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First, we remind ourselves what our goals are:

House 013 Building Goals:
2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom home worth at least $100k Simoleons
-Must include a designated gaming room
House 013 Generational Goals:
Achieve Level 10 of the Gamer branch of Tech Guru on Jax
1st place in Pro tournament for both Hillock II and Sims Forever on Jax
Achieve Level 10 of Start-Up Entrepreneur branch of Tech Guru on 2nd sim
*Note* All sims are Controllable in this house!
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage

Then, we introduce Adrienne better:

Her original Aspiration was Painter, but I changed it to Computer Whiz, since that's what she will be doing.

Then, we note that the featured photo is a successful proposal. At the romance fest. Which she invited us to within moments of us arriving home from first meeting and kiss. Handy, that.

Wedding photos. I love the heat of the moment weddings, really. Much better than just eloping.

We get them back home, and let them have a little fun.

The next morning, Jax finds out he was accepted to college on a full ride scholarship to the distinguished Computer Science degree I was hoping to get him into. The degree itself will not help him in the gamer career, but it will allow him to do two things. One, skill up his programming skill as well as take video gaming electives.

And two.. join the Esports team - which WILL help him in the gamer career! At least, it's supposed to. I've never tried doing this before, so this is pretty much all gotten from google research.

Adrienne's first task.. skilling up programming. And video gaming. Gaming because each level of gaming earned in this house (by anyone!) gets us 1000 simoleons. Which is really nice.

Jax, on the other hand, starts in on studying and doing homework. Classes start the next day, or so I think. Turns out that they don't start until Tuesday.. but whatever. That just gave him extra time to work on his term papers. Yes, he had to do TWO of them this term!

I finally get a better shot of Lucky. Love the huge ears.

I see sparkles!!

She got Dad's ears and Mom's coloring. Very cute, Fiona!

A couple minutes later...

Sophie follows in the sparkle party. She looks like her mama in body type, but I have no idea where her color comes from. I may end up trying to breed her later.

We get invited to the Geek Con, and, while Jax is in classes, we accept for Adrienne. She wins the Hackathon, which gets us some cash and another computer.

... Then fails miserably at the Ultimate Gaming Test. At least she has fun doing it.

We then take advantage of the rocket and the skill boost to work on her Rocket Science skill until the fest ends, and Jax comes to try the Gaming Test. He also fails, and then has to run off to his Gaming Team practice.

This dark photo is commemorating coming home with a promotion.

Good job, buddy! No bonuses for this one, though, so we'll have to just keep working.

Another dark photo of Prissy in the bathroom that has no lights yet...

Because she's old now. *frowny face* .. That's ok, she already had her quota of puppies.

The rest of the week is fairly mundane, lots of homework for Jax, and Skilling like crazy for poor Adrienne. I start to get a little worried when she doesn't have all four skills at level four by the time I wanted her to.. but I sign her up for scholarships and uni anyway - and cross my fingers.

She gets in, also to the distinguished program, and also with full ride on scholarships. In fact, she has more in the way of scholarships than Jax, which surprises me a little bit.

After Monday's final exam, Jax's grades come in and we sign him up for three classes plus a Video Game elective just like last time.

We've got about 9k in the bank at this point, which means that traveling isn't a problem, so I send them to the library for the afternoon. Luckily, both were pretty good on their needs. (Although Jax has had to keep using sleep potions to keep up this past week, and he's about out of points - so the next week should be interesting!)

Adrienne does all four of her homework for the start of classes. She also wastes time by chatting to this random person across the table, but since she gets her work done, I don't complain.

Jax is pretty much done on what he can do at this point - and he needs satisfaction points, so I have him do some Research & Debate to get him past the first tier of his Academic Aspiration. I don't know whether I'll finish it with all the stuff he has on his plate, but we'll give it a good try.

I'll leave this post off here because I, quite honestly, played much farther than I meant to (and ended up with two posts instead of one) - but I was having fun. Here's a shot of what the "house" looks like by the end of two weeks. I'm keeping it as a Tiny Home for the skill boosts, and excuse the mess in the garden. It's pretty haphazard, and plants went wherever they landed when they got planted. They've taken turns caring for it as much as possible - but let's be honest, they're at the point now where they just don't have time. So I hired a gardener and a maid - because they can afford it - I think. I'd like to get them Free Services, but neither can afford it at this time. The lot is always a disaster which poor Neat Adrienne hates.. but time to clean is very limited, hence the scheduled maid. Over the weekend, we gave all four dogs baths because they were in dire straits cleanliness wise, but nobody, luckily, got sick. Lucky did run away at one point, but he came back within a day - to barely any welcome because Jax was at practice and Adrienne was busy. Anyway, enough blabbing from me. See you next time!

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