Author: ciysims

Hello and welcome back to another Sweet Lips challenge update! This is Dawn’s final week as an adult. The last time we saw Dawn, she finished up her time as an actress and joined the Tech Guru career instead. She visited a bunch of different houses and kissed 10 more sims. Let’s dig in!

Week 12

We find Dawn playing video games when we get loaded into her house. Patchy is also around and dancing his heart out to our little stereo.

I cannot remember why I “cared” about doing a couple of collection runs, but Dawn did some in a couple of different worlds. It does at least add to our skills a bit.

Once she is back at home, it’s time to do some additional skill work. Dawn starts off with painting. She’s still at level 8, I believe, but maybe it’s 7. Once the painting is done, she goes and does some yoga.

Dawn had her gaming console die and had to fix it, or at least it said it was broken, and then I had to reset it anyway.

To get out of the house and do something different, I sent Dawn to Cheasnut Ridge. There she went and spectated some horse competitions. It was a good way to spend a rainy afternoon.

It was still raining when she got out, but there were a couple of people standing outside. One is our old makeup artist, whom Dawn already knows well. The other was a new guy, though.

Even though it looks as though Dawn is kissing the older guy, he walked in between them as Dawn started the animation, and she is actually kissing Jody. He is a horse trainer, but we’ve already kissed one of those, so this is 5 points.

Back at home, this lady came over and just started chatting with Dawn, who then introduced herself. They started chatting and flirting with each other.

They moved inside and continued to flirt a bit on the couch in front of the TV. After a bit more time, Dawn is able to get that first kiss. Christie here is unemployed, so this is just another 5 points.

More repairs and some more painting keep Dawn busy. These skills will hopefully be ones we can max for more points by the end of this challenge!

Dawn came home with a promotion, and that promotion helped her finish the last leg of the Computer Whiz aspiration! She rolls again and gets Bestselling Author next, which might be tough, but we’ll give it a shot.

Dawn gets started on writing her first book right away. She already has a really high writing skill, thanks to the stylist career she was in at the beginning of this challenge.

While Dawn is out tending to the garden, she gains a new mastery perk. She can now Spacebend, which is actually pretty fun for her.

Needing to write for a while while she is inspired, Dawn eats a museberry from her Tree of Emotions and sits down to write. An elder Penny Pizzaz comes by to complain about our relationship and lets us know she might break up with Dawn.

Dawn’s needs have been really easy to keep in green. She usually only needs to eat once a day, although a snack before bed is often used to keep her good through to the morning.

Harvestfest is upon us, and unfortunately, it was also power conservation day, which is very, very annoying. So Dawn is going to go out for the day.

She visits the tiger conservation in Tomorang and even adopts a tiger. That gives her a cute little plushy she will put in her house.

Dawn realizes it’s been a long time since she visited Granite Falls, and maybe she’ll get lucky with a new park ranger.

There is indeed a new ranger, and one that happens to seem to like Dawn! This is great news for her, since the last one wasn’t into her.

Dawn is able to get a kiss from Inida Healy here, who is a new NPC Park Ranger. That means this kiss adds 20 new points for finally kissing a park ranger.

That night, Dawn’s projection is once again quite busy with learning some skills. I think this skillful sleep might get her further through some of these skills than we would have otherwise.

The next day, Dawn heads into the deep woods and meets a new hermit. Now it was a bit confusing, because she also had a job, but regardless, she isn’t into Dawn, so that was another bust, and Dawn heads home.

Dawn has been busy writing a bunch of books, and I decided to have her make copies of them before she submits them. I wish they would let you “buy” them once they were published, but oh well.

Dawn hunkers down to do some more writing, as we have a lot more books to publish, and I find it a little difficult to sometimes get bestsellers written.

Dawn scheduled a repair person to show up, and when she arrived, Dawn headed out to greet her. Apparently, doing it over the wall.

The repair lady was a fan, so Dawn gave her an autograph and then tried to romantically connect with her. This worked without issue, and she seemed into it.

Kiley was able to be kissed and added another 20 points for being a Repair Technician NPC! I had almost forgotten to get the service sims.

Video gaming has become one of Dawn’s sleeping apparitions’ favorite pastimes. She almost always spends at least some time gaming at night. She might be able to max video gaming by the end.

Dawn doesn’t actually eat that much, so she rarely needs to do a lot of cooking. When she does, however, she is most often making healthy food, thanks to her health food lifestyle.

Dawn continues to work on writing a bunch of books for her aspiration. You can see the flower she pressed a few updates ago on the wall in the back. It turned out really nice.

Dawn had a book actually get nominated for an award! If only I would remember to attend on Sunday (spoiler alert, we didn’t.)

Dawn painted a fun little painting that turned out to be a masterpiece. I decided to go ahead and keep it and hang it on the wall.

Ready to go out of the house for a little bit again, Dawn spies someone new she hasn’t met before and goes out to greet him. They chat for a bit, and Dawn gets to know him.

His name is Jayce, and sadly, he is unemployed, so worth only 5 points. Still, we have blazed through a lot of sims in the past, and it’s been nice to focus more on Dawn’s skills.

The week will come to a close with Dawn working on yet another book. She has written quite a few at this point and is going to be making a fair amount of money in royalties.

That will bring this update to a close. The next time we are with Dawn, she will have a birthday. She only kissed 5 more sims this week, for a total of 55 points. That’s still nothing to sneeze at for only 5 sims. Dawn completed another aspiration and skilled a lot, so all of that will help in the final score. Thank you so much for reading, and I really hope you will be here for the next update!

Points So Far: 2,145 Points (from kisses)

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Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 15

Hello and welcome back to the Easter Egg challenge with Tara, Robin, and Cadbury. The last time we saw the family, Tara aged up into an elder, she continued to try and win a SimScuffle tournament, we found the space bunny, and the boys ran their Snacky Shack. Let’s dig back in!

Week 15+

When we join the family, Tara is practicing some SimScuffle again. In the last post, you might remember, I felt like I landed on a potential reason why I wasn’t winning this before, and that you actually want to be very confident, rather than very focused.

Robin is getting ready to start his next semester of classes, and this time he has a presentation to give. So Robin gets started working on that, gathering up the information. He’ll edit it later.

Cad is out running the Snack Shack, and they have a really good day of sales. Cad is quite the entrepreneur with this little shack, and I’m glad I bought it!

Tara tried a new tournament and got second place again. I have switched up some of the decor, but very confident is actually a more difficult mood to get than very focused.

Tara either opens the stand or Robin does, and Tara heads out to see how he’s doing. We still have mostly a bunch of Voidcritter cards, and we will have more since we still need one card to finish the collection.

Tara continues to practice the SimScuffle game, since it seems that if she doesn’t keep playing, she will lose the “skill” in the game, which makes sense. Real games can be like that.

I then sent Tara fishing, although I could not tell you why. This didn’t really serve much of a purpose, as we can’t get anything we still need from fishing.

Back at home, Robin unlocks the Spacebender mastery perk, so he is able to teleport around a bit more easily, if he wants to. I could see that being useful for being in university.

Cad has managed to fill two of the four nectar stands already. He also has a good start on the 3rd, with it being about 1/2 full. My goal is to have all 4 full by the end, but also sell some of the finely aged nectar.

I had Tara buy herself a confident potion, which put her in a very confident mood, and sure enough, that did the trick! Tara won a SimScuffle tournament, and I have officially gotten Tara through all of the video game tournaments!

The Snacky Shack is also pretty successful, getting over 2K in sales. It’s pretty crazy how much we can sell popcorn, candy, and drinks for.

Now that her video game requirements are done, there are only a couple more easter eggs for us to find. We can complete the Voidcritter collection, and Tara can max out her mischief skill, since we have had a voodoo doll for a while. So Tara hatches a plan with Robin.

Tara tries to paint another easter egg painting, not that we need to, since we have all 5, but just in case anyone wants to argue that the cans are not meant to be Warhol.

Cad manages to max out his video game skills already. He’s quite young, and I don’t really remember him spending that much time gaming when he was younger, but he must have!

Once he’s completed that, it’s time to open the Snacky Shack again. It’s a partial sale day today, because I forgot we had plans this afternoon.

Robin has needed to attend some guest lecture’s which he has done a couple of times, but today he comes to the campus with his family. Cad and Robin play some table tennis first.

While the boys play, Tara decides to go prank the toilets and sabotage a few things. It won’t do much since we don’t stay on this lot, but it at least brings Tara’s mischief up to 9. Everyone attends a guest lecture, just cause, before heading home.

When we get home, Cad needs to work on the garden. His poor plants are in pretty rough shape right now. Being a plant lover, he doesn’t like to see his plants so gloomy.

Tara decides to open up her table to sell some more honey and some more Voidcritter cards. We are never going to get through all of this inventory.

Tara comes out with some food to spend time with Cad. She’s been so deep in gaming for so long that she almost doesn’t recognize her own kids, but they have helped her a lot in this journey.

Since Tara needs to continue to grow her mischief skill, we bought her a telescope to spy on the neighborhood with. She also needs to raise her logic for her aspiration, so it has a double benefit.

Cad is out prepping the Snacky Shack for another sale, this time with less candy and a few more drinks, since some are about to go off. It was a pretty good sale for what they had set out.

Night arrives, and Tara heads out to use the telescope for less mischievous things. She does get a notice about a meteor, though, and heads back inside. We aren’t ending this challenge with a meteor when we are this close.

Once the Snacky Shack is finished with its sale for the evening, Cad spends a bit of time with Thimble. He’s only infected one member of this family with fever and is a good little hedgehog.

Robin is hard at work, most of the time, on his classes and homework. He gets the chance to open up the Voicdcritter and honey stand and gets a few more items sold in the process.

Cad continues to take good care of his garden, and when there are weeds to pull, he goes and takes care of them. He does, occasionally, get sad about hurting the weeds, though, because he just loves all plants so much.

Tara’s turn to open the stand she started so many sim days ago. We are trying to sell as many of these duplicate Voidcritter cards we’ve been collecting, but we just seem to open more than we can sell.

Cad has been successful with his nectar and has filled the third storage rack. He’s been able to sell a few finely aged bottles as well, but we are holding one back. He’s also still very active, and if he doesn’t get a run in sometimes, he gets tense.

Tara supports both of her boys, but Robin felt extra supported, and they got the supportive dynamic. I do love it when parents get this one.

Robin was sent to take in another guest lecture, and that completes his milestone. He won’t complete this aspiration before the end of the challenge, but it’s been nice to make progress.

Cad opens up the Snacky Shack and makes an impressive amount of money. Three thousand is a lot for a snack shop. Those galaxy cotton candies are really lucrative!

Robin got his grades back, and he did a fantastic job in school this semester, getting all A’s. With only 2 classes, that isn’t exactly shocking, but still good. He went ahead and got 2 more classes.

We FINALLY completed the Voidcritter collection, after opening many, many packs. That gives us 35 points!

Tara spends some time playing chess with Cad to work on her logic some more, and Robin joins them, working on the new semester’s homework.

That night, even though it’s late, Tara opens up the stand. I believe we lowered the pricing, so they should sell a bit faster. We still have almost no chance of getting all of it sold, but that’s ok.

Robin has a new presentation for this semester, so he quickly gets started on gathering up the information. We won’t get through another full semester, but that’s ok.

Tara is back to sell some of the stock on her stand. You can see we had picked up quite a crowd. There are going to be a lot of families with Voidcritter cards in their inventories.

Tara is still trying to paint a new easter egg painting. This one very well might be, but I don’t know of a specific example. Cad is also enjoying the gaming mat.

It’s not a TV premiere day, but the whole family actually sits down to watch the TV. That’s pretty rare for this family, but we are quickly wrapping up all of our goals.

Tara doesn’t need much sleep, thanks to the Seldom Sleepy trait we purchased a long time ago. That means her evenings now consist of using the telescope and the selling table to try and deplete more of the stock.

The boys continue to work on their own aspirations. Robin, of course, is working hard on his classes, and Cad is working in the garden. He’s gotten pretty close with the bees.

Tara finally paints a new easter egg painting. This is very much meant to be A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. It’s a very close replication, and that will give us an “official” 5+ easter egg paintings.

Cad and Robin hang out quite a bit when they have downtime, and Cad helps Robin decide he likes jokes. I mean, sure, you can like jokes; jokes are fun.

I cannot, for the life of me, remember why I sent Robin out to collect crystals. It might have been to see if we could find any to sell, since crystals are obviously better than Voidcritter cards.

Cad is the one to open up the stand today, and Tara does some more moongazing. I’m so glad we have a smaller telescope. Not that this family doesn’t have room for a larger one.

We have almost finished all of the goals; it’s really just down to Tara now. That means I’m kind of speeding through a lot of days, and Robin and Cad try and complete wishes to get aspiration points, while Tara tries to sell some more to gain additional money.

Tara chats with Cad as he prepares to open the Snacky Shack again. He has another decent sales day, but we do have some items that are almost “bad,” so we need to get them sold soon.

The Hijinks festival is in town, so the family heads into the city. This is the perfect place for Tara to spend time honing her mischief a bit more. We don’t manage to level it up completely, but we are closer.

Tara and Robin share some breakfast. I’m realizing I probably could have split this update, but we are so close to the end.

Tara had a bunch of updates altogether. First, she finished the Nerd Brain aspiration. After rolling for a new one, she got Eco Innovator, which she isn’t going to try and complete. Especially since we have the notice that it’s almost her time. She also likes Cerebral Sims.

Tara is determined to finish up the final goal, so we head to the park. She introduced herself to a bunch of sims and found someone to bind her voodoo doll to.

With a couple of interactions, she maxes out the mischief skill. I nearly missed the notice, unfortunately, but you can still make it out. That means she completed the final goal and got another 25 points.

Tara goes home and is back to selling at the selling stand. She cooks some meals for her boys. She has had a very successful life, and we are mostly just waiting for her time to come now.

Cad completed his goal, too! He has fully filled all of the nectar racks in his room. That’s a lot of nectar!

