Camisha Datlow Gets Divorced
Just three days after Ashanti's death Camisha gave birth to her first child, a little girl I named Karimah. Let the baby harrasment begin.
Unlike Jove, Drizella liked to hold baby Karimah all the time. I swear she was more using Karimah to up her own social then to actually care for her. She would hold Karimah after feeding her for an hour.
Even when Karimah was wailing because she was tired Drizella kept holding her. If Karimah passed out Drizella would drop her though. Apparently it's impossible to hold a sleeping baby.
Once Karimah was allowed to rest for a bit, Drizella would come in and immediately pick her up again holding her even after Karimah wet her diaper. The woman was fixated on holding her for hours at a time.
She would finally drop Karimah once her own needs got too low, at that time I would have Camisha take over. (You know, when I didn't just fool Drizella into dropping Karimah with a hug and then just take the baby. Nothing more satisfying then to que up a hug and then cancel the interaction just before it happens to go pick up the baby instead.)
Not that Drizella didn't still que up hold interactions until she wet herself. Sims are so weird.
Why is it that when a baby is in the house a Sim feels the need to regress to infancy themselves? Drizella wet herself more times during Karimah's infancy then Karimah did herself.
It wasn't long before Karimah was a cute toddler and Camisha was well into her second pregnancy.
She then gave birth to Karimah's little sister, Fatima.
At that point I was having Camisha invite over friends and having her introduce them to Drizella just to get Drizella out of my hair (and out of the nursery). (A chance card had fired Drizella from her job using up my one command chance, not to mention my one chance of hours of Drizella-free sanity.) Of course this meant that the number of times Camisha caught Drizella "cheating" increased and soon Camisha and Drizella were no longer even friends. At this point I was so fed up with the toddler and baby harrasment and Camisha and Drizella's shaky at best relationship that I figured, since Drizella's genetic contribution was no longer needed, that she was also no longer needed.
I'm sorry Drizella, but it's over. Camisha and Drizella broke up and Drizella quietly left the lot, never to return.
Karimah and Fatima's baby and toddler-hood passed so peacefully after that, that I have no pictures of it at all. Here Karimah finally grows into a much more self-sufficient child.
Though quite a tired one, she went straight to bed, poor thing.
In fact she was so befuddled from growing up exhausted and spending her first night in a strange bed far away from the nursery that her first thought of being hungry showed that she wasn't quite hungry for the right thing.
That night I had Camisha help Karimah with her homework. The great thing about it is you can let the adult helping have their needs go way down because it dosen't matter if they are teaching them to study or not. As long as they are there for the duration of the assignment, it still gets done.
This sacrifice on Camisha's part paid off.
Karimah is quite different from the twins in the previous generation. First off, she doesn't care for the piano, or the chess table, or the easel for that matter. She does enjoy jumping on the bed though, ignoring friends from school until she is completely exhausted.
Fatima, on the other hand, headed straight for the easel as soon as I had finished planning her outfits and changing her appearance.
In fact, because she played the xylophone so much when she was a toddler, she was really good at painting to boot.
Unfortunately she spent so much of the night painting, and Karimah spent so much of it jumping on the bed that as soon as they got home they both passed out. Fatima went out right there on the sidewalk.
And, Karimah did so standing up as soon as she layed her homework down on her desk.
Actually, scratch that, both girls really like jumping on beds. I'm starting to wonder if maybe those handhelds aren't such a nuisance afterall. Because, frankly, this is worse.
I finally gave in and gave both girls handhelds just to get them to shut up about their low fun. Why is it that Sim children complain about low fun and then go clean or chat or do just about a thousand other un-fun things before complaining that their fun is low again?
Of course then we were straight back to playing handhelds at all hours. At the exclusion of all else. You gotta pick your battles, I guess.
Posted by Bitsy at 12:00 AM Comments
Well good riddance! Those drama professors are a pain. I love the names your choosing. Did you have a particular theme? I like the hairsyles too... and the clothes, and the furniture... In fact, it's all good!
Posted by: Claire on December 16, 2005 02:18 AM
You're doing so well on this challenge, and I just love reading your updates. I jump for joy whenever my RSS Reader informs me there's been a new update. Good work, Bitsy! I love the names!
And frankly, I'm glad Drizella's gone. She was kind of annyoing, no? ;-)
Posted by: Jessica on December 16, 2005 06:52 PM
Thanks for the nice comments, guys.
Claire I try and use West African names when I can, but it's kind of hard sometimes to find males names that aren't super off-the-wall, so for those I fall back on general African names or sometimes European names that sound appropriate. Thanks for commenting.
Posted by: Bitsy on December 20, 2005 11:44 AM
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