This is Your Birthday Song…

Happy Monday ladies and gents. I didn’t get a lot of playing time this weekend, so a short update today. I am perilously close to getting several points, but today I just got the one:

Alexa painted Buck’s portrait! It needed to be done because we needed him to not be an Elder in the portrait, and it is, amazingly, totally legible. It is enormous because I didn’t know exactly how to use the still life buttons. Still, pretty good!

The next picture she painted? Alexa’s first brilliant painting! I was so excited I stopped everything to set up the shot. I even had to plant a few lights, since she was outside and it was dark. That made my evening, since I was worrying about getting those taken care of while she’s doing all this painting. She is at level six now in both painting and guitar. I decided to not have her play for tips until she graduates, since I have too much trouble keeping track of her homework and stuff otherwise. Easier that she should just paint in the evenings, and she really likes it, so it works out well.  Speaking of guitar, someone else had a birthday – Buck is now an elder. A totally rocking elder!

Seriously, he grew up in that leather jacket. I just had to add the earring to complete the look! I think he makes a really convincing elder too – he has lines in all the right places. Although he does seem to be dropping actions from his queue more quickly now. I am keeping him in the profession until he tops it – he’s only one level away, so that should be relatively easy.  He’s at about $13,000 for tips – we’ll see if he can make that one. I keep spending money on the legacy house so we haven’t bought all the compositions yet for him, but I think that might be my next money goal! At least the two of them are earning lots of moolah when they go to work – they just don’t go to work very often anymore!

Right after his age transition, Alexa walked in on Arianna taking a shower (seriously, why are the sisters unable to use the bathroom at the same time?!? I don’t get it) and so she got the embarrassed moodlet. And autonomously starts having a conversation with her dad about it. SO CUTE. They talked about it for quite a while, until Arianna was out of the shower and Alexa could go pee. It was super, duper cute.

The next morning I got notice that it was not only Zoe’s birthday, but also Arianna and Alexa’s!  Zoe went first, and aged pretty well, if I do say so myself.  Alexa had also started Zoe’s portrait before the aging, although it’s not finished yet.

She is at level 8 of culinary, and has rolled a couple of great wishes: Along with her regular 30,000 for getting her LTW, she also has another 9,000 for getting to level ten of the career, and then another 5000 one for learning all the recipes. Again, I need to spend some serious money getting her those recipes! I think with all of those, she should easily pass the 100K mark!  Next up were the twins – all the birthdays happened in the kitchen, and I couldn’t get good pictures, so I only have the CASt pictures. Of course, my graphics in CASt are also a lot better, so…deal

Anyway, Arianna rolled the trait of Loves the Outdoors. My plan is to roll their traits and keep the first positive one that comes up, so she got that. I’m considering placing her writing desk outside on the porch of the new house now, so she can get that moodlet when she’s writing. Also, she might be helping Aurora with the garden. Also, she clearly grew into some of her features! I was worried there for a while, but she’s not totally hideous by any stretch. And I had fun in CASt with her shirt

And Alexa. Alexa rolled Genius, and so hopefully that will help with her skilling. She grew up beautifully, as expected.

Next up, if Alexa needs a husband soon, we need to move the family into their new house! Also, it’ll be full time skilling for Alexa and full time writing for Arianna. Aurora is doing great in school, so hopefully our next events will be our two founders fulfilling their LTWs!

Total Points: 3! (one for Buck’s portrait)