Blossom's Animal Crossing Diary

A Blur

2005-01-26T02:20:00.000-08:00

The last few days has been a right blur! I've been out about in town everyday, but getting round to writing the diary has been so hard. Lets think what happened...

... Tortimer came and told me off for not slacking on lighthouse duty, no ship wrecks tho, I was pretty sure of that. I've been mostly trading to be honest, working towards a completed Kiddie Set. SooBoo from Detroit helped me finish off my collection with a Kiddie Bureau, but I also traded with John from Dunetown for a Kiddie Wardrobe. My downstairs looks pretty spiffy right now, I'm really pleased with it.

My completed Kiddie Theme collection

I also got asked to do some trades too, that was pretty cool! Red Cat from Element5 saw that I had access to Coconuts (from *Bonzi* island) and offered to trade for an Orange. I planted it right away just near Gruff's house. Roetje from Crossvil on the other hand noticed I had a NES Console, and offered to trade one of his games for it. Considering I didn't have any software at all to play on my NES, I bought one from Nook at the store and sent it straight off to him, in return I got Baloon Fight, which is this pretty awesome game which involves baloons and these crazy monsters... I'll try and get some screenshots of that soonish.

Mom sent me another silly letter. She heard a rumour about me and Little Timmy's Ant Farm. THAT was years ago! I mean, seriously, when you're a kid you play around and do some pretty mean things, but that don't make you a bad person when you grow up. Timmy was a squirt then, and probably still is now. I mean, mom still calls him 'little' Timmy. I don't know.

The latest letter from home

In the shadow of Debt

2005-01-21T19:05:00.000-08:00

500,000 Bells to go. It just never ends! You feel like your raking in the bells, you head down to the post office to deposit, and ~bing~, its gone. Oh well, I don't care too much - it just makes some extra running around each day collecting fruit and catching fish.

Anyhow, in the village Ellie left, awh. She was only here for like a week, weird. For someone to move around that soon must be pretty crazy. Some other sheep moved in like right away though. Can't remember the name, but they kept going on about lampchops, I dunno, death wish maybe?

Ellie left the town, hah

My mom sent me a "don't bury yourself under the stresses of the world" letter the other day, it reminded me about exactly Why I had left home. I wish she'd just leave me be, maybe send me some positive words! Maybe a nice cash sum, hehe.

A 'Caring' Letter from my Mom.

Yesterday I was busily out fishing, I filled my pockets with Red Snappers, it was such a joy to sell them all to Nook. It took a lot of patience mind, I probably caught four times as many Sea Bass, but I'd have to catch like 30 Sea Bass for the value of one Red Snapper, so its no big issue chucking them straight back in.

All the Red Snappers I caught yesterday

Hmmmmm, do you know what I forgot to do? Light the bloody lighthouse. Oh well, I'll go back and handle it soon, but I got this horrible feeling I've missed it one other time this week, doh. I wonder what Tortimer will say, I didn't see any ship wrecks this week...

Jackpot!

2005-01-17T19:31:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, I tracked down Joan (the turnip seller) right before she left town, I just managed to nab a last buy batch of 150 Turnips with 14,500 bells I'd collected earlier in the day, she was selling them for something like 96 bells.

Anyhow, fast forward today.. walked into Nook's store to find out he was buying them at 780 bells! Wowowow. I made like over 110,000 bells instantly. My facing was beaming yet again. Of course, I did the sensible thing: bought out everything in his store, then went and deposited the rest of the cash in the post office... my debt is still huge, I think 610,000 bells still to pay. Its pretty scary.

Yesterday as well, I met up with Tortimer at the wishing well, he said he was sneaking off to have a well earned holiday, and wanted me to deal with the lighthouse everyday for the next week. So, of course I gingerly accepted his offer and today pulled the big switch to start the system up. That was pretty fun to be honest!

The Inner Workings of the Lighthouse

The other thing I'd like to say is I completed my Nine Ball set of clothing =) Tom was selling a number 7 shirt, the day before I got a 9 ball shirt from Rio in the mail... and just sitting there in the dump, a 1 Ball shirt. Ace! So I've got the complete set now, and even tho I might not get any browny points, at least I get to be super stylish 9 days of the week, hehe.

