October 4 I ran to Nook's store to see if he had a coffee maker. He didn't have one, but while I was there, I noticed something he had for sale. I ran over to it and picked it up. It was a slingshot! "No!" said Nook, running over to me. "Absolutely not! I can't let you have that!" He pulled it out of my hands. "But I want it!" I said. Then I started to cry. Harriet heard me crying and walked out of her salon, into the store. "Tom, let him have it!" "No way!" said Nook. "He'll shoot everyone with it, and they'll all blame me!" That night, I heard knocking on my door. I opened it and said hi to Harriet, who was holding the slingshot. She handed it to me, and said, "Here, you can have this! Just don't tell Tom!" "Yay!" I said, as I took the slingshot from her. "He is such a cranky stickler," she said. "He doesn't know what it means to have fun." "Yeah," I agreed. "Nook sucks."
October 5 I was running around town with my new slingshot. I saw Kiki, and started pointing my slingshot at her. "Eeeek!" she screamed. "Point that slingshot away from me, now!" I fired a pebble at her and she screamed. I kept running around and saw Punchy. I snuck up behind him and shot an apple at him. Then I saw Robin. I shot a pebble and it hit her in the butt! Then I saw Admiral. I decided I better not shoot him, or else he'll take away my slingshot or yell at me. Next, I saw Pompom. I shot a Bell at her. She shouted, "Ow!" and then "Oooh, money!" I started shooting more Bells at her, and she started jumping up and down with joy. Then I ran into Nook's store and was about to shoot a rock at his head, but he started running at me and yelling stuff, so I ran out of his store and hid up a tree.
October 6 I was showing Punchy how cool my new slingshot was, when suddenly, I felt a strong gust of wind. I looked up and saw a big red balloon floating across the sky. Hanging from its string was a wrapped present! "Shoot it down!" exclaimed Punchy. I fired a pebble, but missed the balloon. "Come on," he said. "Try again!" I missed again. "You can do it! You managed to hit me yesterday; surely, you can hit that balloon!" "I give up," I said. "Nooooo!" wailed Punchy. "Just try one more time." But I missed. "I think you need more practice!" said Punchy.
October 7 Punchy helped me practice using my slingshot today. "Shoot the apples out of that tree!" he said. I pointed my slingshot at the tree and knocked all three apples out of it. "I want to eat one of the apples," I said, starting toward the apples. "Not yet!" said Punchy. "First, you have to shoot it!" He picked up an apple and threw it into the air. I took aim, fired, and hit the apple. "Now I get to eat it," I said. "Wait, now you have to shoot all three apples!" Punchy threw all three apples in the air. "That's too hard," I said, without even lifting my slingshot. "I give up." The apples all hit the ground. "No, don't give up yet!" said Punchy. "You have to try!" "Fine," I said. Punchy gathered the apples and threw them into the air again. I fired at one of them and hit it. Then I fired at the next apple, and hit it too! And then I fired at and hit the third apple. "Wow, you're a natural!" cheered Punchy. "Now I want to hit an apple off of your head," I said. "Um, no. I don't think so."
October 8 Punchy and I lay in the grass outside all day, looking up in the sky for another floating present. "When is one going to appear?" I asked. I was getting bored. "Soon, I'm sure," said Punchy. Then, he pointed up. "Look!" It was another floating present. I stood up, took aim, and suddenly got very panicky. "Calm down!" said Punchy. He got up and started patting me on the back. "Breathe slowly! Stop shaking!" "I'm too nervous!" I said. I started crying, and the balloon floated out of range.
