I'm baaaaack!!

I know it's been awhile since updating. Well, the summer was kind of interesting... lots of vacations and trips interspersed by a month long illness. Fun!

At any rate, I'm back on my feet and things have settled down again, so that's good. Back to the Cramer Harem! I've missed them. This is a long update, hopefully to make up for the equally long absence.

Tomas and Blair are all schmoopy at each other in front of the easel. Their artistic sides bring them together.

 

Which, somehow, inspires harrowing pictures of loneliness and despair. Cripes, Blair... what is going on there?

Elijah meanwhile has gotten to a point in his career where he can interview people. He visits the local art museum to jot down as many life stories as he can.

Tomas, meanwhile, carves a table out of clay.

And Todd plays with toy cars in a warehouse. What the hell. It just always seems to figure, everyone is out doing their stuff, working at jobs, building their skills and then there's Todd, playing with toys.

Eli has his hands full with the denizens of the town. But mingling is good for him. Not only does it offer interview options but opportunities to build up that scintillating charisma of his. Although, I think the lady in the purple overalls could use a style intervention. Where’s Blair when you really need her?

 

Tomas takes up jogging.

 

And Blair and Eli flirt by the sculpting stand. Blair is all about keeping up her relationships. Juggling three lovahs isn’t easy, you know.

Tomas comes home and finishes his latest painting.

 

And Blair and Eli make out by the eating nook.

All of this leads to Eli and Tomas deciding to go to Egypt together. What? Well, they both had things to do there so why not? Eli gets things off to a rollicking start by talking about engagement rings. Awkwarrrrd.

Tomas responds by hiding in a tomb. I can’t blame him. Three guys sharing the same chick and one of them decides to weird it up by bringing up engagements? Dude!

 

Tomas carries on exploring tombs...

 

While Eli roasts weenies.

 

 

They picked up some items in Egypt and then came home. Tomas went back to painting...

and created this magnificent piece.

Meanwhile, Blair’s complicated relationship with the toilet continues.

 

She goes out on a styling job and loses her shit over a local rock star.

 

 

Eli goes out amongst the people again.

 

“So you’re standing by a foosball table? That’s fascinating... my readers will be riveted!”

Todd carries on his new habit of working out in inappropriate places. A bar is totally the right place to start with the cardio.

 

With Tomas’ latest masterpiece decorating the dining area, Eli and Blair chat about... Blair. “My God, you’re hot.”

Blair proves it by scrubbing out the sink. Hotly.

Tomas tries to prove his own hotness by scrubbing out the toilet. Dude.

 

And Todd follows up with the same. Uh... guys? We all know that Blair has some issues regarding the toilet but I don’t know that this is the means to deal with them.

Todd counteracts the toilet by making his breath minty fresh. This is likely to have more of an effect on Blair, I would think.

 

 

Artistic endeavors continue...

 

This is Eli’s weatherman outfit. Yikes, right? He’s working on his charisma in order to get promoted right out of that polyester nightmare.

 

Which will take a while because he only just got this promotion. Blair congratulates him anyway and would probably suggest he do his job in his jams.

Blair was promoted, too. And Eli congratulates her. “You never have to wear ugly outfits but good on you just the same!”

 

Um... I’m not sure... what this is... I mean it's kind of Mona Lisa like but it's in a tropical setting and... I don't know.

 

Since everyone’s getting promoted, it’s time for a remodel. This is the bathroom before...

 

And after... the shower and the tiling get upgrades. The toilet and the sink remain the same. Tomas has been practicing his handiness on that toilet (when he’s not cleaning it) and I figure he can keep working on that before they upgrade.

 

When he’s not painting that is. Notice the sparkles? Tomas’ ability with a brush is all awesomesauce now. When the sparkles happen it’s means he’s creating a Brilliant piece. The more he does, the more often he’s brilliant.

And then he follows up with a total deconstructionist piece. Wow. He really IS a genius.

 

So then a buglar comes strolling through the front door. As she usually does, Blair wakes up and goes to confront the intruder.

 

And then something goes horribly awry.

Blair LOSES! I was so surprised I actually missed the screen-cap! This was the first instance of the Generations update.

Here’s the second... Blair’s naughty because she’s got three romances going on at the same time. Apparently people are TALKING. This comes back later.