Complete Collection of Nine Ball shirts

Activity Day

2005-01-15T14:47:00.001-08:00

Ooh, I've been so tired the last few days. I managed to get up and about to delivery fossils, do a bit of fishing... and even post off some furniture as part of trades, but I couldn't find time to write in my diary.

Well, today... here I am writing in my diary. I got plenty done! I traded a Tulip Chair for a Kiddie Couch with Emily in Harvest, I sent a Cabin Wardrobe to Stefan in Londen and sent off a Kiddie Bookcase to Robby in a place called LiteCity. Its all happening!

The wandering wallpaper artist Wendell

On my wanderings around town today, I found Wendell whos was growling about his stomach. He had a sack full of wall paper on his back, but I really didn't need anything from him. I felt sorry and fished him out a Sea Bass for him to eat, he seemed rather pleased.

There's a bit of a cherry orchard happening near Rio's house, its certainly much more colourful round there anyhow, maybe I'll start harvesting the fruit some day when I have more time.

Cherry Orchard outside Rio's house

My rooms are starting to take shape now, theres a a whole collection of house plants and cactii on my top floor, along with an assortment of gyroids and arranged flowers. I like all the plants and things, though it takes a while to water them all. Theres a nice ambience from the different gyroids playing away their own quirky tunes.

My plant filled upstairs

Downstairs, the Kiddie Theme is really starting to take shape, I need somewhere to put my Bonsai trees though, they don't really fit with the Kiddie Table, I think I might buy a couple more kiddie tables and some more chairs, just to push the theme a bit more. I had a play on my pool table for a bit, its rather fun. Best buy from Nook so far.

How my house looks like at the moment (Downstairs)

Yesterday...

2005-01-12T18:58:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, was a quiet day. I've decided to take a break from paying my loan off. I don't really need a bigger house. I played more games with Mitzi this time in her igloo, which was rather fun.

Today on the other hand, I felt a bit ill... I got myself out of bed for a short while to pick up a Kiddie Bookshelf which had arrived that morning from Gabriele in Midgar. I don't really know her, I found her on www.animalcrossingcommunity.com when looking for someone to trade a Kiddie Dresser with. That reminds me, I need to buy a new Kiddie Dresser...

Golden Axe

2005-01-10T16:25:00.000-08:00

Its been two weeks, 14 days since the wishing well told me everything was perfect in Markavia, day after day I've planted various new fruit trees and watched the place grow...

... and today, Farley presented me with the Golden Axe. Wooh! This axe will never break so it is said. I've not actually cut anything down with it yet, but I'm sure I'll want to prune some of the Pear trees at some point in the near future - now that theres a healthy stock of Peaches and Cherries in the town.

Farley magically appeared from the wishing well

Me holding the Golden Axe

I spoke to Rio during the day, she said she'd received a strange message off someone she might have once known. It read:

A letter that Rio showed me

That's pretty inconspicuous, people are always showing weird letters that they've received... but then on my way round town I found a new residence in our village; Ellie, an elephant. How strange. I hope she doesn't eat all our fish!

The rest of my day was spent playing games with Vesta in her igloo. We played "I've got 5 types of furniture" for ages, and occasionally had the odd game of "I'll buy that off you for the price on one of 4 cards". It was really fun getting lots of new items, and exchanging money back and forth, but I think she managed to win more out of me then I got from her. Not to worry - I've got lots of shiny new things in my catalog like a Bear Pole, Round Cactus, Tall Cactus, Pot Belly Stove, Refrigerator, Red Vase, Croton (House Plant) and probably some others. I missed out on a Kiddie Couch, I begged her for it but she refused saying we had to play by the rules. Awh - I'd have paid ANYTHING for a Kiddie Couch.

Kiddie Bed

2005-01-10T07:49:00.000-08:00

While using my computer the other day, I found a really great site called Animal Crossing Community, a pretty complete site all about the people in towns and villages all around the country. They had an online trading service there, and I managed to trade my Stone Couple for a Kiddie Bed with a guy called Ricky in Canyon. Many thanks Ricky, I've finally got a proper bed to sleep in =)

I managed to trap the evil Yuka today in a hole, hah hah hah. It was most amusing.

