March 15 Admiral and I snuck into a passenger car in the train. Admiral was very angry at me, saying stuff like how I ruined his life. All I could say was that life sucks, and you have to deal with it. Admiral was about to hit me, but then a cat came into the car. He sat down across from us, told us his name was Rover, and talked for hours about why he loved riding on trains. He asked us why we were on the train. "I burned down someone's houOWWWOWWWOWWWWW!" I began my story, but Admiral stomped on my foot. He merely told Rover that we were searching for a new start in a new town. "Where are you headed to?" asked Rover. "Well, not Garthton!" I said, humorously, "there's people there who want to kill us!"
Admiral laughed nervously. "Ah, I get it," said Rover. "You don't need to explain anything to me." He told us about a village far, far away from Garthton that would be perfect for us to settle in to. "Treehut!" he exclaimed, momentarily waking another passenger, a boar, from her sleep. "There aren't very many people there," continued Rover, "but I love visiting there every once in a while." "Where's Treehut?" asked Admiral. "It's up north," said Rover. "This train'll get there two days from now." I was already bored. "That's three days too many!" I complained.
March 16 Admiral and I had been riding the train for two days when Porter the monkey entered our car. He said that he didn't remember seeing us board the train, and requested to see our tickets. Of course, we didn't have any tickets. He told us that he was going to have to kick us off of the train, but then I started crying and he gave in and said it was okay and that we could ride the train. "Boy oh boy," said Admiral, "we sure are lucky that worked!" Yeah, it was a good thing that the crying worked out in my favor (because usually when I cry, people say things like, "there aren't any monsters, go to sleep," and they make me feel like a baby).
March 17 So today, the train arrived in Treehut, and Rover said goodbye as Admiral and I got off the train into the pouring rain. Then we slapped our foreheads when we realized that we had no place to stay! Too bad I left my beloved bumbershoot in Garthton. In fact, Admiral and I had left everything behind in Garthton. Aww man, it's so like Admiral not to plan ahead. Now I'm all wet. I blame Admiral.
March 18 Lucky for us, we found somebody who allowed us to stay at his house last night. He introduced himself as Punchy. He said that we could bunk with him as long as we needed to as long as we went fishing with him. So Admiral slept on Punchy's couch, and I slept on the kitchen table. It was really wobbly, and I tipped it over a few times in the middle of the night whenever I would roll over. Earlier today, Admiral and I went fishing with Punchy. He told us that since Treehut doesn't have a store, you have to get your own food, and fish is one of the easiest foods besides fruit to get. "Ha!" I said. "I haven't caught a single fish all day!" I sure proved him wrong, despite how Punchy and Admiral kept telling me that I wasn't using any bait.
March 19 Static is a much better fisherman than I am. I stole some of his fish and put them in my fish bucket to impress Admiral with my big catch, but Admiral wasn't impressed. "If you wanted to impress me," he said, "you would have made sure that we hadn't seen you stealing the fish." Static angrily requested his fish back, but instead I threw them, bucket and all, into the river. Then Static threw me into the river! Ugh, the nerve of some people!
Static introduced us to a girl duck named Pompom, too, who said she was very excited to meet us. She looked very excitable and happy. "Are there any other neighbors around?" asked Admiral. "Well," said Static, "there's the tailors who live down near the beach, but they're always so busy with their sewing and shirt designing..." I got bored with the conversation so I walked up to Pompom and said hi. She said she liked my shirt, so I said I liked her hat. "I'm not wearing a hat!" she said. Oh, how embarrassing. Her hair looks like a hat.
March 21 Today, I was surprised when Punchy told me there was someone waiting at the door for me. "He says his name's Tom Nook." I ran over to Nook, who began shaking my hand immediately. Nook told me about how he had to shut down his old shop because he wasn't making any more sales or anything. "Like it or not," he said, "you've been my only customer for years. I have no choice but to follow you and set up a new shop here." Then Admiral walked up to Nook. They talked about how Nook, as well as being a shopkeeper, is also a licensed contractor, and Admiral asked Nook if he could build us houses. Nook happily obliged. He walked up to me and held his grubby hand out. "That will be 19,800 Bells," he told me. Stupid Nook. I told him about how I didn't have any money, so I offered him a dead fish I got yesterday. I was hoping he'd eat it, but he didn't. It was a total letdown, and it ruined my afternoon.
March 22 Nook built not only his store but houses for Admiral and me last night. Gosh, does this guy ever sleep? I tried not sleeping one night, but it drove me crazy and the following morning, as soon as I left my house, I fell asleep, standing up. It didn't occur to me to be an odd thing, since my neighbors always seemed to do it too. I was lying down in front of my house when Nook told me that he expected me to pay him for the house in full. "I'll do it later," I said. I was losing my concentration on the clouds. I swear, one of the clouds was shaped like a taco.
March 23 We've been fishing for days, but I haven't caught any fish. Admiral tried all day to teach me how to catch fish, but I just don't get it. I don't think I'm ever going to get it. I guess I'll just have to keep shaking pears down from the trees and eating them forever.
