Friday 11 October 2013

The only one I know

Round 34: August 2040 (Winter)

Anthony Moretti is 23 and Noah Gottlieb is 22.
(Wade is 50 and Mitchell is 21)

Narrated by Noah Gottlieb

Anthony wasn’t too thrilled with my levels of cleanliness when I moved in but thankfully, he’s given up on nagging me now and has hired a maid.



I thought it was kind of ridiculous to spend money on that but Anthony said it was a good investment if it kept the house spotless, the way he likes it.

You would never guess it but he’s a huge neat freak and having the maid around means I have to do less cleaning. Without her, I’d be doing nothing else if Anthony had his way.

So I’m pro-maid now, though I think Anthony was a bit disappointed. He was expecting her to show up in some kind of French maid get-up and what he actually got was very different!

Not that it stopped Anthony from trying it on with her anyway but she is a consummate professional, much to Anthony’s chagrin.

Anthony is a single guy, ever since he ended things with Janette, his college girlfriend. Nothing too traumatic - they just kind of drifted apart.

He hasn’t dated anyone seriously since but he is definitely always on the lookout.

He always wants me to come with him but when he’s heading out for a night on the town, I’m getting ready for work.

I don’t think being on his own deters him much. Anthony is a very confident guy.

Seeing I’m not there though, it’s hard to know how much of what he tells me is true.

The way he tells it, his success rate is pretty high.

But there’s just no way it’s that high. I saw him strike out with our maid with my own eyes, so I know he’s not irresistible to women!

I don’t say anything but he does have a history of stretching the truth about girls so I take everything he says with a grain of salt.

Even if I was available, I don’t think I’d go clubhopping with Anthony. I’ve been with Brigit for about two years now, so it’s not really my thing at the moment.

When I go out these days, it’s usually with her.

She’s still in the police force but she’s not finding it very stimulating these days. She's just realising it's not really what she wants to do.

She entered the force because her parents were both cops and it just seemed like the thing to do. She would actually really like to work in the science field but she doesn’t have a degree.

I keep telling her she could go back to school and get one but she says it might be too late.

It's not, so I told her to think about it anyway. She'd make a really great scientist. She has a passion for it, and a really curious nature.

Brigit can definitely hold her own when Dad comes over and starts talking about the latest study he’s involved with.

He loves having another person to talk shop with, so he and Brigit get along so well.

I love talking science with her as well but in my current position, I don’t get much opportunity to get truly involved with anything. It’s a lot of cleaning up and setting up.

As you may have guessed, I’m working as a lab assistant right now. It’s the field I want to work in, though I’m hoping I’m not in this particular position for too much longer.

I definitely feel ready to advance, which is kind of freaking Mitchell out for next year.

He was hoping to get a position in a good restaurant right after graduation and hadn’t really considered that it might not happen that quickly!

Then there’s Anthony, who is the complete opposite of me and Mitchell. He’s not worried about his career trajectory at all.

He’s been working at a video game store for over a year now and he doesn’t seem to keen to move onto anything else.

I can’t say I really understand that. He’s a smart guy, worked for four years to earn a degree but he’s got no motivation to do anything with it.

He says he’s good at it, which I can believe, and that if he’s set financially, why should he work his ass off to earn even more?

I'm definitely not going to complain too much. Anthony's job lets us take care of the awesome employee discount!

Notes:

  • Title is from The Only One I Know by Mark Ronson.
  • Well, isn't Brigit a lucky girl? I actually remembered to extract her from Sullivan 1.0, so she gets to live on. Not like poor Dixie, Mitchell's now-ex!
  • The maid thing was all game play based. Noah and Anthony weren't friends when I created them as a family and seeing they're both low on nice, they started arguing (note: they still became friends and all is good now). They also both rolled up the want to hire a maid, which I've never had happen with two sims in the same house before!
  • Anthony had three bolts with the redhead who he was flirting with and two with the brunette who didn't seem that interested. But who did he roll the want to go on a date with? LOL! I'll keep her in mind for next round, if he's still interested then.
  • Brigit's a Science sim with a LTW to be a Nobel Scientist (which is also Noah's LTW). So naturally, the game has decided she should be a cop! If she ever moves in, I'll definitely do something to change that. I may or may not do something before. 
  • Next update shouldn't be too long away, as it's a birthday update (Curtis Clarke's first birthday) and I already have all the pics. :)


18 comments:

  1. Great update :)
    I love how slow your game goes forward and how much you go in depth with your characters.

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    1. Glad you enjoyed it! I'm definitely moving pretty slowly right now, which is good and bad. I'd like to speed up a little but seeing I'm rebuilding everything, it's taking some time. I'd like to get back up to at least one update a week, which seems to be a fairly healthy balance. :)

      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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  2. Heh, I laughed at the maid thing - I find it so creepy when my romance sims want to sleep with their maids and whatnot. :)

    Noah and Brigit make a very cute couple.

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    1. Ha, my Romance sims usually ignore the maid but not Anthony. It is a touch creepy! "Hey, wanna sleep with me and then get back to cleaning my house? I'll pay you!"

      Noah and Brigit are sweet. I don't remember getting to play with them much in Sullivan 1.0, so I'm glad I can do that again.

