Hollywood Challenge 12/17/18

After another round of play, the Burkes met their friend requirement, though with Rachel's college tuition debt still hanging over their heads, they're having some trouble with the money requirement.  Once they get it paid, however, they'll have a small window in which to level up before Michael heads off to Uni and they get hit with another $25,000 bill.  The Pedersons are very broke.  They got a genie lamp this round and, while I was tempted to let them wish for money, I decided instead to just allow them to sell the lamp for $1000.  Wishing for money would just be way too easy, but I thought they deserved something.  They weren't able to put much towards Nolan's tuition with rent coming due next round, but hopefully one of them will get promoted soon and they can catch up.  Sydney Drake had the day off from work, so she spent most of her day at Action!, the local gym, doing personal training and meeting new people.  While there she rolled a want to fall in love and then a short while later she met Andrea Hogan.  The two hit it off right away (2 bolts) and became friends before Sydney had to leave.  Promising!  The Silvers had an uneventful round for the most part.  They are advancing slowly, but surely on their goals.  They both rolled the want for a baby which I'll allow them to have in the near future.  It will require moving to a larger apartment as their current home is about the size of a shoebox.  Brandi Karr has rolled (and refused to re-roll despite me not locking it) the want to fall in love with Sydney Drake.  This would not be a good thing for either of them honestly.  Brandi is married for one, and from a challenge standpoint alone, losing Elise's income of $1400/day would make it very difficult for her to level up again.  From Sydney's perspective, it might be good in the short term to effectively move up a level, but in the long run she wants to have a couple kids and Brandi is not likely to want any more now that she's an elder.  In the end, I decided not to lock the want, but to allow them to make the decision for themselves.  If it happens, it happens. C'est la vie!  The Sanders lost some friends when their daughter Savannah went to college, so they are trying to build more friendships to make up for that.  I don't think Justyn made too many friends in his new makeup artist job though.  Since he doesn't have a badge yet, he gave a lot of really bad makeovers.  Samantha, however, did manage to finish her first cookbook and she got an elder job in Dance.