October 9 We decided to watch for another floating balloon today. To pass the time, we played twenty questions. "Is it bigger than a breadbox?" asked Punchy. "Yes. I mean no! I don't know! What's a breadbox?" "A box you can store bread in." "Oh, that's what a breadbox is? No, I'm not thinking of a breadbox. You lose!" "That's not what I was asking! I was asking if it's bigger than a breadbox." "Too late. You already asked twenty questions." "No, that was only eight!" Then we both noticed another floating present overhead. I stood up, took aim at the balloon, and fired a big pebble, popping it. The present fell to the ground. "Yay!" shouted Punchy. "Great job! What's inside?" I opened it. Inside was a violin. "This is stupid," I said, throwing the violin to the ground. "Play it!" said Punchy. I played the town theme song. Punchy applauded. "Play something else!" "That's all I know," I said. You know what would have been funny? If the present had been a breadbox instead. October 12
I started running around town today, and I noticed that everyone else in town was running around too. "What's going on?" I asked Pompom. "It's the Acorn Festival! Look!" She showed me a large acorn. It was the size of a softball. "The acorns have started to appear!" Static came running up to us. "It looks delicious!" he drooled. "Please, may I have it?" "Of course!" she said. She handed the acorn to Static, and he gave her 200 Bells in exchange. Then Static went running off again. Pompom turned to me and said, "Static is absolutely crazy for acorns! Be sure to gather them before everyone else does, because he really shells out Bells for them!"
October 13 I ran around looking for acorns today. I had the best luck looking under trees. I picked up as many acorns as I could hold. Then I found Static. "Here's fifteen acorns!" I said, offering them to him. "Give me Bells!" "YUCK!" Static shouted. He knocked all of the acorns out of my hands. "Those acorns are all ROTTEN!" "An acorn's an acorn," I said. "And Bells is Bells." "I think not," he said. Then he grabbed me by the collar and pulled my face close to his. "Get me some nice, big, juicy acorns, NOW! You don't want to make me unhappy."
October 14 I spent a few hours looking for more acorns this morning. I looked at them, but I couldn't tell if they were rotten or not, so I showed them to Punchy. "They're all rotten," he said. "Each and every one." I sighed. "Why does Static like these stupid things, anyway?" "Because they're tasty!" he explained. "They're nutty, fatty, and nutritious. Have you ever tried one?" I bit into an acorn. "EWWW! ICKY!" Punchy sighed. "You just ate one of your rotten ones!"
October 15 I looked all morning for acorns that weren't rotten, but the only ones I could find looked just like the ones I had gathered yesterday. "THEY'RE ALL ROTTEN!" I screamed. Robin overheard me and came over to see what was wrong. "You seem upset," she said. "They're all rotten!" I exclaimed, showing her my stupid acorns. "Static will kill me if I try to give him these!" "You're right," she agreed. "He will." "Maybe I could trick Static," I schemed. "That's not a very honest thing to do!" "How do you think I should trick him?" Robin gasped. "You shouldn't trick him at all!"
October 16 "You shouldn't trick him at all!" exclaimed Admiral. "But I need to get Bells!" I explained. "Why don't you go back to shaking trees and harvesting fruit?" he suggested. "You did it a few weeks ago, and you made a lot of money. But then you blew it all on coffee..." "I need more money, and Static is my best bet!" "Obviously not! Nook gives you 500 Bells for each fruit you bring him. Static pays off 200 Bells an acorn, tops. And he only gives that much for the largest, most delectable acorns. Why don't you stick with what you know, and shake those trees? It's probably bad luck or bad karma, but the only acorns you've been finding are rotten and disgusting." "That's why I need to trick him!" I said.
October 17 I spent all morning painting the acorns, so I was really surprised that Static didn't like them. "Are you trying to trick me?!?" he asked. He sounded very angry. "No," I said. "Look, they're gold acorns! Very rare." Actually, the acorns were just painted gold. Actually, they were yellow, because that's the only color Nook was selling today. "I know when somebody's trying to cheat me!" he said. "AND I HATE IT WHEN SOMEONE TRIES TO CHEAT ME!" Then, I started to cry. Punchy ran over and said to Static, "Here, have this acorn!" He handed him a huge acorn. Static gasped, "That's the biggest acorn I've ever seen! Please, let me have it!" Static took the acorn and gobbled it down in an instant. "That was wonderful! Incredible! Astonishing!" He gave Punchy 300 Bells and started dancing away. "You just saved my life!" I said. "All I ask," said Punchy, "is that you pay me back some day with a new fishing rod."
