tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22248715458692326772024-03-14T01:53:36.647-07:00Desjardins Story - A Sims 4 Legacy ChallengeGinjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11384088231966966640noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2224871545869232677.post-32385545672173154332015-08-21T14:43:00.000-07:002015-08-21T14:43:00.725-07:00Chapter 24 - So Serene Because the Roses are in Bloom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's disconcerting to have an elder brother who's actually an elder. Pierre has had another birthday. He wouldn't allow a photo after he blew out his candles; who knew he was so vain? I was, however, able to sneak a candid shot or two later on, so his grey hair and pot belly have been duly documented. I suppose one never outgrows being a little sister.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eve entered elderhood with a good bit more grace than her husband did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In due course, we had a flurry of weddings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And in somewhat less due course, it's finally happened. Kolton and I have our own baby on the way at long last!</span><br />
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Ginjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11384088231966966640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2224871545869232677.post-23113618792200762952015-03-09T15:55:00.000-07:002015-03-09T15:55:08.685-07:00Chapter 23 - Everything's Coming Up Roses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Things are definitely looking up for me: enter Kolton!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He's a first-rate boyfriend: interesting, attentive, kind to the children. He even likes Simton Abbey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The writing continues to go well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make that last before the next two arrive! Yes, Eve had twins again. May I present to you Andre and Michelle Desjardins?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fortunately, Marcel and Phillipe are indeed out of diapers and going to school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They're a delightful pair. I hope their siblings turn out even half as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My writing goes swimmingly; I've published sixteen books and my royalties rival the income from our garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That was the good news. The bad news is that I've never had a boyfriend; only a few flirtations that went nowhere and one of those was way back in high school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Obviously I need to get out more. The first attempt was less than stellar; you may note that everyone here is female, elderly, one of my relatives or some combination thereof. Next attempt isn't much better although it's gratifying to see that Michel finally made it into mixology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now we're getting closer. Closer still but nowhere near where I want to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Note to self: Do not, repeat NOT, tempt fate with chronicle chapter titles! I knew that my mom was like two hundred years old and thought that Grim Reaper was procrastinating out of dread. After all, she did put him to work in the garden the last time he was here. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He did, however, come for her. Her last words were "Wish I had time for one more bowl of chili".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She seemed to be quite taken with my cooking. As we chatted, it was evident that her sense of humour was as twisted as mine. Ah Nicola, I am smitten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I look for her every place I go. When I'm at home I ring her up with invites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I see Nicola as often as I can and it isn't often enough for me. The time has come to make my move.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was boning up on mixology and minding my own business when Jenny showed up at the back door. She was here to see Lizbeth but she was so gorgeous that I intercepted her on the spot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fortunately, before I was too smitten, I discovered that she was both mean and evil. I'd love to find the right woman but life's too short for the wrong one.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlfBT29ej-8/VH0rppC8qhI/AAAAAAAADcQ/3Bz-suBeL_c/s1600/Desjardins%2B17-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlfBT29ej-8/VH0rppC8qhI/AAAAAAAADcQ/3Bz-suBeL_c/s1600/Desjardins%2B17-4.jpg" height="496" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was also fortunate that the family never knew about my </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">flinglet</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> or I'd have no peace. Everyone had been riding Alain nonstop about marrying Hana sometime before he becomes an elder; they've been engaged forever. It's no wonder that the two of them eloped and presented us with a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fait accompli</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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In spite of that ordeal, he's grown into a teen with a penchant for music. Homework is still a struggle.</div>
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While he and Estelle keep their parents busy, I make sure to make time for Monique. It's tough for her to have lost her parents so young. As good as Roman and Yvette were to me, I had my moments of feeling like the odd kid out; I hope to spare Monique that.<br />
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Now she has grown into a lovely young woman. I made her first legal Ridgeport, as well as her birthday cake, of course. Hana took her clubbing, and, I think, was a bit disappointed that she spent the evening chatting with her brother.<br />
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Ginjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11384088231966966640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2224871545869232677.post-60061421371778021352014-11-22T16:23:00.000-08:002014-11-22T16:53:47.957-08:00Chapter 16 - Changes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did not want to leave the house when my parents did. Not only have we established that my father is a jerk and my mother is a flake, but Roman has always been much more of a father to me than my own was. My cousins have been like brothers to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, Roman and Yvette have been kind enough to let me stay. I do my best to make sure that they don't regret it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I threw a surprise party for Roman's birthday; I think he was a bit non-plussed at being the center of attention. Of course, is anyone ever really plussed?</span></div>
