Gen 1: Chapter One - Having a Job is Hard Work

I dreamed the entire night of how one day my little.. bathroom, bed, shower, and fridge would someday be a nice, beautiful house. A home. It was such a nice dream, I almost didn't want to wake up. But if I didn't wake up, I knew that I couldn't continue with my life to the point of getting that sort of a home.


I sure was sore when I woke up. Maybe it's because the only bed I could afford was the cheapest one anywhere had? "Maybe I should buy a nice, comfy bed before I even think about buying anything else?"




Before officially starting my day, I had to take a shower. It was a nice shower, but I felt kind of awkward, almost like someone was watching me. When I got out, I changed into my bathing suit, but that feeling of being watched was still there. "I know you're out there!" I shouted into the dark, then waited. There was nothing. It was probably my insanity acting up, but just in case I changed into my workout clothes and decided to head off to collect more scrap. Soon, my mind was off the odd feeling of being watched, and just on the scrap I was finding. I was only able to find 33 units before I had to go to work, but that's better than yesterday!



Work was pretty nice, I made sure to work hard all day, to prove myself. I got a little stressed, though, and so decided to spend some time with my partner, George Dean, for the rest of the day. I figured it would take quite a bit of time before anyone trusted me with much of anything, since I just began, but when it was nearly time to go home, I was given an assignment! I was supposed to go to the Business Office and listen in on a few black market gnome smugglers' conversation, then report in the next day. I could do that, I'm good at eavesdropping! I have an older sister that never told me anything because I was insane, you know. The gathering of intelligence went quite well, if I do say so myself, and I believe because of my good snitching abilities the criminals will be brought to justice.


Needing to unwind a little from my first day of any real work, I decided to go to the local library. I was just going to read, but then I saw a computer. "Maybe they have games?" So I checked, and they did! I played for only an hour, before I could barely think straight from exhaustion.
Despite it not being a very eventful day for anyone else, I was beyond satisfied. First point, I had proved everyone wrong already. Someone insane could function just fine in the real world, and even got good assignments at work. Second point, I was a spoiled rich brat from the moment I was born. I was never given a chore, all I had to do was get good grades and look pretty, do whatever I wanted as long as it didn't smear my parents' five-star celebrity statuses. We had a butler. I never had to do anything. Neither did my big sister (Cherelle's her name). So I've done more today, than I have done throughout my entire childhood and teenagerhood. I was going to sleep well tonight. After a nice shower, I felt icky.


Up first thing in the morning, reading for work. I like this working thing already! My boss really liked how I handled the gnome thing, and we chatted about it for a while, before he had to go back to doing boss-like things. Not knowing exactly what to do, I hung out with George, my partner, some more. And you know what? I did that all day and now we're friends! It's always good to have a good relationship with your partner, right?


Soon, it came time for me to pay my first bills. Bills! My parents never had bills, I dunno why, so this is my first experience with the things. They aren't too bad so far. Just imagine when I build more onto my house though, oh my!


A promotion would be nice, so I need to improve my logic skills. I headed to the park - where I saw lots of nice people, though didn't talk to them - and set to work on gaining a logic skill point. Again, though I got too tired to even see straight, so I stopped, went home, and went to bed. I apologize for my unladylike position in this picture, but now that I'm not always told to be as ladylike as possible, I'm enjoying it!


My days seemed to be going all about the same, but that's fine. I don't need immediate excitement, right? I went to work, like I had the last few days, thinking about how I was saving up money for the trip to Champs le Sims I'd been wanting since.. forever. I even chatted with George about it, and before I knew it, I realize I considered him my best friend. I wonder if he did, too? And if he did, if he would still consider me so if he knew I talked to myself a lot. I thought all about this all the way home, until I noticed that the guy driving our carpool wasn't even watching the road. "WATCH THE ROAD!" I shouted at him, and he quickly over corrected back into the middle of our lane.
"Holy crap, Vedette, are you trying to give me a heartattack!? Don't yell at the driver!" he snapped at me, and I just shrugged, going back to watching for my house. Hey, I wasn't the one that wasn't watching the road. I wasn't at fault. I don't think.


I had never realized before how very tiring working was! I knew that there were always people complaining about always being exhausted after work, but I thought they were just over-exaggerating. It really is tiring! Every day after I get off work, all I want to do is go to bed, and I've always been a night owl. Hopefully after I get more used to this, I'll eventually get to where I'm not tired every evening. At least I got the money to buy a sink, though!


As I went to bed on Wednesday night, before I went to sleep I daydreamed about the love of my life. I want a romance. I want my first woohoo. My first kiss. As a teenager, I hadn't been allowed to date - it would smear the family name, it was bad enough that I insisted to go to a public school, would be even worse if I dated a teenage boy from one. I always dreamed of my future lovelife. I don't know when I fell asleep, but I do know that after I did, I had a dream.. a lovely dream that I want to come true. An insane mother could love her child as much as any other mother.

That's it for this chapter, sorry it's boring but my first week here has been boring. I wasn't even awake enough to talk to myself most of the time this week! At least I had George to keep me company. Tune in next time for.. well, I'm not sure. Hopefully either a budding romance or a trip to France?

(A/N: I hope you enjoyed it, and don't worry, eventually I will get less.. minute-by-minute with the details.)

