The Future is Now

Our daughters are both leaving the hood-we're elders-this florist shop is hard on my hands and I'm getting artritus (sp?). I think it will be good for me to sell the shop to Jadhira, take the simoleans and Pablo and I go on the simworld tour we always talked about. We're not getting younger and with the girls no longer going to be in the hood...we might as well leave when they leave. I am actually excited about the prospect of taking that tour.

Leaving

Our daughters are leaving. Selita announced that she's moving to Simborough...without her husband and child, then Cliantha annouced that she was dropping out of uni to follow some group into the jungles of Urep...or was it Upre? AHHH! Why are our daughters doing this to us! Then they had the audacity to say that I instilled in them the sense of adventure and wandering...what about responsibility! What will my superiors say!?!?!

Action

Boy o boy! This hood has a lack of action. I've been working out to try and pass my next physical, it's harder now that my body is older, Elinor wants to move to the boarding house...that's like retirement!!! Why should I retire! I have plenty of days left in my bones! Shoot, I'll be one the next mission to orbit our double moons!

Florist Future

I have been thinking about the future of the florist shop. Cliantha is settled at university, she doesn't have plans to return to the hood, Selita has a family of her own, Pablo and I are elders and this shop is becoming a bit much for me now. We are discussing moving to the boarding house and selling our land. Jadhira has expressed interest in running a florist shop of her own, maybe I'll work at her shop-hihi, working for my trainee...hmmm, not sure I'd like that actually.

University

I started uni which is nice. Mami and Papi came to see me off and I am making friends. I have a roommate, Laci, she's from Townieston, like a lot of other students here. I don't see her much though. University is cool, and when I say cool, I mean cool. Since BAP is so far north, it's often colder here than in Apple Valley. Like there's snow on the ground at times. Or so the other students tell me. When I arrived I was nice and warm, the weather was nice and the sky was clear, but as the semester went on, the temperature started to drop and I had to wear a coat to class, but I enjoyed the first days of walking around in shorts. Gotta jet-class is calling me!

Elder

I'm an elder, but at least I look darn good! The flower shop is doing well, I really don't tend to things anymore, Jadhira pretty much runs the shop. I still arrange some of the more complex arrangements, but she is learning and quickly too. She passed her test with bronze levels, so she's no longer a trainee and I have to start paying her. Cliantha is off to university soon, it seems like her and Selita are ages apart, but well...that's just how things happened.

Apple Dumpling Ball

The ball was nice, except that there was no music or DJ! Stupid! Hazel Starr and Etta Leigh were suppose to arrange that, but that one task they failed at and all the teens walk about and were bored. No slow dancing, nothing!

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