Yuka stuck in a hole, hehe

Second Floor Garden

2005-01-09T06:25:00.000-08:00

Tom finished work on my new house expansion right away, I dashed upstairs to find a bare room ready to be filled with furniture. I decided to bring all my plants and the hamock upstairs, and spread out the grassy flooring and backyard fence wallpaper.

My Second Floor Garden

The bill tho, the bill ::sob::... cruel Tom Nook, he charged me 798,000 bells ::sob::. How will I ever pay that amount of money? I must have paid him close to a million bells already.

I suppose the other good news from today was a package from a friend in another village called Le Fun, I'd sent a Backyard Fence to my friend Chris there, and in exchange he mosted me a much sort after Kiddie Chair. I was so delighted when it arrived, hopefully I'll be able to trade more in the future.

Yodel's Riches

2005-01-07T20:16:00.000-08:00

For a start, I decided to take down my christmas decorations. I sold them all off to Nook for a modest 3,000 bells and then bought out a few things from his store.. including a Cabana dresser to go on *Bonzi* island and a kiddie wallpaper to match my kiddie flooring (That playroom wallpaper just didn't look right). Tom was selling a Billiards table too, looks more like an American Pool table, but I'm not complaining! I made space for it and positioned it in my room. I rearranged my plants into the bottom right hand corner, I might shift the ranch chair into the middle of all the plants, that'd be a pretty cool spot to sit in.

My room looks much more spacious without the festive decorations.

Later in the day I headed over to *Bonzi* island to put some stuff in my little shack there (little, hehe). I tried catching fish but had terrible look, 1 barred knifejaw, 1 red snapper and a million sea bass. I hate sea bass. Instead I took it to myself to catch some insects, which was far more fun. I landed a bright blue buttefly, which when I took back to Nook's store got me 2,000 bells. I so have to catch some more of those, its way easier then fishing.

I left Yodel to his own devices, turns out he went round shaking all the fruit off the trees and after he ate the food he dropped loads of money on the island. I was really suprised tho, I've known him to do this before, but only small bags of cash. Today he was dropping bags of 30,000 and 10,000.... I rushed back to the island and snatched up the bags - I'd got enough to pay off my loan Yippee!

I paid off my biggest loan to date!

To the post office I went, then to Nook... he told me I could have a new floor, wow! Can't wait to find out what its like.

Bonzi Flag

2005-01-06T17:09:00.000-08:00

The big events of today were the building of a new bridge, just by Curly's house which makes getting to Tom's store so much quicker. I wouldn't be suprised if he had a part in paying for the new construction.

The new bridge near Curly's house

I'd also designed a new flag for *Bonzi* island, which I put up today, I got lots of fishing done and bought back over 50,000 bells worth of salty sea fish. Thats gone a long way to pay off my loan, only 60,000 remaining now.

My new flag for *Bonzi* island

A Bridge...

2005-01-05T20:06:00.000-08:00

The Mayor Tortimer was wondering around town today, just by Curly's house near to Nook's store. He had a brilliant idea, a new bridge across the river! Bingo, Tortimer had picked exactly the right spot for one. I can't imagine where else he was going to put one, but its been a real pain of late trying to cross the river to get to Nook's store. Hopefully the new bridge will make an excellent addition to the town... I just wonder when they'll have it built.

The Mayor suggests a place for a new bridge

As for other news, Katrina had placed herself in town. Copper didn't seem to happy about it when I asked what was going on in town, but I still headed over to Acre E-5 to see what the fuss was about. I paid my 50 bells and Katrina gave me an odd little prediction...

Back in school,
a back-talking
off-duty cop
will be nibbling carrots

To be honest that sounds like utter nonsense to me, although it did seem to remind me of a film I saw once about a Kindergarden Cop...

Katrina arrived in town again with her tent.

Turnips are GOLD

2005-01-04T16:26:00.000-08:00

Wow! Tom was buying turnips at 650, yes, no less then six-hundred-and-fifty bells a piece. Thats over 7 time's my buying price. I sold the 100 remaining ones straight away. How ace is it to get that much money? I tell ya I was ecstatic. I bought out all of the fancy furniture in the store, treated myself to a red tie-dye dress and picked up a lace umbrella (which I thought looked very dainty).

Samson in his Igloo

Camofrog gave me a Master Sword he no longer needed, not the most glorious of items.. I mean I sold another one that I had before, but when I went to visit Samson in his igloo we played a game and he bought it off me for over 1,000 bells.