Gen 1: Introduction

Why hello there person-who-is-probably-reading-this!
My name is Vedette Szalony, and I just recently aged up into a YA. People have always whispered behind my back about how I wasn't going to amount to much, because I have the insane trait and do things a little.. differently than most 'normal' Sims. I wear my formal wear in the pool, I talk to myself, I go to bed when I'm not tired.. that doesn't mean I can't function out there in the real world! No! It doesn't! So I decided, I'm going to show everyone - I would make something of myself. But what could I do? I debated several different things, before I finally decided. What better way to show everyone that Sims with the insane trait can function as well as 'regular' Sims than with a legacy challenge, with the optional 'family trait' rule! Haha, take that!
So, I'm moving away from Bridgeport, where I was born and raised, and going to Riverview, buying the biggest plot of land I can.


Here's what I've got so far, with only eighty-five simoleons left to my name! Isn't it cute? I have my little bathroom, a shower, a fridge, and a bed. I need more than that, but I can always go out to get some stuff I need, right?


Here's me in front of my new land. I am so excited to get started on my own life, in this cute little country town. I've never even visited the country before! As you can probably tell by my attire. Maybe I'll change to overalls later, that would be so cute!
So, I need to tell you a little more about myself. I'm a pisces, my favorite food is sushi, I love custom music, and my favorite color is white - so I like most of my colors to be light! As I said before, I'm insane, and proud of it. I'm also brave, family-oriented (I want lots of babies!), eccentric, and a hopeless romantic. I want a prince charming!
My life time want is to become a Monster Maker! But before I can do that, I'm going to need money.


Getting dressed in my formal wear - hey, this isn't just due to my insanity, doesn't it make sense to dress nicely for a job interview? - I headed straight to the police station, knowing exactly what I wanted to do. Being in the law enforcement career will definitely help with the bills, at least at first. Maybe later I'll become a self-employed inventor, but that will be after I find my prince charming.


Do you know how satisfying it is to be employed for the first time in your life? And to prove everyone you knew in your life wrong? Upon walking out of the police station, I grinned with pride. They'd hired me, right there on the spot. Even though I'm insane.


I didn't know what to do with the rest of my day. Work started on Monday - it was Sunday - and I had the entire day free. So, I thought I may as well get started on my inventing skill, and headed off to the firehouse where I knew there was a inventor table that the community could use for free. Upon walking inside, though, I had a realization, and hissed to myself, "You silly idiot! You have no money, you can't buy scrap! Don't call me an idiot, you didn't think of it either. Just go to the junkyard and pick some up then come back! Don't tell me what to do."
One thing about being insane? I've never been lonely.



Oh my! Is that a man?
Upon walking into the junkyard's office, I saw that there were only two people there. A man and a woman - the woman was just standing there, reading a book, and the man was sitting at a desk, doing.. nothing. I, admittedly, just stared at him, after I walked inside. Then he stood up, and I almost blushed, thinking he must have been kind of creeped out, but then he smiled and introduced himself as Odin Crosby. Maybe I had found my prince charming already? What luck!
I noticed that the woman standing there kept glancing at us out of the corner of her eye, though. I had to wonder what her problem was. I hope he's not her husband.


Oh my, look at the crowd I attracted! Must be my magnetic nature, heehee.


After a little bit of talking to Odin, I decided that I should introduce myself to some of the other people in the room. I went around introducing myself to random people, including the woman that was reading. Her name was Heather Crosby.. and she didn't look much like Odin, so that must mean they're married. Well, he's out then, I may be insane but I won't ever steal someone else' husband!
I continued going around and introducing myself to peeps, ending on this guy, Buck Broke. He's the cute farmer type, and I find him absolutely adorable. We talked for only a moment, before I decided that I should really do what I went there to do.


As I headed outside, I swear my fist was going to hit me! Like ker-pow, blam, crack! But we came to an agreement, and it just slapped me lightly, like a love tap. I think some of the other people in the room stared at me as I left, but I'm used to that.


Time to find some scraps, so I can get to work on my LTW. I dug for only about a half an hour before I got to the bottom of the pile. "Aw, only nineteen scraps? That's barely enough to dabble, let alone invent.." I pouted, and then went to the other piles, but they'd been cleaned out of good scrap already. So I suppose I'll just have to make due with nineteen units of scrap. Off to the firehouse!


I dabbled, and dabbled, and dabbled, and.. ran out of scrap before I figured out what I was doing. So much for that. But my tummy was rumbling, so maybe it was for the best. Since Hogan's Deep-Fried Diner only cost 12 simoleons a person, I decided to eat there instead of at home. I need to get myself out there, anyway! Be seen, introduce myself to locals.


I changed into my athletic wear, and headed into the diner. Athletic wear makes more sense than fancy clothes going into a diner, don't you think? See, I have my reasoning. When I came back out, it was dark out and I was too tired to do much of anything else, so I went home.


And got right into bed when I got home. In my formal wear. I honestly don't have any explanation for this one other than that I like it!

Sorry the introduction is so long and not that interesting, but my first day couldn't be all excitement, could it? I just moved in, honestly. Other entries will hopefully be less.. minute-by-minute and more fun. I hope I get enough money for my own inventor table soon! And find a prince charming, oh and maybe learn to make a time machine, that would be cool.
Anyway, I hope you liked it! Keep reading if you did!