Update 1-3

Kylie's birthday was coming up soon, and with it being on a working day,  Jonah decided to treat her a few days early. While they weren't as broke as they were the week before, they weren't so keen on spending money where they didn't need to just yet. So instead of taking her to go see a movie, Jonah instead brought her along for a free tour.

Although I imagine the woohoo backstage wasn't really part of the deal...
(You'd think they'd come out the same door, but no.)

A few uneventful days later, the best, most glorious thing that's ever happened to me in all my years of playing Sims happened.

Kylie was at work (In her new uniform - promotion!) when she got a call for her first major fire.
There was fire everywhere, even in the windows. She had to break down the doors to get to people who were trapped. You could hear trapped sims screaming, and that combined with the dramatic music was enough to actually put me on edge.

And then, right as Kylie is breaking down a door to go rescue a sim, we cut away to an event that's so, so much more important.

The cat growing up.
The game prioritized the cat's birthday over saving lives. I really couldn't do it justice in screenshots. It was hilarious.

So we go back to Kylie and the fire, but a whole three seconds later--

Kylie what are you doing that building is on fire people are literally in there screaming because they can't get out

So Kylie grew up and had a mid-life crisis in the middle of putting out a fire. Nice one Kylie. 10/10 firefighting.
Between her and the cat having a birthday, her peeing herself on the front lawn, and the game glitching and forcing me to leave the lot and come back (which I didn't figure out I had to do for a good five minutes), I got a horrible rank on that job. But hey, Kylie still got a promotion! She gets these things willy-nilly. Three fires - one of which she barely even tried to do - and she's already at level six in her job.

Meanwhile, back at home, Hardimos and Taiga decided to demonstrate why spaying and neutering your pets is highly important.

Well, there's always room in the Attaway household for more kittens!
By the way, for those of you who are interested, here's Hardimos all grown up.
Isn't he pretty? :D
I'll be updating his picture on the characters page, too.

Kylie barely got any sleep that night, thanks to being up so late dealing with that fire. Why can't her co-workers ever show up and help for once? Lousy co-workers...

Later that day, the alarm rang for a building disaster, and so Kylie was off saving the spa from a giant mutant plant that had apparently burst in and was trying to devour people. Because obviously after what she pulled yesterday with the fire, Kylie is the best person for the job. Thankfully, it's just a rabbit hole disaster. She can't really screw it up.

Kylie entered the building, axe in tow, eager to save innocent lives and clear her name after the disaster the day before. Bravely she swung her axe, chopping through roots and vines with ease, rescuing sims who had fallen victim to this terrible disaster.

Meanwhile, Jonah read a book.

After the job was done, the onlookers got over their panic extremely quickly. I guess giant carnivore plant attacks are commonplace enough in Sunset Valley for people to just shrug it off and make snowmen.

The whole ordeal left Kylie very tired, though. She fell asleep in her shoes and helmet, slept until the end of her shift, and then went home to plonk herself right back in bed.

Except then she was immediately woken up again for her husband's birthday. He, too, is doing that midlife crisis thing.
I never really cared for this midlife crisis stuff and I'm certainly not letting them quit their jobs or get divorces or anything based on stupid whims, but maybe one day I'll actually try it out.
That day is not today, though. Or any point in the next sim week, until their moodlets expire.

The next day was Snowflake Day, giving Kylie a much needed day off. Her and Jonah decided to go on a date to the winter festival, where they completely ignored each other aside from a greeting card photo and some skating

I'm getting a strange sense of deja vu here. There was one major difference, though....

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From here on out, I think you can probably expect updates once or twice a week, depending on my schedule. This one's early because I had some spare time and enough happened in such a short time frame that I could fill the update.

