The roads are once more safe

Normally there is a haze over the sky, but one night I was able to get a nice shot of a shooting star. The nicest thing I've seen in quite a while. Oh sorry I'm not depressed, infact its quite the oppisite because

I finally get to eat....oh yeah and something else happend that was nice, but I won't bore you with the very private marriage ceremony.

We did get to wrok creating an heir to carry on this insane guesture I had about rebuilding my town. I just hope he or she will have the guts to handle it.

Even though I have all the cooking skills necissary to bring back food to the town, I still can manage to catch the kitchen on fire! A walk-by named Kitty ran up to 'help' but all she managed to do was freak out about it.

After work that night a bump appeared...I was so excited that I would soon be having a baby.

Brian wasn't so excited....he didn't understand how we were going to raise a child in this kind of envornment and he even started questioning what he got himself into. He constantly washed his hands, even though I told him he could spongebathe like I do. He wanted nothing to do with it.

He spent most of the first week of our mariage meditating, only to check each morning's newspaper to see if there was a job in his chosen field of the military available for him. Once he learned to teleport, he came up to the roof where I tended to meditate...


And being pregnant I tended to do it pretty often, but we would stop every few hours to socilize with each other and give each other encouagment through our try ing times.


And this is the point where we figured out the biggest solution to our biggest problem. We could groom* each other and get most of the stench off in just a few minutes. This realization really turned our lives around.



Especially since I was still working even though I was pregnant. Brian still hadn't managed to find a job in the military so someone had to work to bring in the simoleans to pay the mafia each week. I also only worked a few days a week so it wasn't so bad.

Pretty soon, Sagoro Autem was born. He was cute as a button with my coloring and everything else was like his daddy. Later we found out even his personality was much like his father's except he was more outgoing like me.

I was so happy to have a baby to love on.


Roaches became a huge problem and since there were no exterminators left in the town we had to attempt to take care of the probmlems our selves, even though it did no good most of the time.

That wasn't all of the good news we had, Brian finally got a job in the miltiary and made promotions over promotions for a while.


Sagoro turned into a terrible toddler. Poor thing:


He was always sad and dirty. No bathtub really bothered this little tot.


We worked on fun and skill building together and I even managed to teach him to walk with a bit of help from Brian.



It was the only thing I managed to teach him. He'd often fall asleep on the floor, sitting up on top of that so I'm not even sure why we bought him that crib!

Zombie Kitty started following me home from work just about daily, and when she showed signs of having the hots for Brian it gave him some ideas on how to fix the problem the town is having with them.

And with his not being predijus of them, they started hanging around the house and following us both home from work all the freakin time. This also gave the military ideas that Brian had good leadership qualities because as he was befriending them they did start to calm down a bit.

When they'd knock over the garbage cans, Brian would just sigh and say "Oh well, we are making progress, at least they aren't doing it 50 times a day like they used to."
What a positive thinking sim.


Sagoro became a child faster than I could anticipate-

And I became an elder even faster. I was so saddened to be old. It seemed to upset Brian as well. Poor guy.

We didn't have room for another bed in the house, so Brian and I shifted meditation and Sleep at night to allow Sagoro the other part of the bed to sleep in.

I was awfully glad to have the mornings off so I could bring my little boy to school. School was a far way away and only sometimes could buses make it through the hordes of zombies. Most days it didn't come and Sims would have to drive or hoof it, so alot of the children weren't even attending school past their child hood. Only the strong could make it.


With all of the hand washing and sponge bathing, our poor sink got quite a work out. Brian had the task of fixing it since he was the most mechanical out of all of us. He didn't appreciate this one bit.

Especially since Sagoro and I were right next to him smustiling away while he worked at fixing that stupid broken sink.


As I got closer to my demise, I would often catch myself stairing at my young and still attractive husband while he slept I urned to be young again.

Sogoro started working on getting his body strong so he could defend himself against the hordes of zombies when he became a teenager, but most of the time he was just

Washing his hands and cleaning the sink

or playing in puddles of water from the broken sink.

We learned other means of personal hygien and were soon primping ourselves in tiny shards of mirror that we'd find laying around.
But even this did not help little Sogor, and he was often sad about the fact that he could not bathe himself.

But before we knew it he became a teenager, and was able to join in on the primping as well.
We'd often do it together after dinner each night.

Hey, the family that stinks together, primps together right?



We decided that since Sagoro was a teenager we would have the wohoo talk with him to keep him smart so he wouldn't end up with a desease or a pregnant sim running around. Then we realized the talk we got as children was void now, since there is no medical prevention.


We introduced Brian to Tiffany and hoped they'd build a great relationship. Then we wondered why she looked so young, yet we looked so old. Must be the radiation.



We also taught our boy the art of meditation since he was now old enough to do so, he became a whiz at it and soon learned how to teleport like us.




Our roach problem got even more sevear, and we didn't know how to get rid of them. We got sick alot and it was terrible

Brian finally caved about the whole sponge bath idea and it was very refreshing to see him in normal clothes again. And didn't mind that he broke the sink; mostly because he'd have to fix it.


I started to get really tired most all of the time so if I wasn't working, I was meditating.


She was just starting to be happy again, and she went on to a diffrent plain.

This made me pretty crazy**. To loose my wife so sudden-er not so suddenly like that. I had no idea what I was going to do, how I was going to raise a teenager by myself. I was so scared.


But when the insurance money came in it was a little easier....ok not really because we already had plenty of money and nothing we could really do with it for fear the mafia would suck us dry.


The next morning more bad things happened as the whole kitchen caught on fire right before I was to leave for work. I, honestly, don't know how this could have happened. Luckily, Sagoro was just waking up so he too care of it before it burnt down the whole house....but it left us with only one chair. Man this was devistating.



I came home to turn into an old man, man was I mad about that. But I did want to have a lady love in my life before I died, so I called over a lady friend of mine from the days in LFT named Autum.

We quicky became crushes with one and other, but before I could really make a move she reminded me of my stench.


So after she left I went upstairs to sponge bathe before going to bed.
***



I had a terrible child hood, and my mom's dieing wish was for me to keep this stupid scrap book and fix her stupid town. Man this bites. Can't I live a normal life and just move out of this dumb town? Why does it have to-

Sorry I had to break down for a moment. Oh well, this is the life I'm stuck with-I may as well find me a special someone to share my misery with me. So I decided to marry my best adult friend Tiff. You know mom and dad went to college with her....why does she look so much younger than them? Must be the toxins in the atmosphere.

So I invited her over and we quickly fell in love before she had to leave for the night. I guess there is a certian point in the night were the zombies are really bad or something....

I realized that I was extra smelly so I sponge bathed, because that is the only freakin way to get clean around this stupid town.


Then the next morning I called Tiff over and popped the question. Man she was so thrilled she decided-er-we decided to marry right away, so she moved in and we got married right in the spot we stood.

When we did this, it boosted dads morale so high that he came home with a great promotion to general of the army! We couldn't have been more thrilled.
She went strait to work practicing her speaches so she could one day become an alstar and bring new ways of strength training back to our town.


While I meditated since i was in such a great mode now I got to use that thingie mom brought back from the science department at college.


But before I got settled in the mail arrived and with it a letter


and a video that I can not watch as there is no freakin technology in this area-so I will put it here in the scrap book as mom did with the previous videos.

Author's notes:
*

See it does bring up hygiene.

**

Yeah right, you totally missed me huh baby? Notice the arrows!

*** I seemed to have misplaced pictures. I know I took a bunch of pictures of him getting to the top of the military field but I can't find them. If I do find them I'll add them in.