We can only hope that candy's horrid spelling is due to her being 6 years old, otherwise I will assume she was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.   

Do you accept pesos?

The school issue has been resolved slightly. I noticed that my kids now have the option to go to school (unlike before), but they can't actually go inside. This was resolved by simply saving the school lot to the lot bin, deleting the school, and placing it down again. Now it works fine.

Other than that, I only get random crashes whenever I try and take a photograph, but this has been happening since the first Awesome Mod. I have a feeling it may just be my computer, since nobody else seems to have this problem.

I see EA did nothing to fix the issues with the sims3.package files, considering I can't install store content that I got from the website legally, or store content from MATY. I was about to switch my hate for EA to Activision, but I guess that will have to wait.

The treadmill is your friend.

TSR Merlin seems to install .package versions of your sims 3 package files into your "Mods" folder. I don't use TSR Merlin, because it's a buggy piece of shit, and because converting sims 3 package files into regular package files makes my game lag like crazy. 

EA is a piece of shit. Seriously, their patches do more harm than good. All my wonderful custom content is gone. 

The Piano
Hot Tub
Diving Board
Wedding Cake (Why did they take that out?)
Two story windows, doors and columns
Stages! (Why did they take that out?)
Diagonal pools
Wedding Arch
Big Aquariums

I thought the Sims looked much better in CAS than in the Sims 2 when I first played it, and I was excited. There was so much detail, especially on the body and the face. But then I loaded the game and...

 

They looked like mutant iguanas that had crawled out of the pits of fucking hell. I noticed my morbidly obese sim looked fine, but my skinny guy looked awful. It was even worse because he didn't have a fat face. And the sims profile pictures look like lifeless mannequins. While I do like the Sims 3 over the Sims 2 overall (integrated neighborhood, CAST, fast loading times), the Sims look terrible aesthetically. Their smiles make them look retarded, and their facial expressions are over exaggerated. I could make good looking sims in the Sims 2 easy, even without CC, and when they smiled, it actually looked natural, not creepy like in this game.

I'm quite disappointed with that. The Sims look terrible. The males got the real shaft in this game. No good clothes or hair and it's impossible to make a good looking male sim. They all look way too feminine. Luckily, the MTS3 facial slider mod has helped quite a bit with this, but the sims still look god awful in-game.