Heather Huffington: Update October 2021

Our next stop is at the Senior Residence, where we have already been earlier this round.

The reason for our being here this week is Heather Huffington; her name is next on my list.

She is now 77 and has achieved her lifetime want long ago. We find her on Sunday morning lounging on the settee in the common room, looking a little listless.

The only other Sim currently living here is Marcus Baldwin. As you can see, he is unwell - and the same is true for Heather, as the game informs me almost the moment I enter the lot.

I do not direct these two, since they are both on Permanent Platinum, other than greeting Sims passing by and making the occasional phone call to the repair service and so on.

The neglected state of the garden does not correspond with the wealth of the residents, or with the luxurious limousine picking Heather up for work.

Monday is the first proper autumn day, as Marcus notices when he looks out of the window early in the morning.

Heather looks happier than yesterday; maybe the crisp atumn air and golden light of the afternoon lifted her spirits and helped with whatever illness was bothering her.

In the evening, I find her in the kitchen making chili con carne on her own accord.

On Tuesday, Heather spends several hours at the computer, browsing the web for games.

On Wednesday morning, I decide to break up the daily routine by sending Heather and Marcus to a community lot. Since Marcus is very hungry, the taxi drops them off at Le Magnifique.

He orders the most expensive meal on the menu - no problem, as the household has now over 6 million Simoleons.
Meanwhile, Heather talks to other New Maximilianians.

Back home, Marcus greets Otto Ottomas. Let's pretend that the community of New Max every now and then sends young people to the Senior Residence, in order to either help out with household and garden work or simply to keep the elderly residents company. (which usually means they learn to play poker - maybe not quite what the community council has in mind for the teenagers, but everyone has fun that way!)

What a nice, polite young man, Marcus thinks as he watches Otto trimming the overgrown hedge in the front garden. Somehow, watching someone else doing something useful spurs him on as well; he picks up the old newspapers that have been accumulating at the front door and throws them away.

After that, he even takes it upon himself to clean the kitchen counter.
By the time Otto leaves, he has done almost half of the gardening.

Heather spends good part of Thursday at the synthesizer. She can produce very good electronic music with it.
There is nothing else to report about that day.

And then it is Friday, and just as Heather gets up in the morning, Mr Reaper comes to meet her for that very last cocktail. This was a bit of a surprise visit, since her lifetime bar did not look completely full yet. But you know what it's like sometimes - the bar's fulless can vary from one day to the next.

Bye-bye, Heather!
It is always a little sad to see a Sim go who was in my game almost from the start; if you remember, Heather Huffington was one of the original playable students coming to our game with the Campus expansion pack. She lived at a sorority house and seemed to be destined to break a few hearts with her pretty face and good looks.
In my game, she reached the age of 82 or 83 and made it to Permanent Platinum.

Now Marcus Balduin remains the only Sim living at the Senior Residence. I am sure he will have company soon, though.