Finally, a bed - well, a hammock

And Curly, bless him... he gave me a hammock! You don't know how wonderful it is to finally have something decent to sleep on. I headed home, and put it inplace of some of my festive trees, sank into it... and dozed off. ::snore::

Island of Fish

2005-01-03T19:06:00.000-08:00

I found out today that *Bonzi* island not only is a great place for catching bugs of all sorts, but also is a great place to pick up salt water fish, including plentiful supplies of expensive fish such as Red Snappers and Barred Knifejaw. I picked up over 20,000 bells worth of fish and headed back to mainland.

Turnips were selling at 89 bells today, thats 4 bells up from Sunday... and I sold 50 of my 150 turnips. Not exactly wonderous profit, but I needed the extra cash to buy some items from Tom's store.

The only other interesting thing that happened was Curly sending me a letter with a cactus attached, but I really didn't need it and sold it to Tom at the store.

Letter from Curly

Icey

2005-01-02T10:21:00.000-08:00

Rio said something crazy today - What if the river and the lakes froze over?! It might be really fun crossing the river anywhere you want, but where would all the fish live?

As another villager pointed out an icey marshmellow popped up on one of the southern acres... I had to investigate. Inside I found astrid cooking up some stew, I played her at 'guess the card' and using my super psychic powers convinced her to pick the Triangle card twice in a row, meaning she paid full whack (3,000 bells) for my cabana dresser

The Icey Marshmellow

I tried again later and managed to pick one card correctly, which meant she bought a kitchen tile off me for 1,100 bells. Ace! Fishing was terrible today... 2 red snappers and about 30 sea bass. I just gave up! I had supremely better luck with digging tho, I found a shiney spot on the ground and uncovered 30,000 bells from the ground. Wow, my face was beaming. I'd earnt plenty today, so I paid 50,000 bells off my debt taking me down to 220,000 bells owed.. and then went and spent 13,000 bells on 150 turnips from Joan. This is the first time I've bought from her they were only 85 bells each... and I reckon Tom must give a decent price on them before next weekend.

Only other news - I cleared out a bunch of furniture from my room and moved rare stuff into the basement. I've got quite a bulging collection of gyroids in my basement now, I might start trading them to get a rather more musical set.

New Year!

2005-01-01T20:19:00.000-08:00

What a fun party! I went down to the lake for New Years Eve to meet all the souls from the village and chatted and danced. Tortimer gave me a noisemaker present, I couldn't figure out how to use it so afterwards I just left it on the table in my house.

New Year Countdown

There was a big "Count Down" sign by the lake which counted down to 00:00 and then flipped over to say "NEW YEAR" in bright flashing letters. Just as it hit the New Year, fireworks launched all over the sky and you could watch them in the water.

New Year's Day Fireworks

The next morning I woke up around 8:00 and headed to the wishing well to make my new year's wish. Everyone in the village had been reminding me since Jingle left town. I eagerly rushed to the front of the queue and made my wish, but soon got shoved out the way by Yuka. How desperate! She really has some issues to sort out.

Katrina was giving fortunes to the villagers

This lady Katrina was by the wishing well as well, giving out fortunes for the new year. She pushed me an envelope which I pocketed. I didn't get round to reading it actually ::worried::. I hope its good. Actually, she said it was just a bit of fun so I won't take it too seriously.

Curly and Mitzi both sent replies to the letters I sent out the other day, I posted them below because they're kinda interesting. I'm not sure what Curly was on about when he said "I it!", I'm a bit worried he might be losing it.

Curly's Letter

Mitzi's Letter

End of Year Raffle

2004-12-31T06:03:00.000-08:00

I had an amazing fishing spree today, running up and down the beach by the Able sisters I picked out six red snappers (worth 3,000 bells each) from the sea. Plenty of cash to see me out for the year... but only if Tom's store was open.

I won two prizes in Tom's Monthly Raffle

Not today, today was raffle day! I couldn't sell a thing. Luckily, the 25 raffle tickets I'd collect across the past two weeks saw me win 1st and 3rd prize... a robot radio and a shogun suit of armour. Gulliver was down washed up by the beach again, I picked him up off the sand and he thanked me by giving me a shojo piece.

