I've lurked around enough, I suppose I should actually introduce myself.
I bought The Sims 3 a couple of years ago with the intention of trying to get my wife into games (and therefore give me more time for my FPS's and MMO's), but she just isn't meant to play computer games, I suppose. So, the game sat on the shelf gathering dust for a few years.
Fast forward to just over a month ago. I was in a gaming funk, tired of the same old same old (found it hard to play games where the sole focus is to kill things), so I decided, what the heck, let's install this game and see if I can get into it. Well, thanks to few few well (or poorly?) timed sales at Origin and other sites, I now sit with all EP's, save Supernatural (which is currently on sale at Amazon, so this might be incorrect by this evening) and Showtime. I find myself enjoying this game more than I have any other game since the heyday of Everquest.
I think I'll leave it at that for now, lest I max out my writing skill with this just post.