Wednesday

Round 36: June 2043 (Winter)

last update/Jace and Magdalena's last update/Gabriel's next update/next update

Nott-Novak 1 household profile

Jace Novak is 86, Magdalena is 79, Gordon Nott is 47, Lia is 46, Gabriel is 16 and Peter is 6. 
(Maia is 41, Ethan is 37, Annabel and Georgina are 19)

Narrated by Gabriel Nott

For the past few months, we’ve had my grandparents living with us, in Annabel’s old bedroom.

With them getting older, Mum and Aunt Maia had both started to worry about them living on their own, so they got together to talk to them about it.

They were a bit reluctant at first but they admitted that maintaining a household was getting a little more difficult for them, so they agreed to move in. 

Now that they’re here, they’re always telling me and Peter how happy they are that they can see us every day now. 

Grandma and Grandpa are both pretty cool for grandparents, so I’m liking having them live here with us too.

And I won’t lie - we’re eating really well! Not that we didn’t always, because Mum is a great cook too.

But Grandma is home during the day, so she’ll usually make us a hot breakfast and there’s normally some kind of pie or cake waiting for us when we get home from school too. It’s awesome.

I like a bit of a sugar rush before I get down to studying. Next year will be my last year of high school and I’m really keen to get into Suffolk.

I used to want to major in something science-y - maybe geology or environmental studies. But lately, I’ve been thinking I might like to study literature.

Mum and Dad both majored in literature and Mum became a librarian and Dad went into journalism and then to law school but I think I’d like to go in a different direction entirely. What I would really love to do is make my living by writing.

Dad thinks it sounds great but Mum is a bit worried. She keeps telling me it would be difficult to support myself on writing alone, especially when I’m starting out.

But you know, I am trying to be practical about it. I know it might be a long time before I can write full time but I’d really like to try to get there.

I’ve only been writing for about a year but it’s become one of my favourite ways to spend my free time. To actually get paid to do it would be amazing.

I really need my own computer though and I've put in a request for one for my birthday in November. Trying to write with Grandpa kidding around with Peter in the background can be a challenge.

Annabel and Georgina are both away at uni right now but they came home to visit for Mum’s birthday this month.

Annabel usually gets grilled about her grades when she comes over but she’s not doing too badly right now, so Mum is trying to lay off.

There was a bit more attention paid to Georgina, as she brought her new boyfriend Adrian over to meet everybody.

And I do mean everybody. We don’t have a huge family but he probably wasn’t expecting to meet Georgina’s parents and brothers and her grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins to boot.

Georgina wanted our parents to like him, more than anyone, and it didn’t seem like there was anything to worry about there.

He seems like a really nice guy who really likes Georgina, so I can’t see why they wouldn’t like him. I approve, anyway.

As much as I like having my grandparents around more often, it has made it a little harder to have any kind of alone time with Bianca.

We used to get plenty. Mum and Dad would both be at work when we got home from school and Peter isn’t too noisy for a little brother. 

But Grandma and Grandpa really don’t do all that much and they’re basically always home. 

We’ve been hanging out at Charge, a rec centre kind of place for teens, but that place is usually quite full.

We really don’t get the privacy we’re looking for there. One time, Bianca’s cousin just stood there gaping at us for a good minute or so and then just walked off without saying anything.

So we’ve had to take advantage of the occasional time my grandparents are actually out when we get home from school…

…or we take a little longer getting home in Dad’s car than we strictly need to. 

Bianca is going off to college next year and I’m dreading it. I’m happy for her, because she’s so excited but I’m going to miss her.

Bianca is sure we have nothing to worry about. It’s only a year, she’ll be back to visit and I can drive up to see her on weekends.

I hope she’s right. I know a lot of couples don’t survive when one goes off to college but I really want us to stay together. 

People will say this is just a high school thing but Bianca is much more important than that to me. 

Notes:

• Title is from Wednesday by Jimmy Eat World.
• I can't remember if I said anything here but I moved Jace and Magdalena in a little while ago. It was partly because they're both quite advanced in age to be living on their own but also a way for me to condense my households a little bit, seeing I have so many new young couples who will probably be popping out babies in not too much time at all. 
• Everyone seemed to like Adrian but he's very similar in personality to a lot of the family (relatively shy and nice), so I figured they would. Gordon and Lia rolled wants to be friends with Adrian the next day.
• More wants cuteness: everyone in the family rolls frequent wants to call Annabel and Georgina to chat. They're just like a real little family! I adore them all. Also love how Annabel made a beeline for Maia when I teleported her in. They were always really close. 
• Gabriel and Bianca are adorable. They each almost constantly have at least one romantic want for the other in their panels and their chemistry is crazy high. I actually knew that before they got together and was trying to keep them apart, so I could let them date other people and get together when they were older. But they weren't having it and they got together autonomously when Gabriel was 12! 
• I also love that Gabriel is a bit shorter than her. When they're both adults, he'll be a smidge taller (Bianca is already as tall as she's going to get) but I think it's cute the way they are right now. 
• One funny:

      

Probably a good thing Gordon and Lia didn't see what they got up to in Gabriel's bedroom then, if they can't cope with Gabriel grabbing Bianca's ass! I hadn't seen this parental reaction in ages and I laughed so much!

• And to finally finish this very long Notes section, I did Gabriel's SAS and he scored a 62, which gives him half-price tuition. I did it on Bianca too, just in case Gabriel's fretting about missing her next year was all for nought and she scored a 60. I haven't played her family yet this round though, so it will likely rise. :)