I mailed off Happy New Year letters to Mitzi and Curly, with cherries attached which I'd grown from seed in Markavia. I didn't have any cash at all to deposit. It feels like it'll take me a long time to pay off this debt to Nook. I've got new years eve to celebrate this evening, I wonder what that'll be like!

Greenery

2004-12-30T03:00:00.000-08:00

Oops, I forgot to write anything yesterday. I was too tired after running around town al day collecting furniture and things.

Today was a bit more successful, the new grass green carpet I laid out yesterday seemed to boost my HRA (Happy Room Academy) rating slightly, but to be honest my room is totally uncoodinated at the moment.

The Green Room

I ordered in some stuff from Nook yesterday too which arrived, a Kiddie Carpet, Kiddie Table and a Backyard Fence wallpaper. The wallpaper is supposed to match my grass green carpet, and I'm hopeful that I'll find a Kiddie style wallpaper so that I can press onwards with styling my room.

Yuka sent me a funny reply today attached with a Pear Wardrobe (which I really don't need). Funny because she thanked me for my witty letter. I seem to recall that I'd sent her some clothes with the letter saying:

Dearest *Yuka*,
I found this and thought of you.
I think you'd look really stupid wearing it.
Hope you feel like an idiot.
- Blossom

Living Space

2004-12-28T08:21:00.000-08:00

Well, I've got loads of living room space now, and a big basement. Finally I can arrange furniture as I see fit. Still need to keep collecting different types of stuff so I can decide how I want to decorate my room.

I pulled out a few weeds today and asked the wishing well how things were, still perfect. Brilliant. Had no luck fishing by the sea today, only sea bass. I made much more money from the rivers, lots of bitterlings, and I even caught a goldfish.

The new bill for my expanded house is 398,000 bells. Yipes. By the end of the afternoon I'd earnt 50,000 bells so I paid off 48,000 leaving half rounded 350,000 bells to pay back. If I can earn 50,000 a day (yeah right :-\) I can pay Nook off in 7 days. Tough call, I'll need better fishing results for that!

Perfect?

2004-12-27T07:01:00.000-08:00

All that tree planting I did yesterday has finally convinced the wishing well that Markavia is perfect. Great! So now if I can keep the weeds down maybe things will get better in town.

I bought an exotic chest from Nook's newly opened Nookaway store, and took it over to *Bonzi* island so I could sell it to Yodel. I had to barter for a while until he gave me a decent price (i.e. more then I bought it for) but he seemed pretty pleased with it.

Nook only charged me 49,800 bells for my basement expansion, phew! I've actually got over 60,000 on me right now... which means I can pay Nook off and get another expansion for tommorrow. I've got a load of bugs to sell from *Bonzi* island, I'll go do that now!

The Golden Shovel

2004-12-26T11:05:00.000-08:00

The golden tree, sprouted from a planted shovel has finally reached its full size. I gave it a shake this morning and out popped The Golden Shovel. Wow, after using it for a few minutes I started to dig up random bags of 100 bells from the ground, how lucky!

The golden shovel

Nook's store was closed today, hes having another refit. It seems like only yesterday (well actually last friday) that Nook's cranny was expanded to Nook 'N Go, now we'll have something of a super store in town. I guess we'll need it since there a lot of residences here in town. I met a new character, a mouse - don't quite remember his name, theres so many now!

Tom had finished my basement too, loads of empty room. I quicky moved a bunch of stuff out of my living room down there so that I can now at least walk around. I dread to think how much the expansion will cost me though!

My new empty basement: LOADSA ROOM.

Christmas Day

2004-12-25T05:17:00.000-08:00

My parents got me the Starwars Trilogy DVD boxed set for xmas! Wow. Its so fun, I'm gonna go round to Mitzi's and watch it there since theres no room, and no TV in my house.

I had to go see Nook this morn, I was going to try and avoid him but he forced me to upgrade my house, I opted to get a new basement which should help space out my living room a bit. I've got far too many clothes hehe. I'm well on my way to collecting the Number Ball series of tops. I've got Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 so far.

Last week's tree planting has come to fruition, lots more Pear trees are up and around in the village now. I've still got some tweaking to do with my tree planting. I reckon the beach squares need padding out a bit more, and I did some weeding around the place.

