Tyson and Ann Marie are 34, Cassie is 15, and TJ is 9
Narrated by Cassie Carmichael
My mom has been getting more and more promotions at work and we're all really proud of her. She worries sometimes about working and not spending time with me and TJ, but she's always home when we get home from school and she even helps us with our homework sometimes. We've been in Crystal Bay for a full year now and I guess it's ok. I mean there aren't really that many people around and it can be alittle boring. I'm sure that will change as it grows, but c'mon, I'm a teenager NOW! I won't care in 30 years!
Mom hasn't really been getting along very well with her co-workers. I think maybe they're jealous that she's doing so well. My mom isn't the kind of woman to let people talk to her any kind of way. Is she always mature about it? No. But I think she gets her point across! 
I think TJ is really liking it here. I think it has more to do with him and his little girlfriend than it does being happy with Crystal Springs. He and Jocelyn Arnold have been hanging out all the time. I think it's kinda sweet. TJ is like 3 years older than her, but she's a very advanced little girl! You would never know she was only 6 years old! He's doing really well in school. I think he's going to be some kind of scientist or something really smart like that.......
And me? Well I'm just trying not to die of boredom in this slow city. Or town. Or whatever. It wouldn't be so bad if there were cute guys! I mean really! There is this one guy in my class that I think is really cute, but Angelo DeLorne is one of those moody music types. So aside from him being the cutest thing in Crystal Bay, we really don't have much in common!
Mom tries to have what she calls "mother-daughter bonding" with me. It mostly consists of us sitting down and playing a game of chess. Exciting right? She's been talking about us taking a vacation with the DeLornes for months, but it hasn't happened yet. Both mom and dad are busy with work, as are Mr. and Mrs. DeLorne. I was so happy at the idea of going on a trip with Angelo, but like I said, we really have nothing in common. But our moms have become really good friends in the year that we've been here.
She talks alot about her promotions and I can tell she's really proud of them. She works her regular job and also helps dad out with the financial stuff for the city. They're even talking about using the tax money we collected this year either for a city hall building or medical clinic. The medical clinic would be most important, but the city hall would mean that my parents wouldn't have to do city business out of our house. It's gets pretty crowded around here during tax time!
I decide to head down to the Mermaid Skating Arena and check to see if there were any other kids hanging out. And of course, there wasn't! Ugh, I can't wait to go to college. At least then I will be around lots of people my own age. Preferably lots of cute guys! Hmmmmmm, the cashier is kinda cute.....
Of course he wasn't interested......he is a LITTLE older than me......but I'm very mature for my age! I have to be to be the daughter of the Mayor! So far it hasn't been too bad. No one has expected too much out of me just because of who my dad is. Although people do ask if I plan to go into politics. That's a definite NO! My main passion in life is fashion. My dream is to open up my own shop one day. So my college major will probably be business just so I know how to run a business the right way. I'm not really into all that other stuff. Actually, school pretty much bores me to death!
I come home and hear TJ playing with his toys in his room. Our rooms are right next door to each other. I never really minded having a little brother. TJ is pretty cool. I think my mom wanted more kids, but I doubt that will happen now with as busy as her and dad are. I don't really want them to have any more kids. I think TJ and me are enough!!!
My only solace in this whole situation is that I can still chat online with my friends back in Simcity. I just hope things get better soon. I'm young, I need some fun in my life! And a cute guy!!!!*Cassie has max interest in fashion so my goal is to help her start saving up some money so that she can afford to open a store one day. Her aspiration is pleasure so she constantly wants to hang out and go places! Ann Marie got promoted like 3 days in a row. After that, all she wanted to talk about were the promotions and talking a vacation! I guess after 3 promotions she deserves one huh?! I have the "no friends for promotions" hack installed because it's always pissed me off that they have to have like 10 friends to get promoted! It's good to network and get to know people in real life, but it's very possible to be successful at work without having to have a billion friends outside of it! They still have to skill and all that but the friend requirement is non-existent! I'm still working on picture size.....what is a good size for the pictures? These are too big but the ones that I get with the blogger pic app are too small! What size do you use?
