A Happy Day in Forest

Late last night (technically early this morning), Tom invited me over to check his new bingo snowmen for the day. His friends Aggie and Kamica also came over to visit. Tom hadn’t rolled the snowmen’s eyes yet, so we each rolled them at the same time.

Rolling the snowmen's eyes.Then this morning, my Re-Tail was buying turnips for 115 bells apiece. Today is the last day to sell them, so I sold all that I had. I made a small profit on them this week.

Reese: Well then...I could probably part with 115,000 bells for all of it, if that sounds OK with you?When I worked at the Roost, Gracie came in for coffee. This was only the second time she’s visited the cafe.

Gracie: Merci, sweet thing. I'm going to slurp this down like nobody's business!When I went back outside, I got some very good news from Tabby: She’s moving out on January 16th! YESSSSS! Finally! Woohoooooo! I just have to remember not to speak to her if she pings me. (I wonder if me ignoring her sickness played any role in her decision).

Tabby: Right now it's looking like I'll go on the 16th of this month.Big Top invited me over to his house and I chose 4:00 as the time to meet him. By the time I remembered, it was 4:03. That’s not too bad, right? But I saw him outside my house instead of inside his own. At any rate, he apologized for not being home. So I’m hoping I’m not in any further trouble with the green elephant.

Big Top: I'm really sorry I wasn't at home when you came to visit me, little top.When I took my money from my turnip sales and put them in the bank, my account topped five million bells for the first time.

Your current balance is 5,040,000 bells.While I was on Main Street, I did my shopping run. When I walked into GracieGrace, I thought there was a bunny hood on sale for a moment. It turns out it was just Gabi’s head.

Gabi shopping in GracieGrace.At the Emporium, I bought K.K. Ballad. I already had the song, but I’ve been meaning to try turning it into a music box. So I took it and a giant clam shell to Cyrus over at Re-Tail. As I was waiting for him to finish it, I purposely made a flawed snowboy.

Snowboy: Society is a harsh judge of mediocre-looking snowpeeps.Down on the beach, I found Gulliver. He was talking about a country that has lots of alpacas, and how he wanted to snuggle up to them and pet them over and over. (It was kind of creepy).

Gulliver: I want to snuggle up to that white, soft neck of theirs and pet and pet and pet and pet and pet!I was not sure of the country by the choices he gave me. I knew it wasn’t Mexico, but I took a guess among the other choices and I guessed correctly. He’s headed to Peru! After that, I returned to Re-Tail and I took home my K.K. ballad music box shell.

Take home the K.K. Ballad?When I started the game up later on, I had a letter in the mail from the post office. They congratulated me for saving five million bells and they sent me this aluminum briefcase, filled with cash! Awesome!

The aluminum briefcase loaded with money!It’s Saturday, so that means K.K. will be performing at Club LOL tonight. Hopefully I’ll remember to check him out later.

That’s all I have for now, but if anyone already on my 3DS roster wants Tabby for some strange reason, please contact me. It can be on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. But you’ll need to be available on Thursday evening (Eastern U.S. time). And keep in mind, that I have trouble connecting to some people. If we’re unable to connect after a few attempts, I may have to give her to someone else.

One last note: Two new patterns have been submitted to the QR Codes page. One is a pattern of blue tiles that could be used for a path (or maybe a bathroom floor) submitted by Thomas, and the other is a McDonald’s logo submitted by Beth. Check them out if you’re interested.

Teddy’s Near-Death Experience

I got a letter from the snowtyke in the mail, and he sent me this sleigh.

My new sleigh.I now have three of the four snowtyke items. I can’t wait to be done with him, because purposely making bad snowpeople hinders my ability to collect the other snowman items. But I did make a snowman today to get a new bingo card. Tom invited me over to his town to get a few bingo numbers stamped off my card. The northern lights were shining in the skies over Tomville.

The northern lights and Tom's snowmen.Angus also took notice of the aurora in the sky and he started getting deep on me.

Angus: Seeing stuff like that makes me ponder the secrets of the universe and what it means to be truly alive...Angus: Like, what if gravity doesn't exist? And the universe is like a big bowl and we just all sift to the bottom?!Angus: AH! My mind is blowing!When I returned to Forest, I saw that Marina was in the igloo.

Marina: Oh, hello! I heard a rumor that this was a lovely town to camp in, so here I am.I had the opportunity to ask her to move into town, but I declined the option. Marina is pretty cool (eight thumbs-up), but if I use my tenth villager spot on purpose, I want it to be someone I really, really want. Because I would feel awful if I asked Marina to move in, and then tomorrow Bob or Lolly was in the igloo. I like keeping my options open.

I decided to finally redecorate my upstairs room. The musical instruments and totem poles are gone now. In their place, I’m making a skiing themed room with items from the snowman and snowtyke. I kept the cloud flooring up there for now, because it doubles for snow quite nicely.

My frosty snow and skiing themed room.Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Jacob from the town of Black was my most recent dream visitor.

When I returned to town, Teddy told me a frightening story. He said everything went white, and then he saw an image of Tammy floating by! What a horrible near-death experience that must have been! If I saw Tammy in the light, I would turn back too!

Teddy: For a moment, everything went white! Then, beyond the light, I saw an image of Tammy floating by...
Obvious disclaimer: The picture of Tammy in the light is not an actual screenshot. The image came directly from Teddy’s warped mind.

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Ryan came over, and we went up to Club LOL. Kidd and Fuchsia were in there on a date.

Fuchsia: Dude! Now that this ain't my turf anymore, I thought you were a bully trying to pick a fight or something!The four of us (and Shrunk) danced for a while.

Dancing at Club LOL.We hung out for a bit as I waited to see if anyone else would come. They didn’t, although Tiffiny told me she was trying to get in but couldn’t connect. So Ryan and I went out to the island and went on a few island tours. We started off with a dragonfly tour and a hammer tour. We got gold Tortimer awards for both, but Ryan beat me in both of those games.

Swinging our hammers on the tour.Tortimer: For your AMAZING performance, I'm happy to award you a Gold Tortimer award and 12 medals!We then went on a balloon-popping tour, and I beat Ryan for the only time of the night. We finished up with the ancient fish encoun-tour, where we had to catch the coelacanth and arapaima. I started out quick and took a little lead, but Ryan caught up to me and we finished tied. After that, we returned to Forest and I soon ended the party.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Lunar Horizon

Just a short update today. Saharah was in town, and she installed a classic carpet and a lunar horizon in my house. The lunar horizon is definitely a keeper.

The classic carpet and lunar horizon.After watering my flowers, I rolled up today’s snowballs and built a snowtyke. As planned, he was the only well-built member of his family.

Snowtyke: I hate to say it, but I'm the coolest-looking one in my family. Everyone else is just a little off.You get a different reward depending on how many of his other family members are built well (0, 1, 2, or 3). I already got the rewards for 3 and 2 (the snowman matryoshka and snow bunny), and tomorrow I should get the reward for 0. So I can finally build a new snowman tomorrow and get myself a bingo card again.

When I went up to Main Street, I found out that Golden from the town of New Leaf was my most recent dream visitor.

That’s all I have for today, but tomorrow is Friday Night Forest. So I’ll be back with a much longer update late tomorrow night.