Confessions of a Sims 3 Addict

 The previous post was getting a little long, and I already posted this slice-of-life on Facebook, so I thought I would just rehash it here to make LEPacy story complete. This involves minor characters who are not heirs, but what occurred cracked me up, so I wanted to document it. As stated earlier, Mitzi is Athena's kid sister, now a teen, and pregnant with one boy's child while romantically involved with another.  This was all Story Progression's doing, not mine. I basically watched and interpreted the following events. Mitzi chose to move in with Athena rather than live at home with her mother. The reason is unclear at this point. Regan, Athena's new husband and Mitzi's former 5th grade teacher, is supportive of having Athena in the house and is rather protective as he knows she has made some bad decisions which have led to her current predicament. (She isn't saying who the father is, maybe she doesn't know either?) One day Rafael, Mitzi's boyfriend c...

 Since Athena divorced Gus, and Gus needed the 5 car garage on the existing property to meet one of his generational goals, I had to find new living quarters for Athena and her soon-to-be son. Gus kept custody of Cooper and Jellybean, while Athena plans to raise the baby she is carrying. I wanted to experiment with apartments above businesses, so I had an idea to build a "post office" next door to the apartments in question and label the lot as an apartment. Athena could move into the post office/apartment, then be directed to the apartment next door. I also put in some public restrooms and vending machines, and made this lower floor the common area, while I put some beds, cribs, and a fridge in an inaccessible room upstairs, hoping to trick the game into recognizing this as a habitable lot. Making this an apartment lot was problematic. For one, the game provided "roommates" to occupy the building too, and I couldn't control or disable them because they technica...