Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Chapter 3: Married Life



Anna enjoys her first night as a married woman sleeping in a double bed with her new hubby. Finally a good nights sleep!



The following day Lee heads off to get a job in journalism and then heads to the library to work on his very first book.



While he is off practicing his writing, Anna uses this time to workout in preparation for her next workday, hoping to gain a raise.

After working on his new book, "A Secret Moment," for a while Lee needs some fun to relieve some stress so he buys a new guitar and plays it for all of the people hanging out in the library, he attracts quite a group enjoying his performance. Once he has calmed his nerves he quickly takes a bathroom break and a snack then he returns to his book. Once his book is finished he sends it off and quickly finds that it is a flop. Although he is discouraged by this information, he looks forward to the income, although small, and plans to write another, better book. This second book he plans to be a biography of a woman in the neighborhood. This book is entitled "An Amy Story." Lee hopes to have better luck with this new attempt.





Anna cleans up and heads off to work for the day. When she heads out for the evening she is given a new promotion and a nice amount of money, with this she adds more rooms to the house and now has a bathroom and a bedroom.



After all of the hard work on their new home Anna and Lee relax on the bed for some alone time. Some sweet cuddling leads to some more tender moments and then the two rest for the night. The next day Anna stay at home sleeping and she seems to be having some reaction to their cheap meals.



While Anna is in a dead sleep she has a strange dream and when she wakes up she realizes that her odd sickness and exhaustion might mean that she is pregnant. A test confirms this revelation and Anna is ecstatic. Although she has been sick all day, her mood is soaring. She never expected motherhood to have such a wonderful effect on her.



After informing her employer of her new pregnancy, Anna is given a few days off to prepare for the new addition. So the next morning she and Lee head to the library. Lee works on his new book and Anna studies gardening to possibly help the family by beginning her own garden.



Anna improves her gardening skills a bit and then she heads out to find and collect seeds that can possibly grow free food for her and Lee. She is able to find a few and heads home to plant them and care for them.



That night Anna and Lee head out for a nice dinner and a much enjoyed alone time before the new baby arrives.



The next day Anna's belly is so huge, she can't help but be amused so she takes a few pictures of the patruding hulk and even plays around in her bathing suit because it looks so huge in her suit.




Anna leaves the next morning to search for more seeds and realizes that something is wrong. Her whole body hurts and there is this amazingly horrible pain coming from her belly. She immediately heads off to the hospital, where Lee soon follows.



A while later, at 12:56AM Anna and Lee are informed that they have a new beautiful baby girl, who they name Naomi.



Baby Naomi so far is very friendly and easily impressed. Anna and Lee are very excited about their new addition and quickly head home to begin their family!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Chapter 2: New Beginings



Anna began her third day in her new hometown starting a new routine. She decided she would exercise early to prepare for her new career, so she jogs from her “bed” either at the stadium or at the Azalea Acres Community Garden to the gym, where she showers and uses the facilities.



Anna received a call from the newspaper boy saying that her lot was overflowing with old papers, so she rushes over to clean up her lot. After cleaning up, Anna has a quick breakfast and then it’s off to meet the neighbors. Anna wants to have many new friends in her new hometown, and getting out and meeting people may help her find the love of her life.

Her first excursion locates a young man named Matthew Jennings, who she finds extremely cute and he seems perfect, a neat guy with a sense of humor, but the next day she goes to visit him at his home (where he lives with another young male) she finds out that he is dating someone. Although her dreams of a wonderful life with this sweet handsome guy are crushed, Anna chooses to continue a friendship with him. It’s worth having someone you can talk to sometimes, right?

The next day she visits a guy from work and finds out that he is rich and married. Although Anna is attracted to some suitors, she has decided she would rather not match up with a rich man. She believes that they have a different view on life than she does and it would be easier to introduce a man in the same financial class she is in, either dating a poor or lower middle class guy, into her impoverished lifestyle. No rich guys.

After visiting with her coworker, Anna heads to work, where she is given a raise for reading a book her boss suggested would help her out. She is also promoted to Snack Hawker, which means she now dredges through the bleachers during games selling drinks and snacks to fans. Well, at least yelling, “Hot dogs! Get your hot dogs!” is an improvement on being a go-for.



