#sometimes townies get extremely questionable clothes but it worked out well for him

[tardytothesimspardy]

In Which I Am in Utter Shock

I Am Simply Befuddled

I played through a few days, and really only two things of note happened: Summer asked Laurie out on three dates, and I had Buck make a friend. Oh, and Laurie got a promotion, so now I think she's level 7 or 8 in the mixology career. She's doing way too good in the career, and I fear the Brokes won't be broke for much longer (like they're currently at a stable 3k, this is distressing). I need to do something about that. I tried to do a little renovation and decorating but the build/buy was lagging so ferociously that I couldn't do anything.

I started by having Laurie work on her New Year's resolution of losing weight, which I knew wasn't going to be enjoyable for her at all (given that she dislikes fitness and has the lazy trait). But I didn't rebuild the Oasis Springs gym to not use it.

I had her first try swimming, which she seemed to have a good time with, until she didn't.

(I promise she's wearing a swimsuit it just blends in really well with her skin tone and I probably didn't think of that before because I never needed to)

Then Summer asked her on the first of three dates, and she did this and it was so cute <3

For the next few days, I continued having Laurie go to the gym for as long as she could stand (there were days where I was really pushing her, she got super tense and angry), and I noticed something that, ngl, I still feel kinda weird about: she lost weight super fast. It felt like she had been going for two days and she went from the pictures above to this:

Just,, weird. Idk.

Then the second date with Summer was in Britechester of all places, and they got pretty flirty (they usually do, like I always think, "Oh dang, they seem to just be doing friendly interactions, maybe I was wrong about them, and then bam they're both super flirty it's weird). I keep wanting to have them just run off and have Laurie live with Liberty, Summer, and Shawna, but I have to remind myself that 1) they just started dating like, not even a week ago, and 2) I'm not sure how I will play the households if they are separated like that. I know that if Rich and Laurie do separate, Rich will be staying with the boys, because if Rich goes off on his own I will 100% forget about him. It's probably not best for Flat or Buck for him to stay, but for the sake of whatever semblance of a story I have that he does.

After that date, it was a Saturday, so I decided to focus a little on Buck, since he really wasn't doing much of anything. I had him go to the park in Oasis Springs, partially to work on his aspiration a smidge, but mainly to make some friends. I've had him do the "Make Some Friends" thing while he's at school, but I want him to actually have a few friends, y'know?

He first tried to talk to a girl called Bryanna, but she turned out have the mean trait, and just called him names until he got angry. For some reason, after she was rude at Buck, he had the option to apologize. Why?? He has nothing to apologize for!

After Bryanna, I saw that Shawna had showed at the park, so I decided to have him become friends with her instead. Luckily, her trait is music lover, so she wasn't being actively antagonistic like Bryanna was. I'm not planning to have Shawna and Buck be a thing, that honestly would be pretty weird, given that Shawna's mom is Summer, and if I were to continue having Summer and Laurie be a thing, having Shawna and Buck be a thing would just be,,, yikes. Idk, not great. I kinda toyed with the idea of Shawna kinda being where Buck kinda started liking people with blond hair (because Mary Lu had blond hair), but idk if that's too weird, given that they're both kids. (Idk when stuff like that happens so it's hard for me to judge)

Maybe tomorrow I'll find it within me to focus on Rich. Probably not. Right now it's a bit of a waiting game until the end of spring where I age up Flat and Flo. I've been meaning to have the rest of the family get to know Flo better, so maybe I'll do that. Maybe I could even play a bit from Flo's side, to help flesh her out as a character and get to know her better. Hm, that probably would be beneficial.