Robin goes out to open the Snacky Shack. It’s actually opened a couple of times in a row to clear out their inventory. Both sales go really well, and the Snacky Shack is basically closed.

Cad had saved back a finely aged bottle of excellent blackberry nectar, and he served it to the family. They sit together and celebrate Tara’s life and all they have accomplished.

It was a little much for Cad, apparently, who decided to take his nectar to the bath. It was easier to brood in there, I guess.

Tara goes out to open the stand again and tries to sell a few more items. It’s been a long challenge, and they had a lot in their inventory to sell off.

Tara came back in feeling rather sick, and the poor thing got really “drunk”, apparently on the blackberry nectar, and went to bed not feeling so great.

The next morning, she is feeling much better. Apparently, the boys decided that popcorn was the name of the game that morning.

Robin got to work on his term paper for the semester, and he ended up getting the skillful sleep mastery perk. It seems everyone gets that one.

I had COMPLETELY forgotten it was the boy’s birthday today. Cad spun and then Robin into adults. I totally missed their birthday notice, but that’s all right.

Poor Tara, not feeling well again, stood up and let us know her time has come to an end.

The reaper showed up, and after a little while, he took Tara’s soul to the next life. Tara died of old age and completed all the goals I set out for her. It’s a bittersweet end to this challenge.

Tara lasted about 4 days into week 16, and I had hoped she might pass in her sleep, but alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Thank you so much for reading along, and I hope you enjoyed this challenge! Let’s take a look at the points.

Points

Starting Sim: Pre-skilled: 0 Points
Easter Eggs: 555 Points
- Specialty Lots: Umbrage Manor: 25 Points
- Guardian of the Gnomelaxy: 10 Points
- Wolf Pytt Recommends: 10 Points
- Burt’s Bee Beebox: 10 Points
- I Have the High Ground: 10 Points
- Wall Full of Stars: 10 Points
- “Schmapple” Products: 10 Points
- Teen Idol Poster: 10 Points
- Henry Puff, not Harry Potter: 10 Points
- Morphing Pictures: 30 Points
- Earl Grey, Hot: 10 Points
- Your Brain on Drugs: 10 Points
- TV Show Madness: 10 Points
- Recolor Puddles: 10 Points
- Weather Machine: 15 Points
- Easter Eggs Children: Robin and Cadbury (born with Don Lothorio): 20 Points
- Overage of Children: Rolled for 1, got twins: -75 points
- Hypnofrog, not Hypnotoad: 15 Points
- Mass Effect Alignment: 40 Points
- Hacker Extraordinaire: 15 Points
- Serious Sea Monster: 10 Points
- Career: Maxed Tech Guru: 25 Points
- Read Easter Egg Books: 25 Points
- The Flirty Magic Bean: 15 Points
- Outfits: 10 Points
- Scientific Satellite: 30 Points
- Post Card Crazy: 25 Points
- Painting Easter Eggs: 25 Points
- Video Game Madness: 45 Points
- Dust Spirit Inspects: 15 Points
- Command and Conquer: 40 Points
- Voidcritter Madness: 34 Points
- Voodoo Witchcraft: 25 Points
Blogging: 10 Points
Aspiration Points (29,121, 40 points per 1000): 1160 Points
Money (176,050, 10 points per 25,000): 70 Points

FINAL TOTAL: 1,795 Points

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Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 14

Hello and welcome back to the Easter Egg challenge! The last time we saw Tara, Robin, and Cad, they had built a greenhouse, Tara had won every video game challenge except for SimScuffle, Don had passed away, and Robin had started university. Let’s dig in!

Week 14

When we join the family, there is a party already in the works, and Tara is about ready to blow out her birthday candles. That’s right, Tara is becoming an elder (and had a bubbling age bar).

A very elegant Bella Goth cheers on Tara as she spins into elderhood. Happy Birthday, Tara!

The party continues on for quite a while once the cake is served, and I think everyone had a pretty good time. We did miss having Don around.

Tara finished all other games last week, so it’s down to SimScuffle. I already granted myself the points, since this is a specific pack game, but I’d still like to try and win, but so far, no luck.

The boys’ Snacky Shack is having some more luck, though, and their sales are steadily climbing, on average, little by little. Cad, having maxed his cooking skill, I believe, makes some high-quality candy.

Tara takes another trip into space, hoping to find the elusive space bunny, but no such luck yet. Still, she arrives back safe and with the rocket in one piece.

Cad has really gotten into video gaming lately, and uses the gaming mat as a bit of a break from the nectar making and selling. The boys really do keep very busy.

It might have been an evening/night sale, but the stand did the best it ever has, I think. The idea that they sold candy and popcorn variants for over 2k is pretty wild. Way to go, boys!

Robin has decided to be the opposite of his brother and be Romantic. Cad, if you remember, is romantically reserved, but I said, why not? So Robin is now romantic.

Cad is back to making nectar, and he has decided he likes this nectar-making thing. That’s good, since it’s his aspiration and we plan to do our best to fulfill most of it if!

Cad has filled one entire rack and is over halfway through another rack of nectar slowly aging in their room. We will have a couple of bottles of finely aged nectar before too long.

Tara sits down to try SimScuffle again, and I decide to look a little further into this game. There isn’t any information specifically about SimScuffle that I can find. It is the game that came with DU. So, that means it’s the game the eSports team uses. The ideal mood for the team is Confident. That gives me an idea.

The food stand continues to grow its profits. It’s kind of amazing how much you can earn in candy. Granted, we are selling some pretty expensive candy, but still.

Tara practices with SimScuffle a bit more because we are heading out on a trip soon, and I don’t want her to lose all the progress towards this game!

We head back to Granite Falls, and FINALLY manage to find what we are looking for. They are called dust sprites, but they are based on the wandering soot from Spirited Away. Tara catches one, and we head home rather quickly.

When they went out to find the dust sprites, Cad decided to become a plant lover. This is a new trait for me, so I said, sure. Cad now loves plants.

Our cute little dust sprites have a lovely little place on the bookshelf at home. They really are pretty cute. Tara is excited to have them, and that gives us another 15 points!

Tara finally needed to sleep, and her sleep projection heads out to learn logic. She does need that for the Nerd Brain aspiration. Cad also unlocks skillful sleep himself, so we’ll have a couple of projections out sometimes now.

It’s premier day, and I guess I’ve missed all the others somehow, but it’s Game of Llamas again, so no new points. I’m not sure how we managed to either not have or maybe miss this holiday every other time.

Everyone has been busy, so the next time the Snacky Shack opens up, they do some decent sales. They have certainly sold more before, but it’s still a lot.

Cad is so close to filling up the second nectar rack in the room, and then he can start with the third one. My goal is to fill all the racks if possible before the end of the challenge.

Tara takes off on a very blue evening to go to space again. She still needs to work on SimScuffle, but we also have a space bunny to find!

Tara successfully not only finds but also chases away the big bunny from the satellites that were “attacked”. That’s another 40 points! (at least as far as I can tell, this is the only space bunny in the game.)

After our space success, it seems the aliens wished to speak with Tara again, as she once again got abducted.

The Snacky Shack is open nearly every day, and while we don’t always make crazy numbers, it’s still more than enough to help build up the family’s bank. We have more Voidcritter packs to buy and see if we can complete that collection.

When the food sale is over, Tara decides to open up her table for the day as well. We have a lot of cards and other items to sell. I even put a bottle of nectar out, which sold but did not count towards Cad’s aspiration. Cad helps Tara discover she likes deep thoughts.

Robin got his grades for the semester, and he did some stellar work! High A’s for both classes, and I went ahead and signed him up for another couple of classes.

Tara attempted a SimScuffle tournament while feeling Confident, and we got our first-ever second-place finish. That makes me think I might be onto something with this confident mood.

Cad was busy stomping away on some more nectar in the greenhouse. This lady came by to visit and went out and chatted with him. I think she attempted to flirt with him as well.

After some time passes, Tara tries a tournament again and gets the same result. Much like with the focused mood, I’m guessing I need to get Tara in a highly confident state to be able to win, so that is what we will work on next!

While Cad and Tara were busy, Robin was busy with the Snacky Shack and brought in another solid day of sales. This stand was the best purchase for these boys ever, and has been a lot of fun.

That, however, brings the week to a close. The next update is likely our final update for this challenge, so I hope you will join me then. It has been a lot of fun, and a few questions still remain. Will Tara manage to win a SimScuffle tournament? Will she find any more easter eggs? You will have to come back then and see. She did manage to get 55 more points this week, bringing our total points to 505. Thanks so much for reading!

Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 13

Hello and welcome back to another Easter Egg challenge update! The last time we saw Tara, Robin, and Cadbury, the boys were busy with their Snacky Shack, and Tara nearly died in a rocket ship crash. Tara was able to win 3 more tournaments, Robin contracted Rapid Rodent Fever, and the boys graduated and grew into YA’s. Let’s dig back in!

Week 13

When we get back with Tara and the boys, they have a new greenhouse on the lot. With Cad’s desire to start making nectar, we will need additional plants, but we also need to be able to grow some out-of-season items during spring. The bees are moved in, and the nectar maker is installed.

Cad gets busy planting a few more things, like an apple tree and some grapes for using in nectar later, since those are the first nectars he’ll be able to make.

While they are sitting around chatting together, Robin decides he likes deception. Apparently, Tara told him a very good lie while downing her pitch black tea.

Tara takes on a MySims Racing tournament, but doesn’t place. Is this going to be our next SimScuffle, I wonder?

The Snacky Shack is open, and I did not apparently note how they did with their sales, but the boys have gotten pretty savvy at this stand, and it brings in some decent money.

The flea market is in town, and I decide to send the family to see if the seller has anything interesting. They don’t, so Tara sets up her own table. She doesn’t really sell much of anything.

She does, however, manage to do enough mischief that she is now at level 8 of the skill. Only two more levels to go to complete that easter egg!

Back at home, Tara decides to open her normal table again and gets a lot more interested customers. Her stand has become mostly Voidcritter cards and honey at the moment.

Cad has managed to get some apples, and so he gets started on making some Apple Nectar. We have also purchased some nectar racks. They are just in their room, so they won’t get the benefit of being in a cellar, but that’s ok.

Tara tries a new tournament and ends up getting third place this time. It’s better than last time, but I worry if she will be able to win this one or not. We have not, however, maximized our focus yet.

After a little while, Tara sat down to participate in another tournament, but this time the game console broke. Not the ideal time, but Tara was at least able to get it fixed quickly.

Since it was fixed so quickly, Tara was able to hop back into a tournament right away, and this time she took second place. This makes me feel it’s likely we’ll be able to win if we get the focus up and do not have the console break again.

Cad takes his nectar making very seriously now, and he loves to spend time in the greenhouse taking care of the plants and stomping on the fruit.

He is also really dedicated to the stand. He’s maxed his cooking, I believe, or maybe will soon, and gives the customers really good quality items.

So good in fact that the next sale is almost 1K. That’s pretty good for popcorn and candy. Daddy Don continues to stop by, and Robin gives him a hug when he visits the stand this time.

I had no idea that Tara’s skillful sleep astral projection would head out to the greenhouse, but she did and started on some nectar herself. Luckily, we were actually able to complete the nectar!

I sent Robin in to fix a toilet that had broken in the boys’ bathroom. While he was busy doing that, he decided he likes handiness. That’s a great thing to like, so yes!

Tara has discovered that the mixture of listening to focus music in her earbuds and drinking a cup of Pitch Black before starting a tournament seems to give her the focused mood she wants.

Sure enough, this time she wins the MySims Racing tournament without any issues! Way to go, Tara. That’s 2 down and 2 more to go on the console.

Taking a break from gaming to paint, Tara’s luck continues, and she gives us the Mona Lisa eater egg painting. That is worth 10 points!

Cad brings his homemade nectar into the room and starts filling up the nectar racks he was able to purchase. We will leave them here until they can become finely aged.

Tara sits down to get started practicing her next game. Next up is Destiney Effect, which is a play on Mass Effect.

Robin once again gets bitten by Thimble, but at least this time, there is no notice of the fever starting again. Thimble has been kind of mean to Robin lately.

Cad opens up the Snacky Shack and manages an incredible day of sales. There weren’t even that many items sold overall, but Cad’s quality items really do make a difference in getting good profits.

Tara works on a new painting and manages to unlock the Aspirational Thinker, which will give her some more satisfaction points. That will be nice. Anyway, Tara gets another easter egg painting completed for 10 more points. This picture is a play on the Son of Man painting by René Magritte.

It was at this moment, late on Tuesday, I believe, that I realized we had actually switched seasons to Summer. I also realized that the burglar stealing our weather machine appeared to wipe out the upgrades. Tara quickly upgraded it to change the seasons and was able to get us set back to spring.

Robin isn’t as into plants as his brother. In fact, he dislikes gardening, but that doesn’t mean he won’t go spend some time with him while he cleans up the nectar machine.

Tara sits down to try a tournament for Destiny Effect and has no problems winning another tournament. That means we have one final tournament left on the console to try and win.

We got the notice that Don has passed away. This is sad for everyone in the family, as they were all very close to Don, and the boys loved their dad.

Robin comes in to watch his mom work on the final console game, Genie’s Curse. I think this game is just meant to be a play on the side-scollers instead of any individual game, but I could be wrong.

Robin decides to go take the rocket ship out into space and see what he finds. He doesn’t get anything really exciting and arrives home safe and sound.

Robin applies for university and a bunch of different scholarships. He hears back that he has been awarded 2 different scholarships, which is great!

Then Robin takes a turn at the Snacky Shack while Cad is busy making some new nectar. It’s another great day of sales, and the boys have really increased our money and made up for Tara not having a job.

Tara and the boys take another trip to Granite Falls, hoping to find the elusive easter egg insect. First, though, they enjoy some food, and Tara manages to light the bonfire without causing any issues.

