Inanimate Insanity The Sims 4 Logbook (Updates Stopped for Now)

Day Twenty-Five (Winterfest)

Fan had a bit of trouble getting Volkie to calm down at 2 A.M., but he made it work eventually.

Paintbrush and Lightbulb went stargazing. At 4 A.M.. On a cloudy morning with no stars out. It's big brain time.

The oven broke, and I just replaced it, because I couldn't be bothered to have anyone do work on Winter Holiday That is Neutral to Any Specific Religious Belief and Should Therefore Be Inclusive To Everyone But is Strangely Only Like Christmas.

I realized that on Winterfest, there are a strange amount of people walking around the neighborhood wearing outfits like this:

Unless all of these people work for some kind of Santa's Village in the mall (which they don't because The Sims 4 doesn't have malls) I have absolutely no idea what this is about.

They decorated the tree, and this was the final product:

(I just now realized that I put it where Pinky's habitat was. I guess the tree is technically a memorial now?)

Paintbrush regained that weird fame quirk they had. Great. /s

As for presents, Fan received a painting of cats in a jazz band, Paintbrush got a science fiction book, Test Tube got nothing (F) and Lightbulb got a porcelain pig. (It's worth nothing that they didn't give each other presents, I just placed a present pile under a tree and I'm assuming the presents were picked randomly. Test Tube got an empty box.)

I'm still not completely used to seeing Test Tube breastfeeding her child (censored, of course.) God, that is a weird sentence, and I cannot believe I actually typed that.

The job offers for Lightbulb just keep coming. At one point, she was offered the same career path Fan has, but at a lower rank. I don't understand why her reputation sometimes gets her several of these daily.

Everyone made a ham dinner, and it actually turned out great this time, and not disgusting like the Harvestfest turkey. Woohoo, improvement! For some reason, Test Tube ate downstairs while everyone else ate at the table in the kitchen. I mean, I would never do that, because it's rude, but honestly, as someone who gets quick social burnout from being around lots of people, especially on holidays, I can sympathize.

By the time Father Winter showed up at 8, everyone was already tired and ready to crash (except for Fan, which is accurate, because this man probably stays up until 4 in the morning reading fanfiction.) Fan got an entire grill from Father Winter, so THAT'S something. 

Some dude named Victor that Fan spoke to like twice and nobody else knows showed up, and I was gonna let him in because screw it, it's the holidays, but I didn't want to have to go through the whole process of sending him home and keeping everyone up longer than they needed to be. 

Also, Dennis is going through the same thing as Vivian, so now we've got two ghosts going through the second death. 

Everyone was so exhausted that they went straight to bed immediately after Father Winter's visit. For some reason, after everyone went to bed, Father Winter stuck around past midnight and helped himself to two glasses of water because I didn't have the option to send him home.