My pear orchard behind the town dump

I think my golden tree is almost ready. This is my third attempt at planting a shovel into the ground. Shovels seem to have an extrordinary ability at growing. Its next to Claude's house (who moved in a few days ago) so it should be good.

What will my golden tree bloom?

I don't know if I mentioned before but a fancy bird girl called Rio moved in, and a horned rascal named Gruff is also now in town. Looks like Markavia is getting busy!

Christmas Eve Continued

2004-12-24T23:23:00.000-08:00

Wow, Jingle's presents rock. He gave me lots of them, sadly I had no space to put them in my home :( but I did sell them to Nook who was more then happy to buy them from me. I got so much cash infact that I've easily paid off my debt to Nook, with loads of cash to spare! I'm so happy.

And guess what else, I caught a stringfish! I saw this massive fish skulking near the surface of the pond, and patiently plucked it out of the water. I got it valued at Nook's for 15,000 bells, which is very tastey, but instead I decided to cook it up and eat it for dinner. Hehe, only joking... I donated it to the museum, my first submission! The owl there was very please to see it. Just as proof, theres a photo of me and the big fish earlier today!

I caught a stringfish =)

Christmas Eve

2004-12-24T07:02:00.000-08:00

Jingle will be here in town later! I've never met him before, I just hope I stay awake long enough to get a present off him. Apparently he digs people who where different clothes or something, or maybe he doesn't recognise them as the same person hehe.

Saharah was in town too, and after much batering she eventually agreed to sell me "Saharah's Dessert" which is a fine looking sandy carpet, feels rough on the feet as you enter.

My house is overflowing with stuff, I really need some sort of expansion. I paid off another 10,000 today... but as you might have noticed, I was a bit busy yesterday and didn't pay anything.

My rather crammed house!

Gulliver was washed up on the beach again today, after much banter he gave me a Mouth of Truth for saving his life. Its a bit ugly to be honest, I'll post a picture later.

Sable told me a heart warming story about her family and how much she loves her sister. It was all a bit emotional to be honest, Sable is much older then Mable.

Organised

2004-12-21T08:39:00.000-08:00

That Yuka again! Apparently she forcibly took Tangy's personal organiser from Vesta and was holding on to it. Her guilty concience finally showed through and I nabbed it off her, but boy was I annoyed. Tangy gave me an eightball shirt, but I really wanted some more furniture!

I visited *Bonzi* Island again today. Yodel was there, the actual reason I went was because Anchovy sold me an exotic end table. I bought it for 2,400 bells and sold it on to Yodel for 2,800. Ok, so he actually asked for 600 the fisrt time round, but I said no. I'm not in the business of oceanic shipping to make a loss. There were loads of bugs flying around on *Bonzi* island, I picked up loads with my net, and took them back for sale at Nook's, there were worth about 300 bells each on average. Definitely a great spot to go for any budding bug hunters.

Dress Pattern: Square Burn

Back on main land, Mable chatted to me about Nook and his hard bargaining. Apparently they don't get paid so much for the stuff sold in his store. I've decided to start buying more materials from them just to show my support - and I made a new pattern called Square Burn. Its got a nice fade to it and I used 2x2 squares across from the centre, I think it looks really good on my hat.

My second axe arrived today so I went about my business hacking down trees again. I spoke to the wishing well and it said Acres D3, A1, B1 and A5 all were lacking greenery, so I collected together lots of pears and planted them out across the landscape. I still need to post off some fossils, I'll do that pretty soon.

Axe Girl

2004-12-20T05:42:00.000-08:00

Another eventful afternoon! I slept in really nicely this morning, it must be my lush kiddie's carpet since I still don't have a bed.

Tom was selling an axe today, so I snapped it up and rushed around town hacking down trees that got in my way. Sadly, it eventually broke and I had to order a new one from Tom's store. I sent another load of fossils off to Faraway museum. Yuka had stolen Mitzi's hankerchief. I thought she'd also nicked Curly's watch, but actually she'd lent it onwards to Tangey. Shes being the real centre of trouble later. For my troubles I got a merge sign and a melon table.

On my visit to the Able sisters today (oops I've been saying 'Mable' all this time, its actually Mable and Sable Able), Sable actually said hi! She even knew my name, shes always been quiet but it was quite cool that she recognised me.