The family went out and worked on capturing insects, but they still haven’t found the one they want. It wasn’t a complete waste, however, as Cadbury was able to discover he loves the outdoors.

In the morning, before heading home, Cad goes and plays horseshoes for a little bit. This has become their family cabin, almost.

Now that they are home again, Tara gets serious about Genie’s Curse and starts to play it with the tournament in mind.

Robin decided to open up his mom’s selling stand and added a few items they had gotten recently. The sale did fine, and he was able to sell multiple things and add some additional money to the coffers.

Tara makes herself some Pitch Black tea. I think I kept saying coffee before, but either way.

Sadly, she only gets second place in this tournament, but that sort of makes sense with the fact that she took a little vacation in there.

Another night and another sale for the Snacky Shack. I apparently didn’t catch how the sales went this night, but Cad was on it and had a variety of popcorn options available.

Of course, what is an Easter Egg update nowadays without Tara getting abducted by the aliens?? They have really become obsessed with her.

Cad was out making some new nectar, and he unlocked a new mastery perk. He can now have a creative aura. Now I don’t often use the auras, but this could prove useful.

Tara wasn’t the only one to go to space during the night. Robin once again takes the rocket out. Maybe he went in search of his mother?

The next day, once Tara has returned and recovered, she takes another crack at the Genie’s Curse tournament, and this time she wins! Maybe the aliens helped, or maybe she had just finally practiced enough. Either way, that finishes all the console games!

Since it exists, and Tara already had a gaming mat from GeekCon, she rearranges the living room a bit to make room and gets started on Maniac Matchums.

Cad comes out to the greenhouse to find it’s become a bit of a mess. There is just an infestation of weeds to clear out. Many of the plants need a lot of water, but Cad was able to get it done, no problem.

I finally decided to have Robin take some classes for his aspiration. We are going to give him 2 classes, as he really only needs 1 for his aspiration. I decided to go with the economics degree.

Tara needed to do some more upgrades, and so she heads out to the rocket and gets those started while she is taking a gaming break. We still want to find that bunny!

She gets a good portion of the upgrade done and heads back inside to work some more on her latest game. I am determined to finish this game and see if we can win before the week is officially up.

Robin heads out to start making up some popcorn and other things to prepare the stand for the evening sale they will be having.

Cad handles the sale, and while it’s not the best they have ever had, it still brings in a good amount of money for a Snacky Shack.

Tara takes on a tournament right at the end of Saturday and manages to win! That gives her every game on the console, the one unique game on the gaming mat, and most of the computer games. Looking at it, SimScuffle came in Discover University, and isn’t base game. We have officially won all base game tournaments and the games from two other packs. I am going to officially award ourselves the 45 points for that easter egg, although I will continue to research and see if we can win SimScuffle before the end.

With that, this week is wrapped up. Tara had a GREAT week this week, earning another 65 points (20 for paintings and 45 for gaming). That brings our current total to 450 points for this challenge! Thank you so much for reading, and we are so close to being done with this challenge, but we have a couple of goals left to try and get, so I hope you will come back for the next update!

Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 12

Hello and welcome back to a new update of the Easter Egg challenge with Tara Cobb and the twins, Robin and Cadbury. The last time we saw the family, Tara continued to struggle with winning a tournament for SimScuffle, but was able to win the Hackathon and do decently well at the Ultimate Gaming competition at Geek Con. The boys did a lot of selling and helped with the rocket, and the week ended with a burglar trying to steal our weather machine. Let’s dig in!

Week 12

We have a couple of goals this week, and we might earn some points or we might not. Time will tell. When we first rejoin the family, Robin is busy holding a sale. We have a lot of Voidcritter cards to sell since we have been trying to find the last card we need.

The boys brought another girl home from school, I think, or maybe they just invited her over. I don’t fully remember, but either way, I think both boys kind of like her.

Tara decided to give SimScuffle one last shot, and unfortunately, she didn’t have any better luck than she did before. I might have to call that game unwinnable.

Tara heads back out to space to see if we can find the space bunny.

Instead, she crash-lands, and I think this challenge might be over! This was TERRIFYING, I’ve never actually had a crash like that before!!

So, we are going to draw this out a little.

Let me know if you think Tara is going to survive. I’m sure you can already tell based on the length you have left in the post, but still.

So, are you ready for the reveal?

Did Tara survive this horrendous crash, or are we calling this challenge done?

Wouldn’t that be the worst way to end this challenge?

All on the crazy crash from a chance card in space?

I would be so sad if it were done right here and now…..

All right, that’s enough stalling.

Tara did survive and was completely unharmed, THANK GOODNESS!!! I know I’m trying to finish these quickly, but that was not how I would want it to end.

Sadly, that means Tara has to start rebuilding the rocket if we are to explore any more of space. So she gets started on that, it’s a good break from gaming.

I remember that Pitch Black is actually really good for getting focused. I have Tara make and drink a cup.

Cad takes on fixing the sink, and he does a great job. It’s nice that Tara is not the only one I can trust to fix things now.

Tara comes back to start working on Road Rivals. I’m a bit concerned with all the issues Tara has had trying to get SimScuffle done. We might not have much luck, but all we can do is try.

Tara takes a small break to allow time for the tournament to be available. She heads out to do a little painting. Sadly, it’s not an easter egg painting, but it is cute.

Once the tournament begins, Tara heads in and competes, and she WINS! No big or complicated issues. That’s another game under her belt.

Even though it looks exactly like SimScuffle, this is actually Hillock II, which is supposed to be the most difficult game on the computer to win a tournament for, since it’s the highest-level game. We’ll see.

Cad decides to head out and help his mom by working on rebuilding the rocket ship. I am still determined to find the space bunny!

Tara gets ready to start a new tournament. She sits down and plays a bit more Hillock II, but before she can get too far, she gets interrupted.

I swear these aliens are just determined to make Tara’s life, and mine, harder by abducting her at the completely inopportune times. At least she comes back unharmed.

She sits down to compete in the tournament again, and this time she wins! Ok, so SOMETHING is up with SimScuffle, or it works differently than other games, because the rest of these seem pretty easy. That completes all the games, except SimScuffle, on the computer.

Cad is preparing to open up the Snacky Shack, so he gets some popcorn popping and fires up the candy machine.

Robin is out tending the garden and decides he does not like gardening. Ok, Robin, you don’t need to like gardening, it’s fine.

After a bit, Robin comes to help his brother prep the food stand by making some candy himself while Cad collects and starts a new batch of popcorn, or maybe caramel corn.

Inside, Robin goes and plays with Thimble, who actually bites him. Shortly after Robin gets the notice that he is now feeling horribly. I have never actually had someone get rodent fever.

Cad goes ahead and opens up the stand, and they have another good sale. I don’t know what happened to all the candy they were prepping, but I guess he decided to just sell a couple kinds of popcorn and drinks.

Robin looks up and discovers the cure for Rabid Rodent Fever, and quickly orders himself a bottle of the remedy so that he can cure himself before it’s too late.

It happened to be water shut-off day, and Robin was in need of a shower. Luckily, he has plenty of aspiration points, and so he grabs a quick remedy. I find all the bubbles coming out of the drink pretty funny.

Tara sits down and starts learning the Party Frenzy game on the console. We are through the computer games, for now, and while I might go back to SimScuffle, if I can win every other game easily, I might call that one glitched and give myself the points.

Tara and Cad have to get busy in the kitchen. It’s an exciting day for the boys. I also gave everyone the special jackets that are special easter egg outfits. These have references to different bands.

Robin comes up to the cake and blows out his candles. He aged up and became Valedictorian in school! Way to go, Robin!! We are not going to attend graduation, although I considered it with this notice.

Cad goes and blows out his own candles, and he graduated with honors. Not quite as good as Robin, but the boys did fantastic in school. Congrats to them both! Robin got the Self-Assured trait and now wants to be an Academic. Cadbury got the Genius trait and wants to be an Expert Nectar Maker.

Cad attempts to flirt with one of the guests. I know she is a fairy, and I don’t think it goes very well. Their dad is also there, of course, and he chats with both of his boys. He is still a pretty good-looking sim as an elder.

Tara takes it on herself to clean up after the party. There were dishes everywhere, and the food stand had some around it, too. The pile of dishes was pretty big.

After cleaning up, Tara sat down to try a tournament and won without any issue! I need to look up some stuff about SimScuffle, if I can. I feel like I have to be missing something!

After her win, it’s time to work on MySims Racing now. Clearly, there is a dish that we missed getting cleaned up that is stinking up the living room again.

Tara goes out that night and works on the rocket ship for a bit, then Robin is out the next morning working on it some more. We should have the rocket ship up and working again in no time.

Another day, another sale at the Snacky Shack. It works out well and at least helps pay for all of Tara’s tournaments.

Don comes over for another visit, and the boys hang out with him. Robin and Cad joke around, and Cad decides he likes jokes. Then they both get the jokester’s dynamics with their dad.

Robin takes on painting, and doesn’t get a new easter egg painting. Meanwhile, Tara continues her work on the MySims Racing game. We haven’t tried a tournament yet, just want to make sure she is ready first.

Right before the end of the week, the family takes a little vacation to Granite Falls. There is an easter egg here I would really like to find!

It only comes out at night, though, so they take some time to hang out and eat before they have to head out. They got a really nice little rental.

As evening begins to descend, everyone hangs out by the fire, which miraculously doesn’t set anything else, or anyone, on fire! Cad has been feeling very successful and decides he is an Overachiever.

Everyone heads out hunting insects and collecting whatever they can. Sadly, we have no luck in finding the one we are looking for. We will have to try again on a different trip because the week is ending.

It was another really good week, full of all kinds of activity. Sadly, no points were earned this week, so we are still at 385 points, but we made some really good progress towards winning all the gaming tournaments. I think Tara has, including SimScuffle, 5 games left. Thank you so much for reading. I will be back with another update soon!

Boolprop 20: Sweet Lips Chapter 11

Hello and welcome back to another Sweet Lips challenge! The last time we were with Dawn, she had a decent week, earning another 130 points for kisses. She met quite a few sims, and did start working on the Computer Whiz aspiration. Let’s dig in!

Week 11

Dawn is going to be working more and more on building skills and completing aspirations, as she has kissed 144 sims already. She won’t stop kissing sims if she meets more interesting ones, but our focus is going to shift somewhat. That’s why, when we first join Dawn, she is painting.

After the painting is done, it’s time for some video gaming! Dawn is actually really close to level 9 of painting, I think, thanks to skillful sleep, and I believe video gaming is around level 5 so far.

Dawn had one final performance to give as an actress, and she completed her final performance with a lot of flair. Once this gig was done, Dawn quit her acting career; she kissed all the sims she was likely to get.

Now that Dawn has quit her acting career, she has joined the Tech Guru career for her new aspiration. When the computer breaks, she has to go fix it, since we need to do a lot with the computer.

Dawn heads out for the day because I think the power conservation NAP was in effect, and goes to Innisgreen. There she greets Iris, one of the premades that came with the pack.

Turns out Iris is a Nanny, which is actually part of the babysitter part-time job. That is a new job for us and thus earns a new 15 points!

She heads to a new house in Innisgreen since she didn’t recognize the resident, and it turns out to be a new sim. Dawn works to get to know him a bit more.

His name is Kade Gaines, and while he is employed, his job is a Producer. Since Dawn has kissed multiple producers, they are piling up like Mixologists; he is only worth 5 points.

Dawn heads to a new house and meets a mom and her son. She also uses their press to create a pretty pressed flower to take home.

Victoria Suarez is a stay-at-home mom. Her kiss only brings in 5 more points, but we are really just trying to wrap up visiting a few houses.

Once she is back in Windenberg, we see these two out and about, and Dawn introduces herself to both of them. I don’t know if they are a couple or not at first.

Turns out this lady in pink, who initially rejected our kiss, is actually Patella Skeleton, and is married to the temple guardian! I am pretty sure she is someone who would show up as a skeleton in certain circumstances, given her name, but I’ll just take the 5 points.

The final house I decide to have Dawn visit is back in Ravenwood. It’s a beautiful house and I love the big gates out front.

When Dawn arrives, she greets and sits down with this sim playing chess. They aren’t in a hurry, and it was nice for Dawn to be able to really relax and get to know him.

Obviously, we have already kissed a ghost, but it turns out Kai is a secret agent, which is actually the top of the secret agent career, and is brand new. That means he brings in 15 points!

There is another sim in this house, Takama Aether. Dawn meets him a couple of rooms over and is easily able to get a quick kiss. Takama is unemployed, but that’s still 5 points.

Since the Aethers live at the top of a hill, Dawn wanders down the path a little, just exploring, and runs into this sim, who is also “new” to her.

Turns out Lacy is another Producer, so even though Dawn gets another kiss, it’s only worth 5 more points. Still, this house was worth visiting.

Dawn may not spend a ton of time at home, but she does still have to eat, and often prepares big plates of food so she can eat leftovers whenever possible.

Dawn got a promotion, which is great! She works pretty long hours now, and a lot of the day I spend just speeding through her being at work, but I’m ok wth not having quite as much time to kill.

Dawn decides to head out to the nightclub in town. It’s been a long time since she just cut loose and had fun. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t meet people still, however.

Dawn’s old co-star is at the club, and she sits down and meets this new sim. They hit it off quite well, actually.

So even though it turns out Celene is a mixologist, Dawn still gives her a quick kiss. That gives us another 5 points.

Dawn meets a few more sims and goes to boogie on the dance floor for a bit. One of the sims she meets in Yasemin Tinker, who does have a different job, but Yasemin left before much could happen.

Karmine Luna does not have a job, although I do believe she might be a werewolf. Either way, Dawn goes ahead and gives her a quick kiss for 5 points.

Before she heads home, Dawn greets a few more guys at the club, but they are all unemployed as well, so Dawn calls it a night. She was getting tired.

That night, Dawn astral projects and can be found playing video games and doing some programming on the computer. Those are both really good skills to work on with her current job.

