HEY GUYS! I know, I haven't updated in an age. It's been one of those things, though, y'know? Life is way too busy to allow even any play time when I want to play Sims.. but then when I DO have free time, there're just a million other things I'd rather be doing. Money has been tight, so I didn't know when I would be able to get Seasons, which just put another damper on my desire to sit down and play. Luckily, I had a bit of money leftover from paying my last couple bills, so I rewarded myself and went out today and picked up Seasons!

And let me tell y'all.. Seasons is just kicking my butt. My goodness! Most likely the biggest thing was my first ever visit from the social worker in one of my main families. I was -- OK, yeah, I'm gunna spoil it here because, trust me, when I get around to their update I'm severely lacking in pictures, so, might as well! -- I was playing the McNeil's. They had three boys. The oldest two were kids, the youngest had just become a toddler. The two kids were out playing in the snow, building a snowman before school. And I know you're supposed to keep an eye on their temperature thing, so when I looked over at them after having been tending to the others, I was surprised to see one of them turning all pale! So I canceled out his building snowman action and set him up to go warm himself by the fire. Then I made the mistake of going to check on someone else in the house. I wasn't gone for more than a game minute or two. I got back over to them, and the boy who was close to freezing was NOT moving towards the house! He had dropped that action in favor of, well.. freezing. I got the warning to warm him up or the social worker would come, so I hurried to cancel out his brother's building the snowman action so he could warm him up. The freezing kid was only a step or two away from his brother, so I thought I was safe. But no sooner had the brother stopped building the snowman and turned to warm up his freezing brother.. the social worker was there! I thought I was supposed to get more time to attempt to fix whatever was wrong before the social worker arrived.. but she was there before the warning message had even vanished. I was shocked.

Those little thermometer bars go from normal to overheated or freezing pretty darn quick. I mean, those boys hadn't been out in the snow for too long and the one froze (even though he was in outerwear). And they get overheated from just about /anything/.. playing catch, jumping on their beds. I had Harris running on the treadmill and his bar went completely red after only a few sim minutes, it seemed. So.. I'm still adjusting to having to keep an eye on that.

I haven't tried too much gardening yet. The McNeil's have an apple tree, but it's forever sickly. No matter how much I tend it or how many lady bug things I put around it, it's still sickly.

I do love the look of the falling snow, though. So gorgeous. I do NOT like that sims are forever getting a "It's Snowing!" thing stuck up in their queue and looking out the window at it. Looking forward to seeing rain and hailstorms in the game too.

Anyway! I hope to get an update out.. sometime. I don't want to promise anything, knowing how horrid I am with getting things done lately. Hopefully soon, though! <3