Quitting

Hello Most Wonderful and Gentle Readers.

I’m posting one last time on this blog just to say that I’m officially quitting this challenge.  Some of you may have suspected as much would happen–after all, it’s been quite a long time since I last posted.

Please don’t think that I undertook this decision lightly.  I considered quitting many times before, especially during my pregnancy.  As a new mother and someone who works full-time, it’s difficult to find time to play  my Sims.  I have only recently been able to start posting to my story blog, The Edith Prescott Mystery Series, again.  When I got the Pets expansion pack, I was so excited, but that excitement turned to disappointment when I realized that I wouldn’t have any opportunities to actually play the game.  My story blog is more of a posing endeavor (very little play) and in a WYD challenge, the best strategy is to fill up the house with children so that you can get through all 26 pregnancies as soon as possible.  Even if I switched off weekends (one weekend focused on the story blog and one on the challenge blog) it would take a while because Ophelia has the hardest time getting guys to sleep with her, and apparently I am no good at her time management.  When I opened up the WYD challenge file to play this weekend and found that I wasn’t having any fun playing it, I decided that it was time to throw in the towel–my free time is so limited that I simply can’t afford to spend it doing something that I don’t really enjoy.

I feel really, really bad about this.  I feel the same horrible sense of failure that I had when I decided not to continue my legacy challenge (though that file was glitched beyond repair).  I especially feel bad because I have had such wonderful, loyal, dedicated followers, and I hate the idea of letting any of you down.  I don’t think I’ll be posting any more of my challenge attempts because it just isn’t fair to the people who take the time to read and engage with my characters.

I’ll still be continuing my story blog, and to satisfy my desire to actually play the game I think I’ll be starting a vague sort of prosperity/town story blog.  It’s not really a challenge because I don’t have any real aim in mind other than creating interesting towns and families to get the most out of the game play.  If it’s more about the story and there’s no real aim in mind to get in the way, then I have a better chance of continuing it.  In any case, I want to thank all of you for your friendship and support, and to apologize for not having the will power to see this WYD challenge through.