After work the next day, Dawn heads downtown and goes to a karaoke club to see if she can meet anyone interesting. The first couple of people aren’t all that exciting.

After they all leave, Dawn grabs some food and just hangs out for a bit. Finally, Miko actually arrives, and Dawn takes the chance to flirt with her.

Dawn was happy to have found a Social Justice Worker, which is a new job for her, and thus, Miko’s kiss is worth 15 more points. That is a great way to end the week, as with that kiss, our time with Dawn is done again.

Dawn only kissed 10 additional sims this week, and only 3 were worth more than 5 points, but Dawn did make progress on her current aspiration and worked on a lot of skills, which may bring us points at the end. She earned 80 more points this week thanks to kisses. Thanks so much for reading, and next, we will be heading back to Tara with the Eater Egg challenge!

Points So Far: 2,090 Points (from kisses)

Boolprop 20: Sweet Lips Chapter 10

Hello and welcome back to the next Sweet Lips update! We are already on Week 10 of this challenge. Can you believe it? The last time we were with Dawn she kissed a few more sims, and worked on her career as an actress and her aspiration in the jungle. Let’s dig back in!

Week 10

Much like the last few updates, when we join Dawn, she is in Selvadorada and is hacking her way through the jungle to what I think will be her final temple.

When she reaches the temple, she has to diligently work her way through the various traps. If she gets poisoned again, I do not know that I will save her this time, so she’s careful.

Dawn makes it without issue to the final room and opens the rare chest. That is the last thing she needed to complete the Jungle Adventure aspiration. She rolls for a new one and gets Computer Whiz.

On her way home, she stops by a house in Willow Creek, I’m pretty sure. There, she introduces herself to the residents she does not yet know. It was storming pretty good.

Emmitt sadly got hit by lightning, so Dawn coaxed him inside for a kiss. He is a Fry Cook, which is a new job title and a new career, as that is the Fast Food Worker part-time job. That’s worth 15 points!

Dawn did attempt to introduce herself to another resident, but discovered they were not into Dawn like that, so she left that house.

Summer Holiday’s house is next, and luckily, the storm was not here, so no reason to run inside or worry about lightning. They flirted for a bit and connected romantically.

Now Summer is a stay-at-home mom, and thus unemployed, so she is only worth 5 points, but this did make me think of something I can try, just for fun.

The next house (or maybe it’s the same house, I’ve lost track), there were twin girls who were both YA. Dawn went in and introduced herself to the first twin. They chatted for a bit.

Dawn discovered that this twin, Demi, is unemployed, so she is only worth 5 points, but since her sister was cooking, Dawn thought maybe she would have a job.

A little time, a little flirting, and Dawn finds out Patrice is also unemployed. She gets the kiss anyway for 5 additional points and moves on.

Dawn may have maxed her archeology skill, but at night, she still occasionally works on it. I really should sell this stand; it’s not like we really need it anymore.

Dawn brought home a little mini-sun from her last trip to the jungle, and as an even bigger surprise, Patchy suddenly is into Dawn. I’m not sure what made me try it, but this time we get the kiss! That’s 20 points, as Patchy is an NPC!

Another day and another house visited, where it is storming yet again. There was only a single guy living in this house, so Dawn introduced herself.

It turns out Takuya is a Mixologist, which of course means he might as well be unemployed. 5 additional points for the kiss.

Dawn remembers we had a new makeup tech when she was last an actress and discovers he lives in the next house she visits.

Now, Stephen might be a makeup artist, but we have already kissed one of those, the first one we met, so he is still only worth 5 points.

It’s finally some nice weather, so Dawn goes fishing for a bit. We can keep working on some skills while preparing for our next visits.

She meets Jacquelyn on the street, who is unemployed, and gets a kiss from her. That is another 5 points.

Instead of continuing to visit house after house, Dawn heads home and does some work around her house. She repairs and mops up the water from a broken set of plumbing, cleans the sink, and works on some writing.

Dawn is back to making house calls, and the first one is Travis Scott’s house. We do not end up kissing him as he is a Tech Guru, and we’ve kissed one of those already.

Dawn heads to the next house, where a little toddler is in his mom’s arms. That mom is who Dawn introduces herself to next.

Lia seems into it, and they emotionally connect. When Dawn goes in for a kiss, though, she gets a hand in the face. I’m surprised, normally as soon as the First Kiss option is up there isn’t an issue.

Dawn tries a simple flirt, and it’s reciprocated easily, so we know the issue isn’t that she’s not into Dawn. Dawn slows things down a bit and gets to know Lia better.

That did the trick, and Dawn is able to get the kiss. Lia is an Advice Columnist, which is a new job, so I’m glad we were able to get the kiss. This kiss is worth 15 points.

Dawn heads home again for a while and spends some time having fun. That last rejection hurt a fair amount, so Dawn plays some video games.

Dawn meets Akira, who does have a job. He’s a live support tech agent, but we’ve kissed a live tech support agent before, so Dawn doesn’t worry about kissing him.

She heads to a home where there are 3 “new” residents for her to meet. None of them have jobs, but she attempts to encourage them to pursue their dream jobs. Maybe that could get them into jobs that are new.

Dawn goes on a bit of an introduction spree and introduces herself to many sims. All of whom are unemployed, so Dawn doesn’t bother trying to kiss any of them.

Dawn has a very new awkward kiss with this lady. She met her and they hit it off, but she went and picked up her infant while Dawn was preparing to kiss her. It was a bit weird, but worth 5 points since Charlotte here is a stay-at-home mom.

Dawn moves on to Strangerville, I believe, and thought she had a good chance with this lady, but instead got a hand to the face.

Dawn heads to the next house right as a fire breaks out. Dawn runs into and puts the fire out, then greets the woman who started it. She isn’t interested in Dawn, unfortunately.

The next house finds residents enjoying their pool. Dawn sits down and chats with one of them.

It’s not long before Dawn gets a kiss, but I apparently never marked down who this was or how many points they were worth, so I popped into the game. This is Paloma Roble, and she is unemployed, so 5 points.

That night, Dawn heads home and dances the night away. She has a new gig in the morning, another TV episode.

When she arrives at work, Francis here is also arriving, and he is a background actor. Probably not on the same show Dawn is in, but he accepts a rose.

Dawn gets a kiss, and Francis worth 20 points for being an NPC we haven’t kissed yet. You would think Background Actor might have been one of the easiest, but oh well.

With that kiss completed, Dawn heads into the makeup artist and wardrobe departments to get ready for the show.

After practicing with her co-star, they are ready, and the performance goes off without much of a hitch. Dawn was a bit sad initially, but was able to pull it together and put on a good show.

Dawn had upgraded her TV and purchased a game system during a rebate day. That meant when Dawn got home from work, she decided to sit down and play some games.

It’s a rather rainy day when Dawn ventures out to another house and greets the residents there. They move inside rather quickly due to the storm.

After moving inside, Dawn is able to get a kiss from Olivia. She is a clickbait writer, which I had to check because I thought we had that job once before, but it turns out we did not, so that’s 15 points!

Dawn heads to a new house in Henford and introduces herself to Angela Plesant, as well as her wife. Neither have jobs, and so Dawn calls it a day at that house.

Dawn visits a new house in Chestnut Ridge and gets to know its resident, at least the one at home. He seems like a nice guy and gets Dawn’s autograph first.

Of course, he happens to be a mixologist, so Dawn only gets 5 points for the kiss. Still, it was at least something.

Dawn managed to break the shower, so before it flooded the whole bathroom, she took the time to fix it.

Her projection that night was all about enjoyment. First painting a bit, and then sitting down to play video games the rest of the night. Dawn had another busy week. That is, however, where we are going to wrap up this week. Dawn got another 130 points this week, which is still really good. We are nearing the end of her adulthood soon, so we might start to focus on aspirations and skills for the rest of the challenge. Thank you for reading. This chapter got fairly long, but I hope you will join me for the next update!

Points So Far: 2,010 Points (from kisses)

Boolprop 20: Sweet Lips Chapter 9

Hello and welcome back to the Sweet Lips challenge! The last time we were with Dawn, she had a crazy busy week kissing lots of sims, and becoming an actress. She completed her archaeology aspiration and started the jungle explorer aspiration. She also finished the Alice’s Sorrow “quest.” Let’s dig in!

Week 9

When we rejoin Dawn, she is back in Selavadorada for another trip. She is also in the process of “blessing” someone with the totem.

After she heads into the jungle, the path to the baths is opened, and Dawn sees this lady and introduces herself. When she first entered, this lady was the only one in the area.

Grace is a Live Chat Support Agent, which is a new job in the Tech Guru career that we have not seen yet, which gives us 15 points!

Sadly, Dawn gets herself poisoned again. I will admit I had a moment of thinking maybe I would see if she could get through it herself, and if she died, then she died, but I just couldn’t do it to Dawn.

Before we do anything else, though, Dawn opens the chest that she was searching for first. It would not be worth getting poisoned if we left this behind!

When she gets back to town, she speaks with the man who gave her the last antidote, and luckily has plenty of bone dust to use to make another antidote.

Once she feels more herself, she attempts to chat with Dustin there, but mostly just “screams” at him and instead gets to know Clifford instead.

Clifford is a Mixologist, like so many Sims are, and thus he is only worth 5 points, but it’s still 5 new points!

As she gets ready to head back into the jungle to get to the temple, Dawn quickly stops to introduce herself to this small group of ladies. Moe is a stay-at-home mom, but Dawn earns another 5 points.

Tara heads back in and starts cutting her way through the jungle again, and gets poisoned AGAIN! Ugh, Dawn, you are not helping!

So, she once again leaves the jungle to head back to town and gets an antidote after introducing herself to this lady in bright yellow. Then she heads to her rental house instead of trying to go back into the jungle for the night.

Dawn is finally able to make her way to the temple the next day, no more poisoning. Inside, she gets to “insult” the temple totem to unlock the next room. I’m sure all the frustration probably helped.

Dawn gets to the final room and opens another rare temple chest. She will need to do this one more time in order to complete her aspiration. So one more trip to the jungle shouldn’t be too bad. This trip, however, is completed.

She goes home and recovers for a bit without going back out. It was a busy trip to the jungle and a lot of back and forth to the town. Dawn is ready to be at home for a bit.

When Dawn is ready to leave the house again, she heads to Tartosa and manages to get a kiss from the flower vendor. Sadly, he is JUST known as a “Vendor,” so Faiz here would only be worth 5 points, but I realized I messed up and didn’t count Cleatus as a Vendor back then, so we will make up for it now, 20 more points!

Dawn starts talking with this new vendor, who I believe sells cakes, but he is not interested in Dawn. I’m not sure if I got the notice that he doesn’t like Dawn in that way or just that he was not interested in interacting with her.

Dawn did introduce herself to….I’ve forgotten her name, and she made it clear she did not want that kind of relationship with Dawn. That’s fine. Dawn has kissed plenty of people lately.

Dawn was apparently not done, however, since Eliza is also apparently a vendor here. Dawn introduced herself and was able to perform a lot of actions with Eliza.

Before long, she got a kiss, but Eliza is only worth 5 points. Apparently, she left Bob, or got remarried, as she is now Eliza House.

I do not fully remember where Dawn went next, but wherever she was, Dawn quickly found herself connecting with this gentleman at the counter. He was very interested in Dawn.

Turns out this was Tomax, and he is a writer’s assistant. That is a new job for us and is part of the writer career and brings in 15 points! There are still a few new jobs out there!

Dawn’s sleeping apparition starts on a new painting, and I really wish they would just finish a painting now and then. They always start them, but then Dawn can’t finish them, so I have to just get rid of them.

That painting didn’t have a chance to get finished, though, since the aliens are once again interested in Dawn. Did they retune alien abductions or something recently?

Dawn still has her little garden, which has actually grown some, and her money tree is bringing in plenty of money every day for Dawn.

It’s a lovely day, so Dawn heads out to the park in Willow Creek, where she meets Gabriel Flores, who is unemployed. Dawn still gives him a quick kiss for 5 points.

Dawn heads to the gym, and instead of working out, she meets Morgan. Morgan accepted Dawn’s flirtations.

So she adds another 5 points to Dawn’s total. She is a stay-at-home mom and thus considered unemployed.

Wanting a bit of fun, Dawn heads to the club. She introduces herself to a few new sims, but there are many unemployed sims. Dawn can kiss them all, but in a crowd, it’s easier to be discerning.

Dawn goes in for a kiss with Leila, who is a Watercolor Dabbler. That is a new job in the painter career for us. 15 more points for Dawn!

Dawn had gotten hysterical, and while I was once again tempted to see if the challenge would just end early, I decided to have Dawn calm herself down.

When she got home, Dawn practiced some yoga. I believe this is the first time Dawn did this when she was awake. Her projection does it all the time, but it helps Dawn get ready for tomorrow. She has a new gig.

Dawn heads to the set, and we are in an apartment-looking area this time. Dawn spies this producer whom she doesn’t know and takes a chance. The producer seems really into it.

That means Dawn fulfills kissing her first producer NPC, and thus gets 20 more points for kissing Ella.

Dawn goes to introduce herself to the camera operators on set, and one of them isn’t interested in Dawn. The other, however, is open to Dawn’s flirtations.

Fuchsia, on this set, is a stationary camera operator who is a new NPC. That gives us a new 20 points!

Dawn then heads into hair and makeup, and we see our makeup artist is someone new, so Dawn makes sure to get to know him a bit, even though he initially messed up her hair. I didn’t get pictures of her performance this time, but once she was done, she headed home.

That evening, Dawn was skillfully sleeping when a burglar broke in. Dawn woke up and went and confronted Robin, whom we obviously know well, and she left without taking anything.

After the excitement of having Robin attempt to burgle us again, Dawn spent some time upgrading the burglar alarm a bit more.

I decided to try something new with Dawn and had her start visiting individual houses. There, she would introduce herself to the residents who were at least YA that she hadn’t met yet. The first house she visited was Katrina’s.

