Sims 2. Time-wastage, virtual crack or harmless PC game?

Wanna know what I have been up to for the past couple of weeks? SIMS 2. I have been creating microcosms, neigborhoods, families and homes. I have been downloading customs skins, eye colors, hair styles, houses, lots and clothing for my virtual characters. I have basically populated an entire neighborhood with the characters of my story and am now in the process of lanscaping and decorating the homes and neighborrhoods. YES kids. I have been playing with my Sims 2 while on the road. (I want to buy the inventor(s) of the inverter a beer or two.) And, now that I am back in the the middle of nowhere with no DSL, I have been glued to the screen of my laptop when not running around the yard with the boy chasing poultry and chihuhuas, or cooking food just because I am bored, and not hungry. I am now on a mission to buy the expansion packs. THANKS MISHA. Thanks a whole bunch for introducing me to the Sims. Actually, it has helped kick me away from the writers block I have had, so I can work on my writing and not want to toss the entire thing into the fireplace. Anyone else hooked on PC or Video Games in general? I finally got myself off of Evercrack...I mean, EVERQUEST, and Animal Crossing. I am so tempted to pick of WOW, but who knows what dark path that will lead to! So I am back on The Sims. So , tell me, (mainly so I can feel a little better about my addiction) what games are you into?