Ghost Jane is still preggers.  I haven't had much time to play lately so I've yet to see the baby, but other Sims will happily pat Jane's belly and coo at it.  It's kind of freaky -- see my most screenshot "Eilram and Dead Pregnant Jane" for one example.

Things around the house are still breaking like mad.  I can't tell if this is the effects of the ghost or not, really, because this is the only household I've really played and it's always seemed a little "cursed" to me -- the stereo, computer, and TV all broke the first time anyone used them after moving in.  Ghost Jane is quite the mechanic though, so she just busies herself fixing things as they go.  She's also been slowly working on upgrading everything to "Unbreakable", which should be nice.

Meanwhile, my lot submissions are seeming to go OK, but I cannot manage to get a pattern accepted.  I've made two so far and have tried twice now to submit one of them, but it's just not going well.  My pattern was rejected the first time for not tiling properly, except it does, so I went and double- and triple-checked it (yep, tiling fine!), then resubmitted it with additional screenshots.  The first time I'd just submitted it with a screenshot of the pattern on clothing from CAS, so I thought having it on a wall and a bed, too would be good and perhaps that was the problem with the first submission.  I put together an image showing it as a bedspread and a wallpaper, and a dress and a robe, and submitted that only to have it rejected because, "We require you to submit an image that shows how the pattern tiles on a surface or clothing."

Argh, but I did, I did, I did!  It doesn't seem the reasons are matching up with things that are actually wrong with the pattern.  It's very frustrating.  I'm going under the assumption for now that it's just a glitch in the system and it will hopefully be worked out (I know that when I previewed my second submission the screenshot took several seconds to load off TSR's image server -- someone moving through sumbissions quickly might never have seen the screenshot unless they had it open for at least 10 seconds).  I hate to whine about it, but it is just very discouraging.  And I'm a whiner, too.  Perhaps it's the rainy days keeping me inside and making everything seem dull that makes it just all seem so very dire, eh?