She is exhausted after a hard days work and wonders into a neighbors home where she briefly chats with the neighbor. The elder woman is nice enough to allow Anna to use her bathtub and offers her a bed before she leaves for the night, but she doesn't tell her husband about their new visitor and Anna is kicked back out on the streets.



That night she sleeps at the stadium and wakes up bright and early on the next day, which is her day off. Anna visits the juice bar where she meets a nice young man named Lee Chung. After chatting for quite a while, Anna asks Lee if he’s single. He is. He is unemployed and seems like a nice guy.



The next day, Anna is very excited about meeting Lee again and today she decides to profess her love for him. It seems fast, but she seems to have fallen in love overnight. Lee agrees and they decided to go on and get married in a private ceremony. Lee, it turns out, also had a shady past and has a very strained relationship with his own father and so he chooses to take her last name.



The new family member brings in a few more funds and Anna is able to build a small house for the two of them on her lot. Anna now has a bed, a toilet, and a shower within a tiny shack with cheap floors and wallpaper, but it's home!!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Chapter 1: Meet the Founder



My founder is Anna Labell (I'll try to get a better picture, but I used a previouly made sim and missed out on the CAS pic.) Anna is a lucky, neurotic vegetarian who enjoys working out (athletic) and has a great sense of humor. Anna's lifetime wish is to achieve the superstar athlete status in the athletic career track. She is a young adult and begins her new life in Riverview with extremely limited funds. Her new home is merely just a lot, no walls, no floors, no bed, no bathroom, just a barren lot.

Anna begins her new life freaking out about her old one. Anna was a younger mother and had to place her first child, a beautiful baby girl, up for adoption because she was “too young to carry the burden of a child”, she herself being a child. Anna lived with her grandparents, her own parents having left her at the age of five. Her grandparents were extremely religious and thus she was more interested in a life on the edge. She stayed out late and skipped church and worried her grandparents to death, literally. A year after Anna gave her child to a stranger, both her grandparents mysteriously met their demise.

Now Anna has moved to Riverview in hope of starting a family and improving upon her past. She has many regrets, but she hopes that adjusting her life to the better will ultimately right all the wrongs of her past. While finding her long lost daughter is out of the question, Anna hopes that starting a family will give her the opportunity to make up for her past failure.



While Anna now lives on a barren lot, she plans to slowly build a small starter home for herself and hopefully a future family. She has big dreams of her children’s children’s children living on this very same lot. Anna was left 16,000 simoleons when her grandparents passed and she used this to purchase this wonderful lot, which left her with a meek 1,300 simoleons. Since she now has nothing as far as possession go, Anna must find other ways to entertain herself and to take care of her essential needs. She plans to use her small funds to grow a fortune that will allow her future generations to live comfortably and not have to worry the way that she has (and will continue to for a while.)



Her first outing in her new home is a trip to the lovely gym where she buys a membership and proceeds to enjoy her first workout. This encourages her to get a job in the athletic career track, so she leaves the gym and signs up to work at the stadium. Her new job is at the very bottom of the latter, working as a Rabid Fan, she basically follows the all-stars around and reminds them that they’re fabulous. She is required to fetch them toilet paper and potato chips when needed, not the best job, but it’s a start. After her grueling interview, Anna is exhausted, and since she has nowhere to sleep of her own, she locates an old bench in the Azalea Acres Community Garden. After a painful night’s sleep, Anna jogs to the gym where she showers and uses the facilities, then it’s off to the grocery store for some produce that she can save and eat over the next few days. Her first meal is an apple and some grapes. Well at least she’s not going to get fat on her new diet.



Anna then heads off to work where she meets some of her new teammates and works out until the workday finally ends. Anna ends her second day of her new life eating lettuce and a tomato for dinner and curling up on a park bench outside of the stadium for some much needed rest.

Getting Started

Okay, this is my first legacy and I'm a little excited and nervous, I'm worried that it may suck. But aside from that I really think this will be a lot of fun and we'll just see how it goes.