The Eye of the Storm

Mornings were always fun for Kimber and Tosh. Even though Kimber had to head in early for her law enforcement career, she always made time in the morning for personal time even if it meant waking up two and a half hours before she had to leave for work. Besides...it made a great start to the day; she could feel nice and "relaxed" having worked out the stresses.

Then after Kimber had gone to work, Tosh would get busy in the kitchen and cook some meals so that he wouldn't have to cook every single night. It was just the smart thing to do with some working at night, others working during the day. Besides, if Phil was home, he was taking care of a lot of things around the house including repair odd-jobs that needed doing.

Phil however came with his own set of problems as did Mac. The two of them didn't like each other, not one bit and Mac just couldn't resist taking Phil to task about his ideas of cleanliness and personal behavior that seemed to nettle her at every available opportunity. Phil wasn't about to take any baloney from Mac and argued back. So neither of them liked the other. And frankly, the sniping was starting to irritate both Harm and Meg and both of them were considered the most patient of the ten people in the home.

Phil, the recipient of Mac's sniping, was so tired of it, he viciously retaliated by scaring the living daylights out of her when she was getting ready to sit down to eat.

Through all this upheaval, Tosh and Kimber were just blase, with eyes only for each other. This was what two Sims dim-struck in love were like.

Everything was hearts, chocolates and roses for the two of them. Extremely revoltingly saccharine. It was enough to make you want to vomit.

Needless to say, after that disgusting display of sentiment, the two of them went upstairs and didn't emerge for the rest of the night. But those directly underneath their bathroom, did hear the shower going at about two in the morning. Thank goodness it was Friday night or there would be some very ticked off house-mates the next morning.

Phil was still up reading a book at 2AM when Kimber and Tosh came downstairs, blissfully ignorant of the fact that the kitchen sink faucet had developed a Old Faithful complex and was geysering water all over the floor not to mention the fact that the dishwasher was broken...AGAIN, two times in two days. It took until 5:30 AM before Tosh was able to repair both sink faucet and dishwasher which left him completely soaked, but Kimber mopped up the floor.

Sturgis came out to make pancakes and eventually almost everybody came down to have breakfast.

Phil cooked waffles for brunch and Haruo decided to cut gemstones to the consternation of everyone in the house, several making a quick beeline for the back yard door and Sturgis who clapped his hands to his ears complaining about the goddawful noise.

Well at least for the short term, things were settling down and tensions had eased if only a slight bit.