We have met Katrina before, but it has been a while. In all this time, she is still an Opening Act, the career she had when we first met her. She is part of the Entertainer career, and we amazingly have not kissed an Opening Act yet, so 15 more points!

Next up is the Goth house, where we get to know Cassandra through the gate for some reason. Gotta love Sims’ logic.

Cassie is unemployed, which actually surprised me a bit, but that’s ok. Dawn gets the kiss, and that’s 5 more points.

Dawn switches over to Bella, because of course, we need to get a kiss from Bella Goth; she’s just iconic. Dawn is hoping that she will be open to the flirtations, and of course, Dawn pulls out a rose.

It’s a success, but for some reason, I didn’t get a picture of her career. Bella is actually an Intelligence Researcher in the Secret Agent career. I was surprised, but it was totally fun. That means Bella is worth 15 points!

For some reason, I had it in my head that Dawn needed to max mischief. That is actually something Tara needs to do over with the Easter Egg challenge. Regardless, Dawn decides to sabotage one of the sinks.

Dawn finally heads home and starts working on her skills. I think we are going to start switching our focus to completing aspirations and skills rather than kisses at this point.

Sure enough, in a short period of time, Dawn has managed to max out her writing skill after completing another archeology book, just for fun.

Dawn makes sure to go take care of the garden, and then she also works on some paintings. She’s actually getting close to maxing her painting skill, so that would be good to complete.

I decide to go ahead and keep going through some of the houses, especially ones where Dawn doesn’t know anyone. Perhaps Dawn can find a few more sims with new jobs to kiss.

Antonio Herndon is this Sim, and he is unemployed and only worth a quick 5 points for Dawn.

Mr. Huntington the third is next up in the house, and while I kind of expected him to have a job, it turns out he is also unemployed. Still, it’s 5 more points.

Another house and another Sim, Dawn introduces herself too. She was just speeding through these Sims.

Candy does have a job, but it’s a job we have already kissed, so she is once again only worth 5 more points.

The romance festival is in town, so Dawn heads down. Sadly, the guru is the same lady we have had since the very beginning. I’m surprised she’s still alive. Regardless, Dawn is able to introduce herself to someone new.

Raj here is a Pastery Chef, which is actually part of the Chef career (not the Chef NPC). We have not found a pastry chef before this, so that’s a new 15 points!

Dawn goes and gets some tea, and finally manages to introduce herself to Dustin here, but then he wanders off. Instead, Dawn decides to get a painting done and grabs some of the plants for her garden.

Dawn spies someone new over by the punch and goes to say hello. I do love the ‘Throw Petals” option at the festival. It’s really quite cute.

They go and sit at a table with another couple of sims, and Dawn gets to be really social for the first time in quite a while. It was a nice, relaxing festival for her.

Of course, before she goes home, she makes sure to get a kiss from Anaya, who is an Illustrious Illustrator. That’s another new job, and it gives us 15 more points!

Once she is back home, Dawn spends some time doing yoga before bed. She has one final trip, probably, to Selvadorada to make next week, and I don’t know how much longer she’ll work as an actress since we have most of those kisses already.

It was another busy and productive week for Dawn. She completed a new skill and is close to completing another aspiration. Additionally, she kissed another 19 sims, which were worth 210 points. Thank you so much for reading!! I will be back tomorrow with a new post!

Points So Far: 1,880 Points (from kisses)

Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 11

Hello and welcome back to another Easter Egg challenge update! The last time we were with Tara and the boys, they worked on the rocket and the various stands to make some money. Tara worked as a scientist and got the satellite that let them watch alien TV. We completed the postcard collection, and Tara tried to win a SimScuffle tournament. Let’s dig in!

Week 11

When we first rejoin the family, the boys are out tending the garden and the bees. They have taken on a lot of this work while their mom desperately tries to win the next tournament.

Sadly, so far, no luck. SimScuffle is either the hardest game on the sim planet to win, which seems unlikely, or I am missing something about it.

The boys also go and work on the rocket ship some more. Tara helps out in between gaming sessions, but with three sets of hands, it’s bound to get done even faster.

Cad takes on trying to work the selling table to get more funds. One thing this family does not have a lot of is money. Even though Tara maxed her career a long while ago, she spent a good portion of it on the house and the boys.

Cad goes and checks on his mom, who continues to have no luck. If Tara doesn’t manage to win this week, I think we will switch gears and work on the others. If SimScuffle is this hard, I hate to think what we might have to do for Hillock II.

It’s Robin’s turn to work on making some additional money, and he opens up the snack stand. They have decent sales for the evening and bring in a decent amount of money.

Tara does still go to work, I just haven’t been following her all the time, but she comes home with a new promotion! Contrats, Tara. I believe it was at this point I decided to have her quit this job and focus solely on gaming.

She plays, she researches, she competes. Over and over and over again. Nothing changes, and she basically never gets any message but that the other contestants are better than her. No placement, not even 3rd.

Cad, being the active sim he is, really enjoys heading out for a jog now and then. It also helps keep him fit; he’s very thin.

Poor Tara leaves her game to go check out the lights. Maybe she’s hoping the aliens can help, or MAYBE the aliens are the cause of her issues?!

Aliens or no aliens, poor Tara is just STUCK. She cannot progress in this game. It really is time to try the others. Maybe something will come up to explain this.

Geekcon is back in town, and Tara has to go and compete. If nothing else, her spirits can be lifted by participating in the hackathon, which she won handily last time. She gets an even better score than last time

Sure enough, Tara wins again. That gives us another new computer, which we may just sell because we already have multiple computers.

With the success of the Hackathon, Tara goes and competes in the ultimate gaming test. She did pretty good, but it wasn’t the best score ever. She did, however, do well enough to win prizes. We also realized there is a tournament for a game on the gaming mat I wasn’t counting before.

Tara is back to trying to win SimScuffle at home, still with no luck, and the boys are getting to know some of their fellow classmates. They invite people over quite often now.

I haven’t really focused on either of the boys’ aspirations, but since Cad wants to work out at a gym, I figured, why not? We can go ahead and take them and their friends to the gym to reach that goal.

The rocket ship was completed, so I went ahead and sent Tara out on her first mission. This is important not only for her current aspiration, but also so we can see if we can find the space bunny!

The boys opened the food stand, but one of them nearly passed out, so he was sent to bed, and the other needed to use the bathroom badly, so when Tara returned from space, she took over for a bit.

The next day was a beautiful, warm spring day, and Cad was happy to head outside and sell some things. Turns out, though, he does not like mischief.

That could have been in relation to the fact that a friend stopped by, and turns out they are a werewolf. They decided to take out their fury on our gaming table. Not that we ever use it, but still.

The boys have A’s in school, but they do still usually try and get their homework done. They are almost through their teen years already, and it’s kind of crazy to realize how much time has already passed.

With all the frustrations about SimScuffle, Tara switches games. Next up is Road Rivals, which looks to be a play on fighting games, like Street Fighter or Tekken.

Robin actually paints us a new easter egg painting, and I am SO excited by that. This is the little spore character, and that will bring us in 10 points! It gets hung by the easel.

These aliens, I’m telling you what. I know Tara has the satellite, but as far as I know, she’s never contacted aliens. It’s just wild, because the Monster Mash side didn’t have a satellite, and I’m pretty sure it happened multiple times in the Genetic Roulette branch too! I guess they just like the Cobb family!

Cad is really one of my favorite kids. I think the game trolled me so hard with him; he just became a standout for me. He’s a good kid, cares for Thimble, is really good at selling things, and just has fun.

I am not sure which of the twins was SUPPOSED to be tending the stand. I want to say Cad, but it seems no one is watching it now. This stand has brought in a fair amount of money lately.

Daddy Don came over to hang out, and it’s a bit weird to see him all grey. He grew into an elder not that long ago. He still cares a lot about his boys. They all sit down and play a game together.

Late that night, a burglar visited the house. No one was awake, so I had someone wake up and call the cops. Then the burglar didn’t come inside. Instead, they were out stealing our weather machine!!!!

Sadly, the burglar got the weather machine before the cop showed up. The cop was still able to fight her and win, so the burglar was apprehended.

Then it was a happy day because instead of giving us money for our troubles, they actually returned our weather machine!!! That was wonderful news, since I did not really want to buy a new one.

That brings this latest week to a close, and while they didn’t earn a lot of extra points this week, we did make progress on a few things, like getting the rocket ship built. We did add 10 points for a new easter egg painting. That brings us to 385 points so far! Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the update. We will be back again soon, but first, we are going to pop over to visit with Dawn next.

Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 10

Hello and welcome back to another Easter Egg challenge update! We are speeding right along, and it’s hard to believe we are already at week 10. When we were last with Tara and the boys, Tara was working on game tournaments, and the twins grew into teens. Tara worked as a scientist, and the boys continued to work their lemonade stand, which had been updated to include snacks. Let’s dig in!

Week 10

When we first join the family, a very stinky Robin was out handling the garden tasks, and Tara was headed off to the back of the house.

She has purchased a rocket and has started building it. One of the things we want to try to do is find the space bunny, and for that, we need a rocket!

A much less stinky Robin eventually comes out to help his mom with her rocket building. It’s not a bad thing to learn rocket science already.

Cad isn’t just lazing around by himself. He’s busy restocking the stand with some new candies and snacks. He’s getting pretty decent at cooking, but waiting for the candy machine isn’t the most exciting.

Once the table is fully restocked, Cad opens the stand. By the end of the sale, he had a pretty decent profit. It wasn’t the best, but popcorn has become a big seller for the stand.

Tara has started on her next game. She is working on SimScuffle next, which appears to be SimCity-like. For a bit, I thought SimsScuffle might be one of the higher-level games that sounds like it might require extra work, but it’s actually unlocked at a lower level.

Robin heads in, and I had forgotten that Tara had read Llamabelle already, so he reads that one. We get no new points for books at this point, but it is fun. Then Cad and Robin get a close dynamic.

We still have house guests, so when Cad and Robin sit down to hang out together, one of them joins them. I believe this might be Don’s current wife’s daughter, but I’m not totally sure.

Tara has not even placed in the last couple of tries at tournaments with SimScuffle, so maybe I was wrong about it not being as difficult. I’m not sure what I need to do to help Tara with this one.

The boys have really perfected the teamwork of running the stand. Cad works on some new candy while Robin does the selling. It’s another decent, although not great, sale. Popcorn is still super popular!

After another failed tournament, Tara heads outside. Maybe taking care of the bees and the plants will be what she needs to get her head in the game!

Remembering that Tara had high handiness, she went and started upgrading the beds for the twins. The amount of time it saves to have massage controls is just wild!

When Tara goes to work, she is asked to create a satellite, which is exactly what we were waiting for. Satellite completed, and Tara puts it in her “pocket” to take home at the end of the day.

The rest of the day for Tara is made up of chatting with co-workers and doing some analysis of various kinds. Tara is not going to be a scientist much longer; it’s not really “her”.

It was a successful day for the boys, who both came home with A’s in high school. I expect to get notices about graduating early for them soon.

The Hijinks festival is in town, which is a great time for Tara to work on her mischief. We, of course, attend and bring the boys along for fun as well. Tara works on being mischievous, and even though the pranksters were ahead by 6, they somehow lost!

During the festival, Cad decides that he kind of likes deception. I don’t know if this is the best lesson for him to learn, but that’s ok.

With the satellite in place, the family sits down to watch the interesting alien programming they are now able to get. This completes a new easter egg goal and gives us 30 points!

When the boys head to school the next day, Tara heads out to take care of the bees and then goes to work on the rocket for a while. She took the day off work and will be quitting that job sometime this week.

She heads back inside feeling refreshed and ready to face the challenge of a new tournament, and doesn’t even place. What is up with this game? Do I keep trying, or do I let this one go and try the others?

Their mom might not be having a lot of success with her tournaments, but Cad and Robin are having a lot of luck in their snack shop. This latest sale did really well, and while they aren’t making gobs of money, it’s quite a bit for snacks.

The boys’ schedules are a little off now, what with the better beds. That means Cad sometimes is up doing his homework in the middle of the night after sleeping for just a few hours.

Tara continues to practice with SimScuffle and has yet to have any luck placing in a tournament, let alone winning. If the rest of them are this difficult, we might have a problem.

We change tactics for a bit because having Tara sit forever playing a game over and over isn’t working. She tries to get a new easter egg painting instead, but doesn’t.

She does, however, get a promotion at work, which is kind of nice. Nothing to be upset about there.

Tara goes to work again, probably shouldn’t quit right after we get a promotion, huh? She does various tasks, like upgrading her SimRay.

I didn’t specifically get a picture of working it, but the boys open the stand again and we are getting right around 400 simoleons each time. It’s not bad. Elderberry Swirl Lollipops were a good seller, and everyone still loves Citrus Swig.

Poor Robin got an ailment that I thought I had turned off. I sent him to the naturpath to get that resolved. We do not need it to spread any further!

Tara starts work on what I will consider a new easter egg painting. Apparently, I did not get a picture of it completed. Still, it’s cans, which I’m relatively certain are meant to be like Andy Warhol’s paintings of Campbell’s soup.

They aren’t the closest, but I’m pretty sure that’s what this was meant to be. There are other Andy Warhol paintings in Sims 4 as well, so we’ll see if I get any more, and if I get at least 4 more, I’ll have 5 anyway, so for now, 10 points.

The postcard collection is completed! It took me far too long to realize Tara had all the required penpals; she simply had missed sending a letter to one of them. Whoops, anyway, this is another 25 points!

The table is ready for some more restocking, so Cad heads out with the last of the afternoon sun to start making some new candies and snacks to put up for sale later.

Tara is back to playing some SimScuffle and continues to struggle with getting through a tournament. Poor Tara, I don’t want this to be where our dreams end up dying!

The sale Cad started wasn’t great that night. It took a long time to get people to come up and purchase anything, and people were suddenly feeling like it wasn’t a good deal, even though we hadn’t updated pricing.