October 18 Today was the last day of the Acorn Festival, and it was a happy one. I finally found a big, round, appetizing acorn that I could give to Static. "This one's real, right?" he asked. "Yep!" "It's not styrofoam?" "Not styrofoam," I said. "It's real!" Static ate it. "It's great. Thanks." "Don't mention it!" It felt so good to give Static a tasty acorn that I refused the Bells he offered me. I sure am glad I found that big acorn right outside my front door. October 20 I went to the tailor shop today after I noticed that I haven't seen the Able Sisters in a while. "You guys don't get out very often," I said. "We don't have time..." muttered Sable, persistently pushing fabric through her sewing machine. "What my sister's trying to say," said Mable, "is that we're always spending time designing new fashions! For instance, take this umbrella," she said, gesturing toward a plaid umbrella. "Okay, thanks!" I said, picking it up and leaving the store.
October 21
I ran around town with my new umbrella. It is awesome! I noticed Static not too far away, approaching a cicada with his net held high in the air. "Look at my new umbrella!" I said. Static swung his net at the cicada. He pulled it out of the net and said, "Look at my new cicada!" "My umbrella is better than your cicada," I said. "It keeps me dry. Look at me; I'm bone dry!" "You're bone dry," he said, "because it isn't even raining, stupid!"
October 22 I asked Admiral to come with me to the river so he could help me with something. "What I need you to do," I said, "is to splash river water at me." "Can't this wait?" he asked. "No!" I opened my umbrella. "I haven't gotten to try it out yet!" Admiral sighed, "All right." After I opened my umbrella, he stuck a wing into the river and hurled a bunch of water at me. I held my umbrella out at it, and it blocked all the water. "Yay," he said. "Can I go back to bed now?"
October 23 I handed my umbrella to Robin. "Could you please hold this?" I asked. "Okay," she said. Then I started climbing a tree. "What are you doing?" she asked. I reached a branch several feet off of the ground, then said, "I'm going to use my new umbrella as a parachute! Hand it up to me now." "You're going to get yourself killed!" I snapped my fingers. "Umbrella, please." Robin sighed, handed me my umbrella, then walked away. "I can't watch," I heard her say. I held my umbrella up above me, and then I jumped from the tree branch. I expected it to slow down my fall, but it didn't! And I fell and broke my arm!
Punchy interrupted my dinner (rotten acorn leftovers... yuck) when he knocked on my door. I answered it, and he was jumping up and down outside my door. "Guess what tomorrow is!!!" he cheered. "I don't know," I said. "Tomorrow is the beginning of a week-long pursuit of personal greatness! The only week where we are connected to magnificence by nothing more than a thin, clear string. This week is the Fishing Tournament!" "So what? I'm a bad fisher," I admitted. "I know, but I can't accomplish my goal of catching the world's biggest fish without your help." "My help?!" I asked. "What could I do to help you catch a fish?" "Well," said Punchy, "I can't start fishing until you buy me a new fishing rod!"
October 25 I ran to Nook's store real quick in the morning to buy a fishing rod. Then I started running to meet Punchy at the river. He was standing, waiting for me; nearby stood Pompom and Admiral, who were already fishing. "Hurry up!" said Punchy. He pointed at Admiral, across the river. "He has already caught three fish!" "Sorry," I panted, as I handed him the new fishing rod. He kissed it for good luck. Then he cast the line into the water. I was tired from running, so I sat down. Punchy maintained his fishing composure as he turned to ask me, "Do you know the secret to fishing?" "Catch big fish." "The secret is to be serene and patient." "HAR!" laughed Admiral. "He can't be either. Good luck, Punchy."
October 26 "Shhhh!" whispered Punchy. "We have to be quiet or we'll scare away the fish, so please stop yodeling!" "Sorry," I said. The reason I was yodeling is that it had started raining and I wanted to see if I can yodel expertly in the rain. I can't. "It's good that it's raining," Punchy said. "There's more fish when it's rainy." "And it gives me a chance to use my new umbrella!" I opened up my umbrella. Suddenly, Admiral started cheering really loud. He was fishing a little further down the beach. I looked over to see that he was cheering because he had caught a big fish. "Aw, man!" said Punchy. "Look at that ocean sunfish he caught! It's humongous!" "You'll never catch anything this big!" Admiral laughed. "Yes I will! The tourney is far from over!" I whispered to Punchy, "Do you want me to sabotage him?" "What?! No!" Aww... I've been looking for a long time for an excuse to push someone into the ocean.