My super festive house.

At the end of my run around, and after selling a few things I decided to rearrange my wall a bit. I thought the melon table would look great on the right wall, opposite my kiddies table and sold off the office table and papa bear (I'm not a fan of giant cuddly toys to be honest). I'd found two more musical gyroids in the ground, so added them to my collection. They're not such a tuneful group to be honest. I bought another large festive-tree too, one for each corner of my room. The peeps in the village were talking about making sure you had festive items - so I thought it'd be nice to spruce the place up before xmas.

Fishing for Cash

2004-12-19T07:32:00.000-08:00

Whehay, Tom's store finally had a fishing rod in stock! I snapped it up straight away along with a small festive tree (to go with my big one) and some more paper. There was another delivery of fossils today from the Museum, I'd picked up an anomite which was only worth 1,100 bells, but the others (A skull and a wing) were worth loads. I sent another four fossils off, I hope they're keeping a back-log of the fossils I'm sending to them since they only seem to send a maximum of three a day back.

Oh yeah, and Tom told me about the wonderful new expansion to my house. Sure I've got plenty more room now- but he charged me 148,000 bells! I can buy all the houses in street for that much.

Not to worry, I'm ace at fishing. After catching and throwing away about 40 sea bass, I had collected a healthy number of red barbs... which fetched me loads of cash. There was a papa bear and an office desk at the dump which I picked up. Anchovy gave me a slot machine in exchange for a fish (ace!) and I managed to pick up a regal dresser from somewhere... Curly even generously gave me an odd clock, its odd, so I put it in the centre of my room.

By the end of the day I had well over 50,000 bells, so I paid of 48,000 bells of my 'debt' leaving a cool rounded 100,000 left. Damn that Nook. At least my house looks a bit more spiffy and airy, but theres a horrible lack of furniture, I need a bed, or at least a chair. Just something pleease!

My festive home.

Sleeping

2004-12-18T18:06:00.000-08:00

Its 2am, I couldn't sleep. Instead I went for a run around the village, through the cold moonlit snow. Everyone was outside, most of them were sleeping granted, but a slight nudge and they were wide awake. Surely thats not good, I mean, sleeping out in the snow. I think they'll all go to bed anyway. They all warned me abou the snow and mentioned I might be getting a cold, sniffly nose and all. I think I best wrap up warm and stay in bed till tommorrow. I found out the Mable sisters open from 7:00am to 2:00am, (Only 5 hours sleep?!) and Nook's cranny is a stable 9:00am til 10:00pm.

Night time for me tho.

Debt Free!

2004-12-18T08:35:00.000-08:00

Today I got some really cool mail back from the Faraway Museum. They sent back three of the fossils that I posted to them, I got the skull of a Tricera something, the Neck of a Pleisosaur (sp?) and the head of something else (such a small head for such a large creature). Anyway, I went straight to Nook's Cranny to get them valued and WOW they were all worth around 5,000 bells each. Top!

Gracie was in town, I polished her car and she gave me a lousey Barber shop outfit. I almost ran away and cried, but actually I headed over to the Mable sisters and designed myself a new set of clothes. A new animal - Astrid moved into town, she said Mitzi had taken her camera and not given it back, that didn't sound like Mitzi to me, so I offered to go find it for Astrid. When I got to Mitzi she said Yuka had stolen it. Now it all made sense, I stormed off to Yuka and whacked her a few times with my bug net, and forced her to give the camera back. When I got back to Astrid, she only gave me weird overly purple 'Laced Dress', it looked really dubious... so I changed back into the black and pink striped dress I designed myself earlier... and sold the dress to Nook (along with that crappy barber thing Gracie gave me).

After paying off my house loan, and being totally debt free - I still had loads of bells left. So I went to Nook's store, bought some more letters (to send off some fossils I found), a second shovel and because I missed out on the mini festive-tree yesterday, I bought myself a huge 2x2 festive-tree for today. It is huge! I crammed it into the corner of my room next to the kiddies table, and rearranged a few things.

I picked up a nice green plant from somewhere too, I'm not sure where tho! All this rushing around in the snow has made me forget. My camera wasn't working today, so I've got no piccies to show. Actually, my lead that I plug into the computer broke, so I can't get any pictures off... I'll make sure its fixed soon tho; I've just soo gotta get a piccy of my huge christmas tree!