      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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  3. I always enjoy reading about your roommates. It makes me want to have more roommate-households in my hood :)

    I have to admit that I didn't expect Anthony to be a "neat-freak"
    Seeing the cleanliness was the only thing the 2 boys didn't agree on, the maid seemed like a perfect solution.
    It would have been interesting to see Anthony getting involved with the maid, but she decided otherwise, maybe for the best though :)

    I really like Noah and Brigit together, and I'm glad she move along to Sullivan 2.0!

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    1. I usually have a few roomie households on the go at any one time. It's probably the reason most of my sims don't get married until they're close to 30 - I just love doing the roomie thing so much.

      Ha, yes, Anthony is insanely neat, as is Veronica, They get it from Caleb (who, lamentably, didn't pass it on to Nick, who is a total slob). Once Anthony hit on the maid once, he didn't really seem that into her any more. I think his flirtation with the maid may be over for good!

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  4. Haha, poor Anthony. Something tells me that being set up financially will probably help with the lady troubles, even if momentarily. I hope he doesn't continue to hit on the maid. I see nothing but trouble if he wants to go down that road.

    Brigit is adorable. I hope she can take support from Noah and follow her dream.

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    1. I'm sure owning a house at 23 doesn't hurt Anthony's chances with girls! We'll see how he goes next round. I think he's done with the maid!

      Not quite sure what will happen with Brigit either - I'm ruminating!

      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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  5. Employee discounts are very important reasons for keeping a job, lol. Glad to see how the boys are doing and that Bridget made it to 2.0 :)

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    1. My dad used to get some pretty good employee discounts when he worked at an electronics company. Actually, he used to flat out get stuff for free a lot of the time! It's a shame teaching doesn't offer anything like that, lol! Oh well. The boys are enjoying the fruits of Anthony's job.

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  6. Brigit is sweet, I'm glad she's still here. It is a bit creepy and strange when the romance sims hit on the maid... glad she stayed professional about it. the last time it happened in my hood she wasn't so professional. It was back when Roman was living with Remus & Kyla. Roman slept with their maid (of course), and Kyla went into labor at pretty much the same time... so Roman and the maid come running out in their underwear... I'm guessing the only reason he still had a home (and she had a job!), was that Remus was too distracted by twin babies to care :)

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    1. I like Brigit too. I hope she and Noah stay together but who knows what will happen? Sims are quite fickle sometimes!

      LOL, I'm not surprised it was Roman who slept with the maid. If it was going to be anyone in your hood...

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  7. I was so surprised when I saw the maid wasn't dressed scandalously, too! And she rejected a flirt. Man, maids just aren't what they used to be in TS2. ;) Haha! I really like the outfit replacement you have.

    Phew! Glad Brigit made it to 2.0. At least TS2 doesn't pull a TS3 and make sims switch careers just to fill the coworker pool. Blegh. So glad awesomemod rids of that. A lot of times, I really miss the predictability and control I had with TS2!

    Video game stores are a black hole. Working at them sucks, but the atmosphere! Being surrounded by games! It's a lure few can resist. The husband managed one while he was in college. Oh, the stories that I've heard... I was always jealous. The free stuff they get!

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    1. I figure to get a maid dressed like the default, you'd have to hire her from a "special" service and I don't think most of my sims would do that! So I've been using that replacement for a long time. It's a recolour of one of the housekeeping outfits from BV.

      Ha, I am eternally grateful that TS2 doesn't pull a TS3 in a lot of arenas, lol! The current thing sticking in my craw is unwanted pregnancies in my non-active households! Argh! I really do like to be able to control everything.

      I always get the impression that I'd hate working at a video game store (except for the discounts, of course!) but that's because the guys working at EB Games here are always such raging assholes to female customers. I don't know what it's like behind the scenes. I know someone who used to work at EB but he's an asshole himself, so he'd probably have a different take on it all!

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  8. So of course you have to tell me where you got the maid outfit replacement. I really want Kaylynn to stop looking like a slut. I haven't had a sim-maid relationship in a while. I'm not counting Jo and Kaylynn, because Kaylynn is not their maid.
    The woman in the braids at the club, isn't that Emma's girlfriend? Speaking of girlfriends, at least one made it out, lol.

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    1. Sure, the replacement is here. I've been using it for a long time, though I only just added it back to Sullivan 2.0. My sims usually end up with townies over service sims but that French maid outfit really annoyed me!

      And yep, that's Emma's girlfriend Heather at the club. Anthony quite liked her, actually. You can see she's got sparkles coming off her in one of the pics. Those sparkles are only one-way attraction though, so it doesn't necessarily mean Heather would be into him at all. I'm not sure if she's bi or gay.

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  9. This was so fun! Poor Brigit, in the police field when she's a geeky scientist at heart. I could see her going back to school like Cara did when she was adopted to the playables, that is if they get married. ;) Poor Dixie, she was cute!

    Totally makes sense to me that these two would be so opposite on their career paths, and the neatness really cracks me up. Anthony is this big neat freak, looks good, impresses the ladies, but doesn't have any great career ambition. Of course, he is still young, he might be more interested in a few years.

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    1. If Brigit sticks around, I'll definitely consider some kind of going back to school thing for her. I won't leave her languishing in the police force! I like to make my sims happy.

      Anthony isn't the type you'd expect to be neat but he's very much his father's son. There's only one point's difference in their personalities. And Caleb took a while to figure out what he wanted to do with his life as well, so I guess he takes after him in that way as well.

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