Origin is Offline.

So, I've had a problem recently where I'd click on the sims 4 to go to play, but it would not open and neither would origin. I got angry and restarted my computer and left it over night. It worked the next day, but later I still had the same problem. I'm on a Windows 7, btw, so this may not work for you. If you're on a mac, I can't help, sorry.

Anyways, I clicked on the arrow in my taskbar to bring up the hidden icons, and saw that origin was on there. I clicked on show desktop while I was not viewing any tabs and then a lot of origin boxes opened up showing the logo, the sims 4 name, the time, etc. It also said "Offline" in one of the boxes. Origin was also unresponsive, making my computer as me if I wanted to close it or wait for it to respond. I closed the program (Nothing will happen if you wait for it to respond, so close it), clicked to try origin again, and it worked. 

Also, you can access the TS4 gallery from the TS4 Gallery website. You just have to log in.

Hope this helps!