Well, I've been (ab)using the Carl's Sims 3 Guide-Site quite a bit for over a month now, and been a member of this forum for a few days, so after a little push from a certain Swede I decided to properly introduce myself.
Hello simmers, my real name is Catarina, and I'm turning 18 this year so I'm one of the teenagers in the crowd here.
I live in southern Stockholm, in Sweden, where I've been living all my life with my family. We've got two cats, Bamse and Baltazar (both males), who like to release their bladders all around in our home
. If I were a sim my traits would probably be: Artistic, Ambitious (alternating with Couch potato
), Perfectionist, Bookworm (though it's been weeks since I last read a book... but I do read a lot of Fanfiction!) and Friendly. Probably with a bit of Over Emotional thrown in there, too.
I've played The Sims since 2002-2003 something, and loved it a lot. So of course I was very excited for The Sims 2 and I loved that too. Then, The Sims 3 came out and I must admit I wasn't as interested as with TS2, and nearly forgot about it, until my parents gave me TS3 and TS3:WA as a Christmas present. After which I was completely hooked, and I spent a couple of months playing it non-stop, but now it's calmed down a bit. I still play it approximately twice a week, sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on my mood and my amount of free time. I'm planning on getting HELS and Ambitions, but we'll have to see.
Though I am a native Swede and speak Swedish fluently, I am very good at English (after several years of watching English TV shows and reading English Fanfiction) and I have no real problems speaking it properly. I'm also glad to have found a forum where it's according to rules to speak PROPER English, instead of breaking every grammatical rule in existence. I'm a bit of a grammar freak, my class-mates would find it highly annoying when I would constantly correct Swedish mistakes, so I just stuck to doing it in my head and not out loud.
I'm also glad for a forum which is very children-friendly and definitely rated "All Ages". Recently I've frequented a forum which would be quite the opposite (filled with crazed, outspoken women, oh joy
), which I don't mind but it feels like a nice change.
But most of all, I'm here because it is not as cluttered and off-topic as the official forums, and it has many helpful people willing to answer any questions and help other members. Carl, Pam and all their helpers have really made a great guide, too, that I like reading, not much because I'm in dire need of help, but because I find it very interesting and informative.
I've learned a lot of TS3 these last few months, but there's always something new when it comes to The Sims (3).
So thank You for your incredible work, I've learned a lot from you!!
(And yes, I tend to be quite long-winded with my posts, hopefully it's not too hard to read for you
)