October 27 PUNCHY CAUGHT AN OCTOPUS TODAY! "It's not nearly large enough to beat Admiral's ocean sunfish, though," said Punchy, a bit disappointed. "But it's so cool!" I said. I counted the legs. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight." Then Punchy threw it back into the ocean. "Nooo!" I shouted. "I wanted to keep it."
October 28 Punchy was starting to get tired today. "I love fishing," he said, "but I'm starting to get discouraged. And wet." The rain had never let up. He felt a tug and pulled a fish out of the ocean. "Another sea bass?! Ugh." He threw the fish back into the water. "I need to take a break. You fish now." He took my umbrella from me, and handed me the fishing rod. Then, he sat down under a nearby tree. "Okay, my turn," I said. I cast a line into the water. Nothing happened for a few minutes, but then I felt a tug and saw the bobber dip, so I pulled really hard, and out of the water came flying a horrible, atrocious, ghastly, demon fish! "AIEEEEEE!" I screamed as I threw it and the fishing rod far away into the ocean. "Noooooooo!" wailed Punchy, who was running toward me. He grabbed me by the shoulders. "That was the coelacanth! You just let the coelacanth go!"
October 29 I had to buy a new fishing rod this morning. I took it over to Punchy. "Sorry I always ruin your fishing rods." "That's okay," said Punchy, "because I learned something yesterday. I noticed that so far, you have been the only one able to pull a coelacanth out of the water. I think you might have the lucky touch!" "Lucky?? No way. I'm cursed! I always catch the stupid monster fish!" "Come on," he said, pushing me toward the river. "Catch that coelacanth!" "No way," I said. "I'm too scared." "Please!" So I cast the line into the water, but Punchy told me to stop after a little while because I was crying too much.
October 30 This morning, Punchy had me follow him to the beach, where I saw Admiral, Pompom, Static, Kiki, and Robin huddled together, holding umbrellas. They all started cheering when I arrived. "Everyone's cheering for you," said Punchy. He offered his fishing rod to me. "They all want you to catch the coelacanth." "But I don't wanna," I said. It was fine by me if I never saw that stupid monster fish again. "Please," said Punchy. "You don't want to let everyone down, do you?" "Come on," said Static. "I'll let you light a firework if you catch it." "Fine," I said, taking the fishing rod from Punchy and casting it. Everyone started cheering and shouting encouragement at me, but I couldn't make out any individual voices because they were all talking at once. Then, I saw my bobber dip under the water. Everyone became silent as I pulled the rod. The coelacanth flew out of the water and flew into my arms. Then, I screamed and started to throw it back into the ocean, but Punchy tackled me to the ground and took the fish from me. "Would you look at that!" exclaimed Static. "You caught the coelacanth!" "Rah, rah, rah!" cheered Pompom. Then everyone else started cheering. "You did it!"
October 31 Today was the last day of the fishing tourney. Even though we caught the coelacanth, it wasn't big enough to beat Admiral's ocean sunfish, so we didn't win the trophy. Punchy and I were on our way to the museum to donate the coelacanth, but we were stopped halfway there by Nook. He stepped toward me and took out his wallet. "I'll give you 15,000 Bells for that coelacanth," he said. I told him that he should ask Punchy for it, because if it weren't for him, I would have thrown the fish back. Nook asked Punchy if he could buy the coelacanth from him, but Punchy said he wouldn't sell it because he wanted to have it in the museum as a monument of how brave I was yesterday. Also, today was Halloween, but nobody here celebrates it, so everyone said I looked silly dressed up as a ghost. Nobody was giving me any candy, either. :( November 2 I woke up this morning with a horrible headache, so I went to Nook's to buy lots of aspirins. While I was there, however, something else caught my attention. "What's this?" I asked. "That would be a note in a bottle. You write a note on the paper, then you cork up the bottle, throw it in the ocean, and send it to faraway places." "What I fascinating concept," I said as I handed him money for it.
November 3 I couldn't think of what to write, so I had to ask Admiral for help. I sat down at the beach, and Admiral stood behind me. "Start with 'Dear,' " he said. "Dear Stupid," I wrote. "No," said Admiral. "Cross that out." "Dear You," I wrote. "Fine." "How are you? I am fine." "That's a great start," said Admiral. I rolled the letter up, put it into the bottle, stuck in the cork, and threw it into the ocean. "Great," said Admiral as we watched the bottle drift away. "Was that worth 200 Bells for you?"
