Aaahhh...there's no place like home. Truly. I am home again. My parents moved me back about a week ago. You'd think they could let go of their baby but no, neither one wanted to move me back. It's nice to be loved but really, I'm 37 and a mom myself. I need my space and privacy.

So it's been good being home. I missed my bed a lot. I have a lot of stairs in my townhouse so that's been a challenge with a broken foot. I'm not fully recovered from the whole blood clot thing either. I get winded going up the stairs. I'm lugging a huge walking boot on my foot though and that isn't light. But, all in all, I'm doing pretty well. I'm walking on my own now with the boot instead of hobbling around like an old lady with a walker and crutches. A few more weeks and I can wear regular shoes and start driving. I broke my right foot so it's been so frustrating asking people to run errands and stuff for me. I've always been overly independent so something like this is just killing me. I hate asking for help.

I'm still spending time with my sims. No holiday stuff for them. Kind of pointless without seasons, which, by the way, was one of my favorite things about Sims 2. Autumn is my favorite season and my sims lived it every day. The heck with summer and winter is such a drag. C'mon, I live in Illinois. We don't have nice winters here. Like I really want to see that crap in my game too. I do wish the gift giving was more involved in Sims 3. One sim pulls a box with a bow out of his butt and gives it to another sim that holds it, says thanks, then tucks it in their butt. You could give them vomit and they'd be happy. What's it matter what's inside? They never open it. I basically use it to pass stuff back and forth between sims. It's seems extra loving that way. *cough*

I've decided I'm deleting the stupid imaginary friend dolls from now on. Ugly things. And they cancel my sims queue all the time to pillow fight. I just want them to go away. I have a household with 6 kids in it. Four have the dumb dolls that are now walking sacks of s**t. I'll just make them real when the kids move out and kill them off or something. They have horrible traits and I bet if you make them real they're fugly as well. I'd have to cheat and take them into CAS and edit everything to make it tolerable. One kid has a particularly mean one. It stalks the house, waiting to pounce on him from behind to scare the living daylights out of him. What kind of friend is that? That one is dying an ugly death. I think fire will do nicely. Or a long, agonizing stent of starvation in the garden. He can be fertilizer. Probably kill my plants though.

Oh, and here's something I've been wondering. Why did EA make the new dishwasher that matches the new cowboy cabinets the crappy cheap one? I have a lovely kitchen that my sims can't stand to be in because of that thing. It looks gorgeous! But that dishwasher. They all have to pile in and complain about the noise. Thank you all, just leave the room. Leave. The. Room. Don't you think those cabinets are classy enough that the matching dishwasher should be a really nice, QUIET one? Ugh.

OK, well I suppose I should shut up about my sim pet peeves and go do something constructive with my life, like laundry. It's so nice to be home.