So my gig with the law office is going alot better than teaching. I guess law was just my destiny! I tried talking Ann Marie Carmichael into funding a law office for me, but she didn't bite. I guess there aren't really that many legal disputes going on in Crystal Bay right now. But trust me, it's coming! I've been feeling a bit lonely lately.......guess I should do something about that.......
It's pretty sad actually.......here's my daily routine: I get up in the mornings and go over the cases I am to brief for the day (right now I'm just a lowly legal secretary). I find that if I go over them before I actually get to work, by the time I get there I won't feel so overwhelmed!
Then I get dressed in the plainest clothes I could possibly buy and head off to work. I don't plan to stay a legal secretary for very long. I mean there's nothing wrong with the job, but I have big plans, none of which include the luxurious life of a legal secretary!
This blows! I've always had problems with women and drinking.......hell maybe that's why I was drinking so much come to think of it......I'm just so shy and clumsy around them until I'm drinking.....alcohol really does give you confidence! But this time around I'm just going to have to suck it up and put myself out there.
Candi seemed a bit too preoccupied with how much money I made. She wanted to know my salary, how much my rent was, if I had any savings......what the hell? I decided then and there that Ms. Candi Harris was between jobs not because she was trying to decide what she wanted to do, but because she was a freaking gold digger looking for a man to pay her way!
Things have become pretty routine around our house. And that's just fine by me! Joy caused so much chaos when she was around that it's actually refreshing to have a break from it all! In the mornings, I head off to my job at the police station and Joci goes to pre-k. I'm so glad that my work schedule allows me to leave and arrive home at the same time as her. I don't have to have some nanny around all the time.
Joci loves school and is really doing very well. She's making lots of friends and seems to be really happy. And of course that makes me happy!
My evenings are spent working out in front of the television. Gotta stay in shape to catch those bad guys! It would be nice to have some female companionship, but I don't want to rush into anything. I have Jocelyn to consider........
She loves painting and will stay in her room all day painting if I let her! But I encourage her to get out and play on the days that she doesn't have school. I want her to be a well-balanced child.
She has become really good friends with Mayor Carmichael's son, TJ. He's a few years older than Jocelyn so I don't know how long this friendship will last once he becomes a teen. I'm not sure I WANT it to last past him becoming a teen! Teenage boys are nothing but trouble!
I sit and watch her sometimes, marveling at how much she looks like her mother. It's amazing. I just hope she doesn't act like her too! But so far, Jocelyn is a sweet, kind little girl with a heart of gold. And maybe living with me will help her maintain that sweet heart. Who knows.......
I don't think the meeting went too well. Aundrea has obviously not talked to many four-year olds. The effects of pollution on the environment aren't exactly things that concern Jocelyn! But hey, she's cute what can I say?
I've been promoted to nurse and I am loving my job! Things are working out so well and I couldn't be happier! Mayor Carmichael has expressed his interest in me running the Crystal Bay Clinic once I get a bit more experience and I can't wait!
Angelo is settling very nicely into the new town and is even making new friends. So many new friends that I'm afraid his school work is going to suffer because of it. He's a really smart boy, but he is a bit lazy when it comes to his work. He is very interested in music and puts most of his energy into that. It's that damn DeLorne entertainment gene. They all want to be big stars!
Fabio has been hard at work creating a blog documenting his "rise to fame." It's been a little hard living with him lately. He is so determined to become famous without the help of his father that he is shutting out every other part of his life. It's getting a bit annoying because it means that he's shutting Angelo and me out as well.
The next morning, Fabio and I had yet another fight over money.
Name: Tyson Carmichael 
Name: Ann Marie Carmichael
Name: Cassie Carmichael
Name: Fabio DeLorne
Name: Angelo DeLorne
Name: Milton Arnold
Name: Jocelyn Arnold
Name: Nickoli Frader