November 6 I've been running along the beach for days, looking for a reply to wash up on shore. I was very happy when I found one. I opened the bottle and removed the paper. The new message, which had been written under my previous one, read, "Help! I'm stranded on an island!" I wrote, "Oh no, that's terrible!" Then I sent the message. This bottle mail stuff is so cool! It feels like I have a new friend!
November 8 I found a reply on the beach this morning. The new message read, "Please send help!" So I poured 5,000 Bells into the bottle and wrote, "Here you go! You can get a lot of neat stuff with 5,000 Bells!" I rolled up the paper, stuck it into the bottle, corked it, and threw it into the ocean. Then it sank. Oops, Bells are heavy.
Kiki knocked on my door this afternoon. "Our town's weed problem is starting to get out of hand," she said. "Nobody's been picking these weeds; you can't go three steps without passing a weed! They're starting to take over the town!" "So what?" I asked. "Nature is nature. And weeds is weeds." "Rafflesia has taken root! It's the biggest, smelliest plant in the world, and it only grows wherever there are lots of weeds nearby. And it's sprouted right in the middle of my garden! It won't go away as long as the town is covered in weeds, and it's ruining my garden!"
"Fine," I said. "I'll help pull all the stupid weeds. Anything to shut you up." Except, I didn't actually say that last part. But I thought about it.
November 10 Everyone was running around town today, picking the weeds. "You don't need to use your shovel," Admiral told me. "You can just pick them." He demonstrated by bending down and picking a few weeds. "But my way's easier," I said. "I don't have to bend over." "But you're leaving holes all over the place! Look, you've trapped Robin!" He pointed over to Robin, who was surrounded on every side by holes. "Oh dear," she said to herself, "I can't move anywhere; there are holes all around me! How did I get into this mess?"
November 11 I ran around, picking more weeds. At the rate we're going, it'll probably take a few more days for us to clear them all. I came across a patch of clovers today, and when I was picking them, you'll never guess what I found. A FOUR-LEAF CLOVER! "Look!" I shouted as I ran around town, holding it high in the air, "Look! A four-leaf clover!" "What?" said Static. "Let me see that." I held it up to his face. "Whoa, you really did find a four-leaf clover!" "I found it because I'm awesome, and you didn't find it because you're not." "I'm not awesome?" he repeated. "Well, then..." he grabbed my four-leaf clover and pulled a leaf from it. "Neither is your clover!" And then I got sad and held a funeral for the clover, but nobody attended.
November 12 I talked to Static and Punchy today, and were were each complaining about our backs hurting from pulling all these weeds. "It's all the rafflesia's fault!" I said. "If it weren't for that stupid, stinky flower, we wouldn't be in this mess!" "Well," said Static, "maybe there's a way to destroy the rafflesia without having to pick all these other weeds." I pulled out my shovel and tried to dig it up, but my shovel bounced back off of it, and it nearly knocked me down. "Let's all try pulling on it at once," said Punchy. We each grabbed a part of the rafflesia. "Oh, jeez," said Punchy, "this flower smells like rotten meat!" We all pulled as hard as we could, but it wouldn't move. "Let's blow it up!" I suggested. "Static, get my fireworks!" I thought he would say no, but he said, "All right. Anything to kill this thing." He started running toward his house. A minute later, he returned with a handful of my confiscated fireworks. "Okay," he said, dropping the fireworks on the flower and lighting them all. "Fire in the hole!" exclaimed Punchy. He grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me away from the fireworks. We stood with Static behind the safety of a big tree. A second later, we could hear the fireworks exploding. Static and Punchy covered their ears, but I liked the loud pops and booms of the fireworks. When the fireworks were done exploding, we stepped out from behind the tree and were surprised not only to see that the rafflesia wasn't harmed in the least, but that we had also caught Kiki's flower garden on fire. "Oh no!" screamed Punchy. He dashed toward his house to grab a fire extinguisher. When he returned, Kiki was standing with her jaw dropped, watching her garden go up in flames. "You idiots!" she screamed after Punchy put out the fire. "You've destroyed my garden!" Then she slapped each of us. Hard. Ow. November 13 Since we reduced her garden to ashes, Kiki is making Punchy, Static, and me recreate her garden. "Good luck breeding blue roses!" she huffed. "It took me three weeks!" Then she shut herself inside her house. Static looked worried. "I don't know anything about gardening. You two go to Nook's and get some garden supplies. I'll start picking the rest of the weeds so that the rafflesia will go away. There are only a few left to pick." Punchy and I ran to Nook's and told him that we needed garden stuff. "Well, here are five bags of flower seeds, and here is a watering can." He dumped all the stuff into my arms. "That comes to 900 Bells." "That's too much!" I said. "This is outrageous!" "No it's not!" said Punchy. "It's perfectly reasonable." Nook chuckled.
