New Mac 5 - Not since Sims 2

What a crazy day at school. I had to go out and do field reporting for the first time EVER! At least I got to stay BEHIND the camera since my project partner wants to be an anchor.

Hey! Look! Salvador is back! She gets invited to a party by Mitchell, and I make Sal come along too.

Um... Looks like he got over Bob Pancakes flirting with her. And neither of them mind having an almost-audience. I love watching the innocent bystanders' reactions.

Okay, guys. Enough is enough. Move along and quit playing voyeur.

Since Candace has been making a little more dough, I did a little shopping to make life easier. Next, I hope, is the kitchen.

Yeah, so.... uh.... /clears throat

Whoops. I was just messing around with the "try for baby." It's Salvador's.

That day at work:

Girl (I didn't write down her name!): Is it Cory's?

Candace: Is what Cory's?

Girl: That bump. Sims don't get that fat that fast since Sims 2.

Candace (obviously irritated): Excuse me?

Girl: Oh, come on. We both know you're pregnant. I'm just saying that if it's Cory's, you should tell him.

Candace (rolls eyes): Fear not. It's not Cory's. He's all yours.

Girl: I have no idea what you're talking about. I was just saying--

Candace: You were just wondering if Cory was available because you want him for yourself.

Girl: That's not what I'm wondering. I'm only--

Candace: Butting into my business. Relax. I'm going to tell the father after work.

Apparently, Candace has a habit of interrupting. Well, to be fair, that girl was kind of hem-hawing away and not really saying what she meant. I mean, who does that? Oh. Wait. Almost everyone. :P

Bugger. I have to stop it now because I just found out I have to get up at 4am for something. Goodie. -.-

Next time: We find out Sal's reaction! Will he be happy or will he be suspicious and wonder if it's really his?

New Mac 4 - Pancakes ruin everything!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

I finally have Candace just GO OVER to the other guy that I made's house. I can't remember his name.

Yet again, Candace wonders if he's her true love.

Turns out it doesn't matter because she's not there five seconds before he leaves for work.

HE went and got himself a job. Sal hasn't yet. Still.

To make her feel better, I let Candace and a few other sims go have a spa day. They announce a yoga class, so I go have her spend some hard earned money when Salvador calls and asks her on a date. I'd had to turn him down once before, but since today's Saturday, I say yes.

They meet at that bar. You know the one.

*Where everybody knows your name...*

Except Brooke because she sucks at names!

I put all that up there (not the Cheers reference) to explain why she's in her workout attire.

While we're on the subject of attire... I put together five outfits for each of these guys and I think we've only seen Salvador in outfit #1. (that means number one, not hashtag)

Things go great! I change her outfit, and since I'm picking it, I pick something besides #1.

Then, Bob Pancakes flirts with her.

And Salvador gets mad at HER!

SHE'S not the one doing the flirting. Granted, she didn't exactly tell him to fluff off, but she's friendly.

At least he IS glaring at Bob Pancakes now. He's probably thinking something like, Pancakes ruin everything.

Hehe. Now I'm going to make like Salvador has a personal vendetta against pancakes... of all kinds! I hope I get to play Salvador and that everything isn't ruined now.

He sits there and pouts as he looks at Candace.

The lady between them is completely clueless.

The date ends.

Salvador: Don't call me. Like, ever.

:(

Man, forget him. I'm gonna have Candace meet other people.

/sigh

Oh, Paolo. He's always a favorite of mine.

Others from Get Together show up at the bar, and I have her talk to everyone. The dude with the brown hair and goatee is a game-created townie, I think. The one trait she's found out about him so far is mean. Hm. Even though he talks to her frequently (I haven't shown it in pics), I don't think he's a contender.

She gets home, and I have her return home and have Salvador already at the lot.

It's a disaster. He's still in the 'very sad' mood, so everything is a bust. Their relationship meter starts to plummet.

Salvador: I just can't look at you right now.

Candace closes her eyes, totally bummed out.

Wait. That's me that's bummed out. I'd really started getting attached to Sal. Maybe I can rekindle the relationship, but for now, we're gonna see about playing the field some.

Wait, what? Don Lothario? I don't that's the direction we wanna go, Candace.

Candace?

Hey, Candace?

CANDACE!

New Mac 3 - Stimulating conversation

It's time to rejoin our fabulous heroine that, um, always seems to manage to get out of the shot. Oh. This is her double. That's why we can only see the back of her head.

>.>

Looks like Cory can't let the poor woman eat in peace at work. With no other excuse than he came up there to talk to her, he comes up here to talk to her.

I also notice a woman at their work pays a lot of attention to Cory... almost as much attention as Cory pays to Candace.

Not a bad reversal if I do say so myself. Well, maybe the tilt is off a bit, but my system is out to destroy my pictures by bouncing all over creation until I want to scream, making me happy to get anything close to what I wanted.

Oh! I put the graphics back to turning on the Retina display thing. If I want her to take a pic with her phone or the photo booth thing, I'll switch it off for a second. So annoying...

At least Candace doesn't look like she minds a little company at lunch.

She gets a promotion to level 2 at the end of the workday.

After she gets home, Salvador invites her over to his house.

It's late at night, so Candace doesn't wanna waste any more time, telling him about her feelings.

Muah. Smoochies. 

He went to bed right after this, so she left to go home.

The next day at work...

Cory: Hi, Candace.

Candace (distracted): Hi.

This is just creepy. He stands there and stares at her. Maybe he thinks he's her supervisor.

