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Somehow I managed to delete all the comments from my last few entries, although I’m still not entirely sure how. Blame it on my sheer exhaustion from trying to juggle three babies (not juggle in the literal sense, you know, although that would be a handy talent) in my husband’s Sim world. I made him a character years ago in the hope that he and my Sim would hit it off, but no such luck. Instead, he’s decided that his goal in life is to marry off six children … which means that he had to have six children. It makes me tired just typing it.

So I got him a girlfriend (not nearly as cute as me), and they set to work populating Pleasantville with Sim babies. Melissa, his girlfriend, was waddling around with child when Beloved decided to stargaze on the patio with his telescope. Lo and behold, he was abducted by aliens. Melissa wandered through the house for a while, incredibly frightened and huge, until Beloved was unceremoniously returned to Pleasantville the next morning. But what’s this? He’s pregnant! I was incredibly amused because I’d never had an alien baby before, but my amusement quickly turned to horror when Melissa went into labor and delivered twin girls. Not two days later, Beloved birthed an alien boy.

Now the three of them — Beverly, Deanna, and Jean-Luc — are toddlers, and Beloved and Melissa are exhausted all the time. I usually love playing the Sims to relax a little, but this is really beginning to wear me out. Once they get through the toddler phase and can do things for themselves it gets easier, but for now it’s a constant cycle of feeding, bathing, and potty training. As soon as one of them is happy, another starts crying. And, in real life, the husband and I smile at each other because the most pressing thing either one of us has to do tonight is make sure to start an episode of “Family Guy” before we both go to bed.

Speaking of real life, there isn’t much to tell about the weekend. My university played its last home football game yesterday (and lost), so we went out for breakfast with a friend and then froze half to death at the stadium. Afterward, Beloved went over to the mayor’s house to do some computer work while I made my contribution to the weekly discussion on Blackboard for my crisis communication class, and last night was so uninteresting that I can’t remember what we did. Today I went to the library for a few hours, then decided I didn’t want anything that we had in the house for dinner. A quick trip to Target, dinner at Ryan’s, and we were home again just in time for “The Amazing Race.”

Now that I’ve bored you all to tears, I have a request: I’m going to Pennsylvania for a few days next week and desperately need blog topics I can post on the fly. Is there anything you’ve been dying to know about DailyNewsie? If you don’t come up with anything, I swear I’ll spend five days telling you stories about my other Sims.