Once Kira’s one-week waiting period was up, I decided to start small. I had her adopt two cats, and used one of them to work on getting the Pet Hygeinator Lifetime Happiness reward.
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The game named these cats Kitty and Baby. Not the most original names, I grant you. I rather miss Diddy Cat. Kira had built up over $13,000 at this point. I stopped making her write novels in her one-woman wordsmithing sweatshop, and ignored her in favor of grinding wishes for Kitty to earn Lifetime Happiness Points. At one point, some rando asked Kira out on a date.
I was busy with Kitty so I said yes, then promptly forgot all about it. A few hours later I remembered that she was on a date. I switched over to see how it was going.
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Not well. Not well at all.
I had earned about 7,000 of the 10,000 points you need for the Pet Hygeinator when I received some startling news: Kira’s birthday to Elder was approaching. Wait, that can’t be right! I thought I had more time! But no.
When the day arrived, I planned a birthday party with a heavy heart. Only one person was willing to come, and that was the maid, and she spent most of the day raking the yard.
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When Kira aged up, she looked as thrilled about it as I did.
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In fact, Baby seemed to be the only one enjoying himself. He jumped up on the counter and dove face-first into the birthday cake. He really went to town on that thing. (Life goals.)
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And now I find myself with the clock ticking, and a dilemma approaching: what next?
To tell you the truth, I’m thinking about abandoning the failed Crazy Cat Lady project and taking another shot at playing The Sims 4.