I can tell I've been playing the Career Caps and New Digs challenge too much because I had a dream last night that the Sims world turned real, and I was my sims trying to get to the next house! My goals were the same as my sims goals. And there were palm trees that looked straight out of the game, but real and not pixels. I think I even had a plumbob.
And, I know I've played too much (not that there is such a thing as too much Sims) when I try to fast forward other computer related tasks. I hit the 3 button, and sometimes the 0, and wonder why nothing happened.