I know there were a few people that enjoyed my random ramblings when I played the Sims a lot, so I thought I would make one final post for those that are interested, to follow my new blog: Oz Girl Gamer.

I still occassionally load up The Sims, although nowhere near what I used to. But, there is the occassional sims post that speaks in there. And of course I always love people actually reading what I drivel on about... =p

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.

I have a confession to make - six babies is HARD!!! OMG it was crazy how much work was involved with children when they can't walk, can't talk and don't have too much problem being left in their cribs all day. With with six of them, it was full time work for the babysitters, something Max and Bella just couldn't live without.

I decided enough was enough with the crazy babies and aged them up - the first lot of twins were only a few days off anyway, and I sped the game up to speed 3 for a couple of weeks (game time weeks) so there was still some gap.

With six kids, I wasn't about to video record each one lol, so instead, here's the mug shots of each toddler!

Ever wanted to know what it sounds like to have 6 babies? Take a listen...

So, a VERY interesting proposition popped up on my screen when I returned to the sims after my recent break - something I was so not expecting to see...

Whaaaa? But... but... Melani and Max don't have anything to do with each other anymore? Melani is gone from his life, what is this? The only thing I could think of was that they still wanted to remain friends because of the kids...

I decided that if I could move Melani and the kids into Max's place, that I would do it. I could explain it away as Eric having finally had enough and leaving, which of course would devastate Melani and she'd have no where to go. Being that they are Max's kids, he'd take them in. It would also of course, make for very interesting watching.

Sadly though, not only was there no option to move them to Max's place, instead being forced into Melani's 2 bedroom house... and Eric was included in the package. Um, no thanks. Not wanting to leave Bella behind, that makes 4 adults... and of course, a whole lot more kids!! Sadly, to many for one household.


That was the end of that then. I wasn't about to leave Bella with 6 babies to look after, not to mention I really didn't want to play a Max/Melani/Eric family lol, that's just a little too bizarre for my liking. So, it was all called off. Max will stay with Bella, and Melani withe Eric.

Kinda a shame that I couldn't fit everyone under the same roof, would have been hectic, but very interesting LOL!

SO Sorry for the lack of updates guys! My daughter turned 2 yesterday (Wed 21st) and I spent all the start of the week getting ready for our big day out at the Zoo. And of course her party is this Saturday, so been running around getting that all sorted.

I promise I'll get some updates up real soon! Which family do you want to know about first?