As usual, have some misc. screenshots.
Hardimos and Taiga being a cute couple
Kylie and Jonah being a couple
They're both really awful at skating
Kylie's accumulating quite the collection here
Taiga met a raccoon
Taiga and the raccoon playing in the snow

Update 1-2

The due date for the bills was approaching quickly, with Kylie's stipend nowhere in sight. They'd already received warning of the repo man, but without the stipend all they could do was sit and wait for their things to be taken. They still couldn't even afford to give  Taiga a proper meal, and had to give up the last of their sausage links instead.

Taiga didn't seem to mind, though.
Kylie and Jonah tried to keep optimistic.  They decided to have a nice romantic night talking about their days and watching the stars.

And by watching the stars, I mean sitting outside on the wet grass in the vegetable garden staring at the wall.
Meanwhile, Taiga decided that she'd need to come up with her own source of food to tide her, because apparently the humans were incompetent and couldn't feed her. As it happened, hunting small animals (as well as catnip toys and random little bits of trash) was something she wanted to keep doing - she kept rolling wishes related to hunting. Jonah is less amused with this hobby.

The next morning was a particularly bad one. Jonah burned breakfast, Kylie broke the bathtub, and the repo (wo)man showed up.

In this last one, I thought she was taking the potty chair - but no, she stole the toilet paper instead.
But hey, look at the plus side! She also took the laundry hamper, so all the dirty laundry they'd accumulated disappeared.
(I'm just going to mention here that I cheated in a new hamper so that laundry would be re-enabled as per the rules. I disallowed them from actually using it until they could afford to legitimately buy one, though. I realized while writing this that I probably should have just deleted something else of a similar value to the hamper instead, but it's too late now. Sorry.)

Kylie and Jonah decided that the day could still be salvaged, however. It was leisure day, so Kylie had a day off of work. They decided to spend it at the summer festival.

I meant to take more screenshots, but they didn't do anything especially interesting. Jonah spent most of the trip on the skating rink and fishing, while Kylie played soccer and ate a snow cone. For the most part, they entirely ignored each other. Nice one, guys. Epic date.

At the very least, it wasn't all bad.
After they both went to bed for the night, I demolished the old fire station and spent a good chunk of yesterday rebuilding a new one. I don't have screenshots of the building, but if anyone wants to see all of it I'd be glad to take some.
The next morning, Kylie was finally able to handle her first emergency! No more rescuing cats out of trees and repairing fire trucks, Kylie's in the big leagues now!
Well, actually, she still does have to do the fire truck maintenance and she's never rescued a cat from a tree because they don't climb trees in the first place, but still.

She got a promotion after this. You go, Kylie!
The rest of the work day was uneventful, but just as Kylie was getting ready to leave...

Is that a co-worker?

Co-workers!! Evidently, they're taking the shift after Kylie's. She introduced herself to them and then went home.

This didn't put an end to their bad luck, though. Oh no.
Kylie and Jonah were asleep in bed that night when Kylie woke up to the sound of movement in the next room. Was it Taiga? For a moment, she considered ignoring it and just going back to sleep, but she decided that she should check it out, just in case.
And boy, was she glad she did.

As soon as she saw the burglar, Kylie immediately leapt to fight her.

Despite her efforts, Kylie was overpowered. Still, the burglar evidently felt threatened as she ran off without taking anything anyway. During the fight, Jonah had called the police, but they came horribly late and the burglar had already been long gone.

The weekend was uneventful until Kylie's stipend finally came in. They went off and payed the bills, fed the cat, and Jonah went to the laundromat to clean their filthy clothes.

Then, while Kylie was at work, Jonah decided to surprise her now that they had some money to spare. On his way home from grocery shopping, he made a quick detour to the Wainwright household.

The little boy's name is Hardimos, as assigned by the game. In case you can't tell, he's intended to be Taiga's mate when he grows up. They were a bit wary of each other at first, but they soon got over it.

In that last screenshot, they're actually playing pounce - but doesn't it look like they're hugging?? Awww.

A couple things happened that I missed getting screenshots for, which I really wish I did. Firstly, after they got home from the festival, Jonah autonomously went off to go read a book. As soon as he picked it up though, Kylie - also autonomously - went off to go kiss him. It would have been a sweet gesture, had she not immediately picked up the book Jonah put down and ran off to go read it herself afterwords.
Sneaky.

