Take me out

Round 24: Summer 2020

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Augustin and Hanna Novak are both 65, Naomi is 45, Owen is 43, Adrienne is 13 and Malcolm is 10.
(Eliot is 34, Cordy is 27, Matilda is 14 and Susannah is 10)

Narrated by Augustin Novak

I've finally reached retirement age and I've now got an awful lot of free time on my hands. I could sit around in my pyjamas all day but I'd like to stay active.



Hanna isn't retired but she only works a few days a week, so I spend plenty of time with her too. Owen, Naomi and the kids are at school and work all day, so we have the house to ourselves. Just us and the dog.

We can always tell when Adrienne is home because we immediately hear the noises from her PlayStation games. It's hard to get Adrienne to do her homework these days. She'll do it but someone needs to be standing right over her.

She likes learning - she even taught herself to fix the computer when it started sparking the other day.

The things she likes learning about aren't currently coinciding with the things her teachers want her learning about though.

Malcolm leaves his homework to the last minute before school but he does do it without anyone asking him to. He'll hopefully pick up some better time management skills as he grows older.

Both kids seem to be growing up so fast! Some of the things that come out of Adrienne's mouth sometimes are a real worry! I have no idea where she picks up such ideas.

Thank goodness it seems to be just talk! Adrienne's still in the slumber party stage and hasn't really spent much time with boys yet, though the chatter about them is endless.

There's not much time for boys with all the time she spends with Matilda Jacobson.

Those two are inseparable these days.

It's a good thing too, because for a while there, it seemed like Adrienne was very focused on making friends with older girls, who've now gone off to college anyway. It's nice for her to have friends her own age.

Malcolm seems to have a different best friend every week but lately, it's been Susannah Carmody. I don't know how on earth those two became friends, as she seems very sweet and Malcolm is extremely cheeky but they seem to get along! Perhaps she'll be a good influence on him.

Our youngest son Eliot has been married to Cordy for 5 years, with no talk of children and I'd almost given up hope that I'd have another grandchild. But when they said they had some news for us, I was optimistic.

And my optimism was not misplaced! Cordy is pregnant and our sixth grandchild is due this spring!

Hanna and I have four grandsons already and only one granddaughter. We'll be happy with whatever we get but it would be nice to have another little girl to dote on.

I hope the new grandchild will bring Hanna and Cordy closer together. They're civil enough but I think if they spent more time together, they could be good friends. I really like Cordy.

Her table etiquette leaves a lot to be desired but we all have our faults. Maybe this baby will take after Eliot.

Eliot seems so happy now that Cordy is pregnant and it's lovely to see.

Eliot's not usually so demonstrative, at least in front of us, so he must be over the moon.

Happy as they are, Owen and Naomi have both said there will definitely be no more grandchildren from them, so I hope Cordy and Eliot will have at least one more. It's sad to think about never feeling the excitement of a new grandchild again.

Naomi is content as she is, with Owen, with Adrienne and Malcolm and with her new career. She has her own label now and her designs are in stores all over Sullivan. I'm so proud of her. I know next to nothing about fashion but Naomi tells me it can be a difficult industry to break into.

Naomi's been trying to get Owen to have some of the same enthusiasm for his own career but he's just not as interested in law as he once was.

He was very friendly with his late boss, Georgette and is similarly close to Athena but he's just not getting anywhere at work.

I tried suggesting that he look around for a different line of work.

He didn't like that idea. It's always been his dream to be the top lawyer in town and he's not quite ready to let go of it yet, I suppose. I think he'd be happier if he did - it's clear to everyone except Owen that the legal profession isn't for him.

Notes:

• Title is from Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand.
• Holy crap, Augustin is the horniest old man I've ever had in my game! He constantly - no exaggeration, it seriously never goes away - has the want to either Woohoo in Bed or Woohoo with Hanna. I fulfill it and it just rolls right back up again! It's too funny.
• I always think it's kind of creepy when Sims autonomously tell dirty jokes to their parents or grandparents. Adrienne does it all the time!
• I never noticed before but Augustin and Hanna both have 10 neat points and all three of their children have 10 neat points. All three of their neatnik children married total slobs and so far, they've all had slobby children (the lone exception is Connor, with a whopping 4 neat points but he's adopted). I'm not holding out much hope for Baby Lane!
• Owen's the laziest Sim ever, in terms of rolling wants to skill. We're talking Linnea Lane style laziness here (who, by the way, only ever got promotions because she already had the skills). So that's why he's still a paralegal. I might change his career next time around but I don't know what I'll change him to.