Everyone goes about their day.

Eli’s in the kitchen...

Tomas is sculpting with a blow-torch.

 

Todd jogs from investigation location to investigation location.

Blair goes to style people...

 

And immediately starts bitching about the burglar that kicked her ass. Not that I blame her. She’s successfully warded off two burglars and that’s got to give a girl confidence. But this? This has set her back. I’m thinking I need to send her to China to learn martial arts. Tomas can go, too.

“All of you people are IN MY WAY!!”

Nighttime is always somewhat interesting because we get to see what these kids dream about. As you can see, Todd is dreaming about cooking and Eli is dreaming about food. Tomas dreams of the theatre and Blair just wants to go to the beach.

Now, Todd dreams of computers, Eli dreams of writing (yet, I always see that as a corndog), Blair dreams of hot bodies and Tomas of dragons.

In the morning, Todd is restlessly dreaming of being burgled, which confuses me because he wasn’t part of that scene at all! Maybe Blair whined to him about it. She was whining to everyone. Eli, meanwhile, is starving.

 

So he cooks! It shouldn’t be this exciting for the Natural Cook to go into the kitchen but given what’s happened before I’m just happy I forced him into this habit. The upside is that he’s actually cooking here and not just grabbing leftovers from the fridge.

Pancakes for all!

 

And then a quick shower. Apparently, cooking is dirty business.

 

And off to work. Eli’s definitely moving up in the world. His carpool is a mini-van!

 

Blair goes back to work to help the fashion challenged. This wants a hot new swimsuit!

 

Done and done!

And it’s a success. This seems to be a new animation because every time Blair styles someone now they do this ‘I’m so hot!’ move. At least she is way more successful at this than she used to be.

Eli runs home after work eager to hang out with Todd. Cute, huh?

They dive immediately into a scintillating game of chess. Two best nerd friends.

 

Todd broke another computer. That’s probably why he was available to play chess. Otherwise he would have been gaming away on his own.

 

Blair comes home to do more work and we get a nice little domestic scene. Blair working, Eli and Todd playing chess and talking about Eli...

And then something horrible happens...

Todd accuses Blair of cheating on him!

Now, we all know that she IS but... what the hell? The whole point of ‘No Jealousy’ is for this kind of awkward situation NOT to happen! How’s a girl supposed to juggle three guys in the same house if accusations and jealous fits start getting thrown around?! That makes for a very unhappy household.

This is the unfortunate part of the Generations expansion.

Todd’s accusations brand Blair a cheating Jezebel. This feels so like the show...

 

Blair apologizes.

 

Todd gets desires to be mean to Blair.

 

Blair goes to the only one who truly understands her... the toilet. And really wishes that painting over the can were real. I think she’d be happier right now if an alien ship abducted her.

Meanwhile, Shorty the gnome snoozes on the workbench. Random.

All Todd wants to do right now is fight with Blair. She tries apologizing and he scoffs her and just gets nasty.

 

So she gives it right back to him.

 

Somehow, they manage to calm their frayed nerves.

And Blair goes out to doll someone up to make herself feel better.

 

To help alleviate the tension in the house, Eli starts a new book.

And Todd buys a trampoline.

 

Blair decides to learn gardening. I wonder if she’s doing it so she’ll know exactly how to bury Todd’s body in the yard.

 

They try bouncing together to improve their relationship.

 

Blair gets over it fairly fast but Todd is tumbling through the air, laughing and shouting the whole time. It’s that childish trait of his.

 

Tomas, meanwhile, perfects his painting skill. Boo-yah! Now he can concentrate on upping his sculpting and inventing! The work of a Descendant of Leonardo is never done.

Tomas salvaged a fortune cookie machine from a local junk yard and now Blair’s trying to eat and hopefully get a good fortune while she’s at it. This stuff with Todd is taking its toll. Their romantic relationship is in shambles and she’s working hard to get him back into her stable of studs.

 

Tomas and his blowtorch continue to make art.

And he also continues on his workbench, under the watchful glowing eyes of Tea the Scrap-Gnome.

 

Blair puts on something skimpy to continue to suck up to Todd.

 

It works!! Their relationship moves forward. “I’d travel round the world for you, baby... yes I would.”

 

Aww... they’ve made up!!

But for how long?!