Secondly, for some reason the mailwoman decided she hates the mailbox. Every time she brings mail now, she gets mad, yells, and throws the bills on the floor before walking off. For some reason.

That's it for update 1-2, I'm afraid.
But like last time, I do have some miscellaneous screenshots that don't fit anywhere else. I'll post links to the images because I don't want to lag anyone's browser more than I already am.
Kylie on her second emergency
Hardimos's first meal in his new home
Kylie practicing her guitar at the station
"What do you mean my wife just got beat up and my house was nearly robbed? Waffles are so much more important!"
This glowing is really irritating
Taiga has no standards
Instead of using the perfectly good staircase, Kylie the showoff slides down the fire pole holding a tray of raw hot dogs
They got a nice photo at the summer festival, too, to go on the dresser
Kylie was the one who started this fight, and yet here we have the burglar leaping at her with a silly look on her face

Update 1-1

First thing I did when I finished setting up was send Kylie to go get her job. Then afterwards, she went off to the gym.

Kylie is a failure on the treadmill - but at least she can take some comfort in knowing that the old lady next to her also sucks at running.
She'll get the hang of it eventually though.

But while Kylie's working on her athletics at the gym Jonah is doing the ever so difficult job of... reading a book.

It's not even a skill book. I hope it's good, at least.

The rest of the night was fairly uneventful, but the next morning was the first day at Kylie's job.

It went great!! ...For the first ten minutes or so. At that point, a problem arised. Kylie had slept in too late (note to self - buy her an alarm clock later) and had to skip breakfast for the carpool. I figured she could just make some food at the fire station, since there's a kitchen... but I forgot that the fridge there only allows quick meals. Which would be fine, if I didn't roll homemade. But I did.
Jonah ended up running to the fire station with some leftover mac and cheese from the night before. Aww, he brought her lunch.

He even wrapped it up with a nice bow! A bit over the top there buddy, but good on you for putting in effort.
I realized after the fact that there was a barbecue grill outside and Kylie could have made hot dogs or something, but it was hidden where I had to rotate the camera to see it.
There were no emergencies that day. The fire alarm did go off once, but then the job disappeared immediately. I guess it just glitched out of existence.
Let's call it a false alarm.
The bills also came that morning, but much to Kylie and Jonah's dismay, they couldn't afford it. Hopefully they can hold out until Kylie gets her weekly stipend before the repo man comes knocking.

A couple days later and I'm having the glitch with the fire alarm repeatedly. It's getting a little ridiculous. A quick google search tells me to try demolishing and rebuilding the fire station, so I'll probably try that later. For now, though, I can still get job experience from maintaining the fire truck and the alarm, and I can still collect my weekly stipend (...I hope) so I'll just keep going. I am disappointed though. The lack of coworkers combined with absolutely no emergencies whatsoever kinda sucks the fun out of it. Hopefully, I'll have more luck with Jonah's tomb raiding.

Also, there's a zombie playing on her phone outside the window. Completely irrelevant, but I thought it was amusing.

As time goes on, the money situation is getting worse. Not only can they not pay the bills, but they don't even have the cash to fill the cat food bowl. Jonah has resorted to giving Taiga sausage links out of the fridge until Kylie's stipend comes in.
Perhaps I was getting a bit ahead of myself when I prepared for kids so early on. Oh well.

Speaking of Jonah and Taiga, though, they're spending a lot of time together.

I have no idea why the toilet and the sinks are glowing in these pictures (probably lighting stuffs) but it's kinda cool. That is, until you're trying to play the game and the bed, toilet, and sinks start blinding you constantly.

Anyway, this is getting kinda long. I'm going to go ahead and drop a couple more miscellaneous screenshots here and then go ahead and post. I'm still playing some, though, so maybe expect another update soon?