On the day of my elder birthday, I threw a party. Not because I had lots of extra time to mess around, but because sometimes you have to walk away from the workbench.
Life goes by so fast when you're frantically working toward a goal! I noticed recently that not only did we have gnomes that had reproduced since our mining days, but that some of them have died as well.
As you can imagine, being reminded of old age and death is not really want you want on that special final birthday. I wanted to talk to Granny about ... you know, elderhood, but she's seemed a bit distracted lately.
Anyway, Humbug and I steal away when we can, and I do try to spend some quality time with my daughter. We've been taking shifts of teaching her how to drive. In those times, it kind of concerns me how interested she is in older men. She has expressed attraction for two of our housekeepers and at least one of the family friends. All of whom came to the party. Allegra was coquettishly nervous.
Humbug, to his credit, attempted to his best abilities to not want to beat every male in the house that Allegra was even moderately aware of senseless with a wrench.
I honestly don't know what she sees in them. They seem to all share either the same outfit or the same hairdo.
Allegra seems to be particularly interested in Dante. He does have beautiful eyes.
But when they stand together it is apparent just how much older he is than her. And he's a flirt. She knows she'd better behave herself until she is a full adult.
Humbug does make it his mission in these situations to shout about homework, prom, and high school to alert the whole world to her teen status if ever in a group setting anyway. Allegra is not a fan of this.
I spent most of the party working on my requirements. One of which was upgrading a stereo for Silvia.
I suspect something is going on with the grandmas, though. There's been a lot of scheming going on.
And lots of night time purchases and phone calls and furniture deliveries ...
I asked Mona Lisa, as she's the most likely to tell me, but she has no idea either. She's been busy with museum pieces.
I tried asking Eden too, but she found a kitten and is totally incoherent for all the baby talk right now. This is Duchess.
So, I aged up outside of the party. Humbug knew what time it'd happen so I wasn't alone.
I was, however... old.
I did my best with this lumpy, old lady body. Here's my new everyday wear:
Formal:
Sleep:
At least I still have a hot, inexplicably young piece of arm candy, right?
I'm really liking Mona Lisa's current style of dramatic shadows on her portraits. I can't wait to see what she does for mine. Shadows ... you know. Over the wrinkles.
It was time to buy and upgrade my properties. I bought the equestrian center and renamed it "Freddie's Free Range," and purchased the cafe for a major overhaul. I might have given it a hot air balloon ...
I put a somewhat family friendly area on the lower floor for parties and such. I somehow, miraculously, drained our finances during this so it'll be finished up after our property allowances come in on Monday. Upstairs is a dance area, bar, bubble bar and DJ booth and all manner of coolness.
I think that it was while I was doing this that I realized that all the noise and mystery going on in the house was construction. Not just Allegra's museum room (which is looking great!)
But this mystery room I noticed after finally walking out into the house after aging up. What on earth could be going on?
