she's at 8 fitness, even though I don't send her out running anymore due to lack of time to do so.

Spooky Day.. well evening.. and I decide it's way past time to get into trouble. So I pick a fight with a costumed passer-by.

.. I keep my fingers crossed that her higher fitness skill will net her a win...

.. and it does!

So, since we're thoroughly angry at them, we have them become enemies.

After that, I *TRY* to have Lyric apologize, but no dice. Sierra is WAY too ticked off at us, so we let her leave. We spend the rest of the day texting her trying to make up to her, and it seems to be working. We're almost out of the "red" relationship bar.

Somehow, I end up playing Sunday, too, instead of stopping as usual.. and Lyric finishes all her homework for the week, her presentation work, and the term paper. Plus, she hits level 9 fitness. I think we're all ready for babies next play session!

.. But before I go to save, Sione randomly decides to take care of the garden - which was a mess again. I had to wait until he was done to save. For obvious reasons. See you next time for the last week of college, and the heir!

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