Pumped-Up Penguin

Rosie showed me a letter she received, and it was the “Animal Crackers” letter I’ve mentioned before. She apparently thought it was boring. She said if a letter isn’t action packed, like a bull charging at her, it isn’t worth her time. 😛

Rosie: Unless a letter feels like a bull charging at me at full speed...
Rosie: Yeah, unless it's, like, action packed, it's not worth my time at all!

I bumped into Roald outside of town hall, and he was trying to choose a new pump-up yell to use during his training. So he asked what I thought of the phrase “PICKLES WITH HOT SAUCE!”

Roald: "PICKLES WITH HOT SAUCE!"

I responded with “Wait, what?” and he told me an alternate choice: “THIRTY TO THUNDER!” I was getting a bit confused at this point, and I told him that was lame. He again repeated the same one, and again I shot it down. His 4th attempt was “TIME FOR HUGENESS!”

Roald: TIME FOR HUGENESS!

I was getting tired of the process, so I just told him that one was good. 😛 What a strange penguin.

The money in my pockets reached over 100,000 bells, so I went to town hall to put it in my bank account. Phyllis jokingly told me my balance was 50 billion bells. Very funny, bird brain.

Phyllis: Your balance is 50 billion bells! Just kidding! It's actually 210,120.

I entered the password “shop here again” to gain entrance into Crazy Redd’s tent, and he had an opulent painting for sale. I didn’t need it, so I just walked out of his shop without buying anything.

After that, I walked around town to shake a few trees. I found two bees; I caught one, and the other one caught me.

Dung At Me, Bro

Big Top told me he’s been getting friendly with the Able Sisters lately. And suddenly, he’s popular with girls. 😛

Big Top: I don't know when I got so popular with the girls! It's nice, though!

Kiki was trying to move out of town today, but it only took me one attempt to change her mind. She’s not going anywhere if I can help it.

As I walked between Big Top and a dung beetle pushing a snowball, Big Top pinged me.

Big Top pings Jeff as a dung beetle pushes a nearby snowball.

As I spoke with Big Top, the dung beetle continued to roll the snowball towards me. Once it got close to me, the dung beetle got scared and flew away.

Margie asked me for some new clothes, so I bought her a cafe shirt from Able Sisters. She put it on, and she seemed to enjoy it. My reward was a wrestling mask.

Margie: Here you go. As promised, a wrestling mask, just for you, silly.

Crazy Redd was in town, but his only work of art was a flowery painting…which I didn’t need.

New Year’s Day 2019

Today is New Year’s Day, and Tortimer had a New Year’s fortune for me. In fact, he was really excited to give it to me.

Tortimer: Goodness! Now you've even got me all excited!

My fortune said I would be lucky in 2019. But then it said luck favors the foolish. So is it calling me foolish??

Your fortune: Lucky. Dreams: Do your best! Love: Don't dawdle. Health: I detect a cold. Luck favors the foolish.
Tortimer: Par-tay! WhooEEE! Par-tay in the New Year! I lose all inhibitions at parties!

Note: Crazy Redd was not in town due to the holiday.

For the new year, some cedar trees have festive lights on them. I had forgotten all about this, although of course I remember they return in February for Bright Nights.

Festive lights on cedar trees on New Year's Day in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

There was a new house in town, and I found Roald the alcoholic penguin inside.

Roald: I'm Roald, aka the Chugging Ninja! I just moved here.

I ran into Gaston outside, and he was rather insulting. He said he knew how I could be, but he asked me to try to be nice for today! MeeeEeeEEe? How about you try it, you yellow grump!

Gaston: I know how you can be. But maybe you should try being nice, just for today.
Excuse me?

Curly moved out last week, but I saw that his flower garden still remains. That actually made me a little sad. 😛 I watered the wilted flowers for him.

Curly's flower garden at the site where he recently lived.

When I got back around to my house, I checked my mail and found several letters wishing me a happy new year. They were from Big Top, Margie, Jeremiah, Kiki, Rosie, and Mom.

It's a big day, Jeff, Happy New Year! This year, I'm planning to live life at my own speed. Just like always, huh?! 01/01/2019 --Kiki

Mom even sent me 10,000 bells for the holiday.

Elsewhere in town, Jeremiah and Gaston both pinged me at the same time. They must’ve had something important to tell me, right? Umm, not quite.

Jeremiah: Hey, I hear Bree likes black tea!

As I was talking to them, Kiki also came up to me and pinged me. I guess that was my 15 minutes of fame. 😛

Have a Happy 2019, everyone!

Update: Here is the Wild World video I mentioned last time, Ep. 17!