***The Starry-Eyed Revue***: memes

I've been pretty absent lately, which is nothing new. Blogging really hasn't been my thing lately. It's not that I'm not passionate about books still. I am! Very! Probably even more so than before, because I have been reading a lot and not concentrating on what I'm going to say about the story. Just enjoying it for what it is.

But I'm sad to say, (but not sorry), my reading has taken a bit of a nose dive as well. You see, I finally upgraded to The Sims 4!!! Moving on to the next game installment is always bitter sweet for me. I become so attached, and when you make videos and such, it's hard to start all that over in the next game. There are different controls to learn, and lots of research.

Plus, I heard some not so great things about The Sims 4. I read about how it was a step back. And it is.. as far as lot size goes. In the Sims 3 you had these large worlds to work with. In 4, you have smaller worlds, and we are back to loading lots, where as you didn't have to do that in 3. I'm sorry if I'm boring all you none gamers.. but I do have a point!!

While 4 is a step behind in that aspect, it's allowed them to add so much more in the way of details and over all interaction. We now have careers!!! And we can go to work with our Sims!! This is awesome. I have spent the past couple weeks working with Aubrey on her family, the mom climbing up the Doctor career.

My poor husband has been neglected. lol. We eat dinner and head right upstairs to the computer. Poor guy. lol. Well, last night we finally achieved Aubrey's goal. She wanted to deliver a baby. Behold.....

We worked so hard on that promotion. You need to diagnose and treat patients. It's awesome, but hard, and time consuming.

I started my own family as well. She is also in the medical career, but not as far, because Aubrey's sim has getting the most attention.

She likes eggs and toast. lol. They are so stinking adorable when they eat.

Her name is Samantha and this is her boyfriend Agustin.

Here they are getting engaged. I've been working on planning their wedding.

I know that sounds crazy, but the game play is a ton of fun! Sims 4 has a ton more to do as far as the game play. The events you plan have actual tasks that you need to do to make the event successful.

So that's what I've been doing for the last few weeks. Living another life. lol.

My favorite thing so far in The Sims 4, are the facial expression and personality the Sims have. I've been making little memes with them. I will leave you with a few. :)

Feel free to take any of these if you want. lol. Now I'm off to get some reading done. :)

Labels: fun, gaming, memes, obsessed, sims, sims3, sims4

So...I've been considering putting an end to my participation in weekly memes -- except for In My Mailbox, which I don't even link to anymore -- at least temporarily, in favor of more original content. I've been linking up to Teaser Tuesday, Top Ten Tuesday (only arbitrarily as the topic suits me), and Waiting on Wednesday for probably a year and a half now. Other memes have come and gone over the years -- almost three now, I can't believe it -- but those listed above I've managed to participate in nearly every single week since I decided to start linking up.

But it takes a lot of time to visit and return comments from everyone who stops by. I love finding new blogs this way, too, but I've been so behind on responding to comments and I feel like, aside from the content I'm posting for these memes, the most important aspect of memes is the follow-through. And I've been neglecting that aspect almost entirely the last three months or so because of real life.

But it's not just that. My meme posts always end up getting buried on Tuesdays and Wednesdays because I've got other stuff -- reviews, discussions, giveaways, etc. -- that I want to post immediately and that I want to be my top post. If the only way people are seeing it is through me linking up to another blog, then is it really for my readers?

I love reading teasers because they give me a taste of the writing in a book I may or may not have already been interested in. I love a good top ten list as much as the next person. And I love helping others discover new reads each week, as well as finding my own when visiting others' WoW posts. But is that enough to keep doing them? I started doing them a) because they're fun, b) because they're easy, and c) because I didn't have a whole heckuva lotta content back then. Now, I seem to be overflowing with ideas and reviews, so they're not necessary, per se.

But do you find them helpful? Do you like memes like Teaser Tuesday and Waiting on Wednesday? Would it matter one iota to you if I stopped them altogether? What if I still posted when I didn't have anything better? Does that make them less worthwhile because they're fallback posts?

Obviously, I haven't made a decision yet, but I would really value your feedback on this, guys. So, what are your feelings on memes these days?