#Chardonnay O'Hare

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Astoria has zero relationship with her mother Tallulah so she went over to have a chat. It did not go well. At least her brother Brian was nice to her.

[the-inevitable-minor-fires]

United Airlines terminal, O'Hare airport.

an unneeded reminder of the anxiety of travel that awaits in the next few weeks.

I can hear the robot voice say "the moving walkway is ending" over and over for the ten minutes it takes to get through the corridor.

Smell the Starbucks and beef sandwiches and various other poisons.

The airplane fabric. The crumbs on vinyl waiting room seats. The business class cologne mixed with bad watered liquor.

Chardonnay wives demanding a supervisor. Neglected children.

And at the end, family I'd rather see from a distance, but they're old and I won't have them forever, even if they ruined the earth and we'll never have anything to talk about and I can't even drink.

TransPsyche

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Time for Chardonnay to age up! No-one celebrated because they were too busy squabbling outside.

[This will be the last post from my Amberville save for now. Unfortunately I had put some high poly hairs (both 30k plus) in my packages folder to use in screenshots and forgot to take them out, stupidly! Even though they were not used in this save, it still caused crashing to desktop due to exceeded memory issues and damaged my Amberville save file (and I had to delete the save the hairs were in because it was crashing within minutes of opening it). This was really sad because I have put so much work into Amberville over the years. So, before the save got completely corrupted I made the decision to move all Amberville residents to Woeford, something I have had on my ‘to do list’ for a long time. I will dearly miss Amberville but I’m looking forwards to the change. It will take a little while for me to get things up and running. 

So my friendly advice is, don’t put high poly stuff in your game if you enjoy playing your saves, folks! If the creator/ converter/ re-texturer doesn’t state polycount please please do check yourself before using it, especially hairs (even if they look Maxis Match-y) and decor items (https://mspoodle1.tumblr.com/post/138971769880/checking-polycount-for-sims-3-package-files-in) To check CAS items select and then right-click on the GEOM files in S3PE and choose ‘GEOM preview’]

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Tallulah and the kids don’t live with Penny anymore, they moved into their own place because of a difference in “Lifestyle choices” 😂 Anyway, time for Brian to age up into a surly teenager.

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Another day out in the park for Penny. This time with several generations of O’Hare women. Daughter-In-Law Vivian, granddaughter Lois and great-granddaughter Chardonnay.

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People started to crowd the park and Bridie wouldn’t let Penny have a go on the swings, so she left just as the sky began to darken.

Fortunately Chardonnay was unharmed and no-one died in the meteor strike.

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Penny isn’t really bonding with her great-grandchildren. The feeling is mutual.

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Zed bumped into Tallulah and Chardonnay at the consignment store

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I switched to the O’Hare compound to see what was happening... Chardonnay is in toddler jail and Tallulah is nurturing her inner arsonist 👍

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Mmmmmm... kibble. Yummy.

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Time for Astoria’s graduation. Kelly is now a young adult too, so they graduated at the same time.

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The monsters under the bed don’t bother Chardonnay one bit.

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I don’t care for babies in game so I aged Chardonnay up to a toddler... Tallulah kindly dumped her unceremoniously on the floor for me 🙄

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Tallulah makes burgers while the kids are occupied. They look nice, but personally I wouldn’t want to eat anything made in that kitchen if you know what I mean....

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Chardonnay thinks that peek-a-boo is the best game ever.

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Fortunately Chardonnay was already on the potty when Brian went into full T-Rex mode. She made her escape as soon as it was possible.