Gameplay was getting a little bit boring. Ophelia’s wish is to reach level 10 of the Social Networking skill (done) and to have a Five-Star blog.

Getting a Five-Star blog means constantly blogging on your smartphone until you get the “Blogged Out” negative moodlet, waiting for it to clear, and then blogging some more.

In the bathroom at the library…

In the bathroom at home while Raheem tries to take a dump…

After working out at the gym… Continue reading…

This week I took navkat’s suggestion and installed a custom content town named St. Claire, made by a Sims 3 fan and creator. I usually stay away from custom content because in my experience it’s just a recipe for crashes and heartache later on. But navkat’s description of the beautiful town, plus my boredom with the towns I already have, made the decision for me.

St. Claire really is beautiful, roomy, meticulously designed, and well-thought-out. It makes you wonder why EA doesn’t hire some of these fansite people to create official licensed towns and houses. Continue reading…

This week, Ophelia finished out her time at university. Which is good, because I was getting a little bored of it.

Here’s the guy that I personally was smitten with. Ophelia liked him, too. He works at the coffee shop. He is in the Nerd social class. His name is… Garrison Fort. (Yes, really.)

She also ran into this random townie Sim who happens to look uncannily like someone I used to know in real life. Seriously, the only difference is that the hair should be just a touch lighter. Weird. Continue reading…

After un-sticking the family by moving them to a new home, I was excited to see if it would fix the University problem. When I sent a Sim to University, the Sim grabs their suitcase, gets in the moving van, there’s a long loading screen, a fly-over of the University town… and then it plunks you in Edit Town with the tutorial prompting you to “Create or move in a family to start playing.” Baffling!

Apparently this is a common issue. According to the person who started this thread, the problem comes down to your town being a corrupted file. Well I guess that doesn’t surprise me, given the problems I have been experiencing lately.

On the up side, if that’s the case, then your Sim is not corrupted; just the town they are living in. Thus, the suggestion is to move your Sim to a new town and try from there.

And whaddaya know, it worked! Hooray, I found a way to actually use the expansion pack that I bought, like, a month ago. (Grumble.)

I began by setting Ophelia up in a dorm room. I thought that for her first term at college, she should have the full college experience. Messy rooms, lack of privacy, and all.

Although I did claim the biggest single room for her. (She brought her own bed. The beds at college are terrible. Both in-game and in real life.)

And sent her around to introduce herself to all her new roommates. Continue reading…