First Morning

2004-12-17T05:25:00.000-08:00

I woke up pretty early this morning, running around in the snow at half eight. The owl at the museum must have contacted his friends because I got a letter saying I'd been enrolled or something and that I could send fossils to them for analysis. I think I might do that later when Nook's Cranny opens. No one had responded to any of the letters I sent out yesterday. Someone had posted a note on the town message thought board about a Blue Dresser. It worries me - people in this town go around burrying decent furniture, how wrong is that?

My first letter arrived!

Mitzi wanted me to delivery a glasses to case to Tangey that she left behind, I said I'd do it since I was touring around the map saying hi to everyone. I met the Mable Sisters again today, they couldn't advise any decent fashion items today... oh well, I'll check again tommorrow.

I found a shipwrecked sailor called Gulliver on the beach today, he gave me this great piece of furniture for my room, it like sprays an endless fountain. I took a snap of my room too, its down at the bottom. Yuka was sleeping outside her house, haha. I left her alone, I think I'll start ignoring her. Next I ended up in Anchovi's house, which is ace. Its like a casino inside, and I hung around there for a bit chatting, playing on his fruit machines.

Anchovi's Casino

Onthe way up to Tangy I found the Blue Dresser in E4, so pocketed that and headed onwards. Tangy was pretty 'high' this morning, you should have seen her eyes, I mean yikes! She was pretty pleased to get her glasses case back and gave me an Apple Clock. Which looks alot like an Apple TV to be honest. Nook's store was still closed when I got there, so I turned back round and headed home.

My living room is still a bit of a bed, no bed yet... not even a chair. I got this wonderful matching kiddy's table and floor though, hopefully I'll pick up some more matching items soon enough. The blue dresser fits nicely in the corner, and I stuck the apple clock in the corner for now, but I think I'll sell that to Nook pretty soon.

My rather crammed living room.

Blossom moves to Markavia

2004-12-16T13:55:00.000-08:00

Hey peeps, this is the diary of Blossom. I just moved to Markavia, this new town out near the ocean. I've done so much since I got here, below is a picture of me and my house.

Blossom's New House

I didn't have any cash or anything, but Tom Nook sorted me out with a house and got me a job to start paying off some of the bills. I've been everywhere today though, I met Tangy, Curly, Anchovy, Mitzi, Camofrog and Yuka. Yuka was a real bitch, she called me a "Mental Runt", that made me pretty sad and very angry. I wrote back to her in a letter saying she was evil. Mitzi is cute though, I sent here a letter too, telling her not to buy stuff from Nook, its nice of him to get me a mortgage on the house and everything but I think he's pretty shady.

The cute cat called Mitzi (outside her house)

I also went down to the pier and got a lift with the Captain down to *Bonzi* island. I think it should have been *Bonzai*, but who am I to complain? Well! I'm complaining now anyway, it was raining the whole time. I thought there was supposed to be sun on these places! I said hi to the gorilla there and wrote something in his diary. His hut was very empty though, so I sold him my Mini Fizzoid for decent bells. He's after some exotic furniture at the moment, if I see any I'll get him some.

I planted a few pears over on *Bonzi* island and took loads of coconuts back, some of which I planted in D4 I think. One the villages told me about 'Nook, he said "He'll buy anything, even junk found outside his store"; that was Anchovi I think, he also said "Hes a nut". Well, I made all of 1800 Bells selling (coco)nuts to him.

While bashing rocks with my shovel I got a bunch of cash out of one when it turned red and starting bouncing everytime I hit it. Didn't last long, but got 1300 bells out of it. I can't wait until Tom starts selling Axes in the store. I sold Nook some shells off the beach as well, Conches were the best, followed by Coral... the rest were pretty worthless - you'd make more selling Pears, and they only make 100 each.

I did some chores for people too, deliveries and item finding. My house is nicely furnished with a kiddies carpet and a kiddies table. Theres a keg in there too and a Squelchoid that I dug up... plus someone donated me a Manhole cover. Anyway, bed time I think... I hope I don't have too many nightmares about the mortgage, hehe, but I already have 11,000 bells ready to spend. I'll drop by the Post Office tommorrow and see whats going on.