"Yes! Val says you know him because he and Xellos are like cousins! I have a cousin here. His name is Sirius, but I've not seen him in a few weeks." This makes her frown in worry; she really should find out how he is. "Yes! You should. He'll be here soon and you can talk!"
No, Sims 2. C and I were all excited by talk of Sim3 then it came out and it sounded awful to us. More like a fishbowl than a dollhouse- you could make multiple families but if you moved from playing one to the other, the first would keep going on their own. So you could lose them all to death or weird marriages or things like that. So we're sticking with 2 (we even have a Margate neighborhood with a lot of the characters from here! :P ). Oh god, I do that all the time. Especially on threads that span a couple weeks. So it's not just you.