What happened in your sims 3 game today?

Good Evening!

Hope you all had a Marvelous Monday and lots of fun with your Sims.

DivinylsFan​   Thank you for your comments and I apologize if anything in my posts bothered you that was not my intention.  When decorating with the favorite colors of my Sims.  Due to my 'random, as-it-happens' style of play, I like to look up more color codes online than what the game offers and use various shades of the color such as medium, light and darker shades along with some complimentary colors to go with them.  Since my latest Sims 3 households started with one Sim, most of the main areas use their favorite but as the household expands then other areas such as the down & upstairs family are use their favorites in the decor.  I've had sims with 'seafoam' as a favorite but since the game shade is so light, I like to look up other shades online for more of a variety.    

HotBlackSand​  Hope that you had a good weekend and that Rebecca's new little bundle of joy arrived safely.  As for my game, Sims 3 works great on my new laptop and tourism is now 'booming' in World Adventures as the Base Camp in France on Jarrod's first trip there was full of explorers.  I think the old one was just not totally compatible with it as the laptop wasn't really designed for gaming.  The game didn't even have sound on my old laptop but it does now.

emorrill​  Glad that you were able to find out what was causing your health issues and hope that you're one the road to recovery.

I spent last evening and today getting Jarrod settled back into Sunset Valley where Victoria Andrews is now his boss in his journalism career although he only has one promotion to go reach the top and becomes boss of his co-workers.  Jarrod has already rebuilt his friendship status with his co-workers but still has a ways to go with his boss. 

Since my last visit with Jarrod, Sunset Valley was hit by several days of torrential rains (now that Seasons is active) which cause massive flooding and many homes were damaged and had to be rebuilt including Jarrod's.  Thankfully, Jarrod had a copy of his house  plans registered with the local municipal records (aka Sims 3 studio), so he was able to have his home rebuilt in no time. His garden survive the floods and dried up nicely in the early summer sunshine.  Jarrod's magic laundry and Chinese gnomes like to spend time watching his plants grow.

Since they say that pictures are better than a thousand words, I'll share the rest of Jarrod's summer adventures in photo/commentary mode.

Shortly after getting settled back into his home, Jarrod decided get some new outfits for himself for the summer season so that he wouldn't swelter in the head.  Although it rained most of the summer, there were a few hot sunny days including the first day of the Summer Festival which he visited on his first day off that week.  Here, Jarrod is competing against Leighton, Marty & Justine in the hotdog eating contest which he won in the next photo.

Jarrod then enjoyed a nice, refreshing yellow snow cone before heading home.

During the summer holiday, Jarrod received a phone call from one of his co-workers, Fiona McIrish asking him to travel to France to solve a French Puzzler by asking a local, Aimee Lefebvre for the solution.  Since he had already attended the summer festival, Jarrod decided to use his leisure day to take his first trip to France to get the answer for Fiona.  While there, he helped Estelle Fouchier (general merchant) by finding her baseball that fell down a hole near the Forgotten Burial Mound while playing catch with her children a few days before he arrived.  Jarrod beginning his first adventure in France above.

View of the underground maze at the Forgotten Burial ground tomb.

The next day, after returning the baseball to Estelle and buying a Kenspa for himself (no celebrity discounts this trip), Jarrod found Aimee at the bookstore and after chatting with her for awhile, she gave him the solution to the puzzle that Fiona had asked for.  Before leaving the bookstore, he purchased some recipe books from Noelle St James who is the Book Merchant this time around.

Jarrod then enjoyed lunch at the local French Cafe and indulged in a plate of frog's legs.  Once he learns the recipe, Jarrod hopes to return to France to catch some frogs unless he gets an opportunity to take a trip to Egypt first.

After lunch, Jarrod helped out Francois Lambert by giving him one of the nice bottles of nectar he found while looking for the baseball and then he made a cheese plate for Francois to enjoy with it.

Jarrod spent the rest of the day at the Nectary where he purchased a nectar making machine and the best nectar racks before harvesting the nectar grape plants in the garden area.  As usual, Jarrod had many locals lining up to talk to him including Edith Morel, Andre Lefebvre, Beatrice and Colette Bonnet.  Despite not having the charisatic trait, he always has lots of local sims wanting to talk to him.  Guess being  'irresistible' will do that, too.

Poor Edith was the first local to turn into a zombie during the country's full moon. She doesn't look so serious as zombie though, just a little green.

After Jarrod returned home, I decided to decorate his basement hobby area for the nectar making equipment along with the Bot making machine since he wanted to learn how to create a Simbot shortly after arriving back in Sunset Valley.  I also added the 'All-in-One' bathroom in the exercise and reading area at the bottom of the circular stair.  Used the light Wisteria shade (cfa3ea) with a complimentary Brown Sugar (b27c66) that I found on a color website called  'Creative Booster' which lists various color palettes with their hex codes. Used 'ghost white' for the light shades.  The large fans should help keep Jarrod cool on hot summer days.

Will add more hobby and game items as time goes on and probably recolor the room to match the favorite colors of future household members.

Hope you all have a good night and will leave you with a nice Sunset Valley scenic view with the hot air balloon and Jarrod's gnomes playing in the garden.