It is just such a nice game to waste time with and enjoy. I honestly do think I prefer sims 2, but sims 3 is a really nice casual, realaxing game, just to play when you don't feel like doing much, which for me is quite a lot recently. And I have also got quite attached to Maggie and Chris. :D

I am playing sim 2 as well though! Well, I am well into preparing for my build a city/prosperity/mixture of other things challenge. I have couple more sims to make for it, and I am now setting up and decorating the neighbourhood. I did originally say that I was just going to decorate once there are some more buildings and sims in it, but being the perfectionist that I am I have to get it looking nice before I start! XD

So we'll start with more sims 3 neighbourhood shots...

More sims 3 pic spam! Not as large this time. The hospital seems to have become my second home. I've not been very well recently, well not for about 6 months, and I am just constantly having appointments with different doctors and specialists. They think I have chronic fatigue syndrome (or M.E), but we need another specialist's opinion first to be certain.

Going to start making sims and sorting out a neighbourhood for a challenge I'll be doing in sims 2 soon, as well. I am really looking forward to that, hopefully I'll find it enjoyable.

Anyway onto the sims 3 pic spam....

So I am really enjoying playing sims 3 at the moment. It is great fun. I think it is kinda a more of a...casual game than the sims 2, I don't focus on the little details like making up story lines and personalties for each of the sims, and I just let them make things up  on their own. It's really amusing, and a nice change from my playing style in sims 2.

I am also trying to build a half-decent in house in sims 3 and sims 2, which I suck at so much. I never been much of a builder or decorator, I usually just download houses, because it takes me way too long. But I am trying to change that and practise building. I am finding it fun, but frustrating at the time it takes. Seriously I really admire all the amazing builders out there. Hopefully I can improve though.

But I want to play some more sims 2. I love it so much, and want to do loads more things with it! I was thinking of starting a fresh neighbourhood....and maybe doing some kind of challenge? I have never really done a challenge, I just usually just play. No goals or anything, I just enjoy making up random storylines for each sim and family. But I have seen quite a few challenges over livejournal, and they look like fun so I want to give one a try.

It looks like the most common one is legacies? I have read some really funny legacies, but I think I want to play something a bit more open-ended with more familes and sims involved. So one thing that did catch my eye was the Build a City Challenge, it looks a lot of fun and I love what Penny has done with the challenge.

But other than that I don't really know what kind of challenges there are out there, being new to the livejournal community.  So I was wondering what people recommend? Just any ideas would be welcome!