March 24 Admiral bought a fishing rod this morning. Up until today, we've all been taking turns using Punchy's. "You know," said Admiral, "you should also get your own fishing rod too so that you don't always have to borrow Punchy's. One of these days, you're going to break his rod." Now would be a bad time to tell Admiral that while he was shopping, I broke Punchy's fishing rod.
March 25 Today, I was spying on people from high up on a tree branch, and I noticed Punchy walk beneath me, completely unaware of my presence. I was about to jump down on Punchy when I backed into a beehive. The bees started buzzing loudly and I got startled and fell off the branch. I fell to the ground with a thud and a loud snap (my arm breaking) and Punchy, hearing this, turned around just in time to see about a hundred billion bees sting my left eye. "Ooooh," said Punchy, "you're going to need some medicine for that."
March 26 Admiral's been asking me nicely to be nice to the other villagers in Treehut. He told me that he's finally getting accustomed to living here, and doesn't want me to jeopardize our chances of fitting in. I asked him if he wanted me to sign a contract and sign it with blood, but he said that that wasn't really necessary. Awww, nobody ever wants me to do anything with blood...
March 28 Today, I found the tailors' shop near the beach and ran inside. They were porcupines! Mable was nice and greeted me, but Sable wasn't talking to me. "Um, please go talk to my sister over there," said Sable without removing a paw from her work. She was running a sewing machine in front of her. "I'm too busy to talk." "Sable!" shouted Mable, "be nice and talk to the customers!" "Yeah!" I leaned forward, getting in Sable's face. Unfortunately, I happened to lean on the fabric she was sewing, and I moved it around and I caused Sable to crumple up the fabric in the machine and ruin the whole thing. "Mable..." Sable moaned to her sister. "Um," Mable said to me, "perhaps you'd better leave for today." But I didn't leave until I made her promise to make me an I'm With Stupid shirt.
March 30 Nook walked up to me earlier today. "I'm rather concerned because you haven't paid me anything for building your house." Jeez, some people are so greedy. The voices in my head convinced me that I need to teach him a lesson.
March 31 Admiral was not happy when I told him my plan for getting revenge on Nook. "You're only going to get into trouble!" he said. "Just like you did in Garthton!" "No," I said, "I'm going to hide in a tree so he doesn't find me." "But what's the point?" asked Admiral. "Tom Nook did something very generous for you—building a house for you—and you're going to play a trick on him? That's just not right..." "But it'll be funny!" I smiled brightly.
April 1 I finished digging a hole in front of Nook's store and covered it with tree branches. Then I climbed up a tree nearby to watch. This was going to be perfect. A simple prank on April Fool's Day! Well, Nook stepped out of his store and was walking up to the hole! But then he stepped right around it! He must have noticed the hole! Furious, I banged my fists on the tree branch, causing it to snap! I fell and hit the ground and started to cry because my broken arm, which had just fully healed yesterday, snapped again!
April 2 I woke up early this morning and my arm was really sore because I wasn't treating it or anything. I was going to ask Admiral for some aspirins but then I realized that he would only criticize me, saying that I shouldn't have played the prank in the first place and that I deserved to fall out of the tree. So I had to sneak into his house while he was still asleep so I could steal his aspirins. But, of course, he caught me and I had to give them back.
April 4 Someone was knocking on my door today. It was a black cat! I screamed in horror at the thought of the bad luck she was bringing me. "Hi," she said. She told me that her name was Kiki and that she was moving into town. "Okay," I said, "but don't you dare cross my path!" I slammed the door and hid under my bed for a few hours until I was sure it was safe to come out.
April 5 Static wasn't happy to hear about how indignant I was that Kiki was moving into town. "What right do you have to say who can and can't move in here?" he said sternly. "After all, we were happy to welcome you and Admiral—" "But we aren't unlucky!" I said defensively. "Kiki is unlucky. All black cats are!" "What?!" said Static, shocked. "Black cats are unlucky? I never heard that before!" Just then, Admiral came running up and pulled me away from Static, to whom he said, "Sorry about him, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Black cats aren't any more unlucky than a green bird or a purple squirrel." "What did you just call me?!!" asked Static. Clearly he was very angry about being called purple. I don't know what happened after that because I got distracted by a little cricket jumping all over the place. I tried to mimic its jumping but accidentally jumped into the river because I was jumping with my eyes closed and couldn't see.
April 7 Superstition makes you do crazy things. I saw Kiki today out of the corner of my eye and panicked, so I asked Static what I should do. "You should punch your knees really hard. That will block the unluckiness." Then Static walked away. So I bent over and stood there, punching my knees. Kiki saw this and walked far far away from me. Ha ha, thanks Static, your trick worked!
