Day of Silence

Tomorrow, I will be participating in GLSEN's Day of Silence.

Sponsored by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, the Nation Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country take some form of a vow of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bulling and harassment in schools.

While the vow of silence is encouraged, you are left to your own devices as to how silent you will be. For me, I'll use writing as means of communication. My voice will be what is kept silent unless I am required to speak by a teacher. Which, apparently, they can do. I don't know if that will happen, seeing as my school is trying to get as many people as possible to participate in the event.

I'm undecided on whether or not I will do this just at school or all day. Probably the former, because then my family will probably ask a lot of questions, and I don't like being under their microscope. But we'll see.

Either way, I think it is a wonderful cause. I urge everyone who might be reading this to participate. More information can be found at www.dayofsilence.org.

Now...

Sims update! :D

I decided since all my families were in Pleasantview (save for one which I never really used in Veronaville), I'd be setting up shop in Veronaville this time around rather than deleting everything. mainly because I couldn't figure out how to delete stuff without re-installing the game, which I didn't have the patience to do.

So I set off and built the biggest property I could, which cost 15,200 of the 20,000 you are given to move in with. On this property, I built a 5x5 house with the bare essentials; the cheapest shower, the cheapest toilet, the cheapest sink, the cheapest refrigerator, the cheapest counter top, the cheapest stove, the cheapest chair, the cheapest bed, the cheapest flooring, no windows, two of the cheapest lightbulbs, and no paint. She had 450 simoleons leftover. Once my character moved in, I purchased the cheapest bookcase and later the cheapest chess set to keep her entertained.

My character is Tessa Larkofski, a young woman with styled short red hair, a white v-neck, and dark denim shorts. My strategy was simple. I moved her in and got her a job in the Medical career track (thank goodness it was available that day), then immediately began meeting people to find husband candidates. She has Family aspiration, as I want to make generations of Sims.

She got robbed one night or both her bookcase and chess set, which I begrudgingly replaced. Then, as soon as she had enough Aspiration points to get the Elixir of Life, I had her fall in love. His name is Jonathan, though I forgot to write down his last name before they got married. I had her down enough of the Elixir to be his age and then it was off to family land. I expanded the house a teeny bit, as they only had 12,000, and set off trying for a baby. The first day was a bust, but now Tessa is preggers.

My only regret is being led off by Jonathan's suit. He works in the Slacker career track. He makes 256 (or something) simoleons a day, which isn't bad, but still. I don't think I'll have him get a new job, though; Tessa is already a GP making over 700 S a day. Caring for the baby will be a pain on her maternity leave with Jonathan's income, but whatever. They'll manage for three days. Maybe.

I was thinking about having Jonathan just not work at all, but his income will be useful. Once the family (or Clan XD) accumulates money through generations (which will take a while considering how much I plan to expand (though that will mainly be as it is needed)), I'll be able to have one parent not work.

That's about it.