All these things that I've done

Round 23: Summer 2018

Last updates: Rose/Joanna

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Joanna Gottlieb and Rose Draper are both 23.
(Adam is 63, Athena is 58, Wade is 28, Luc is 25)

Joanna's plane is due to touch down at 4.15 and Wade and Rose have parked themselves in the arrivals lounge to wait. Being completely unfamiliar with air travel, Rose thought an ETA of 4.15 meant she'd finally see Joanna at 4.15. She's disappointed when Wade tells her they'll be lucky if the plane has even landed by then.

Adam and Athena are excited that they'll soon have their daughter at home with two feet on the ground but the arrivals lounge started to do their heads in, so they're whiling away the rest of the time in the airport bar. There's a departure board right outside the doorway, so they'll be easily able to run back down once Joanna's plane lands.

And almost an hour late, it finally does. Joanna is feeling especially grumpy right now. She's not sure if the flight was that awful or if it's just that she's well and truly sick of flying, airports, security, customs, etc. in general.

All Joanna wanted to was get her luggage and go and find the welcoming party she knew was waiting for her in arrivals. Had she bought any other colour luggage besides black, she probably could have spotted her bag a lot faster.

Finally! Joanna's stowed all of her crap in a locker and is free to reunite with these people she's missed so much over the past two years.

Joanna was surprised by how much she missed her parents while she was travelling, given that she had already been living away from home for three years when she left. But she did, and she's just as happy to be back home as they are to have her home.

She even found herself missing Wade. Occasionally.

No prizes for guessing who Joanna missed the most. She and Rose are in absolutely no rush to be separated from each other again any time soon.

Now that he knows his daughter is safe and sound, Adam's thoughts turn to his stomach, which is feeling rather empty and is making a loud grumbling sound. It's definitely time to grab some dinner but Joanna and Rose seem to have disappeared.

They've snuck off, found an empty photo booth and are busy getting reacquainted with each other, much to the disgust of a passing teenage cashier.

Well, it's been two years since they've so much as held hands, so you can hardly blame them.

Adam's got a coupon for Tate's Grub Hub (you don't get rich by throwing money around constantly, after all!), so that's where Joanna's welcome home dinner is. Joanna was hoping to sit next to Rose herself but for some reason, her dad claims that seat for himself. Joanna does quite enjoy having everyone's attention on her as she regales them with stories from her trip though.

Finally, a full six hours after her plane touched down, Joanna are alone.

They're both living at the share house for the mean time but tonight, Joanna is just happy to be home with Rose.

Joanna has an entirely different opinion the next morning when she discovers that one of their roomies, her cousin Luc, is not especially fond of wearing pants around the house. She gets Rose searching for a new place for them right away. No success yet but they're still looking!

So as to avoid pantless Luc, when they're at home, they spend most of their time in the bedroom.

Rose is outdoorsy though and she gets a bit stir crazy being in the house all the time. So the girls head to a nearby park, where it occurs to Joanna - shouldn't Rose be at work?

Well, Rose works nights but yes, she has given herself a couple of vacation days since Joanna got back. She doesn't even really like that job anyway. If she got fired, she might not even care!

Random pic:

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Yay! Don't you love simultaneous marriage wants? They just give me the warm fuzzies! I'm kind of surprised this popped up so fast for these two. They're only one bolt and Rose is Popularity, which is, in my experience, an aspiration that's not particularly inclined to roll marriage wants willy-nilly. Maybe it's not such a shock though. Rose and Joanna roll wants for each other all the time when the other isn't there and when Rose turned up accidentally at my vacation lots while Joanna was there, it was a battle to keep them apart.

Rose and Joanna are not engaged yet. I'll make a much bigger deal about it when they do get engaged. ;) I've decided they're too young to get married right now, considering they are both recent graduates, have no real place to live yet and Joanna doesn't even have a job yet.

Notes:

• The title comes from All These Things That I've Done by The Killers.
• The airport doesn't run too badly on my computer but I think the game was groaning. I had to teleport in some extra townies because none were showing up. And yes, I was having lots of fun with the prop hack. ;)
• I have never seen a cashier react with disgust to public woohoo! Usually they just all gather round cheering!
• I pretty much have to force Luc into pants. He's a slob so he doesn't shower autonomously until he's really stinky, so he stays in his undies all day if left to his own devices (which he was in this update - I didn't direct Luc or Gordon to do anything at all).