For awhile after the birth of baby Beth, things got a bit repetitive around the Pine household.
Annabelle continued to solve cases…some important, some silly. She even reached the top of the investigator field and the mayor had a small ceremony outside city hall for her, and she got a nice little “neighborhood hero” moodlet for a few days. She isn’t making much money, but at least the town seems to appreciate her. Unfortunately, her case load came to a drastic halt thanks to glitchiness. She is stuck now, unable to complete a stakeout at a diner, but due to excessive saving on my part, unable to return to the past and decline the case. If only she had married an inventor instead of a snake-charmer-gone-fisherman! My best hope for getting her out of this glitch was to complete an opportunity. She spent several days caring for Beth, who was now a toddler, and working on her chess-playing and writing abilities. She wishes to write a novel, and I think it is appropriate that she publishes a mystery novel. The first opportunity she got, however, was a cooking opportunity. She is pretty decent chef, better than her hubby who is a natural cook, so this isn’t unusual. The local bistro asked that she create a dish of excellent crepes as an example to the new folks they are trying to train. As luck would have it, the recipe for crepes in the SimWorld can only be found in France. So, she saved up enough money and visited France! She spent her time in France studying cooking and crepes (she needed even more skill before she could create them), as well as drinking coffee in small cafes, of course. She returned home a few days ago and has been making crepes like crazy. They are being quite challenge though, she has only achieved a “very nice” quality crepe. Hopefully, after all this work, the achievement of an opportunity will fix the glitch, and she can finish her case. She needs to complete 35 cases to get her lifetime wish and she has only done 19.
Youssef has had far better luck in his career. He quickly & easily mastered the fishing skill while also collecting fish for his perfect aquarium lifetime wish. His lifetime wish was to collect 13 (?) perfect specimens for his own private aquarium- which he has no created, woohoo! His aquarium also includes some crocodiles from a fishing expedition he took to Egypt. While he was there, he took an interest in photography and purchased a book on the subject, along with a few Egyptian recipes. Now, Youssef is trying to catch one of each species present in the Twinbrooks ecosystem.
As a toddler, Beth was fairly easy to manage. She went back and forth between coloring and playing her xylophone. She recently aged to child…her new trait? Kleptomaniac. It will be interesting to see if her impulse to steal will overrule her “good” trait. So far, it seems like she leans more towards just cheating people out of money, instead of outright stealing. She has opened up a little baked goods stand in front of their house, and sells muffins she makes in her toy oven. However, she isn’t a very good cook…so she has been trying to get people to buy horribly burnt and inedible muffins.
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