Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I started up the game today and I received Curly’s goodbye letter in the mail. It’s sad to see this little piggy go wee wee wee all the way home.

Just one acre away, I found Curly’s replacement. And boy is he stinky. I mean, Stinky. He’s a cat with underwear on his head. He lives next door to Candi, in the same spot where Yuka once lived.

I talked to Static near the river, and he was ranting about K.K. Slider, the singing dog. He says that K.K. always ruins his mood. I don’t know how that could be true, since Static is usually in a bad mood anyway. By the way, I love the look on his face in this picture:

When I went up to Belle, she started repeating “12 weeks ago, 12 weeks ago.” She then asked if I knew what she was referring to.

Is that when your milk spoiled? Actually it’s the last time I talked to her. It’s udderly ridiculous that she thinks I care how often I speak to her. But she said she was so mad that she could SPIT. You spit on me, and the whole town will be eating hamburgers for the next two weeks.

At the top of the ramp, I found an igloo. Since the snow on the ground will be melting by Wednesday, this is the last time I’ll get to see an igloo this winter.

Puck was inside, and he wanted to play a guessing game with me. I had to guess the word he was thinking of, and I would get an ivy wall if I was correct. The three choices were a pear, a peach, and an apple. I guessed that he was thinking of an apple…and I was right! I was afraid he’d take all my money if I was wrong, but fortunately, I didn’t get to find out. But Puck was now convinced that I was psychic. He even said it was creepy being friends with a psychic. Thanks a lot, old friend.

Meanwhile, Genji was talking about the tropical island. He said he didn’t have a Game Boy Advance and a GameCube-GBA Link Cable, so he wouldn’t be able to visit the island…on his bum. Is it just me or does that catchphrase never get old?

Baabara was being her usual negative self, saying this town is such a bore. Meanwhile, in the background, Hank did something that angered Genji. Baabara hinted that she might move out, but that would be fine by me. Of course, I know it’s not going to happen.

I finished my walk around town and pulled all the weeds I could find (until the wishing well confirmed that my town was perfect once again). I stopped at the post office to mail some fossils away, and then headed for home. By the time I post again, spring will be here. I’m looking forward to seeing green grass again! See you all next time!

I played the game very early this morning, just after midnight in fact. I checked my mail, and believe it or not, I was actually disappointed to find Jambette’s goodbye letter. The reason for my disappointment isn’t that I didn’t get a chance to meet her; it’s because I was planning on pitfalling her before she left town.

Quite a few of my villagers were already asleep for the night. But Genji was one that was awake. He was giving me some fishing tips, telling me to pull out my bobber once it goes underwater.

Even though Tom was wide awake and walking around outdoors, he threw a major fit when I went up to talk to him. I usually like Tom, but he was being a major jerk.

Hello to you too.

I was hoping to find Wisp–that’s the main reason I was playing after midnight–but there was no sign of him anywhere in town. And my newest neighbor (Jambette’s replacement) was already asleep, so I decided to end my game for the morning.

I picked it back up this evening and introduced myself to Zoe, the new anteater in town.

I decided to take a rare boat trip out to the tropical island, where it was raining quite hard tonight. I had a little chat with Ankha, who probably isn’t used to the rain. It’s good to see her every once in a while, though. I’m sure she gets very lonely living on the island by herself.

When I returned to the chilly mainland, Curly asked me for a new catchphrase to replace his previous one, “nyoink.” I told him to say “piggy” from now on.

After stopping by the post office and dump, I returned home for the night. I’ll leave you with an animated GIF of the GameCube menu screen from before I started up my Animal Crossing game last night. See you next time!

Today is Christmas Eve, and I received a letter from Mom in the mail. She wished me happy holidays and sent me a lady palm as my Christmas present.

I also got a goodbye letter from Lucy the pig, who recently moved out of town.

Of course, snow now covers the ground and there are also Christmas lights on some trees. It was snowing tonight, so that adds to the festive atmosphere as well.

I visited Static in his house–it seems like he’s usually outdoors–and he was as jolly as ever. In other words, not jolly at all.

And just one acre to the north, I stumbled onto something I wasn’t happy to see. What’s the opposite of a Christmas miracle? Finding out Jambette just moved into town!

This is worse than receiving a lump of coal in my stocking; it’s the nightmare before Christmas! Fortunately, she was already asleep for the night, so I didn’t have to see her.

I continued to look for Jingle the reindeer, but I was having trouble finding him. Instead, I ran into Curly the pig. He told me was unable to clean up his house because a cactus was in the way! He wanted me to buy it for 3,680 bells. No way!

But after nearly 20 minutes of playing, I finally found Jingle!

Unlike later Animal Crossing games, getting stuff from Jingle on GameCube requires that you find him five times before you even get one piece of the Jingle set! After that, you just need to keep changing your shirt to fool him into thinking you’re different people. But since I’ve already acquired the set in previous years, I felt no need to go through hours of that tedious process tonight. I found him twice, just to get a taste of the holiday, but that’s all I could take of my deer friend.

Talking to Jingle from that angle let me see that coconut on the ground that was normally hidden from view. I wonder how long it’s been there! Years, quite possibly.

Well that’s all I have for now, but I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I’ll see you next time! 🙂