She was basically tactful the way she said it, less like she was disappointed in us and more like she knows there's no point in comparing the outsides of people's lives to the insides of our lives. I don't *want* the careers my cousins have. I don't want their lifestyles. And my mom gets that, but it's still the first hint I've heard that she has some issues of pride going on there, about how her kids measure up.

Haaaaa, we were just talking about that in therapy today.

I got Xerxes IX!!!!! I am very excited, I've been waiting for him for days. Four! Four days.

Tubbs showed up and ate all the Frisky Bits. But at least I got a picture of him.

I went to the funeral today. No crazy traffic, thank goodness. It was a weird day. I felt like my cousins were mourning a grandfather that I never got to know. Then I came home and TCG kept ltc occupied while I took a two hour nap.

New to me Pickles showed up and left me two gold coins. I've been getting a lot more gold coins since I started using the autoset that someone here pointed out.

I adore the way kitties look in the glass vase and in the small box.

I like them in the flower pot, and when there are two who have gone head-first into the U-bend tube.

Ramses just showed up in my pyramid!

I don't have enough coins for the glass vase but I adore when they use both the small box and the bucket.

I just got the vase but haven't caught any cat in it yet. I kinda love that you don't have to deal with a litter box at all.

I stll don't have Tubbs. I'm trying Frisky Bits again.

Tubbs why have forsaken me.

I discovered I can play and enjoy Sims Free Play but regular sims drives me crazy. I'm trying to set up a complicated circle of romantic entanglements. Which I don't think you can do on Free play.