April 8 What is this? "People Moving In Week"? Someone else has moved into Treehut! Her name is Robin and she seems real shy. I walked up to her and reached my hand out to shake her hand, but wait! "I don't have a hand," she said. "I'm a bird. I've got a wing. Let's shake wings!" "But I don't have wings..." I said. "Aw, dammit, this is too awkward!!!" I screamed. Robin stood there and scratched her forehead. "I'll see you tomorrow!" she said. I'm sure I stood there with a goofy smile on my face.
April 9 I was sleeping in late and was startled awake by some knocking at the door. I jumped out of bed and ran to the door, yanking it open. Mable was standing there with a small stack of paper. "Good afternoon!" she said. "Were you up all night?" I told her that I couldn't remember. "Well," she said, "you're going to start getting up nice and early if you're going to win this year's Flower Fest!" She then went on to tell me about the flower growing contest that she's hosting. "So I have to grow flowers?" "Yes! Whoever wins the vote for the prettiest garden wins the Flower Trophy!" She held the Flower Trophy up high for me to see. "Yay!" I said as I slammed the door and dove back into bed.
April 10 I decided to participate in the tournament so that I could win the pretty trophy. I ran to Nook's store this afternoon but was sorely disappointed. "Sorry, but I'm out of flower seeds!" he said. "You should really wake up earlier!" Furious, I stomped out of Nook's store and was going to go home to cry, but I bumped into Robin, who was heading over to Punchy's house. "Punchy's so nice," she said, "he is donating seeds to the seedless." But I messed things up. I said "thank you" before Punchy gave me the seeds! I ruined the whole day.
April 11 Today I decided to plant the seeds. Except I'd never planted seeds before! Admiral tried to help me but I messed things up again. "What the hey?!" he asked. You see, I had accidentally planted the flower seeds directly underneath a tree. "Your flowers aren't going to grow there!"
April 12 Nook still didn't have any seeds. "I won't be getting any until next week. I'm so sorry!" So I decided to steal some from Static. My trick was to steal them one at a time so that he wouldn't notice over time. Too bad Mable saw the whole thing. "How could you cheat?" she asked, disappointed. "Like this," I said, demonstrating by picking some more of Static's flowers from his garden. Unfortunately, Static saw me picking them through his window. "How dare you pick my flowers?" he asked. He yanked the flowers from my hand and said that he wasn't going to vote for me. I ran home crying.
April 13 Oh no, the contest ends on the 15th and I don't have a single flower in my garden! Kiki's garden looks so nice but mine looks like crud.
I asked her what her secret was. "Well," she said, "I don't constantly run around in my garden, rolling around and making dirt angels." She told me how the key to making a pretty garden is patience, which unfortunately, I do not have at the moment. I've got to get patient, and I have to hurry because I only have two days!
April 14 I am panicking today. This is the last full day of gardening before voting tomorrow and... "I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING IN MY GARDEN! I'M GOING TO LOSE THE CONTEST! SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING OR ELSE! AAAAAAAAACK! BWA HA HA HA!!!" Admiral and Punchy grabbed me and tried to calm me down but it was no good. I was having a nervous breakdown and was crying and shrieking because my garden wasn't going to win. "Calm down!" said Punchy. "It's okay. Look, here," he said, dashing over to his house real quick and picking a few flowers. "Here," he said, putting the flowers into my garden. "Oh yeah, here," said Admiral, stepping over to his garden and picking a few flowers for me. Pompom saw this and did the same. "Hee hee hee," I whispered. "Flowers. Precious flowers. All mine."
April 15 Mable gathered everyone on the beach next to her shop. "Everybody did a real good job this year. Now, let us vote for the winner," she said, patting the ballot box. She handed everyone slips of paper. I voted for myself even though Mable said we weren't allowed to vote for ourselves, but I was devastated because Kiki ended up winning anyway. Kiki walked up in front of us and was giving a speech, but I plugged my ears and wouldn't listen. "You're such a poor sport," Admiral told me later. "Oh yeah? Well my garden looked better than yours!" "Your garden was my garden! I gave you all my flowers! Yeesh!" he shouted, shutting the door behind him on his way out. Jeez, what a poor sport!
April 18 Today, Robin told me that she's an artist. She also told me about how she likes to make maps in her spare time. She gave me a map of Treehut!
Of course, I looked at the map and was totally bored by the sight of it. I thought the map needed to be snazzed up a little bit, but Robin didn't care much for the changes when I showed them to her. I don't care, though, because this map is perfect to me.
April 20 Today, I returned to the Able Sisters' shop. Mable stopped me as soon as I walked in and whispered into my ear. "Please, be careful this time. Sable is upset very easily and was not happy with what you did last time you were in here." I said okay and walked over to Sable, who was busy stitching a flower onto the front of a shirt. She said, hushedly, "My sister would be happy to help you." "Okay, that's it!" shouted Mable, stomping her foot down on the ground. "I've had it! You have got to be more outgoing! Come on, we're going out on the town! You've got to liven up!" And with that, she pulled Sable out through the door. Huh, aren't porcupines weird?
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