Hrm.
Knowledge/Pleasure sim with supposed ability (according to selected asp. bonuses window) can't actually write the Restaurant Guide at any computer. 
Maxed Cooking & Creativity skills.

Atrociously Evil Witch lost sparkles on arriving home from work. 
Attempted clothing change, appearance change, study dark arts & casting evil spell with no luck at getting the missing sparkles back. 
Regained them on completion of Magivestigium spell.  Assuming that disappearing/reappearing the sim is what regains them, similar to leaving & re-entering lot.



Nope.  Successfully cast on nearby unsuspecting neighbour.  Followed immediately by highly amusing admiration by landlady.

Here's another one; this time from buy mode.

New barstool:  Crankshaft Barstool by You Got Muscle

Scenario:  Island bench.  Two benches long, starting from wall.  Crankshaft barstool beside wall is unusable, "I can't sit down to eat, there's a chair in the way."
Altered both barstools to old faithful, "Keister Kompanion" Barstool.  Now both sections of island bench are usable.

I've had my test [CAS] sim in Belladonna Cove up to platinum & back to gold & has 34,750 points to spend.  I can't remember the last time she was green though - mind you knowledge sims are simple to keep happy.
I'm yet to test the reward items though....

With the on the spot blind date set-ups, my test sim was given an NPC (delivery driver).  She can't phone her, which I think was a FT thing with NPCs.  As far as I'm concerned, NPCs shouldn't be droppable by matchmakers/random blind date givers if you then aren't able to ever call them again.
Eaxis seem to not only be promoting open relationships, but one night stands as well.

Playing with all EPs & SPs installed, vanilla.