Alright!

      I am having a wonderful time in my game. A friend helped me defeat a really tough boss, unlocking four levels; then I unlocked another on my own; then I got a cool axe that glows; and just now I won a million gems, so now I have almost five million!
      I wish it was real money. Anyway, after all that, I won six keys to treasure chests!
      I'm probably talking alien to the rest of you, but I am overjoyed. And it is officially payday, which means I can finally get the cookies I've been craving for months. This is an awesome June!

The Sims 3: Ambitions

      So, a relative bought The Sims 3: Ambitions for me. And wow, it was so worth deleting my other games! I've got a fire chief and a sculptor living with a teacher, whose husband is going to be a cop, and their daughter is going to be a doctor. Cops, of course, are old news; but I've got the fire truck; now I want the police car.
      Ambitions came with this really swampy area filled with really ugly people. The Bayless family in particular is pretty homely. I did, stupidly, start out with a stylist (which was so boring I had more fun washing the dishes, at which time I was wondering if Ambitions was a waste) and I tried giving a makeover to one of the townies, but he still looks like a very bored monkey. Anyway, I'm strongly tempted to add Seasons to the mix, because I think it will complement the ugliness of the world.
      I still had custom content installed from the base game, which I did not uninstall. So my sculptor is a Geisha. And I'm thinking of changing the daughter's name, Easter Cooley, to Dr. Cooley MD when she becomes a doctor.
      But I think the best news of all is that I finally learned how to upload a house to the Exchange. I made an "apartment", except I forgot to add a kitchen to one unit and the Sims only want to use one of the laundry rooms. So it's online, problems included. I guess I'll either have to fix it, or they will when they download. But hey, the front and back yards look great! I did fix the house for myself when I realized my error.
      My fire chief is thrown award ceremonies sometimes. It's so cool how the City Hall fills up with people who celebrate her very pres-ence.

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      I'm having more fun lately with the rotating lunar cycle in The Sims 3: Supernatural. I had a glitch where the zombies never go away. That was super annoying. Apparently that glitch occurs when you save on a full moon, so I have to be careful not to do that.
      I am not a careful person. Last night I accidentally put my mother's glasses into my case, and then when I was picking up my earphones I hit myself in the face with them.
      My current Sim is stranger than most. She has a dishwasher in her kitchen, but she would rather walk a longer ways and put her dish on the computer desk. But it's fun. I built her an underground house so that her horses (okay, okay, her unicorns) have the whole yard to themselves. It was really getting cramped.
      My games always have to be deleted eventually. I hope it's not just me. The next time I have to start from scratch, I think I'll install World Adventures with Seasons. I love the idea of my Sim camping in a tent, rain pouring. And I love the hidden doors. It's so much better than when they just stand in front of the bookcase. I want a house filled with secret doors and treasures when she first moves in, so she has to earn her home.
      I won't be able to make her have a family, though; due to the glitch that seems to occur after travel. Last time, several Sims were just cut out of the family tree. They were shown as a single Sim, no relatives; and I just couldn't enjoy the game anymore. So I'll make a single Sim, like now. It'll work the best that way, and I'll just have to learn to love the fact that the ghosts never go back to the Nether-world. I wonder if resetting them would work.
      I go to The Sims Forums a lot to complain and get the help I need. People there are so helpful. A little ignorant sometimes. Like, I don't know how many times I need to say I don't use mods. I put it in big bold text and people still recommended them. They're like the religion of the Sim world. Their official slogan could actually be, "We believe in Mod!"
      Seriously though. Cheats alone are hard on the computer. And mods are like hardcore cheats. I really think, in the long run, they'll cause more problems than people will admit.