Happy New Year, everyone! Now through January 15th, there are seven new seasonal items available through Nook Shopping; that’s more than you can order in a day! The highlight is the 2021 celebratory arch.

The zodiac ox figurine may also be noteworthy to New Leaf players, because it was a free gift given out in New Leaf just today!
In the mail, I received several glasses of sparkling cider that I ordered last night. I also got a letter from my latest Snowboy, who sent me a three-tiered snowperson.
I then made my final preparations for tonight’s holiday party, including building a bartender! That earned me 1,000 Nook Miles for making my 20th quality snowperson.

I wrapped up seven gifts to give to my visitors tonight: a monster statue, a streetlamp, a lighthouse, a teacup ride, 30 gold nuggets, a public bench, and a bag of 99k bells. They were all wrapped the same, and each visitor could take one when they arrive.
I was happy to see that Crazy Redd showed up today. I was pretty sure that three of his works of art were fakes, and the other one was something I hadn’t seen before: a mysterious painting, which I bought. Even though I’ve heard Redd can have four fakes occasionally, I like my odds when I know the other three are forgeries.
At 10:00, I opened my gate for my holiday party (and the first Friday Night Forest of 2021). Logan, Timo, Alex from Pawnee, and Alex from A-Nation showed up. While Timo disappeared, I showed the others my new winter area.

I suggested we should look for Timo, but I found her almost immediately. She was drawing something on the bulletin board. I laughed when I saw what it said.

We then beat up Rizzo, fell into holes, and burned some sparklers by my 2021 sign.

After Logan pooped on my pillar and got his tongue stuck on a frozen pole, William came over. We fell into holes again.

After that, we played an ice sumo tournament. Alex from A-Nation won the tournament, and we finished off the sumo ring with a 6-player battle of sumo. Alex from Pawnee won that one. I actually got 2nd place in the 6-player round, which shocked me. I’m normally one of the first out, haha. But congrats to both Alexes. Since I had two unclaimed gifts left over (since town didn’t fill up), both Alexes got a 2nd present as sumo prizes.
Logan disconnected, and the rest of us went back to the private beach. We had some fun with ocean sunfish, we did a little diving, and I started releasing fish and sea creatures over Redd’s ship! It was pretty cool.
William left about 11:30. Some of us did some fishing, and Timo surprised us by telling us that she just completed her fish collection! It was doubly shocking: For one thing, Timo spoke! She generally doesn’t say anything, so that alone was a surprise. But for someone who does as much fishing as Timo, I just assumed she would have already completed her collection. Well, congrats Timo!
I released some more fish over Redd’s ship, and then I ended the session about 11:45. Thanks to everyone who came, it was fun! And Happy New Year, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow.