Aurora

Round 35: November 2041 (Spring)

Connor's last update/Lila's last update/next update

Novak-Sitko 1 household profile

Connor Novak and Lila Sitko are 28. 
(Zane is 30, Camilla and Sophie are 28 and Elspeth is 27)

Narrated by Lila Sitko

Since he retired (or semi-retired, really) at the beginning of the year, Connor’s dad James is no longer my boss  and I’m really missing him at work.

The new boss is Blake and to be perfectly blunt, I think he’s a sexist ass. 

He is so incredibly dismissive towards me. He held a meeting recently to brainstorm ideas to make our company more environmentally friendly.

Jack and Zane’s ideas were apparently workable. Mine were somehow all too expensive or too unrealistic for us to take on board. 

I’m really passionate about my job but Blake is making it nowhere near as enjoyable for me as it once was.

I’ve talked to some of my co-workers about it. Zane thinks he’s probably one of those types where everyone has to “prove” themselves before they get any respect.

It’s interesting how none of the guys in the office have had to do that. Just the women.

If I have to work twice as hard to get any recognition from Blake, then that’s what I’ll do. I don’t like it - at all - but I’m more interested in advancing at work than worrying about him. 

I’ve been bringing work home with me almost every night lately. It’s not what I really want to be doing in my down time but if that’s what I have to do, then I’ll do it. 

At least Connor never nags me about overworking myself, like some people would. He takes a similar attitude towards his own job, so he gets it. 

If he was allowed to take work home with him, he probably would. It’s all confidential though, so his work stays at work.

Even though he never works from home, we still end up with piles of books and papers all over the place that are apparently very important and that I’m not allowed to touch.

Not that I pay any attention to that. I put everything away anyway. I can’t stand having mess around!

Connor never says anything to me. I just hear him tutting and murmuring to himself as he pulls everything back out again.

It’s a constant thing for us but it’s one of the very few things we disagree on, so I’d say we’re doing okay.

We both tend to be workaholics but we’ve got better about relaxing a little since we moved in together. 

We have just found that we really need to relax a bit more now. Owning your own home is harder than renting.

Any work that needs to be done, we have to do or pay someone else to do. We’re both frugal - some would say cheap! - so we end up doing it ourselves whenever we can. 

Fortunately, our weekends have been more relaxing of late than they were when we first moved in. We’ve done all the painting, had the carpets replaced, put together all of the furniture…now we actually have time to enjoy ourselves!

My friends are all either at the same stage or moving towards it. Camilla has been settled for her entire adult life, Sophie is engaged and once she moves out, Elspeth and Josh will be settled down by default.

Elspeth and Josh considered getting another roomie very briefly but ultimately decided they were ready for it just to be the two of them.

Sophie and Oliver got engaged in July and are finally getting around to thinking about setting a date. I couldn’t stand not setting one immediately but Sophie really likes to take her time.

In true Sophie style, they’re looking at getting married in the autumn. Not next year but the year after that. 

We’re all going to be bridesmaids, along with Sophie’s sister Emma. She’s wearing her mother's wedding dress but Camilla will help her with the bridesmaids' dresses. 

Sophie is very laid back, so the whole process isn’t likely to be too stressful for any of us. I’m looking forward to it. 

Choosing the members of the bridal party is about as far as Sophie has got with her wedding planning thus far, so I guess it’s a good thing she has so much time ahead of her. 

I really think I’m ready to take that next step with Connor, after all this wedding talk, and have been dropping some hints in his direction.

Or not quite hints. More like bombs. I’m not the hinting type and Connor is completely oblivious to hints anyway, like when I make him check out the wedding cakes at the local bakery. 

I do want to talk about it though and start moving in that direction. I’m a little frustrated that Connor is so lukewarm about the whole thing.

Before we started dating, I really never pictured myself ending up with Connor but we just work. Marriage is just the next obvious step to me and I don't see much point in waiting. 

Connor does talk about getting married, so I know it’s not something he’s opposed to. But he talks about it like something we might do in the distant future, whereas I’d rather be making immediate plans.

He flinches every time I say that though and I’m not really sure what I can do about it. 

I know it’s technically “just a piece of paper” but it’s important to me that we get that piece of paper. 

I think he’ll eventually come around to the idea but I don’t know when. I can wait but I’m getting a little impatient. 

Notes:

• Title is from Aurora by Foo Fighters.
• I'm sorry this is coming so late. I really wanted to stick to my one update a week thing but I guess I've failed on that front. Oh well. If I get 52 updates or more this year, I'm still calling it a win. ;)
• Lila has an engagement want and Connor does not. :( I think he actually did have one in Sullivan 1.0 though. Normally in this situation, I wouldn't be opposed to just getting them engaged anyway but I've had a lot of engagements already this round and there are possibly more to come, so I'm happy to sit on this one and see if Connor rolls the want of his own accord between now and the next time I play them (I always make visiting sims selectable, for convenience but also to check wants). 
• Blake is just a random sim I brought in to act out a very loose interpretation of a chance card Lila failed. For a long time, it was the only thing I could think to write about for these two!