We Started Yesterday about 4:00am....

We were running Sims... so I chose a lesser Sim that I liked (a Skeletal thing)... and built him up... (all "Vacation" "merit badges" lots of really cool items in his inventory ... all nicely grouped in display cabinets and upon shelves... we were rather "proud" of our "creation"...

                             ... "the Evil Thing from Deep Space" is this Sim's Name....
then at 2:00am the game "crashed" and him, his many possessions and even his home were "deleted"
... We felt terrible.. so spent about another six hours trying with another Sim... hope to not loose this one... Chose something a bit more "hideous" than just a skeleton....
                              ... we will now spend even More hours trying again....
                                                 Update.... about 10:30pm....
               We finally got this character up to (mostly) what we had of the "Skeleton" ....
                                         Took a bit Longer this time though....
                           Just now "Saved it and am taking a bit of a break...