Sleeping, Food & Diet, Sims 2
Good Stuff:
- I got some much-needed rest this weekend. I didn’t sleep as much as I should have, but I slept a lot more than I did the past three or four weekends and I do feel better.
- I have healthy food in my home, cooked healthy food this weekend which I brought to work today and I am back on my diet as of this morning.
- I tried playing Sims 2 again this weekend and had a better time with it than I did the last time I played:
I did make some mistakes that were big enough that I kind of want to scrap this family and start over using their house. I’m not attached to them the way I am emotionally attached to the Couple Who Can’t Get Preggers that I was playing before, though, so I don’t have any real problem with scrapping them. The mistakes:
a) When I created the family I gave them too many children (keeping in mind it was my first Sims 2 family with kids). I gave them 2 children and a teenager, plus I had the two adults. That was just too much for me to juggle this early on in my Sims 2 experience.
b) I didn’t read any of the many online faqs, walkthroughs and strategy guides that are online or even re-read the Prima guide or the little booklet that comes with the game. As a result, I wasn’t even sure at first what I was supposed to be trying to do with the kids. I’d played adults before, so I had a better grip on them, but I found myself so anxious over the kids that I didn’t really take very good care of the adults, either.
c) Partly as a result of b, I made a lot of little mistakes that had major repercussions. For example, I didn’t realize the kids had homework until it was far too late, and then I couldn’t find one kid’s homework for a few days. They got really behind and never could bring their grades back up. I also didn’t have them ask for homework help and I’d made playful kids, which meant they hated the homework even more than most sim kids do (which is a lot). One of them was more serious and had a knowledge aspiration, and I eventually had him ask for homework help, so he improved to an A+ eventually. The other two were perpetually in the D+ zone, and the best I ever got them to was a C+. I also didn’t know they needed to be trying to max out skills and such. My poor teenager was a romance sim, and now I’m about to send her off to college without even having had her first kiss, all because I’ve been trying to force her to do homework when she doesn’t want to. She also has no skills whatsoever, doesn’t qualify for any scholarships and has only one close friend. I have failed her so badly! :( I also didn’t realize how important it was to meet the kids’ aspirations on their birthday. I was really focused on the parents’ aspirations and I think they are more easily blown off than the kids. Also, I made my mom sim a fortune sim then used her mainly to take care of the kids. Big mistake! I made her a fortune sim because it was the MacBeth family, but she was completely miserable and begging in the streets because I wouldn’t let her work. The therapist even came to see her.
I really want to try this again with one adult and just one or maybe two children and start the children off as toddlers, maybe. Now that I have a clue what I’m doing I think I can raise at least one child successfully and send them off to college.
I did play around with University with some test sims and I liked it a lot, though I can see why some people wouldn’t be too thrilled with it (though Pets and Bon Voyage are consistently reviewed as the worst). It might get boring after a while, but I would love to relive my failed college experience in a good way vicariously through my sims. Plus I love that there is a sim who compulsively cheerleads in the dorm I was experimenting with. And that I don’t have to worry about feeding them in the dorms. I like that there doesn’t seem to be as much mandatory stuff to do during the college phase. It seems like a nice break for both the sim and the player. I didn’t have any performance problems, but my new computer was specifically designed to play this and RCT without being choppy. I’m going to play this a little more before I install OFB.
The one little embarrassing bad thing: I seem to have injured my right hand and/or had an arthritis flair up from playing The Sims. It’s much better today, but yeah, embarrassing.
And that was my weekend - a little cooking and a lot of sleep and Sims 2. No movies, no TV, no getting up early, not even any laundry. It was lovely!
- I got some much-needed rest this weekend. I didn’t sleep as much as I should have, but I slept a lot more than I did the past three or four weekends and I do feel better.
- I have healthy food in my home, cooked healthy food this weekend which I brought to work today and I am back on my diet as of this morning.
- I tried playing Sims 2 again this weekend and had a better time with it than I did the last time I played:
I did make some mistakes that were big enough that I kind of want to scrap this family and start over using their house. I’m not attached to them the way I am emotionally attached to the Couple Who Can’t Get Preggers that I was playing before, though, so I don’t have any real problem with scrapping them. The mistakes:
a) When I created the family I gave them too many children (keeping in mind it was my first Sims 2 family with kids). I gave them 2 children and a teenager, plus I had the two adults. That was just too much for me to juggle this early on in my Sims 2 experience.
b) I didn’t read any of the many online faqs, walkthroughs and strategy guides that are online or even re-read the Prima guide or the little booklet that comes with the game. As a result, I wasn’t even sure at first what I was supposed to be trying to do with the kids. I’d played adults before, so I had a better grip on them, but I found myself so anxious over the kids that I didn’t really take very good care of the adults, either.
c) Partly as a result of b, I made a lot of little mistakes that had major repercussions. For example, I didn’t realize the kids had homework until it was far too late, and then I couldn’t find one kid’s homework for a few days. They got really behind and never could bring their grades back up. I also didn’t have them ask for homework help and I’d made playful kids, which meant they hated the homework even more than most sim kids do (which is a lot). One of them was more serious and had a knowledge aspiration, and I eventually had him ask for homework help, so he improved to an A+ eventually. The other two were perpetually in the D+ zone, and the best I ever got them to was a C+. I also didn’t know they needed to be trying to max out skills and such. My poor teenager was a romance sim, and now I’m about to send her off to college without even having had her first kiss, all because I’ve been trying to force her to do homework when she doesn’t want to. She also has no skills whatsoever, doesn’t qualify for any scholarships and has only one close friend. I have failed her so badly! :( I also didn’t realize how important it was to meet the kids’ aspirations on their birthday. I was really focused on the parents’ aspirations and I think they are more easily blown off than the kids. Also, I made my mom sim a fortune sim then used her mainly to take care of the kids. Big mistake! I made her a fortune sim because it was the MacBeth family, but she was completely miserable and begging in the streets because I wouldn’t let her work. The therapist even came to see her.
I really want to try this again with one adult and just one or maybe two children and start the children off as toddlers, maybe. Now that I have a clue what I’m doing I think I can raise at least one child successfully and send them off to college.
I did play around with University with some test sims and I liked it a lot, though I can see why some people wouldn’t be too thrilled with it (though Pets and Bon Voyage are consistently reviewed as the worst). It might get boring after a while, but I would love to relive my failed college experience in a good way vicariously through my sims. Plus I love that there is a sim who compulsively cheerleads in the dorm I was experimenting with. And that I don’t have to worry about feeding them in the dorms. I like that there doesn’t seem to be as much mandatory stuff to do during the college phase. It seems like a nice break for both the sim and the player. I didn’t have any performance problems, but my new computer was specifically designed to play this and RCT without being choppy. I’m going to play this a little more before I install OFB.
The one little embarrassing bad thing: I seem to have injured my right hand and/or had an arthritis flair up from playing The Sims. It’s much better today, but yeah, embarrassing.
And that was my weekend - a little cooking and a lot of sleep and Sims 2. No movies, no TV, no getting up early, not even any laundry. It was lovely!