New Year’s Day 2019

Today is New Year’s Day, and Tortimer had a New Year’s fortune for me. In fact, he was really excited to give it to me.

Tortimer: Goodness! Now you've even got me all excited!

My fortune said I would be lucky in 2019. But then it said luck favors the foolish. So is it calling me foolish??

Your fortune: Lucky. Dreams: Do your best! Love: Don't dawdle. Health: I detect a cold. Luck favors the foolish.
Tortimer: Par-tay! WhooEEE! Par-tay in the New Year! I lose all inhibitions at parties!

Note: Crazy Redd was not in town due to the holiday.

For the new year, some cedar trees have festive lights on them. I had forgotten all about this, although of course I remember they return in February for Bright Nights.

Festive lights on cedar trees on New Year's Day in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

There was a new house in town, and I found Roald the alcoholic penguin inside.

Roald: I'm Roald, aka the Chugging Ninja! I just moved here.

I ran into Gaston outside, and he was rather insulting. He said he knew how I could be, but he asked me to try to be nice for today! MeeeEeeEEe? How about you try it, you yellow grump!

Gaston: I know how you can be. But maybe you should try being nice, just for today.
Excuse me?

Curly moved out last week, but I saw that his flower garden still remains. That actually made me a little sad. 😛 I watered the wilted flowers for him.

Curly's flower garden at the site where he recently lived.

When I got back around to my house, I checked my mail and found several letters wishing me a happy new year. They were from Big Top, Margie, Jeremiah, Kiki, Rosie, and Mom.

It's a big day, Jeff, Happy New Year! This year, I'm planning to live life at my own speed. Just like always, huh?! 01/01/2019 --Kiki

Mom even sent me 10,000 bells for the holiday.

Elsewhere in town, Jeremiah and Gaston both pinged me at the same time. They must’ve had something important to tell me, right? Umm, not quite.

Jeremiah: Hey, I hear Bree likes black tea!

As I was talking to them, Kiki also came up to me and pinged me. I guess that was my 15 minutes of fame. 😛

Have a Happy 2019, everyone!

Update: Here is the Wild World video I mentioned last time, Ep. 17!

Talking Machine

Curly has officially moved out of Forest; I received his goodbye letter in the mail today.

Hoo-ha, Jeff, I'm moving. I have my reasons. No worries, yo! I'm sure you'll remember me fondly. Keep pumpin'! See ya! -From Curly

Big Top was talking about the points machine in Tom Nook’s shop. In particular, he was amazed that it talks. He even wondered who was inside of the machine! I guess Big Top really hasn’t been keeping up with technology.

Big Top: That huge machine in Tom Nook's shop talks! It talks!
Big Top: Who's the unlucky slob they stuck inside that thing, baconballs?
Maybe Curly is inside.

I found a note in a bottle on the beach, and it contained a word puzzle.

Word Puzzle. FISH. DISH. DISK. What comes next?
Umm… DICK?

It was almost 11:00 p.m. at this point, so I rushed to Nook’s shop to sell two bees I caught last time. They earned me a total of 9,000 bells, and Nook kicked me out right after the transaction.

Just outside of Crazy Redd’s tent, I ran into Bree. She told me about a girl in the town where she used to live. The girl had weeds in her yard and garbage everywhere. Bree implied that she might have done something to her, if she still lived in that town. She then stopped before getting into specifics, but she admitted that she’s so mean that she scares herself.

Bree: No, I can't say any more. Sometimes I'm so mean, I scare myself, cheeseball!
If it wasn’t clear already, Bree is definitely the town villain now.

Rosie was still sick, so I gave her some medicine once again.

It was snowing in town, so that saved me from having to water any flowers. That’s always helpful. Gaston compared the snow to a sea of vanilla ice cream. Mmm, sounds good.

Gaston: It's like a sea of vanilla ice cream out here, mon chou!

That’s all I have for now, but I’ll be posting a new episode of my ACWW video series on Youtube tomorrow! I hope you’re all having a good holiday season! See you next time. 🙂

Curly Clears Out

I found Curly with his belongings all packed up in boxes today. He’s moving out of town, and I decided not to stop him. He’s a cool pig, but he’s had a good run in Forest.

Curly: I hate good-byes! I wish I could crush them between my pecs, J-bot!

I figured it was time for me to wear a new look, so I went into Able Sisters and bought an orange tie-dye shirt and some goggles.

Mabel: Wow! You are looking really, really good!

Crazy Redd was in town, and he had an awesome painting for sale! I need that one still, so I bought it right away. Unfortunately, Blathers informed me that it was a fake. Ugh. That’s the second time this month I thought I was getting a new painting, but once again, it’s a forgery.

Blathers: I cannon exhibit a fake. It just cannot be done. I shudder at the thought!
If Mr. Bean can do it, so can you.

Rosie was sick with a cold, so I gave her some medicine. After gulping it down, she declared that she’s not fully recovered yet. Well, duh. Medicine doesn’t work instantly, Rosie. 😛

Rosie: Glugalugalugalug... Ooooh, I don't think I'm fully recovered yet, silly.

On the bulletin board, I saw a new “Talking to Myself” post about Pelly or Phyllis liking airplanes a lot when she was younger. She’d put slippers on her wings and fly. Wait, what? I don’t understand how having slippers on her wings would make her more like an airplane?

-Talking to Myself- When she was younger, my sister loved airplanes. She'd put slippers on her open wings and fly!

Jeremiah was talking about how to hold nets when catching bugs. He said that Margie holds a net in each hand… But more interestingly, he referred to Margie as a “he!” I know I’ve seen screenshots of Animal Crossing: New Leaf when villagers will occasionally give the wrong gender for another villager, but apparently this happens in Wild World as well.

Jeremiah: Margie said he holds one net in each hand.