5.10 First Day On Campus

"I'm all packed 'Aunty Kim', we are ready to go!", yelled Delilah as her friends helped her carry the last of the luggage from her room. "Not quite yet Delilah, I think your Grandmother has just arrived.", Kim yelled back towards the stairs.

"Good evening", the elderly lady growled. "My apologies, its been a long day.", she said as she cleared her throat and started again in a much silkier voice. "Good evening Miss Diffy, I've come calling to visit my grand daughter, that you are so kindly taking care of in her parents absence.", she stated. It was clear that she was unhappy with Jack and Alice's preferred choice of guardian.

"Your timing is fortuitous Florence, the girls are having a sleep over at a friends house and then departing at sunrise. Perhaps you should have called in advance, rather than drop by unannounced, you might have had a little more time together", Kim suggested, in an even silkier tone. "Oh, I like surprises, they keep people honest.", Flo rebounded.


Delilah imagined that she could see the air frost over between he grandmother's piercing yellow eyes and Kim's icy blue ones, and trotted out to mediate before blood was spilled.

"Hello Kitten.", purred Florence Fortuna, "Be a dear and introduce your friends before you send them on their way so we can have a private word."

"Grandmother Fortuna, these are my best friends form High school, and also the girls that I will be attending University with. This is my friend Jessica Jettstar.", said Delilah by way of introduction. Grandma Fortuna nodded and smiled sweetly at Jess.

 "This is Hyacinth Evergreen.", Delilah continued. Delilah's grandmother repeated the smile and nod as if it were programmed function.

"Coral Seabreeze.", Delilah stated, which prompted a cloned copy of the smile and nod.

"And Evette Longpaw". Grandmothers infinitely repeatable smile and nod was slightly less friendly at Eve's introduction..

"Guys, this is my maternal grandmother Florence Fortuna. I'll be over in ten or fifteen minutes.", Delilah stated as her friends filed off the verandah taking her luggage.

"Look at you, all grown up and heading to university!", Flo began. "Yes I am all grown up, and yes I am am going to university, so if you here to talk about the family business, forget it", Delilah stated firmly. "I wouldn't have it any other way dear, most of the monkeys from our family tree fall out of it before even finishing high school, they reach for the first shiny banana before they are ready and I can see you are so much smarter than that.", Flo replied.

Delilah waited, she knew her grandmother had more to say. "But you are a feline changeling, and all feline changelings have sticky paws, its our nature, dear.", Flo added. "Yeah, well I don't!",  Delilah retorted hotly, ignoring the fact that she had swiped the odd item here and there.

"It.is.in.our.nature. Sticky paws are inevitable.", Florence repeated pronouncing each word clearly. "Unlike that fool my daughter married, I have never been caught and I would suggest you head my advice."

"There are two kinds of people who choose to become thieves, those who steal to enrich their lives, and those who steal to define their lives, don't be the latter.", Flo advised. "Know your exits", she added, "And when you plan anything with others, always make sure you are the smartest person in the room.", she finished.

"Okay then, so that's all your wisdom rolled up into a few lines then is it?", Delilah asked. "Don't be cheeky. You are not too old, and I am not so old that I can't put you over me knee for a spanking.", Flo grinned at her favorite grandchild. "Oh, and never get in your own way!, I got that one from a fortune cookie at the Green Dragon Palace last Wednesday. Now give your granny a hug and go enjoy your life!".

"So hey guys, what do you think of this as a band outfit, like we were talking about last week?", Jessica asked, showing the outfit that she hoped they would all agree on. "Awesome", said Cindy, "Yeah that's perfect!", added Coral. "You got it spot on, although we aren't going to have time to go get ours before we leave.", added Delilah. Eve just nodded in approval.

"So you guys all know how I love a bargain right?", Jess asked. "Yes 'miss save me the coupon', we know!", pointed out Delilah. "Well there was a mad sale on, and I bought everything they had, so I have enough for all of us, and spares!", Jess gushed. 
 

"Too cool, so when we play at any Uni parties, we are all set!", Cindy could hardly contain herself. 

The next morning as the sun rose, Sally pulled up at the gates in her pink Jeep with Mr. and Mrs. Longpaw, and Mrs. Evergreen soon arrived by bicycle. Kim pulled up in her police car a few minutes later. Hugs and good wishes were exchanged all round as the last of the luggage and instruments were packed into the moving van. Evie drove the truck with Delilah keeping her company, and Coral, Cindy and Jess followed in Jess' car.

