One day I heard a rumor

That my favorite game was coming online

With chat and sims from around the nation

My mind was whirling with the possibilities

I could be someone else

I could be me

I wanted, I waited, and all I saw was coming soon

Then I heard the words that would bring me doom

Beta testing now available

I rushed off to apply

Crossing fingers that I might get in

The day came that my, yes, my beta CD arrived

I ran to my computer and installed

To find that my PC was crud

Oh now what to do?

I sat and whined to my significant other

My sims is to slow and I cannot play

But he decided to make my day

He said use my computer my dear

I ran to the basement indeed

Cold and musky down there it was

I bundled up in the blanket fuzz

Popped in the CD I did

Clicked install and off it went

Pop in disk two it said

Happily I did

Ah finally complete!

There it is The Sims Online

On my screen

I choose to create a sim

Click a city where to live

Not much is open that I see

I choose Test Center

So that I can test

Now for the fun part you see

Is who do I want to be

I scroll through the heads

And then I scroll through the outfits

I pick one out of each

Now for a name

I sit back to think

Do I want my sim to be me?

That'll never do

How can I be someone else

Playing me?

So I sit and think

And finally choose Dusty

Then I click on create

The worst thing happens

I stare in shock

How could this be?

I try again

Still the same thing

I frantically run to the help sections

HELP!! HELP!! HELP!!

I cannot create a sim!

Oh someone please help.

I run back upstairs

Confess my woes to my guy

He pops downstairs to see

What the fuss is about

He does some things

And OMG Im now an official sim!

I sit in the chair in awe

There I am

High up in the sky

Looking at a city so grand

Now let me assure you

This is not where the story ends

Yet where it begins......--Beckers