Jeff's ACWW Blog

When I started the game up tonight, I saw that Kiki was still around. So fortunately, she did not move out of town.

Most of the time, I’m too lazy to build a snowman. It takes time to build one snowball up until it’s big enough to push, and then you have to push it to wherever the other ball is (before building it up as well). But when I find both of them pretty close to each other, I figure I have no excuse not to give it a try. That’s what happened tonight, and I put this guy together.

I’m glad he had such a high opinion of himself, because I’m not sure I agreed with him.

It’s not unusual for Baabara to be rude or bossy. But her request today was oddly specific: She wanted me to form a band and play bluegrass music for her to dance to.

With it being Saturday night, I made sure to go down to the Roost to check out some live music from the local singing dog. I asked for a random song and I got to hear a performance of K.K. Jazz. It was putting me to sleep.

After a visit with Chevre, I came out of her house and noticed something: The flowers were arranged perfectly around her house! Did she do this to make her front yard look nice? Or is it a very big coincidence? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in an Animal Crossing game.

Over at town hall, I made a 35,000 bell mortgage payment. I only owe 68,000 more bells, so I’m getting close to that next house expansion.

On my way home, Pudge pinged me to ask me a question. He said “La la la,” and then asked me what song that was.

I didn’t really notice any song, so I chose option three (for him to repeat it). He used an emotion that displayed a music note, and he again repeated “La la la,” along with his catchphrase “pudgy” this time. But he didn’t actually sing anything.

I was still confused, so I just took a wild guess and picked the second option, “I love green tea!” He told me that was the correct answer, and he gave me a prize: a blue chair.

After that, I headed home for the night and ended my game. Thanks for stopping by!

I started up the game today to see if there was anything special for New Year’s Day. And indeed, I spotted Tortimer outside of town hall. I spoke to him, and he told me he had a New Year’s fortune for me! I didn’t see that coming!

The fortune said I was kinda lucky…and then it said luck favors the foolish.

Uh, thanks Tortimer. I spoke with him again and he said he hopes it will be a good year for him. But then he wondered how it could be anything else.

When I checked my mail, I found New Year’s greetings from Mom and Static. Mom sent me 10,000 bells, but Static just hoped I got the letter in time.

When I visited Kiki, I found her all packed up in boxes and ready to move out of town. But I think I talked her out of moving.

I ran into Yuka outside, and she asked if I knew any greetings that would help her win the heart of someone she liked. I told her to say “I have rabies.”

Puddles offered to sell me a tuxedo for 510 bells, and I took her up on the offer. I was already tired of the grape shirt, and seeing other people with nicer clothes made me a bit jelly.

After putting it on, I walked around a bit more and then returned home for the night. I’ll see you next time. Happy new year!

I started up the game at 11:45 tonight, and a message informed me that the New Year’s Eve countdown had begun!

As I walked around, I was surprised to see lights on some cedar trees. Normally, I would call them Christmas lights. But I’ve been playing the game twice a week throughout December, almost always at night (and including Christmas Eve), and I have not seen these lights until now. Perhaps they’re just New Year’s Eve trees. 😛

With Wild World, Nintendo seemed to go out of their way to remove any celebrations that could be seen as religious holidays. So the New Year’s Eve countdown is the only real western holiday that survived. Fortunately, the regular holidays returned in City Folk and New Leaf.

Anyway, I went around to talk to my villagers. Many of them mentioned the upcoming new year. Kiki said she was starting to feel nervous, while Pudge was looking forward to his first dream of 2017. He believes that the first dream of the year always comes true.

Baabara told me her new year’s resolution is to focus on herself more in the new year. That’s such a Baabara thing to say.

But surprisingly, she then got a bit philosophical on me. She wondered what will happen to 2016. In other words, where does the time…go?

I headed over to town hall, where Tortimer told me not to panic. He gave me a party popper for the countdown.

I had five minutes to spare, so I went over the museum. Blathers told me that he has given up on his attempt to overcome his fear of bugs. Since he was making no progress, Celeste had a chat with him and told him that it’s okay if he’s afraid of bugs. Everybody has imperfections and that’s alright.

I guess that probably wraps up that storyline; I enjoyed it while it lasted. Anyway, he identified the fossils I had dug up, and he accepted all three as donations to the museum.

I then went back to town hall and watched the final countdown. I fired off my party popper as the clock reached zero. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Fireworks began going off in the sky above.

Since fireworks shows are one of the rare occasions where the top screen was significant, I played around with the Wii U Virtual Console screen display settings to get a better look.

Before wrapping up my night, I made a 20,000 bell mortgage payment inside of town hall. I then headed for home.

Here is a video of the night’s events. Happy New Year, everyone! Have a great 2017! 🙂