Jeff's ACWW Blog

When I visited Kiki tonight, she told me she put a ton of fish tanks in her room.

She believes that her room finally looks like a professional aquarium.

So I took a step back to look at her huge collection of fish…

Um, Kiki? You have one eel.

Today is Rod’s birthday, so I had him in mind when I went shopping. I nearly bought a toilet for him at Nookington’s, but then I decided to be nice and buy him a jack-in-the-box instead. Even though it was 4,124 bells.

I wasn’t sure if Rod would like it, but I went over to his house and gave it a shot.

He seemed to like it quite a bit. He even called it a killer gift and thanked me by giving me a cabin wall.

Baabara was also there to help Rod celebrate. I bet Rod’s birthday wish is that Baabara would just leave.

A new message of the week was posted on the bulletin board, and it’s an odd one.

I found another note in a bottle on the beach, and it contained a horoscope. Apparently, the stars say I’m going to be a tree shaker. I think they’re barking up the wrong tree.

I went over to town hall and paid off the remaining 20,000 bells on my mortgage.

Tom Nook confirmed that he will expand my house tomorrow morning. I chose sky blue as my roof color this time.

And last but not least, I found Pascal on the beach. I spoke with him, and he gave me a ship cannon…and some words of wisdom.

He then jumped into the ocean and swam away. Sea you later!

As I started up the game this afternoon, Lyle was bugging me to fill out another questionnaire. I was not interested, so I told him I was busy and went on my way.

So I headed over to Nookington’s to sell everything in my pockets from last time. I then noticed that Tom Nook had some new dialogue for me. He said even though he was born in Forest, he spent part of his life in the big city. While there, he had to endure some hardships that he hasn’t spoken of before.

But he didn’t want to go into any more detail just yet. Perhaps he’ll save that for a future discussion.

Outside, Kiki was talking about the crawfish, and how it’s in season now. She even told me how to catch one.

I thought she was asking me for one, so I went and caught one. But when I returned to her, she wanted to race to see who could catch an eel first. Ugh, whatever. Well, Big Top was asking me for a crawfish, so I gave it to him. He gave me a ranch bed in return.

I still went on and caught an eel for Kiki. She gave me a brown drum for it.

I found a note in a bottle on the beach, which is the first one I’ve seen lately. Inside, I found a note from…my conscience?

I caught a new bug today: the walker cicada!

As I entered Static’s house, I spotted another bug I needed. It was an orchid mantis on a flower outside his house. Of course, it was gone by the time I came back outside, and I didn’t find another one today. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that in the future.

Rod was all packed up and ready to move out of town. I kept talking to him to tell him to stay, and eventually he said he lost his passport. That’s the same thing that Bill said to me last October, and he stayed, so I think Rod is safe for now.

I’m not sure why, but Hopper told me I was snail-like.

I donated the walker cicada to the museum, sold some stuff, and then did some fishing and bug-hunting. I kept going until I had 100,000 bells to put towards my mortgage. After paying it, I now only owe 20,000 more bells! I should be able to do that next time.

Later on, I returned to the game to see a bit of the fireworks festival.

I had a chat with Tortimer over by town hall, and he was acting a bit strange.

After I got a roman candle and a sparkler from him, he offered to give me my fortune. I wasn’t expecting that. But I accepted it, and this is what it said:

After setting off my roman candle, I made my way over to the Roost. There, K.K. Slider performed The K. Funk for me.

Crazy Redd was in town today, and he had this quaint painting for sale. I made the mistake of not checking to see if there was already one in the museum. Hint: There is. So I bought it, wasting 3,920 bells in the process.

It actually turned out to be fake anyway. Just for fun, here’s a picture of me leaving Crazy Redd’s tent.

When I spoke to Rod, he told me he was impressed by the size of my house. He even asked whose back I had to rub to get a dream home like that. Hey, what are you implying?!

On the bulletin board, there was a new message of the week. I thought it was pretty amusing this week.

I visited Baabara, and she was talking about her all-new makeup. She said she bought so much of the latest blush by Nintendique that they gave her a free trash can. She then gave the trash can to me. How exciting.

Back outside, I was about to catch a bug that was on a tree. But then Rhonda came over, went right up to it, and scared it away! Bad rhino!

So I buried a pitfall seed for Rhonda and started to push her towards it. But Hopper was also nearby, and he walked right into it!

I then spent some time fishing and bug-catching. I didn’t catch anything new, but I did snag some valuable bugs. Unfortunately, Nookington’s closed before I could sell them all. With only 23,000 bells in my pockets, I didn’t bother making a mortgage payment this time. But I should be able to make a fairly big payment next time, once I sell all the stuff in my pockets.