Hi! Welcome back to 100 Days of Awesome, the story starring thefamily made of Awesome plus Win! They could definitely be doingworse on the whole “score” thing: 24 points in 24 days at lastcount.

The 100 Days challenge was created by Callista over at the oldBoolprop, and the only change I’ve made is to decide that it’s okayfor Sims to go to work or school.

ANASTASIA (V.O.): I decided to let the girls sort things outthemselves.

GEORGIANA: Ha!ALLYN: No fair! I’m the one who’s Family! Three out of five.GEORGIANA: I won twice fair and square.ALLYN: But I’m the Family one!

GEORGIANA: Okay, Miss Matchmaker Lady, we all want dates!One for me, one for my sister, and one for my mom. And we wantthem to all be good dates. Actually, me and my sister have a bet onabout who can get their guy to go steady with them first. That’stoday’s task on our reality show: Go Steady. So maybe make minea really good date, and make hers not quite as good, okay? So ittakes hers longer to agree and I can win the bet?MATCHMAKER: If you can afford it, hon, we can provide it. (tothe camera) And remember, always hire a member of your localGypsy Matchmakers Union affiliate. Unions make labor better!

ALLYN: So you see, that’s my proposal. Does it sound good?ALLYN’S DATE: What are you, smoking something?ALLYN: There’s nothing wrong with wanting to go steady withsomeone you’ve only known for twenty minutes!ALLYN’S DATE: Yeah there is. You’re definitely altered if youthink I’ll agree to that. But I meant are you literally smokingsomething? Because I can smell smoke.

ABBEY, PONG and WINIFRED: Aaaaaaaaugh! Firefirefirefire!

REBECCA: Win’s still got a ways to go in the kitchen department.It’s not like any of us are such great shakes in the kitchen really, Imean, I was unanimously elected to do out community lot task,which is Cook Lobster Thermidor, because I have the most cookingpoints.

REBECCA: I have seven. Lobster Thermidor takes ten. Ten!

REBECCA (V.O.): But nobody was hurt, which is the main thing.It’s no big deal. (chuckles) Georgiana didn’t even notice.

GEORGIANA: I was supposed to notice something? What?

GEORGIANA: No, really, what? What was I supposed to notice?C’mon, tell me!

GEORGIANA (V.O.): I was kinda distracted.

GEORGIANA: You don’t wanna go steady with me?GABE ALBEE: No.GEORGIANA: But we have really good chemistry!GABE ALBEE: Yeah, but I would have to know you better before Iagree to something like that. I like you and all, but then there’s thecameras.

GEORGIANA (V.O.): It was disappointing! I wanted to earn us apoint, and Gabe is pretty cute. No, but really -- what was Isupposed to notice?

REBECCA (V.O.): I got elected to today’s community lot task too,which was Make Friends With A Supernatural, because I’m theonly one who knows one. I chatted on the phone just enough to getto the point where I could invite her for coffee.

REBECCA (V.O.): But when we got to the coffee shop, she saidshe had to go to the bathroom and left. I don’t get it. I mean, I knowenough about her to know she’s not at all finicky, and the bathroomat the Benevolent Grounds isn’t that bad. It wasn’t even occupied atthe time!

REBECCA (V.O.): Fortunately, she came back later, and we wereable to make friends properly. At last, a task checked off our list!

ANASTASIA (V.O.): So for the at home task, it’s Receive AFlaming Poo Bag. I wish that had been the task yesterday, because Ialready did get one. Of course, since I’m now a proven success, Igot the official nod today.

ANASTASIA (V.O.): Not surprising, is it? “Oh, is it a crappy taskfor a promiscuous Sim? We’ll just get Anastasia to do it.”

ANASTASIA (V.O.): To tell you the truth, I enjoyed this one alittle.

ANASTASIA’S DATE: Oh my Esme, did you just fart?

ANASTASIA (V.O.): But I have to admit: the first guy was kind ofweird.

