So, I got it. World Adventures. Despite not being in the mood for Sims yesterday, I decided to pick up World Adventures today since I was 5 minutes from the shops as it was. And ironically, tonight, I'm in the mood to play. I think it's the "new shiny toy" factor to be honest.

I'm installing it on my PC as my PC will handle it better and has a bigger monitor. Which means, I will be starting over from scratch, with a new family. I could have just copied my files over from my laptop and continued with The Waters, The Banks and poor Max with his 6 babies. But at the moment I just don't have enough time to take care of 3 families.

Instead, I'm going to create a SINGLE family and play them through. So far I've not gotten to see any of my second generation from any of my families grow up, and I'd like to experience that. So, for now, I will create a new little sim to guide me along their journey.

I'm sure I'll still pop on later to see how the other families are doing, but for the time being, I need nice... easy... mindless... drama free! lol.

I've just finished installing both The Sims and World Adventures on the PC and am currently wrestling the with the torture that is the EA websites to redeem my simpoints, special items etc. IF I can get all that done, I might actually get to play tonight!

I'm very sorry to tell you all, that I will no longer be blogging (often) about my Sims any longer. I know some of you won't be surprised by this announcement, I've hardly been consistent over the past couple of weeks.

While I LOVE my Sims dearly, I'm a MMORPG gamer at heart and Aion has latched it's addictive claws into me and won't let go. With an extremely active toddler who doesn't understand computer time (or nap time for that matter), work commitments (I work from home) and the glorious time that is Summer just around the corner, I just don't have enough time to play or blog about The Sims.

I wish I did, I really do. I really love what they've done with The Sims 3. And just as much as I want time to play The Sims, I want time to blog about it. Unfortunately, at the moment, I'm having to force myself to play just so I can get enough material to blog, and that's not how it should be. I blogged because I loved how much was happening to my sims and had to share with someone... anyone.

It's the whole "work to live, don't live to work" motto. Of course, different when talking about blogging and gaming lol, but still, the same thing. I should blog because I love playing, not play because I have to blog...

I will leave The Nutty Simmer here, and should/when I ever get time to jump on and see what my families are doing, I will update it. So please feel free to follow it, add it to your readers etc and keep an eye for when it does update. I'm not promising any dedicated time frames as I'm not even playing The Sims at the moment, so it will be a case of when the mood strikes. I'm sure once the expansion hits, I'll certainly log back in for a bit.

For now, I leave Max and Bella with their 6 children and The Waters Family coping and not doing too bad - Susie joined the Army and is doing really well. I'm not too sure on Melani and Hal as I've not checked in on them since houses merged... I'm sure their doing ok.

So for now, I wish you all happy gaming. I hope to find enough time to game and get everything I want done each day so I can load up my little sims every once in a while. For now, I'll just settle for at least 1 hour of play time of anything a day lol.