Ahh man, I remember my very first time with The Sims 3. After how I watched videos of Vargskelethor (Joel from Vinesauce) playing The Sims 3, I thought "This looks like a blast, I wanna play!".
One day (over a year ago), My sister purchased the Xbox 360 version of The Sims 3. She played it for several moments and decided that she hates it. A few months later, near Thanksgiving, She moved out and left her copy as well as her Xbox behind. I decided "Well, Let's give this a shot."
I made two Sims, Myself and the Second Doctor from that good old British show Doctor Who. And with those two, I played out a absolutely amazing Harlequin romance-type love story. They soon got married and had two children; Alistair and Leela. All was going well when my sister decided she wants her Xbox back. Don't panic, She did give me a spare Xbox she had and let me keep TS3. So I immediately started over. I had to rush their relationship. OH! And there was a bit of a mishap when trying to remake those kids. I accidentally let my female Sim watch KidZone while pregnant. So they had twin boys Alistair and Benton. They did have a daughter too but her name was Victoria.
Then one night, After watching British sitcoms on PBS, I decided "Let's make a household full of my favorite TV show characters!" and made Sims of Mr. Humphries from Are You Being Served?, Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf, and Illya Kuryakin from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and added my Second Doctor Sim to the household. And thus, The Smegheads household was born. It was great. Everyone hated Rimmer at first, Humphries got married to a female townie and had a daughter, Humphries' wife actually became a successful author, and everything went well. Then the game started freezing when I try to save it. By then, I thought "Well I enjoyed the console version, Let's get the PC version!"
Just this June, After saving up my allowance plus a week of preparing my computer for it and begging my mother to order it for me, I finally got The Sims 3 Starter Pack for the PC. I did stumble upon a problem while installing; I got a "invalid code" error trying to get it on my Origin. After calling EA's customer support and talking to a VERY nice lady, The Sims 3 was added to my Origin library and I was in business. I recreated all of the Smegheads albeit made them look better than their console version counterparts and added a fifth member; Robin Gibb from the Bee Gees.
Now several months, Installations of a EP and a SP, and many long sessions later, I have a household to be proud of. With three Sims having accomplished their lifetime wishes, One of my Sims married to a Sim of myself (see my avatar) with two beautiful children, and one Sim who was married to a Sim I made that I randomly put in my town but divorced on amicable terms but has a great military career, Everything's all hunky-dory in the Smegheads-verse. I'm already planning a second generation for my two Sims' little family. I also wanna do a second Smegheads household. ;)
My Sim-making, house-building, and house-furnishing skills have also improved since then as well, Kinda impressive if you ask me.