Hollywood Challenge 1/4/19

The Pedersons didn't have much going on this round.  With neither working, they mostly just hung out around the house, picking up a couple of skills, nothing exciting.  Kaitlyn made good grades her first year of Uni, which took a nice chunk out of the Uni debt, but they still have a long way to go.  Sydney and Andrea Drake are extremely close to leveling up.  They both made a friend this round, leaving them just one friend shy of the requirement and they only need a little over $1000 for the money requirement.  With both of them working next round, they should be able to do it.  Dante Silver began his life as a bachelor in a shabby apartment, with shabby furnishings (except for the expensive TV, computer, and exercise bike he had to have).  He would have preferred to move back into his old building so he could be closer to Savannah Pederson, but there were no vacancies.  Surprisingly, the first thing he did upon moving in was to roll up the want for a day job, something he's never done, despite being a Fortune sim.  He's now a Junior Executive in the Business career (all that skilling while lazing around the house paid off.)  Meanwhile, Jocelyn Silver learned that being a single parent is tough.  Financially she's ok (she was always the one with the job), but having to take care of all the household chores as well as looking after Grey is exhausting.  The newlywed Pedersons are no more!  During their bartending shift, Dante Silver strolled in and I guess decided "no more secrets" because he walked right up to Savannah and kissed her.  Nolan became (naturally) furious and slappy.  They had just started their shift though so I had them continue with the bartending.  Then one of the regular bartenders, who Nolan has become friendly with, came up and started flirting with him!  This made Savannah furious and slappy as well.  After their shift they went home, didn't speak until Nolan went to work, and as soon as he returned from work (with a promotion yay!) they broke up.  Savannah moved straight in with Dante.  Drama!  I love it, lol.  It was the perfect day for the wedding of Rachel Burke and her boyfriend Drake, except....for the fact that he seems to believe that he's already engaged to Samantha Sanders!  So I don't know if this engagement really happened (since he's a former dormie they could have been involved in Uni, but I don't remember) or if it's another glitch, but he has memories of getting engaged to Samantha even though she's not in his relationship panel at all.  And of course she's been married for a long time, so clearly she doesn't think they're engaged.  In any event, I decided to carry on with them as if they did get married (only fair since that's what I'm doing with Sydney and Andrea), but I made a note to check if the "engagement" gets broken when Samantha eventually dies.  Maybe then they can make it official.  Caryl Karr had an uneventful round.  I have a feeling that she will continue to be pretty boring as she has a secondary aspiration of Grilled Cheese, which means she mostly only rolls grilled cheese related wants.  Sigh.  Meanwhile, her moms are still trying to level up.  Brandi and Elise Karr both looked for elder jobs.  Elise found one in Slacker (it's what she knows), but Brandi could not find an entertainment related job, so for now she'll just continue dj-ing.  The Sanders didn't have much going on either.  They did their usual makeup artist/author/Dance stuff.  Brooke is excited to be leaving for Uni next round.  Nicholas Burke put in his time at the yoga studio and Lexie worked her elder job.  Michael will also be leaving for Uni next round.  As we come to the end of another round, with no sign that anyone will reach level 3 any time soon, I've considered that I may need to revise the money requirements.  My original starting sims have worked their entire lives (they're all 66 now) to reach 2* and I'm wondering if it's even possible to get higher than that.  I have written into the rules that the children of celebs will star one star level below their parents, but if no one ever reaches 3* that will have no effect.  I'm holding off adjusting the money requirement for now though because even though the second generation of celebs are not getting the star level boost, they will have one advantage over the CAS's: inheritance.  When their parents die, they'll likely get a financial windfall which will be very helpful to their money goal.  We'll see how that goes and re-evaluate later.