So we reopened again immediately and had better sales the second time around. Funny, it was later, and you would think fewer people would have been interested.

Tara’s life revolves around SimScuffle now. I remembered she could be In The Zone, but since that seems to happen automatically, it doesn’t seem to be helping. The boys have started working more on the rocket to help their mom.

They open the stand again and have an AMAZING day of sales. Everything was working just right for Cobb Treats, which we will be changing the name of soon.

Tara finally places in a tournament, but it’s only 3rd place. This is rather discouraging, but it is progress, so we will keep trying!

As the week wraps up, Cad is sent to take care of Thimble. He did a great job getting us all those postcards. He’s been a good mini hedgehog, and I’m glad the family has him.

That, however, brings us to the end of another week! It felt like a busy, yet slow week for Tara. She did end up earning another 65 points this week, though, which is nothing to sneeze at. Hopefully, another week will see us through SimScuffle, but that game is not playing nicely. Currently, our total points are sitting at 375. There are 5 or 6 more goals I think are doable for Tara, but time will tell. Thank you for reading, and I hope you will come back for the next update!

Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 9

Hello and welcome back to the Easter Egg challenge with Tara Cobb! The last time we were with Tara, she had a really successful week of finding Eater Eggs. The boys opened a lemonade stand and achieved A’s in school. The family traveled a bit and saw the sea monster, Tara won a few gaming tournaments, and at the end of the week, Tara used the weather machine to bring us back to spring. Let’s dig in!

Week 9

When we first get back with Tara, she is busy playing a Sims Forever tournament, and she wins! That’s a third game out of the way! Congrats, Tara!

Thimble is doing his part to help with the postcard, and I had to laugh at his little “away” sign when he was off getting a new one for us.

Cobb’s Cold Drinks is once again open with many drinks available now. I think in other saves where I get to have a season other than spring, it will be fun to do something like hot cocoa for this. It was a good sale!

Tara is ready to tackle the next game, and this time she is playing My Sims Go, which seems to be a play of Pokémon Go as well as the My Sims games.

These boys are pranksters, and I was a bit worried Cad wouldn’t be thrilled with Robin’s air horn, but turns out they are good. They have tried to get a strained status before, and I vetoed that one. Cad has had it hard enough!

Since Tara had finished her career, much to her dismay, I had her quit being an eSports Gamer. She wasn’t happy, but I needed her to do something else.

Tara joined the science career, and I followed her to work. While there, she decided to search for some more crystals and metals since we will need those.

Tara met this Sim, whose name I do not remember, but he was Artsy. Tara decided that she liked that.

Tara did get a bunch of work done for the day. Science may not be her passion or anything, but we really just need her to invent things.

The postcard collection is nearly complete. Between Tara’s penpals and Thimble, we have a good collection already. This will be great to have completed. I think there are 3 more.

When she isn’t working, Tara is still hard at work on gaming. She continues to try to learn My Sims Go so she can compete in a tournament soon.

She still also paints sometimes, but so far, no new easter egg paintings. I don’t know why this one just is so difficult for Tara!

Tara is finally able to enter and win a tournament for My Sims Go and that is another game off her list. Next up, she will work on Incredible Sports.

However, it is a new special day for the family and Tara gets busy mixing up something special.

Daddy Don is the first sim to arrive, and Robin greets him with a big hug. Don really is such a good dad, even though he doesn’t live here. He’s always over.

If you hadn’t figured it out yet, it’s Robin and Cad’s birthdays today. Robin blows out his candles first, as usual, and then it’s Cad’s turn. There was a lot of celebration even if it wasn’t obvious at first.

Robin, pre-makeover, decides almost immediately that he likes fitness. I mean, sure, you can like fitness that works.

The three get dressed up in Star Wars costumes for the occasion. Tara is an X-wing pilot, Robin is Darth Vader, and Cad is a Mandalorian. This finally checks off the Outfits Easter Egg for 10 points.

For some reason, Don and his entire household call to stay over. Initially, I thought Don was alone, but suddenly, we had a bunch of houseguests.

Cad here achieved both Physically Gifted and Headstrong as a child. As a teen, he is now Romantically Reserved, but rolled for the Bodybuilder aspiration, which works great for me since he is also active.

He is also very good with Thimble and has never gotten bitten. I think maybe Cad has been saving up all his “love” for pets and not Sims.

Tara has work the next day and works on some inventions with the inventory, then she needs to tinker with the computer, which is an easy task for her.

By the end of the day, Tara gets a promotion and is already at level 4 of the career, which is as far as we are required to get!

With work done, Tara is back at her gaming, and now we are officially working on Incredible Sports. I don’t think this one should give us too much trouble.

Don is over again and chatting with his boys. Robin ended up getting the Mentally Gifted trait and rolled the Kleptomaniac trait, just like his mom. His aspiration ended up being Friend of the Animals, so he has a special connection with Thimble.

Now that the boys are teens, it felt right to update Cobb’s Cold Drinks to include some food options. We bought a popcorn popper and a candy maker. The fun thing is, as was pointed out to me, this is an easter egg item about the Katy Perry Sweet Treats pack for Sims 3.

Tara manages to gain Skillful Sleep, like so many sims in this family have had. I went ahead and said yes, though.

Tara is determined to be ready for the tournament for Incredible Sports and plays late into the night. Luckily, she has her bed upgraded, so she doesn’t need much sleep.

The boys open their stand again, this time adding popcorn to the mix, and keeping the Citris Swig that is so popular on the menu. It’s not a great sale, but it was a test run of adding these other treats.

Tara does eventually go to bed, and her astral projection self decides to work on some logic, which is not an issue for me at all.

Unfortunately, our house guests start a fire and burn up the stove and the fridge before Tara can put it out. It was a rather exciting few minutes, and luckily, they have the money to replace the items.

The boys decide to rename their stand Cobb Treats, although they aren’t sure if this is the name they will go with permanently. They have added candy now, and while the sale isn’t great, they were playing around with pricing.

Inside, Tara is busy winning the Incredible Sports tournament! Another game down, and Tara will start on SimScuffle next. That means she has 3 computer games left to win! With that, the week draws to a close!

Tara had another good week, although not as many points gained as before. She is just speeding through these game tournaments, which I was not expecting to be possible. We only added 10 points this time, for the outfits, but that moves us up to 310 points. Thank you so much for reading! I hope you will join us for the next update soon!

Boolprop 20: Sweet Lips Chapter 8

Welcome back to the Sweet Lips challenge. The last time we were with Dawn she had a stellar week of getting lots of kisses! She also maxed her archeology skill, completed the archeology scholar aspiration, and got the jungle adventure aspiration in return. Let’s dig in!

Week 8

When we first join Dawn, she is already back in Selvadorada. She now needs to get to the temple a few more times, but most of the aspiration will just require a couple of small things from Dawn since she has already spent so much time here.

While she waits for the food she ordered, and looks over what is being sold, she gets to know one of the guys also looking over what is being sold. She needs to grab a few extra supplies.

Turns out Naoki is actually a Senior Manager, which is part of the Business career. Unfortunately, we have already kissed a Senior Manager, Ekade Aether, so this is only worth 5 points.

Dawn then introduced herself to Morelia Vargas. She spends time flirting and emotionally connecting with her to get to the point where a kiss is possible.

Unfortunately for us, Morelia here is unemployed, but that isn’t terribly surprising here in Selvadorada. It’s still another 5 points!

Dawn spent some time at the bar in town and introduced herself to this gentleman. Might as well hang out before heading into the jungle.

Bruno Alvarado here is unemployed and thus only brings in another 5 points, but Dawn has gotten quite a few high point kisses lately, so it’s expected to have some lower points for a bit.

Heading out into the jungle, Dawn finds another new gentleman to introduce herself to. This enchanted introduction is really useful for this challenge.

His name is Roy Prescott, and while he is a new sim, he is also unemployed, so another 5 points for Dawn!

Dawn then spends some time getting to and inside the temple. She checks a few traps and then discovers she has a new head and base for a totem, so Dawn fuses a new one for future use.

Sadly, over the course of traipsing around the jungle and the temple, Dawn gets poisoned. I am half tempted to see if she can survive it on her own, and if not, this challenge would just be done. However, instead, she heads back into town and gets an antidote.

Dawn heads back to the temple and is able to bypass the rest of the traps without issue and get to the rare chest. That is something she has to do a couple more times for this aspiration. She also has to activate the totem, so we end up “blessing” Crispin.

It’s time for Dawn to pursue a new career, having already maxed out her stylist career. Now, she will focus on being an actress for a little while.

Dawn heads to a library somewhere in the world, I don’t remember which, and introduces herself to a few sims. None of them are either interested or stick around for Dawn to kiss.

Dawn instead heads out to Mt. Komorebi and the park there. While there, she is able to meet quite a few additional Sims.

Jenna here is a Team Leader, which is actually a new job for us. This is part of the Supervisor branch of the Salaryperson career. That means Jenna is worth 15 points.

Dawn then heads to the road by the park to introduce herself to this Sim. You may recognize this guy from our Gemstone Legacy over in the Insanity Project, as he’s married to our founder over there.

Sergio is actually Quality Assurance, a job in the Tech Guru career, and he’s the first, so that means 15 more points added to the total.

Heading elsewhere, I feel like this was the rec center, but I’m not entirely sure. Dawn introduces herself to another new sim.

Gavin here is a blogger. That is part of the writer career. We have not kissed a Blogger yet, so that is another 15 points. Dawn is really checking off a lot of new jobs.

Before she is done for the day, Dawn meets Travis Scott. Nothing further happens with him, and Dawn heads home.

She is still attempting to get Patchy to come to life and spends some time outside. She has been traveling a lot lately.

We get news there is a festival in Ravenwood, but I do not remember which one. I want to say Thinned, but can’t say for sure. There, Dawn introduces herself to the Mysterious Merchant.

He’s officially unemployed, but Waylon Warez is an NPC and thus worth 20 points. I was so happy he was interested in Dawn!

Ermine is one of the Grimterns who was at the festival, and so Dawn introduced herself. Since Ermine was technically working the festival, Dawn went home without a kiss.

But she invited Ermine over after the festival was done and got the kiss then. This is our first Grimtern, and that gives us another 15 points. It was quite a successful festival trip.

Dawn is happy to be home, but while just wandering around, runs across a new sim she does not know and introduces herself.

Duane, here is a Bakery Stall vendor, and while this is a type of Vendor, it is a very specific one. Looking at the sim information, almost all of the others just say Vendor, so I’m counting this as a new NPC for 20 points.

Dawn hasn’t just been kissing Sims. She took a gig and got an audition, which she passed without any issues. She’s going to be in Growing Up Crumplebottom, which is just too funny.

Dawn needs to study some acting, so she decides to stay in and work on it. While she is working on acting, she unlocks Mental Muscles. Of course, we say yes.

Sadly, Dawn was struck by lightning while trying to tend the garden during a storm. Luckily, Patchy has finally come to life, so Dawn introduces herself before pulling him inside.

Sadly, when Dawn went to flirt with Patchy, he told her he wasn’t interested in her in that way. That was disappointing. Oh well, we have plenty of other options.

So instead of dwelling on Patchy, Dawn heads out to Tomorang, I believe, and greets this Sim just standing around.

Kasem Bun Ma is one of the Sims that came with the pack, and he is an Independent Consultant. That is a job in the Startup Entrepreneur career, and it is a new job for us. That gives us a new 15 points.

Next, Dawn stops this lady on the street and introduces herself. I wasn’t sure if Dawn would get very far, but after a bit of flirting, it was clear she was interested.

This is Citra Chanigo, and while she is unemployed, she was happy to give Dawn a new kiss. She brings in a new 5 points.

Dawn introduced herself to the newest Sim to walk up to them, and pretty soon, Citra left them alone, and Dawn was able to get to know her better.

Zhafira is a Reflexologist, but sadly, we kissed one of those a couple of updates ago, so that means we only get another 5 points. That’s ok, we will see a lot of duplicates of some of these jobs.

Dawn decided to head out to one of the bars to see if there were some new Sims around and met this guy.

Jordon here is a Bar Regular, which means he is actually unemployed. That’s ok, Dawn gets the kiss for 5 more points.

Inside, Dawn tries to flirt with this lady, but discovers she isn’t into Dawn. That’s fine, Dawn has had a lot of success this week so far.

She moves over to the table and meets Alex instead. They share some time together and then Alex leaves the bar. No kiss yet for Dawn!

Remembering that we met Knox Greenburg a few updates ago, Dawn invites him over, and they practice some acting together.

After practice was completed, Dawn gave him a kiss. He is an Elite Hacker in the Oracle branch, but he is also the Eco Master NPC sim. That means he is worth a total of 30 points!

The next morning, Dawn makes herself some breakfast. It’s her first day on set as an actress, and she needs to be ready.

When she arrives, a bunch of Background Actors are also making their way inside. Dawn introduces herself to Collin, and we thought he was going to be a good choice.

Sadly, when Dawn went to kiss him, I must have forgotten to flirt first, and Collin shut her down right away. No kiss for Dawn, and now she’s sad.

Dawn went to get into hair and makeup, but stopped by to see the wardrobe guy first. She introduced herself, and he was quite taken with Dawn.

She was easily able to get a kiss from him, and that gives her another 20 points. The Wardrobe Stylist is an NPC.

Dawn heads into hair and makeup and introduces herself to the makeup artist. There were a few other people in there as well, but we didn’t introduce ourselves to them yet.

When the makeup artist is ready for Dawn, she sits down to get her hair done and get the makeup set for her role.

When that is all completed, Dawn thanks Aanya with a quick kiss. That gives us another 20 points for a new NPC.

Dawn goes back to the wardrobe department to get her outfit for this shoot. Once that is done, she heads out to meet her co-star for this series.

Elle Syu is actually an Actress in the Actress career, and she is the Co-Star NPC, so we are going to count all of the above and get 30 points for kissing her.

