Joyless Octopus

On Wednesday, I found a poem written to the bulletin board. It was about jelly rolls, because why not? 😆

-Poetry- I prefer my jelly rolls moist and rich and cakey. But yesterday, I ate a roll that was all dry!

Over by town hall, Mitzi told me she wondered if her friend Eloise was still hard at work. Of course, Eloise was clearly within sight, and Mitzi could’ve just yelled out and asked her. 😛

Mitzi: I wonder if my friend Eloise is still hard at work, mew.

On Thursday, Gulliver’s UFO flew overhead, and I promptly shot it out of the sky with my surprisingly powerful slingshot.

Shooting Gulliver's UFO out of the sky.

It was my first UFO of 2024, and my 32nd overall. After I gathered up the missing parts of Gulliver’s ship, he rewarded me with a Metroid (for the 4th time).

Yesterday, Peanut asked me for some orange furniture. I bought a classic sofa for her at Nookington’s, because it looked orange to me. However, Peanut didn’t agree, and she refused to accept the gift.

This evening, Octavian told me it was his favorite time to be at the beach…because it’s so bleak and devoid of joy. 😛

Octavian: It's so bleak and devoid of all joy.

He said it reminds him of himself. 😛

Octavian: It kinda reminds me of myself on my better days...

After making my rounds, I headed to the Roost and waited for 8:00 to arrive. Once it did, I asked K.K. Slider for a random song, and he played one of my favorites: K.K. Faire.

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: K.K. Faire!

If you haven’t yet seen my latest Wild World video, here it is:

Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend! 🙂

Spaced Out Sable

On Wednesday, Peanut told me she was finally over her cold. She was very grateful, but even she couldn’t believe how many times I gave her medicine. 😆

Peanut: Hon, I can't BELIEVE you came to see me so many times!
Narrator: It was five times.

To thank me, she gave me some steel flooring.

Yesterday, Bones informed me that Sable was acting like a space cadet. He wondered why she was more spaced out than he was. 😛

Bones: Sable was acting like a total space cadet today.

That made me wonder if I’ve been missing out on Sable’s backstory dialogue all this time. I know Tom Nook, Blathers, and the pelican sisters have a lot of that dialogue, but admittedly, I don’t visit Able Sisters much any more. I did befriend her in the early months of my town, but I don’t check in regularly throughout the year.

So I headed over there to see what was going on. But Sable didn’t have much to say, other than to confirm what Bones said.

Sable: Ohh, I'm sorry. I really am. I was spacing out a little bit, there.

Mabel said that Sable gets like this each winter. I guess I’ll need to keep checking in on them in the coming weeks.

Mabel: She always gets this way at this time of year... this part of winter.

Today, Caroline was telling me that La-Di-Day is coming up on Saturday (tomorrow). She was confident that she wasn’t going to lose to Bones, because he’s a tone-deaf dweeb! 😮

Caroline: All I know is, I'm not about to lose to Bones. That dweeb is tone deaf!

Don’t call Bones a dweeb, you big-eyed freak! 😛 I don’t plan on playing tomorrow, but I wouldn’t have chosen Caroline’s tune anyway since she insulted Bones like that. 😛

Octavian was feeling good, because he finally got a good house score from the HRA.

Octavian: The oppressive Happy Room Academy is finally giving me some love, yip yip!

He got 9,732 points, which may not sound all that high, but it is good for a villager house. That score will probably go down in time, as he displays the random junk I’ll eventually give him (and clears out some of his space stuff). 😛

I’ll be posting my latest Wild World episode (video) this weekend, so keep an eye out for that! See you soon! 🙂

Bone Pit

On Wednesday, I received my monthly bank statement from town hall. I earned exactly 50,000 bells of interest on my savings this month!

Dear Jeff, Thank you for using your post office bank account. You earned 50,000 bells for 30 days of interest! -Postal division, town hall

I’m now halfway to the maximum interest payment (99,999 bells), so apparently I’ll need to reach 20 million bells in savings to reach that. That will take me at least a few years, though. 😆 Earning money is such a slow process in older Animal Crossing games!

I found Pascal by the shore, and he told me some words of wisdom about selling things.

Pascal: If nobody wants what you're selling, put a bigger price tag on it, maaannn.

Yesterday, I heard someone fall into a pitfall, so I looked around. I found my buddy Bones struggling to get out. Aww, poor Bones! 🙁

Bones, in a pitfall: I'm in big trouble now! Heeeeelp! Oh, won't you help me, yip yip?

Octavian was home, so I got to see the inside of his house. Much like in other games, he has a bunch of space items and a couple of robo items as well.

The inside of Octavian's house in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

Today, Drift gave me a free item; it was a sleigh that he just found lying around.

Drift: All right, here, you can have this, then: my sleigh!
Drift: I can't BELIEVE people don't take better care of their stuff, yip yip!

You don’t think he swiped it when Santa was inside someone’s house delivering presents, do you? I hope not. 😛 (Maybe that’s why Wild World doesn’t celebrate Toy Day, because Santa’s sleigh got stolen.) 😆

Peanut has still been sick this week, so I gave her more medicine Wednesday, yesterday, and today. I’m starting to think medicine in this game doesn’t actually help at all. 😉