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I thought I'd outdone myself with Roman's birthday party but it didn't hold a candle to his collaboration with me for Yvette's.</div>
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I don't know where she found time to have a birthday; when she comes home from work, she races to the computer to program some more. She relaxes by entering game tournaments, which she nearly always wins.</div>
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Lizbeth is phenomenal as well. Besides working in the garden, she's the most athletic woman I've ever met. I try to keep in shape, but she puts me to shame.</div>
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My career is taking off nicely, thanks to the cooking I've been doing since my teens. I'm learning quite a bit about mixology as well. Etienne's career is quite literally taking off.</div>
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Alain is becoming quite the sensation in the art world. Somewhere between paintings, he managed to complete Josette's collection of elements.</div>
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Monique is following in his footsteps. She spends a lot of time with her niece, Shannon, Edouard's youngest. She met her Uncle Luc as well. I didn't warn her about him; if he hasn't mellowed by now, she'll find out for herself soon enough.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not to speak ill of the dead but if I never hear the words "Comme il faut" again, it will be too soon. For instance, I don't know how the garden became my job. I get that it's "comme il faut" that the garden continue after Josette is gone. Yes, I appreciate perfect vegetables on the table. Yes, I appreciate the income that perfect flowers bring us. Yes, I understand that Yves is too busy with his comedian's career and Liliane with her chef's. I even understand that somehow the garden was already my job before Kendall was ever in the picture. I'll keep doing it; I've become quite proficient. I just wish I'd been consulted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I shouldn't be so harsh but today she made a snide comment about the broken refrigerator. She is a snob and I fear that she will make him most unhappy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We gave her a guitar for her birthday and will all be relieved when she learns to play it well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All too soon, the Grim Reaper is come for Tristan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I pleaded with him, but alas, it was futile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rest in peace, my darling Tristan Cherry. You will be missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is said that a watched pot never boils. I'm not so sure that's the correct metaphor, but, just for the distraction, I shall repair the stereo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And voila, of course. Ye watchers and ye holy ones, why was I so eager for this?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And at long last, Yves Desjardins is born!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Insta-Lean potion is a miraculous thing; I wonder if anyone will pay me for before and after pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yves grows like a weed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yves has been agitating us for telly; I told him only when he raises his grades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He much prefers playing the class clown to studying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think my standing firm about the telly was tougher for me than for him!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Deja vu all over again! It is said that the second time is much easier. That may be; with one on the ground already, there's no time to dwell on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nearly as fond of her as he is of his bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Privacy is scarce with two children in the house! How do people get more? This is us, stealing a kiss in our "wedding chapel".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Yves left the monkey bars to search for us, a kind lady asked him if he were lost. He calmly replied that his mother was lost, not him! I wonder where he gets his self-assurance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Liliane has grown into such an odd child. Her teacher reported that she'd burst into tears during a reading lesson about Dick Whittington. I asked her when she came home and she explained to me, "Dick Whittington had to give away his cat." "But Cherie, he went on to become Lord Mayor of London". "BUT HE HAD TO GIVE HIS CAT AWAY!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have discovered that my beloved Tristan is much older than he seems. His birthday comes even sooner than mine. I must give him my potion of youth and make him drink it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The stubborn man refused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Please, Cheri? For me?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He has drunk the potion!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ugh, I fear that these are not honeybees!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, I'm so enjoying my lovely garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As well as my lovely kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And most of all, my lovely husband!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">His writing goes well. He no longer needs to work in the library since he was awarded this computer. And look at the stereo he bought for my birthday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Which devolved into a poker game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now I'm pregnant!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please remind me again why I wanted this. Ye watchers and ye holy ones, I'm enormous! I shall have an Insta-Lean potion the moment this baby is born!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Give birth should come next. It does come next, doesn't it? Give birth?!? Please?!? I've been pregnant for seventeen years!!! GIVE BIRTH NOW?