ANASTASIA: Who, me? I never fart. (loudly, pointing at her date)It was him! This guy, right here!ANASTASIA’S DATE: No it wasn’t! That was a soy fart if ever Ismelled one, and I haven’t had soy in months!

ANASTASIA (V.O.): I kept trying to gross him out. What betterway to tank a date, right?

ANASTASIA: So, shall we see exactly how far I can get my fingerup my nose?

ANASTASIA (V.O.): But no matter how hard I tried, he wouldn’tgross.

ANASTASIA’S DATE: Oh wow, that’s a good sized booger! Didit come out of a sinus, do you think, or was that, like, post-nasaldrip?*

*Note from esmeiolanthe: “Post-nasal drip” is snot that hangs down the backof your throat from your nose. Some people are more prone to it than others.

ANASTASIA (V.O.): He wouldn’t even argue right!

ANASTASIA: You’re a po-faced son of a camel whore, that’s whatyou are!ANASTASIA’S DATE: Wow, that’s an interesting image. Doesthat mean my mother is a camel who is a whore, or that my mom isa human whose clients are camels?ANASTASIA: Only a dork like you would care!ANASTASIA’S DATE: No, no, it’s an interesting linguisticquestion. Come on, which is it?

ANASTASIA (V.O.): Seriously, though: Dude was weird.

ANASTASIA’S DATE: Nnnnnnno. No hugs. I know where thosehands have been.

ANASTASIA (V.O.): I had better luck with the next date.Seriously, a couple joy buzzers and some insults about his mother,and I had it in the bag.

ANASTASIA (V.O.): Nothing about camels, though. That wasjust… Yeah.

ANASTASIA (V.O.): The one problem there is that I earned thepoo bag. Oh, you best believe I earned that poo bag! But because ofthe stupid columns on the porch, he couldn’t set it down and lightit. And he didn’t come around again until two in the morning thefollowing day, so we don’t know if it counts yet. The judges arestill out on that one.

ALLYN: Today’s community lot task was Play With A Grandchild.I thought about volunteering to go to college and drop out real fastso I could adopt, but that didn’t seem right. Not after Grandma.

REBECCA (V.O.): I remember Mom once said to me “I hope I goquietly. In my own bed would be best, but if I can’t be in my ownbed, then in the bathroom.” I said “Why the bathroom, Mom?” andshe said “It’s traditional.” With that little smile thing she’d do, youknow? “It’s traditional.” (sniffle) Well, she got her tradition, Iguess.

ANASTASIA (V.O.): After Dad died, Mom said to me “Hulazombies are nice, but I don’t want everyone to stand around and cryfor me.” She said she liked that poem by Mary Whosit: “Do notstand at my grave and weep/I am not there; I do not sleep.” “Don’tcry for me,” she said. “Keep on having a good time, and wherever Iam, I’ll see and be happy.”

ANASTASIA (V.O.): And then she said “But don’t have such agood time that you forget to use protection.” Because that was mymother for you. Practical.

REBECCA (V.O.): Today’s task was Use An Aspiration Reward InGreen Or Lower. So I did.

REBECCA (V.O.): I’m glad it wasn’t something elaborate weneeded to do. I don’t think any of us could have handled that.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there; I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow,I am the diamond glints on snow,I am the sunlight on ripened grain,I am the gentle autumn rain.When you waken in the morning’s hushI am the swift uplifting rushOf quiet birds in circled flight.I am the soft stars that shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry,I am not there; I did not die.

ScoreObjectives accomplished on the home lot: 1 (counting the late-delivered poo bag as zero)Objectives accomplished on a community lot: 1Total points: 2Total points from last time: 24GRAND TOTAL: 26

Days played: 27 out of 100

Question from esmeiolantheSo, judges, what do you think? Did Anastasia earn the point for theflaming poo bag, even though it arrived after midnight and couldn’tbe set down?

I will abide by a majority vote, so please be sure and leave me acomment or something to let me know what you think is fair!

Abbey’s poem is “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” by MaryElizabeth Frye.