After two days the group arrived at their destination. "There's five bedrooms, and its just us and two guys and another girl. Hopefully we are here first, so let's check it out! If it doesn't work out, I have enough money in my education account to just rent a house for the five of us.", Jess declared  

Jess grabbed her most important piece of luggage and followed her friends in.

Three of the five bedrooms were on the third floor, it was agreed that Delilah and Evie could take the room with the double bed. Delilah was ecstatic to discover it had a working fireplace.

Coral and Cindy took the largest room, with two single beds.

Jess took the smallest bedroom on the floor, there wasn't a lot of space, but it also had a fireplace.

Later that day they met their housemate Rickie Denny, he wasn't overly happy with sharing a room, but he wasn't willing to argue that Jess or the other girl share with a guy they didn't know, so he took his anger out on the first person shooter he found on the computer. 

The other girl went by the name of Naomi McLendon, and she was stoked to find that the girls had reserved her the second story room with the double bed, even if it was one of those flip up thingies.

The last housemate to arrive was Ernest Gregg, "Just call me Ernie, or Gregg, whatever.", Ernie grinned after Rickie made a joke about Ernie's name making him sound like a shady used car dealer. 

"Damn there's no food, the cupboards are empty and I have no idea where the supermarket is!", Jess realized. "No problemo, I packed a palette of Cheesy Mac in case of the zombie apocalypse or some other emergency!", Delilah grinned. She disappeared upstairs and returned shortly after with enough packets to make a meal for the whole household.

Cheesy Mac Cook off time!

Authors notes:

< RANT >
I know most of you simmers and sim bloggers out there love your birthdays with all your sparkly screencaps and slender man impersonations, but I'm well over them. Five teens become five young adults. To me for these girls that means two hours each in CAS, updating the Everyday1+2, Swimwear, Sportwear, Sleepwear categories. And two and a bit for Jess, because I have to do her Everyday 3 and Formal as well, which Ill then use NRAAS MC to copy to the four other girls. The MC part takes like three minutes to do the lot...

I load the game at 9PM, just to make a few changes, I redress Evie (2 hours) and Delilah (2 hours) and save, I dress Cindy (1 Hour 45) and Coral (2 hours), and save again. Then Jess (2.5 hours), copy Jess's ED3 and Formal to the other four girls with MC (3 minutes), the girls get the call to go to graduation and it's now almost 7AM RL, dammit I need a coffee, they can graduate while I get caffeine, then I'll save and make changes I need for screencaps. Coral goes in to graduate, Jess goes in to graduate, Evie goes in, Delilah is queued at the door, Cindy at the door.  *Maker walks away for caffeine fix*

I come back to find my desktop wallpaper staring at me... Sims wont restart. Three coffees and a dozen cigarettes later I've rebooted and I'm back in the game, another 2.5 hours and 3 minutes to get back to were I was and...SAVE

Coral graduates, 'Lilah graduates, Evie graduates, Cindy graduates, Jess.exe is not responding. Fer real?
I can't alt-tab out of the sims without crashing it and it takes near on 40 minutes to shutdown and restart sims 3, so I begin trawling through the MC options to fix another sims 3 bork, 30 minutes later I find what I'm looking for!!!! Woohoo, saved meself 10 minutes, and Jess thinks she graduated!

My next legacy blog story may just about an immortal vampire character that doesn't have birthdays!!!!
And to make matters worse Jess has Fashion Diva for her gen rolls! More CAS time!
And I need more caffeine!

Over 13 Hours real life for a few hours in game time!

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ALSO. Jess is like a level five cook, and Delilah is level two or something, round one of the cook off, Jess cremated hers, and we had to go to round two for the screencaps

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ALSO. There's a dozen carefully staged pictures that fit between Jess showing off the band uniform and them arriving at uni. There's tears and hugs between Sally and Delilah and Parent actors, there's two stand in Plantsim actors pretending to be Mr. and Mrs. Evergreen, there is a cleverly parked removal van parked diagonally in front of the garage, and Kim and Edward holding hands waving goodbye, and where did those photos go?

I JUST DON'T KNOW!

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