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, so much for that execrable future cube; I've sold it and bought a refrigerator instead. One would say, then, that these are my salad days, no? Then, I shall seize the day and go to prowl at the night club.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is entirely too much of the oestrogen here! We shall go to the library instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remind me again not to drink of the rattlesnake juice. This seemed like a good idea at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, look who's here bright and early! I must not have disgraced myself *too* thoroughly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ye watchers and ye holy ones, this could be well and truly </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">awkward!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, this is cozy, isn't it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happily, Steve was gracious when I, how does one say, showed him the door. Perhaps we may remain friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The third date with Tristan was delightful as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have asked Tristan to marry me and he has accepted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And just then do I find his flaw. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He tells me that she is a stalker, that there's never been anything between them but that they've been enemies since maternal school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just to irritate her, we began to speak our marriage vows right in front of her nose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Voila! It worked so well that we finished speaking our vows then and there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our children will without doubt find it very amusing that their parents were married in the toilets. Ah well, it's not as though we could afford a wedding. It will be much better to finish our house instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look at that darling man; he's started the chores even before carrying me over the threshold! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Someone set up some festive fountains to welcome us home. May I have three guesses who?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Never mind those fountains, cheri; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">we have a wedding night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And the garden begins! A drum roll, please!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stupid library computer has no shopping! So much for buying seeds while I'm still young.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ah well, his loss. Toujours gai!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Connor Boyle is the friendliest of the lot; therefore, he is the one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or perhaps not. He's sweet, surely. However, on our date he boasted of towel-flipping the flies out of the air. These would be the flies that were on his plate. Then, as we chatted about our gardens, it came to be known that he grows rubbish plants. He is a slob, no?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was scouting about for a little piece of fish since the high cost of living. Instead I found a future cube. So far, no help with my love life there. I've also invested in a potion of youth. I </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">shall use it at my birthday, for keeping my options open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alas, the taxes are due already! There is just enough to pay them. I have only 8 simoleans left, not even enough for a plate of hot dogs! Always jolly in spite of hard luck, toujours gai is the word, toujours gai.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why didn't that stupid future cube warn me that Steve hates children? For the matter, why didn't he think to tell me himself *before* we kissed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I *was* shamed out of Champs les Sims. It was a regrettable incident involving one pig of a paparazzi and what by rights should have been a private room in the hostel. Let us draw the veil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're in Willow Creek now, with hectares of land available at the price of taxes in arrears and my family's tradition of providing the finest flowers to the markets. That, a few simoleans, my telephone and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the clothes on my back are the present sum of my worldly goods. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, I'm *aware* that strawberry plants grow small white flowers before a berry harvest arrives. Does that help me today? So much for my idea to commence with a grand garden. Alas for my idea to pluck the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">occasional fresh fruit to ward away starvation. Mais toujours gai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was, ummm, protecting them from the flies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happily, most people here are more amiable. I can just introduce myself, join the picnic and make friends at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ye watchers and ye holy ones, these toilets are palatial!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My original plan to study archaeology serves me well, derailed or no. Willow Creek is replete with dig sites. Already, I've found fossils, gems, treasure maps and MySims trophies, all of which I'm oddly </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reluctant to sell, dearly as I need the money. Yes, surely I *am* a hoarder.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So what is it to you that I'm only here for the shower? Show me the sign saying that it's necessary to work out first!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Will someone please remind me again *why* it's better to save for a high quality bed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So these are the days. Find the sandwiches...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forage...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pretend that the shower is an afterthought,,,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Find the bench.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It could be that it *is* better to find a job. What a horror!</span><br />
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