Professor Eric (Livington) and Bell Goth ; Popularity for all the wrong reasons

*household members :

 Professor Eric (livington) Goth  /adult

Bell Goth / adult

Gunny Goth / child

With Goth for a last name Bell knew the town was watching every move she made, and  judgeing it.  Sure she aspired to be popular but for her work as a seriouse journalist, not because of who her family was.  Being named after a grandmother who had mysteriously disappeared, she felt the eyes of pleasantville apon her.  Even more then her sisters Saturday and Sunday.  Known affectionitly as the weekend twins, they seemed to have a more charmed life.  Bell wondered if perhaps she should have moved Downtown like the twins had, instead of buying her childhood home. 

Marring one of the professors from Sim State only drew more gossip.  His also loving the lime light of popularity made sims wonder if he only married her because she was a Goth.  He even took her last name.  Only Bell knew the truth, that it was she who persued him. She purposed to him in the Quad at Sim State durring a wonderful dream date full of pillow fights and grilled hot dogs.  She had even arranged the surprise Wedding in the back yard.

She had bought her child her home because of the loveing magic her parents, Cassandra Goth and Bengemin (Long) Goth had shared there.  That was before the glich and the poverty that followed, resulting in the family moving back to "the Big House" with Mortimore's second wife Bandi (Broke) and their daughter, Brie Goth.

Back in her childhood home with her perfect husband and beautiful son Gunny, Bell felt her life was perfect.  After remodling the house in the summer to maximize the small space but maintian it's outer size, fall was the time to focus on relationships and carrer's.  Pro. Eric spent his evenings helping Gunny with his home work between tiding up the house to up his cleaning.  Bell worked on her charisma.  Every thing was going great.  Pro. Eric got two promotions and Bell got one.

It was durring a small get together with some friends and family that she felt the pull of her family.  Cassandra's life asperation of having 6 grandchildren was the burden all her daughter's felt the pressure to fill.  Saturday and her husband, Dude Lames had been trying desperatly for their second child.  Sunday and Gilly Broke had twins.

"two grandkids from each of you is all I want," Cassandra presauded, "I had three kids, so you would each only have to have two."

Bell wasn't against the idea of another child, if it happened she would be happy but she was just as content with only having her precious son.

Sydney Rosland ; cold feet or career focused?

*household members = Sydney Rosland

Fall seemed to go by quick for Sydney.  Perhaps it was because trying to make up from missed sleep was the driving need.  It seemed to Sydney that the ghosts of her deceased parents didn't think she should get a good nights sleep. 

She knew her fieance Stanley Caliento had graduated from Sim State and was back at home with his mom waiting for her, she just wasn't ready to move agian.  she'd only been back from Sim State for one season herself.  Her father Cyd had died before she could get back and not long after her return her mother, Brandi, died. 

 Brandon, Sydney's younger brother was still in college and due to graduate at the end of fall.  Surely her wedding could wait for his reutrn.  She didn't like the idea of his returning home to a house empty of life with only the ghosts of their parents to greet him.

She used her time alone to focus on her career asperation in the adventure field.  Her being driven by a thirst for knowledge made studing relaxing.  despite showing up for work on such little sleep she still got a promotion to Dread Pirate.  

Hello = about my intentions for this blog and my game playing style

I've been playing the Sims 2 for just under a year now.  I am an inspiring writer who at times goes through spells of writer's block.  Which is the insperation for my user name, wordlesswriter.  I enjoy the stories of my own imagination and how I've told the tales of my sims in my own head.  I wanted to start writing them down mostly for my own amussement and I could not think of a better place then a website devoted to the Sims.

I have over 50 sims living in and around Pleasantville.  when I first switched over from Sims 1  to 2 the ageing thing worried me, and I was afraid of their not being a big enough selection of possible mates for my sims.  Needless to say, I had a population explosion.  I started out with about 13 house holds and now, on only my second generation I have around 23.  I started putting rules on my game playing to enhance the fun and decrease the possiblity of every house hold having a child in the same stage of life.  Which is what I went through when I firsted started playing.  Every household was feeling like the same thing, over and over...

My gameing rules: 

 I play every household the same amount of in game time.  Having Seasons makes this easy.  I save at 9am day one of the new season and go to the next household and play it til 9am of the next season.  I have every household in the same season.  which makes it feel more like a shared time line.

try for baby every 5th woohoo.  this has cut the birth rate in my game.  This is sorta a lottery.  The count carries over from houshold to household so that I'm never fully sure who will be having a baby.  only sims that are capable of having a baby are elegable for the count.  so elderly, pregnate or townies are not counted.  if a male romance sim has a fling with a townie it doesn't count but a female romance sim who has a fling with a townie it counts.  if there is no try for baby option on the 5th it still counts as an attempt.  and if they try with no luck it still counts and I start back at one. 

only one sip of Elixier of life per season.  some sims seemed like they were going to live for ever and other's were aging rapidly.  As much as I hate to see my sims grow old and die, if I don't let them eventully die I will have hundreds of sims.  so they only get to have one helping of elixer of life each season.  but it they don't make gold asperation that season I will let them have two the following.

romance sims won't be made to marry.  they don't want too, so I'm not forceing them to anymore.  this is adding a new demention to the game.  I have a few single moms and a few children that are the results of affairs.  my romance sims are my trouble makers.

the rest of my blog entries will be about the residents of Pleasantville.  Since I am starting this on my second generation I will give a small bio for each sim as I play them.  the name of the household will be the subject title so if anyone finds a fave they can follow that one more easily.

thanks for reading.  I hope that you will find the rest of my entries intresting and enjoyable.  I look forward to your comments, questions, or just a shared experience.