In live mode placing and a popup comes up, soft locking the game

Pretty descriptive title but if I had a nickle for every time it's happened in the past week I'd only have two but it's weird it happened twice. I'm placing baby pictures on the wall and suddenly my sim has something going on at work. I am now stuck in the placement with the object, and I can't press the option of "yes" "no" to this life event popup ): softlocking the game as I can't press anything like save and losing about an hour (a boring hour but an hour nonetheless!)