Dawn goes through the required piece of her performance, although the kissing scene did not go as anticipated, so it wasn’t a perfect performance.

After it was all said and done, Dawn went over to greet the Director. We find out her name is Tatiana Crandall.

Dawn levels up their relationship enough that she is able to get a kiss out of the deal. Tatiana brings in another 20 points for being the NPC Director.

Dawn leaves work with a promotion. So the slightly less than perfect performance didn’t ultimately matter in the end.

Dawn decides she is a big peckish and heads to the restaurant I set up in Newcrest. There, she introduces herself to the hostess.

Before getting seated, Dawn flirts her way into a kiss with the Hostess, who is named Evie Delgato. She is a new NPC and thus brings in another 20 points.

Dawn has a glass of nectar with her salad and enjoys a quiet meal before heading home and working on her writing a bit.

The next day, Dawn wants to go finish up the task that Alice set out for her and find Edith’s grave. That wasn’t overly difficult, but will Dawn be able to talk with Edith?

Amazingly enough, yes, she is able to. She hears the story of Edith’s passing and is able to comfort her a bit. Edith tells her about the well and offers her mark to Dawn. I didn’t have Dawn get the mark of Edith, but it was cool to actually get that far with Edith in one go.

Along the path on the way back to town, Dawn meets Gulliver. This was a fortuitous meeting!

Gulliver is actually the chef at the restaurant Dawn just ate at. It doesn’t take long to get a kiss, and that gives us another 20 points as he is an NPC chef.

Dawn heads back to Alice to give her the news about Edith, and Alice grants us access to the Guardian Tree. I’m not entirely sure what that does for us, since I have never done this yet, but that’s exciting!

On her way back home, Dawn runs into the ghost of Lou Howell. He apparently died due to story progression, but that won’t stop Dawn from greeting him.

Lou was unemployed when he died, and since we kissed a ghost already, he will only bring 5 more points to the challenge.

Instead of heading home immediately, Dawn decided to do a quick spot of fishing. I’m not sure she caught much, but I had decided to work on some skills as we were getting through so many kisses.

For her aspiration, Dawn has to use the totems multiple times. So, once she is back in Windenburg, she does just that.

Dawn greets a couple of new sims, and one of them turns out to be Dani. Dani, in this save, has become a Mixologist, which means her kiss is only worth 5 points, as we have kissed many mixologists already.

I found it very funny that Dawn was able to “bless” Ms. Crumplebottom from the top of this path while she was moonbathing under the street light. It was just such a funny scene to me.

As she was headed back to her house, she stopped this older man and introduced herself to him.

Turns out Lary is a Wildlife Technician, which is a part of the Conservationist career and a new one. That brings in 15 more points!

To wrap up the week, Dawn is back home and working on some painting. She is actually getting close to maxing this skill, and that will be worth some points at the end. With that, week 8 is complete, and we are likely at least halfway through this challenge!

Dawn had another killer week, this week! She kissed another 23 new sims for a total of 335 points! That is now the best week that Dawn has ever had. Starting in the Acting career helped a lot, as there are so many NPC sims in that career. I will be back with another update soon. Thank you so much for reading!

Points So Far: 1,670 Points (from kisses)

Boolprop 20: Sweet Lips Chapter 7

Hello and welcome back again to the Sweet Lips challenge. The last time we were with Dawn Cobb, she had an amazing week, kissing many NPC sims, and a couple of new lifestates. Let’s dig back in!

Week 7

When we are first back with Dawn, she is once again working on authenticating all the new artifacts she came back home with. We still need an excellent artifact or two.

After she is done, it’s time to head out on the town for a bit. She starts by heading to Cheasnut Ridge, and no one interesting is at the bar, but she greets Sierra out by the road.

Luckily for us, Sienna is totally open to a kiss, so Dawn steals one. Sienna is a Horse Trainer, which is actually an NPC role from this pack. That nets us another 20 points.

After her trip to the Ridge, she then swings over to Tomarang and meets Mateo Markovi.

Dawn manages to get a kiss from Mateo, who is a professional pianist. That’s not our first one of those, so kissing him only gives us another 5 points.

Salome Palacios is greeted by Dawn, and after sharing a romantic connection, she gets another kiss. Salome here is unemployed, so she only brings in 5 more points.

After the kisses of the day, Dawn is back to authenticating. She is, once again, quickly running out of artifacts to authenticate and still needs 2 excellent, or maybe it’s just one, either way.

Sadly, the normal work of the day-to-day still has to be done as well. Dawn broke and then had to repair the sink before she could crawl into bed for the night.

She is then, however, back in the jungle, or at least Selvadorada. This time, while working at an established excavation site, she meets Bess. Bess wanders off before anything else can happen, though.

Over at the selling tables, Dawn then introduces herself to this chap, who I would think would be warm in the jungle. Much like with Bess, he wanders off before much else can happen.

Into the jungle she goes, where she greets this lad who happens to not be interested in Dawn like that, and so she continues her excavations.

Who should stumble onto Dawn’s camp but the man from the selling table earlier? Turns out his name is Jorge and he is, sadly, unemployed.

While it’s a bit disappointing, it’s not surprising, and Dawn goes ahead and gives him a kiss. He does bring in 5 more points after all.

Near the waterfall, Dawn meets this Sim, but they are also not interested in Dawn, so she cuts her losses and moves on with her exploration.

Malena is more inclined towards Dawn when we meet her at the baths. Dawn gets a kiss, and while Malena is unemployed as well, that’s still another 5 points.

Dawn is back out of the jungle and greets this sim, but sadly, once again finds someone not interested in her to get a kiss from. With that, Dawn’s trip is done.

When she is back at home, Dawn gives Bess a call. Bess was receptive to Dawn’s advances. She is a Construction Technician, which is part of the Civil Designer career. That gives us another 15 points.

Shortly after that, Dawn finally maxes out the archaeology skill. That means she is one step closer to finishing up her aspiration, and that will give us points at the end.

She may have maxed the skill, but that doesn’t mean she is done uncovering and authenticating artifacts. She still has to find another excellent one to finish this milestone!

One thing we did have Dawn do was start a small garden. She put a Patchy in place and spent a bit of time talking with him. I’m hoping we can get a kiss from Patchy, as he is a special sim.

Dawn is back to travelig to other areas of town and meets Sofia. She is a member of the Paragons, which I actually remember from our Easter Egg challenge. She is receptive to Dawn.

Dawn gets the kiss and another 5 points. Sadly, Sofia is unemployed. We have hit a bit of a lull with finding new jobs.

Dawn meets Alice Fitzgerald, who I thought might have a job. Sadly, she does not, but Dawn gets the kiss anyway and another 5 points. We might just crawl up the score chart 5 points at a time.

Dawn attempts to introduce herself and flirt with this sim, whose name I believe is Nin Bun Ma, but I could have that mixed up. She isn’t interested in Dawn, though, so we mark her off and move on.

We do manage to get a very quick kiss from this sim, named Lerato Sarpong, but she is also unemployed and thus only brings 5 points.

I then got really confused, because Dawn was able to introduce herself to Johnny Zest, whom I was sure we had kissed before. I went back through my notes and my blog and found out I made a big mistake. Malcom Landgraab is the unemployed Landgraab we kissed, NOT Johnny here.

Johnny here is actually an Open Mic Seeker, like I thought he was. This makes the confusion I suffered back then make a lot more sense. Anyway, this kiss gives us 15 points since that is a new job.

At the same bar or cafe, Dawn manages to get a kiss from Carlos. Carlos is a Rookie, which is another new job for us and brings in another 15 points!

After that, it was time for Dawn to go to bed and let her astral self do some skilling. Not that she needed to work on archaeology, since that’s maxed now.

The next day, Dawn is up and tending to the garden. It’s going to be a beautiful day, it looks like. After chatting to Patchy, who hasn’t woken up quite yet, Dawn heads out.

She heads to Copperdale and visits the school. There, she introduces herself to the cafeteria worker and the janitor and finds out neither of them is interested in her. That was quite the bust as those NPCs would have been good points.

Dawn then interrupts class. Well, not actually, the class had just ended, but we were hoping Gary Hernandez would be receptive to Dawn.

Sure enough, he was and he is a Class 1 Teacher, which is a new NPC role and gives us 20 new points!

Leaving the school behind, Dawn goes in search of new sims and finds out she has never greeted Ulrike here.

Thanks to Dawn standing on the street with Ulrike on the edge of the sidewalk, they share a couple of rather awkward kisses. Ulrike is an Art Book Collector, which is a new job for us and thus gives us another 15 points.

Dawn introduces herself to Yuki, who is interested in Dawn, but she is unemployed for now, so I decided to leave her for now and see if maybe she gets a job via story progression soon.

Back at home, Dawn has another sink she has to repair. I think she might have gone to bed after this, but I’m not 100% sure of the timing anymore.

Remembering that Sara Scott is not a mixologist, I sent Dawn over to Henford. I did not expect Sara to be very receptive to us, but to my surprise, she is.

Sara is a Pub Owner, which is a unique NPC, and she counts for 20 new points! Way to go, Dawn! We have had some good luck lately again.

Dawn does an enchanting introduction to a couple of sims right outside the Pub. One of those is the mayor of the town.

She chats a bit with both and discovers the guy is not interested in Dawn, but the mayor does not seem so picky and accepts Dawn’s flirtations.

Dawn goes in for a kiss, and Harley here accepts. Harley is not the normal Village Mayor, but she is the mayor now, and that means she is a new NPC and worth 20 points!

Dawn goes and introduces herself to a few more sims and gives them an archeology lecture. It’s a nice day, and they seem receptive to hearing about archeology from Dawn.

It was good enough that Dawn completed her aspiration! I roll for a new one, and wouldn’t you know it, we got Jungle Adventure now. I guess our time in Selvadorda is not yet behind us.

Shaquille was impressed with Dawn’s talk, and she was able to get a kiss before she left. Turns out Shaquille is a grocery deliverer, which is an NPC we haven’t kissed yet! She gets 20 points.

Dawn reviewed the story progression updates and found that Simon Scott had gotten a job we didn’t have. It may have been new or maybe a promotion, but either way, Dawn heads out to put her moves on him. She’s already kissed his wife, so why not?

Sure enough, Dawn is able to get the kiss, and Simon is a Cadet at the Police Station. This is one of the levels of the Detective career, so we count it as a new career and get 15 points!

It was a busy day for Dawn, and she heads home to make herself some food before bed. She is going to need to take more trips to the jungle for this new aspiration, and she is going to join the actor career.

That night, while she slept, Dawn’s astral projection played a lot of video games. I guess her subconscious might have wanted some fun!

The week isn’t over, though, and Dawn is up the next day, which is a gloomy morning. She tends the garden and prepares for the day.

Thanks to story progression, we know that Max Villareal should have a job that we haven’t kissed yet. Dawn stops by for a visit. They flirt and chat on the couch for a bit.

Dawn goes in for the kiss, and Max accepts. He is a Net Demon, which is part of the Criminal career, but we haven’t kissed a Net Demon, so he’s worth 15 points.

It was going to be a festival in Ravenwood, so Dawn heads out and instantly introduces herself to this gentleman, whose wife was right behind her.

His wife was not really happy when Dawn kissed him, but he’s a Command Center Lead in the astronaut career, and I wanted those 15 points!

To show there are no hard feelings, and Dawn isn’t interested in her husband exactly, Dawn flirts with her, too. Turns out she isn’t interested in Dawn, but that’s ok.

Dawn meets Cecilia in the town square and introduces herself. I figured Cecilia might not be interested in Dawn, but she never said she wasn’t.

Turns out she is a Freelance Programmer, and we haven’t kissed a freelance programmer yet, so she is worth 15 points!

A new Inheritance Lawyer is sitting at the desk, so Dawn goes over and he is very familiar. Turns out he was one of the mailmen we introduced ourselves to, but never kissed.

Dawn takes the opportunity, cause who knows when we might meet a new inheritance lawyer who is into Dawn. That is a new NPC, and while his career won’t count, it’s still 20 points!

That evening is the romance festival, and while Dawn shows up a bit early, it works out for her. Juan Jose Pacheco here is unemployed, but good for 5 points.

The festival begins, and Dawn introduces herself to a couple of different guys, neither of whom is interested in Dawn. Too bad, Dawn. Time to try someone else.

Maybe the pink suit should have tipped Dawn off, but sadly, this guy is also not interested in Dawn, even though she pulls out a few moves.

Dawn finally has some luck with Zoe Flex, who, sadly, is unemployed, but it’s still a kiss! That gives Dawn 5 more points.

Dawn sees the Apothecary worker and attempts to introduce herself and flirt with him, but turns out he is also not interested in Dawn like that. Poor Dawn, the week went really well, but here at the end, she ran into a lot of roadblocks.

That, however, wraps up this week for Dawn. She really did have a great week! We added another 285 points. This is now officially her biggest week, point-wise! She has kissed a total of 89 Sims so far, 23 of them this week! Thank you for reading, and I hope you are enjoying Dawn’s antics. If you have, come back soon for the next update!

Points So Far: 1,335 Points

Boolprop 20: Sweet Lips Chapter 6

Hello and welcome back after quite a while to the Sweet Lips challenge! The last time we were with Dawn Cobb, she had attempted to woo Agnes Crumplebottom for fun, maxed her career, and kissed about 9 more sims. Let’s dig in!

Week 6

When we are back with Dawn, the first thing we do is celebrate her birthday. Dawn is officially a full adult. Dawn needs to get moving if she wants to get a bunch more kisses done before she is an elder.

One of the first things Dawn does is take a new trip to Selvadorada. Since she is currently working through the archaeology scholar aspiration, she needs to spend some more time in the jungle.

While there, she runs into Michael Bell, who is typically the creature keeper NPC from Cottage Living.

Sure enough, he is the Creature Keeper, but he also happens to have a job. He is a Leader of the Cause, which is a charity organizer position. That means this kiss is worth 30 points for us!

