Guys! I'm not dead. Honest. Don't you just hate when Real Life rears its ugly head and demands your attention? Like, GEEZ, just go away already, all you silly bills for things like electricity and cable and cell phone, and let me play video games in peace!

I haven't had much chance to play Sims.. although that could also be because what free time I HAVE had has gone to playing either Animal Crossing DS or Zelda: Twilight Princess on my new Nintendo Wii.. but I promise that I will get a few updates up soon. On the schedule:

- Everson Update

- Legacy Update

- Meet my NEWEST Legacy family (as in /so brand new/ that I just finished making them, like, 5 minutes ago), the McNeil's! Harris McNeil and his pet Dalmatian, Perdita (yeah, I'm not very original, so sue me). We'll see how things go for them. I was looking up the new Legacy Challenge rules and by golly, it seems like the whole thing has just gotten so much more complicated! But I have picked out a few handicaps for this family to follow: Patriarchy (all heirs must be male), eXtreme (which looks like the Nightlife Xtreme start I did with the Everson's), Strict Family Values (ha, and just watch me roll a bunch of Romance sims in this family *knocks on wood*), Hypochondriac (the idea of a quarantine for sick sims sounds really fun, if I were to try and work this family with more of a story) and.. Free-Roaming Ghosts, which I'm still considering if I'll actually use or not. Unlike in previous versions of the challenge, it looks like this time, if you want to get these points, you MUST keep EVERY grave you EVER get ON the lot. Which.. the ghosts on the Legacy and Everson lots are all free-roaming, but there've been a couple of graves I've had to toss because the ghosts were super pissed off about something (and in the Legacy's case, there got to be way too many ghosts for the lot to handle well). So I'm still considering that one.

So have no fear! I'm working on updates and I really, really hope that I'll be able to get them up soon and that I don't get too caught up in holiday shopping madness. Hope the rest of you are faring well so far this holiday season! :D