Romantics

Round 3: November 2010 (Autumn)

Helen and Jeff's next update / Michael and Michelle's next update / last update

Jeff (58), Helen (56), Michael and Michelle Reid (17)

Narrated by Michelle

We got the news early Monday morning that both Michael and I were accepted to the University of Crystal Creek! There wasn't much doubt but it's a relief to just know it's official.

Along with our acceptance, I was awarded 3 scholarships and Michael was awarded 2. Mom and dad are extremely proud of us, of course.

I'm thinking about becoming a teacher after college, just like mom. I love to paint and I'd like to become an art teacher in the primary school after graduation.

Once I told mom I wanted to teach, she got me a job at the primary school as an aid in the after-school program. It's a lot of fun. I mostly just watch the preschoolers color or play with blocks all afternoon.

 And if the weather isn't too bad, I supervise them out on the playground.

I really love it and can't wait to go to work every day.

Michael's thinking about going into law. He's always reading law journals and dorky stuff like that. We don't have any law offices in our area, so he's hoping to start the first one.

He was so excited when he found out his girlfriend Celeste would be joining him at UCC. She's going to be studying to become an architect.

I'm glad he has someone who's on his level. I'm kind of jealous, actually.

Dominic and I have been seeing each other for a while now. We're not "official" though. He doesn't want to be "tied down by labels" or something.

But he treats me like his girlfriend. He does all the little things, like sneak over late at night to bring me flowers. Or leave notes or candy in my locker.

And it's not a secret to anyone at school. So I don't know what the big deal is.

He can be a jerk sometimes. Like when he just stood there and stared at me when I fell at the skating rink one night instead of helping me up. It was so embarrasing!

But then his sweet side came out and he helped me get the hang of it the rest of the night.

I would just end whatever it is we have but I really like him. A lot.

And I know he feels the same way, even if he doesn't want to admit it to everyone.

Dad isn't happy about me dating Dominic at all. I get lectured about it all the time. When I invited him over last winter, dad wasn't impressed with him and told me that he didn't want "that guy" over to the house again.

I try to tell dad about Dom's good qualities but he just kisses me on the forehead and walks away. He thinks the "do as daddy says" talk will shut me up. But I'm not 12 anymore.

Mom says not to worry about dad. He’s just making sure I don’t get myself into trouble.

She reminded me that I have less than a year left in high school and then I’ll be out on my own and free to make my own decisions. Next year can’t come fast enough.

Extra:
I finally started up an elementary school (almost)! The building was made by Dee at N99 and you can get it here (PVElementarySchool). I left the layout the same on the inside and started to decorate the rooms. It's not completely done yet because I didn't want to get too wrapped up in decorating it while in the middle of this update. Here are some pics:

The principals office... whoever that's going to be. Most likely Helen Reid since she's the only other sim in the education career. I'm probably going to change it a little bit now that I'm looking at it. I'm kind of anal about having a desk that isn't facing the door like that.

Here is the 1 classroom I got done. It's hard to get a good angle in some of the rooms. I made the classroom for this update and ended up forgetting to set up the scene lol. It wouldn't have fit in anyway since I changed the point of view to Michelle. Thanks to Carla @ Sullivan for the blackboard recolors.

Here is my preschool classroom for my non-existent preschoolers LOL. I kind of just threw stuff in there as I found it in the catalog. Once I actually need this room, I'll make it look much better.

And the playground covered in a mountain of snow. You can see the cafeteria through the windows to the left. It's not very exciting in there so I didn't bother taking pics yet.

I plan on remaking my high school but I'm trying to decide between 2 buildings right now. Hopefully I can start working on that after this round in between my updates so I can start doing primary and high school updates!

Notes:
-I checked Jeff's nice points and he has 5 but he seems to get so grumpy when I make him sit down on the couch to talk to his family LOL. Maybe it's because he's so serious or he just has nothing in common with them. It really helps with my image of them, though. I've always pictured them as the stuck up family but Jeff's the one that comes off that way most to me. Maybe Michael and Michelle's yuppy attitude will come out when they're older.
-I really don't see Michelle and Dominic lasting much longer. They have decent chemistry (67) but she's Fortune/Knowledge and he's Romance and I just see her wanting someone who's "on the same level" like what Michael has with Celeste. And I'm sure Dom will go nuts in college, which she won't like either. We'll see what happens when they get there.
-Yes! One more household to go and I can do birthdays! Birthdays = Progress and I need to feel like I'm actually moving forward here.
-And I just realized I played this round in winter when it should have been in autumn lol. Snowing in November isn't unusual where I'm from, so it's ok ;).