Saturday 4th April
4) I bought MySims for Joel for Christmas and then got slightly addicted to it.
'Tis true and I hang my head in shame. I'm over it now but for a while I was playing it compulsively every lunchtime and just thinking 'One more house, then I'll stop. Oh no, he hasn't got a bed, must build him a bed. Oh, he wants some apple essences to go on the bed, need to go and find a tree, then I'll stop.' Like a crazed person.
This is why I have never in my life tried smoking, drugs or getting drunk. I have such rubbish self-control when it comes to not over-indulging in stuff, that I refuse to start because I know I won't stop. For that reason I've never watched an episode of Lost or 24 either 
I can't start a really good book unless I know I'm properly ill and will actually be in bed for two days straight.
I did actually let Crash play with MySims too. He had to have his own town though - he wasn't going to interfere with my precious handiwork. I was very glad of that too when one day they were playing on it unsupervised and Scooby came and told me 'Crash moved Violet out of her house and there are no trees.' I came down and did a virtual tour of Crashtown, and indeed, every townperson had been kicked out, every tree had been uprooted and the town hall had been remodelled to resemble something like an art deco garden shed.
I deleted his profile, gave him a new one (with trees and a respectably sized town hall) and then moved him away from the Wii, hid the game from him and made a mental note never to allow him to become Prime Minister.
