A Top From Nintendo

This morning, Pete greeted me outside my house with a letter from Nintendo.

Pete: I have an express delivery for you from Nintendo.The letter wished me happy holidays. Nintendo sent a top attached to the letter. They even joked that they’re not cheap!

Dear Jeff, Sometimes simple is best. That's why our gift to you is a childhood classic: a top! ...We swear, we're not cheap!I put the top on my ice table, next to Jingle’s pic. Unfortunately, it doesn’t spin, but I can’t really complain a free gift. Or can I?

The top that Nintendo sent me.Reese was buying turnips for 192 bells, so I sold all that I had. I didn’t quite double my money this week, but that’s still a very nice profit.

Reese: Currently, I'm buying each turnip for 192 bells.Later on this evening, Agent S seemed to be cold outside. But she didn’t want to go indoors, because she might miss a single snowflake! Don’t worry, there’s going to be many more to come in the next two months.

Agent S: I didn't want to miss a single snowflake, up a tree!Over at the campsite, I found the first igloo of the season. They look so cool. And I love the calm, peaceful music that plays inside them.

The first igloo of winter.Kitt the kangaroo was inside. Kitt used to be a resident of my GameCube town; I do miss her a bit. But my town is full, so I wasn’t able to ask her to move in anyway.

Kitt: Oh, hello! Are you from this town? I thought it might be a little cold for camping, but it's actually very nice.The money bags in my pockets (from selling my turnips earlier) were cluttering up my inventory, so I made a trip up to the post office. After depositing the money, my account reached 30 million bells for the first time. Only 70 million to go until I get the gold badge for saving money. This is going to take me years.

Your current balance is 30,220,000 bells.When I found today’s snowballs, I put them together to make a snowmam. After a few imperfect snowmams in recent weeks, I finally made another perfect one.

Snowmam: My name is Snowmam.
My name is Jeff.

Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Kyle from Denver was my most recent dream visitor. And before I wrapped up my night in Forest, I decided to do a little fishing and diving.

I got a spiny lobster! Who would give lobsters SPINES?

Jingle’s Picture

Jingle sent me this letter in the mail, thanking me for the help with Christmas Eve last night. Jingle’s picture was included with the letter.

To Jeff Claus! That was some of the best Santa-ing I've ever seen! I'm sending you a little something special. -JingleI displayed Jingle’s picture on my ice table in my main room (for now, at least). Jingle’s favorite quote is “Sometimes haste makes waste.”

Quote on Jingle's picture: Sometimes haste makes waste!The instant I got done looking at Jingle’s pic, Aurora barged into my house.

Aurora: Hello, Mr. J! Would you mind a visitor?I spoke to her once or twice, and then I just sat down on the couch until she left.

When I went outside, Amelia said she was tired of the greeting I gave her!

Amelia: So, Jeff, I think my usual greeting is getting stale. I'm tired of "I'm an airhead."Well fine, then! If you’re going to insult my excellent greetings, then I’m going to make you say something insulting!

Amelia: I'm a butthead! Yes, YOU over there! I'm a butthead!It may have been a white Christmas, but it was a blue day in the coffee shop. All four of today’s customers (Molly, Big Top, Kabuki, and Resetti) wanted blue mountain coffee.

Resetti: Whoa! This is the good stuff! Smooth but with a little kick.I found a lost mitten on my brick bridge, and I began to ask around.

A lost item on the bridge.It belonged to the third villager I asked about it, Drago. He could smell his french fries on it. I wonder if he cooked them with his breath.

Drago: Mm hmm! This is my mitten all right! I can smell the french fries I ate last time I wore it!To thank me for returning it, he gave me a red warm-up suit. Actually, I’m quite warm in the red suit I’m already wearing.

I went up to Main Street for my shopping run, and of course, I updated my dream town too. While there, Luna told me that Steph from Starbell was my most recent dream visitor.

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you had a great holiday!

Toy Day 2014 – Christmas Eve

I got two letters in the mail today. One was a letter from Gulliver, who sent me a tribal mask from Kenya. The other was this letter from Dad, wishing me a happy Toy Day. He attached a record player to the letter.

Dear Jeff, Remember when I dressed up as Santa to give you your presents? I always got a kick out of seeing you smile. -DadMy villagers were initially fooled by my outfit, and they thought I was Santa. Even though they’ve seen me wearing this outfit for weeks already.

Molly: Santa?! Did you get my suggestions for improving the aerodynamics of your sleigh?But they kind of figured out I wasn’t Santa…but only because Jingle wasn’t in town yet.

Big Top: Oh, wow! SANTA! But...you can't really be him. After all, Jingle's not in town yet.Jingle doesn’t show up until 6:00 p.m. though. But once the time came, I found Santa’s deer friend by my eastern ramp.

Jingle: Happy holidays! I'm Jingle, the black-nosed reindeer!He asked me to help him out by delivering the presents to the villagers in town. He gave me Santa’s bag to carry around.

Jingle: That Santa bag is a magical sack filled up with presents for everyone here in town!So I began giving out presents to my villagers. Thanks to the notes I kept of the hints my villagers gave me throughout December, most of the presents were pretty obvious. For example, Sprinkle wanted yellow food, so the banana in Santa’s bag was clearly her gift of choice.

Sprinkle: I must've been SUCH a good penguin this year!A few of them weren’t quite that obvious, but they weren’t that hard to figure out. Amelia’s “yellow doll” turned out to be a lucky gold cat, and Kabuki’s “brown toy” was a foosball table.

Kabuki: Ooh, a foosball table! My wish came true! Hooray!The gifts made all of my villagers quite happy.

Big Top: Awesome! Thanks! This is proof that there really is a Santa!I delivered nine of the presents, but I was having trouble finding Drago. It turns out, he was down on the beach!

Drago: Not to sound greedy, but where's my present?I gave him his yellow clothes (a leopard tee) and I was done! I then returned to Jingle and he took Santa’s bag back. He congratulated me on a job well done; I delivered everything to the right person animal.

Jingle: Let's see... Yup, yup! You've indeed delivered everything perfectly, kid!He gave me a festive wreath as my reward.

Jingle: Since you did such a holly-jolly job, I'll give you a special little present. It's a festive wreath!I should be getting Jingle’s picture in the mail tomorrow for completing the event perfectly.

Thank you all for visiting, and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! 🙂 I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow, so I hope you’ll stop by again!