She heads to the museum and tries to introduce herself and get to know more Sims. This guy is initially taken with Dawn, but then lets us know he isn’t interested in that way.

So, Dawn moves on to Oliana. She is much more interested in Dawn and in flirting with her.

Dawn’s enchanting introduction makes it pretty easy to get the next kiss. After talking with Oilana, we learn that they are a Personal Trainer, which is a position in the bodybuilding career. That means Oliana’s kiss is worth 15 points.

Dawn quickly gets another kiss from Anya, which brings in another 5 points. While she is employed, she’s a mixologist, like so many Sims. Since we already got points for a mixologist, she is just “new.”

Dawn got a lot of kissing done, so she heads to the archaeology table near the courtyard to get some work done before her time here is done. There may be a lot of unemployed Sims in this world, since it was a vacation world, but Dawn has done well so far.

When she is back from her trip to the jungle, Dawn seeks out the spa. There she meets and gets a kiss from Luz, who is a Massage Therapist. That brings in 20 new points for a new NPC.

She then manages to meet this lovely lady, whom I really didn’t expect to get very far with, as her mood was a bit low. Dawn was able to cheer her up in no time, however.

Elosie is a Reflexologist here at the spa, which is another NPC role, and that gives us another 20 points. Dawn is really on a roll this week so far!

After her time at the spa, Dawn heads into Strangerville. Her first stop is the little Curio Shop, where she gets to know Erwin a bit. She then gets a kiss from him as well. This is another 20 points for a new NPC.

Dawn heads to the bar nearby and finds it full of Military Personnel, which is another NPC role. Now all she needs to do is find one that is into her.

It seems at first that Saul is totally into it, but then Dawn gets rejected. I had missed doing a flirt first to make sure he liked her like that, and instead got a hand to the face. Poor Dawn!

Heading back into the bar, Dawn finds this lovely lady. Her name is Margarita, and she is much more interested in that kind of relationship with Dawn.

I did not get a picture of it, but like Saul was, she is a Sergeant Minor at the Stangerville Military Base. That means her kiss is worth 20 more points for being a new NPC.

Dawn heads out to Brichtchester, hoping to maybe find a teacher or someone wandering around, and instead finds a Brainiacs Member. Now I’m not 100% sure this counts as an NPC, but as I’m pretty sure the game generates or assigns sims to the club, I’m going to count it.

They share a bit of time together, because he wasn’t ready right away to be kissed, and Dawn wanted to make sure he liked her before trying to kiss him. She learned he is a stay-at-home dad.

He was into it, and Dawn gave him a kiss. I’m counting this as 20 points for a new NPC, but they can be hard to tell once in a while.

Before leaving the library, she meets Eva Volkov. Eva was quickly a friend and really into Dawn, so we grabbed a kiss before we left. She is unemployed and only worth 5 points, but it’s another kiss down.

Dawn decided to make a quick stop by the bar at the university and met this guy, but I don’t remember his name. Regardless, he wasn’t into Dawn like that, so we left.

Making a quick stop at a spot in Del Sol Valley, Dawn introduced herself to this guy. We’ve already kissed a paparazzi, so we’re not going to spend time on them currently.

Gideon here is a Fan, however, and that is an NPC we have not kissed yet. So Dawn quickly gets that done and gives us another 20 points for a new NPC. Thanks, Gideon!

Judith Ward shows up then, and Dawn attempts to interact with her, but doesn’t have any luck. That’s ok, I have plans for Dawn!

Before all that, though, back at home, Dawn works on her aspiration. She brought back quite a few artifacts, but she is at the point of needing to authenticate excellent-quality items. She is quickly running out and is likely going to need another trip to the jungle.

Before that, though, Dawn has the pieces needed to put together one of the totems. We haven’t found all the bases or tops, but we have a couple at least.

That night, Dawn’s astral projection gets up to quite a few things. First, she does some yoga, then it’s time to get some writing in.

Then she works on some cooking, does some painting, and even works on some herbalism. Really, Dawn gets a lot done at night, thanks to the projection. She’s even up to level 4, I think, of wellness and has never practiced yoga while awake.

Dawn loses power while authenticating the last artifact she has, thanks to the NAP, and it’s not an excellent quality vase anyway, so it’s a perfect time to head back to the jungle.

Dawn got lucky and was able to establish an excavation site right in the courtyard area of Selvadorada, meaning she didn’t have to traipse into the jungle just yet.

She introduced herself to a couple of sims, although no one that interesting, and/or interested in Dawn. Instead, she decided to just move on.

Dawn set out into the jungle again and found a nice little excavation site and set up a quick little camp. I actually think this works really well and is super cute. She worked until it was just too dark to see and went to bed.

She did get to deal with some spiders when she woke up, and she completed the excavation and moved deeper into the jungle.

She got to the temple and founded a new excavation site just outside of the main portion of the temple and got to work.

She came across the temple guardian again, who cannot be romanced, but he kept her company while she made camp in the temple for the night. The next day, she explored the temple and went home.

It was time for a quick stop in Innisgreen to get the other lifestates that came with that pack kissed. Dawn finds a plantsim swinging away and gives her an enchanted greeting.

They exchange plants, Dawn giving a rose, and the plantsim giving us a plantsim seed.

Dawn gets the kiss, and that gives us 25 more points for kissing a new lifestate, plantsim. Anna here is unemployed, though, so no additional points for that.

Oberon stops by, and Dawn quickly enchants him as well. Pretty sure he should be into us in that way.

Sure enough, we get another kiss, and cross off another lifestate. That leads to another 25 points, since Oberon is also unemployed.

Dawn does make an introduction to Glen, the gnome enthusiast, but he’s not into Dawn like that, so no kiss from him.

Dawn tries the Mystical Fairy next and finds out she is also not interested in Dawn in that way. They are starting to make me wish I had started with a male sim. Oh well, we will just have to move on.

Care Ren, which is just too funny a name now that I “say” it to myself as I type this, is next up for Dawn to attempt to kiss.

Finally, Dawn has a successful flirtation and manages to get a kiss. Obviously, we’ve already kissed a fairy, but since she is a Fairy Council Liaison, which is an NPC role, that will give us 20 points.

Dawn switches neighborhoods and checks out the gnome statue. She also verifies it’s Glen running the stand here, and then it’s time for her to head home.

It’s back to authenticating for Dawn. This mask is just too much. I’m not entirely sure I ever remember seeing this fake version before. They didn’t even TRY to make it seem authentic!

This knife is also pretty funny. Also, somehow, in all my time playing, I never noticed that the knife handle is actually a face. The things you can still learn in this game!

The week is just about over, and Dawn was pretty successful this week. She got a lot of kisses in and made really good progress on her aspiration. She also quit her job as a stylist, as we have plans for her.

Dawn may be sleeping when the week ends, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t busy skilling. Now she is even working on her archaeology skill at the table, and somehow managed to multitask well enough to paint and work on herbalism at the same time.

With that, however, the week comes to a close. Dawn added 245 points to her total this week in kisses. That’s the most she’s ever gotten in a single week. She kissed 13 Sims this week, and only two were less than 15 points. She is also nearing completion of her next aspiration, but we will count all those points at the end. I hope you enjoyed the update. Thank you for reading, and I hope you will come back for the next update!

Points So Far: 1,050 Points

Boolprop 20: Easter Eggs Chapter 8

Hello and welcome back to the Easter Egg challenge with Tara Cobb! We are blazing through some of these updates, but we are going to go over to the Sweet Lips challenge with Dawn after this. I hope you will enjoy her story as well. The last time we were with this family, the twins grew into children, Tara started winning gaming tournaments, and the family got Thimble the hedgehog. Let’s dig in!

Week 8

When we join the family, everyone is working in the garden. The boys are old enough to start doing things like weeding, while Tara tends to the bees.

Tara and Don took their boys to the bluffs, and there they saw the sea monster and took a picture. I tried to get Tara to take a selfie that could catch him, but she always turned away from him to take it, no matter what I did, so these are what we got, and since the boys are in the pictures, I’m counting it! That’s 10 points!

They then took the boys up to Mt. Komorebi, where they took selfies with Yamachan and even attempted to find voidcritters. Neither completed the task, but they had a lot of fun anyway!

Now that the boys are kids, we have removed most of the toddler items and replaced them with things like these monkey bars. I am looking forward to having modular playgrounds with the new pack, but this family won’t get to enjoy them.

Tara hasn’t opened her little stand in quite a while, so she opens it rather late in the evening. She has been trying to clear out the lower-quality stuff and just sell those items outright to make space for the higher-quality things.

The boys came home from school with B’s. I don’t think either will experience any issues with getting to an A in school.

Tara won her first professional tournament for BlicBlock. One game down, so very many more to go. I wonder if we can get them done?

I decided to take a look at the professional tournaments that you could complete and, HOLY COW, we have a ways to go. So I gave Tara a list and will be tracking them as we go.

We decided to give Cad a bike so he could work on his motor skills. He can get it in multiple ways, but I like the idea of him learning to ride.

We got a notice that Thimble was getting older, so Tara went and grabbed an anti-aging treat, and Robin got to feed it to Thimble. I do not want to be dealing with replacing Thimble all the time.

Tara gets started working on playing the next game, R.E.F.U.G.E., on the computer. She ends up getting the mastery perk of In The Zone, which I almost forgot she had, and we might need to use it in the future.

Tara still has to tend the garden herself most days, now that the boys are in school, but it’s nice that she can focus on other things as well without needing to always tend to them.

In an effort to try and bring in some more funds, and just to see how it might work, Robin and Cad get a little drink stand. Using the drink set from Spa Day, we are able to make up lemonade and stock the food stand, which is called Cobb’s Cold Drinks.

Robin runs the stand, and it seems everyone was interested in some lemonade this evening. Cad was also on hand to try and mix up some more if it was needed, but he was searching for Voidcritter packs.

Tara manages to finally max out her career. She is officially a champion gamer, and I believe the gaming mat actually gives another game we compete in. Either way, maxing her career gives us another 25 points!

A job well done, and Tara sits down to read a new book in the Dusk Glow series. I love the description of this one; it’s just too funny. Also, Tara learns a bit about werewolves thanks to this book. That I will go ahead and count at the 5th’s Easter Egg book (we will keep reading them) for a final 5 points.

Cad managed to complete his first aspiration. After rolling for a new one, he gets Mind and Body, which means he was going to need to learn to ride a bike after all!

The boys sit down for some fun after a long day and play some games themselves. We are going to have to add a few focused items eventually in here so that Tara can work on tournaments here as well.

That might take a bit, though, as sadly her first try with R.E.F.U.G.E. ends in a second-place finish, but that’s ok, she just needs to work a bit harder.

I have never seen this action before, but Tara goes and snuggles with Robin on the couch. It’s just so cute as they sat and watched TV. Cad was too busy playing by himself to care much.

Tara finally gets a chance to open her stand again, and this time, we have lots of Voidcritter cards we can sell as well. The boys have been working on collecting them, searching the trash, and having Tara buy packs. We have a pretty good collection, but extras are being sold.

Thimble has been very proactive in getting us postcards. We already have 5 of them from him, and I think we are in good shape to finish the collection before too long.

The boys came home from school with their grades up to an A. I didn’t expect it to be hard for them. They are smart boys.

Tara takes another chance at the R.E.F.U.G.E. tournament, but this time Tara won! Game two completed, we might make this yet!

Tara immediately starts learning how to play Sims Forever, which I don’t know how you really hold a tournament for that game, but whatever. This game is obviously a play on Sims itself!

Tara sits down to read Llamabelle, which is very much a play on Annabelle. While not a book, it is very much a popular horror story and is based on a real doll.

Tara was going through a midlife crisis and wanted to work on the woodworking bench. I went ahead and had Tara do that to get a task marked off.

Tara attempted to play a tournament for Sims Forever, and this time she got 3rd place. It’s not a bad result, but not a win either.

It was Cad’s turn to mix up some lemonade so they could open up the stand again. This time, he also mixed up some Citrus Swig as well to sell alongside the lemonade.

The stand is open, and Don even came by and grabbed a drink from his son. The stand made some decent money, and Citrus Swig was pretty popular. It also has a nice price tag to it!

Tara woke up in the night to investigate some weird lights and got abducted. Luckily, Tara cannot get pregnant by alien abduction, but I seem to have a slew of these happening lately.

When she came home, we finally got our first Easter Egg painting!! This is obviously a play on American Gothic in real life, and thus gives us 10 points!

Tara has occasionally been sending the bees out to go find her collectibles, but there is one we still need to find. The bees will not really be helpful in this, I don’t think.

You could spy our start on the Voidcritter collection in the shot above. We have found a few more in the meantime. There are still more to find, but it’s kind of a fun little collection that I have never completed before.

The family takes a little trip to Innisgreen, and the boys get to splash around in the water. We don’t have any place for them to do this much in Oasis Springs.

Tara was on a different kind of mission. She needed to get a certain seed. Luckily, there was a plantsim around, and after Tara performed some flirtatious actions with him, he was willing to give her what she was looking for.

The flirty magic bean now has a prominent spot on our bookshelf. It has a Friends reference and will now be kept. It also brings us 15 points!

Tara opened up her yard sale table again, now mostly full of honey, wax, lemons, and a few extra voidcritter cards.

Robin finally finishes up his first aspiration and picks up Social Butterfly next. He isn’t likely to complete it. There just isn’t enough time!

The boys work on their lemonade stand and hold 2 sales back-to-back. Both were pretty successful. This time around, they also mixed things up by adding iced tea, which wasn’t a big seller, but it did bring in a fair amount of money.

It was the end of the week, and also the end of spring again, so Tara went out and used the weather machine and reset the season to the start of spring again. Since we have done this once already, I won’t take any additional points for it.

That wraps up this week! Tara had another good week, gaining another 65 points, I believe, and bringing our total to 300 points! Tara has done really well the last couple of weeks, and hopefully, with her video game skills, she will be able to complete the video game tournaments! Thank you for reading, and I hope you will join us in the next update soon!