Maybe he just likes looking at her hair.

Maybe he thinks she wears too much makeup.

Cory: So, what'ch'ya doing?

Candace: I'm analyzing a rose.

This is stimulating conversation, I know. You're on the edge of your seat, aren't you? I KNEW IT! :P

Hm, well, apparently Candace got something out of their conversation. This is her 4th breakthrough.

She tries to go do some other stuff, but Cory still FOLLOWS HER AROUND!

Candace (to herself): Maybe he won't find me up here.

Thank goodness, he didn't. That could've been even more awkward, especially considering what those sims get up to in that thing! Hm hm hm hm!

I can't remember if she invited him over or if he asked if he could come over or if he just showed up at her house, but Salvador comes over in the evening. They stand out on her front porch and talk.

I'm making like Candace is considering asking him to move in.

They go inside. I have no idea why he's pouting.

Cue the cheesy bad porn music!

I'll leave you there as Candace (and Sal) get some.

New Mac 2 - Wookin' Pa Nub

And we're back!

That dude's name isn't Salvatore or whatever I said before. His name is Salvador Caballero. I was close!

I made him (but I give all the credit for general appearance to the randomizer). Candace has the "find her soulmate" lifetime wish/whatever, and he does too. I don't know, the whole hipster and tough guy look made me wanna make him the mushy type. Jesse would be so proud. Well, except Jesse's upset that the only one that knows what his continuing story is is me and maybe somebody else if she remembers from a very long Facebook message.

ANYWAY! He reawy reawy wikes Candace. He thinks she's puwrfect.

She thinks he's peachy keen too.

*vomiting noises*

I was getting a little too mushy there.

So they hit it off, even if their relationship meters go very slowly.

The tattoos come out better ever since I upped the sim graphic setting. Yay.

We might have the dude she ends up with sitting right here next to her. I did make some other sims, but so far, he's the only one.

But I won't jump the gun. I'll let her play the field a little more.

And she meets Mitchell Kalani!

And I spelled his name right this time!

And putting Mitchell in the "story" would be so overdone!

Their relationship meter shoots through the roof. He's just such a nice guy, but they really don't have anything in common.

They took some selfies....

...and I mean a LOT of selfies....

Mostly because I realized I have the worst DAMN BUG! All the photos she takes are nothing but black squares. Then, I go turn off the Retina display, and it fixes... for only the pics she takes when the retina thing is off. Believe me, I've read up way too many hours today on how to try and fix this until I got to the point where I was like, 'man, fuck it. I'm gonna play the damn game.'

The next pics are when I turned off the retina thing, so they might not look as good.

She gets a job because there're bills and junk that will show up soon. I make her a scientist lady because, you know, super-romantic people tend to become rocket scientists.

-.-

No?

Well, I have yet to build a damn rocket and go to space, so here's yet another try. :P

She meets another guy at work, someone else I made. He doesn't surprise me that he's in the scientist career path because he's the brainy type.

Typical me, the first picture of him doesn't show his face. I'm getting used to a new computer! Gimme a break!

This a really bad pic because I wanted to get the thought bubbles and couldn't get the framing right. It's cropped.

She's wondering if this guy, Cory Finley, is her one true love. I have her chat it up with him. He likes that.

The problem turns out to be that he likes it a little too much.

He doesn't leave her alone!

Like a true geek, he forgets everything he was working on when a pretty girl pays him any attention. I guess he's not forgetting everything because I'm assuming he's standing there discussing his scientific prowess to impress her. She's just trying to get some work done.

At least he makes her laugh. He totally distracts her from getting anything really done. 

Cory: You should kiss me. You know--for science!

Candace (giggles)

Haha. I just wanted to do something lamely funny with that pic.

BUT talking with him gets her her 2nd breakthrough! 

And she's wondering if he's her true love again.

Then, the thing in front of her (I can never remember the names for junk) explodes in her face. Guess she should've paid a little more attention to what she was doing. Wish I'd gotten a pic of that.

There are a couple more guys that might come into play. One is the game-created trainer at the gym and there are one or two others I've made.

Bye for now!

Playing on the new Mac: 1 -- Because I can

I got a new computer, and as the title of this sub-"story" suggests, it's a Mac. I'm a mass comm student and doing more editing stuff now, so I really will benefit from it.

HOWEVER, am I doing anything for class yet? NOPE! :)

The first thing I did was download Sims 4. I'm not sure if I'm gonna get 3 on it or not. I think I'll wait until I can get an SD card because 3 is gonna chomp up all my memory. I know I need to really work on my major stories, but they're going to require so much work, and the game takes SO LONG to load that it's a major deterrent to getting my ass to that computer and making myself get those pics.

AND I cannot play without making something of it, i.e. taking pictures and writing up something up later.

This is... um... Crap! I forgot what I named her.

OH yeah! Candace.

This is her first picture. Ain't it great?! Aren't I the best picture-taker on the planet?

Well, you'll see her cute little pinched face in a moment.

Look! It's the back of her head! At least we're getting closer. After I took this picture, I went in and pushed sim detail to medium instead of low. I don't know why the settings are all on low. I haven't messed with them much just in case. Besides, for the most part, I'm getting a marvelous picture.

THIS is Savatorre... I think. Dude. Maybe I should write more crap down.  I'm gonna open up the game again and write down some names. :P

So I'm going to be a cheeky monkey and finish this chapter here because I can.

I'll post another pic so you can see Candace:

So when I made her, I was still just using my touchpad. I was lazy. Not bad, though.