November 14 Because we got all the weeds picked, the rafflesia disappeared overnight, so we got to work today on the garden. Punchy opened a pack of seeds and planted them in the ground. Instantly, a bunch of red tulips sprung out of the ground. "Okay, water them!" I walked up to the flowers and started to water them. "Okay," said Punchy. "That's enough, now. That's fine. You can stop now. That's plenty." "Stop it!" said Static. He grabbed my arms and pulled the watering can up. "All right," said Punchy. He opened another pack of seeds and planted them next to the red tulips. A bunch of white tulips sprouted. He told me to water them, and Static had to stop me again. Then Punchy planted yellow pansies, red cosmos, red roses, and white roses. "Well, that's all of the seeds," he said. "We'll have to wait till tomorrow to buy more. Patience is not one of my virtues.
November 15 We returned to Nook's first thing in the morning to buy more flower seeds. "And another watering can," added Static, angrily glancing at me. I had accidentally lost our watering can in the river while filling it up. Done shopping, we ran back to Kiki's garden. We were surprised to see that some pink tulips had sprouted. "So far, so good," Kiki said out her window. "I'm surprised that you've already bred a pink tulip. But I won't be satisfied until you guys replace my blue roses!" "How did we make pink roses?" asked Punchy. Kiki sighed. "The red and the white tulips crossbred. Look at the back of the seed packets. They tell you how to breed different-colored flowers." Then, Kiki shut her window. Punchy and I planted and watered the new flowers while Static studied the back of one of the seed packets. "Oh, jeez!" he exclaimed. "To get blue roses, we need to breed black and purple roses together! But Nook only sells seeds for red, white, and yellow roses! To get black ones, we need to cross two red roses, and to get violet ones, we need to cross two white ones! This could take forever!" "Hurry up!" I bashed the red roses together to get them to make black roses. "Stop it," said Static. "The last thing we need is you destroying Kiki's garden again."
November 16 We returned today to Kiki's garden, but we were disappointed to see that no black or purple roses had grown overnight. As Punchy and Static started planting new seeds, I pulled out the watering can and started watering all the flowers. As I watered, I noticed that some of the pansies were starting to wilt. "OH NO!" I said. I plucked the pansies from the ground to show Static and Punchy, but they fell apart in my hand. Static groaned. "If the flowers start to wilt, then just water them, and they'll be fine the next day. Don't pick them!" Aaaaaaaaugh! I hate these stupid flowers!
November 17 There still were no black or purple roses today. Static sighed, but Punchy seemed optimistic. "Oh well, it's not like we have a deadline!" "Yes we do!" I screamed, pointing up at the sky. A gigantic meteor was zooming right for us! Flames surrounded it as it appeared to get bigger and bigger. We screamed as we frantically ran to find cover. Then, the meteor crushed the entire town, garden and all. Actually, that didn't happen. But growing a garden is so boring that I have to use my imagination. But I really wish a meteor would destroy Kiki's garden, because I think then we would be off the hook.
November 18 We amazed Kiki when we showed her some blue roses in the garden this morning. "Wow! You guys grew blue roses! That's incredible!" "I don't know how we did it!" exclaimed Punchy. "Yeah," said Static. "I thought we had to crossbreed black and purple roses, but I guess not!" "Wow!" said Kiki. She knelt down to smell one. She grasped the flower, but it slipped out of her paw. "What?? It's wet." She looked at her paw, which was now blue. Then she got angry. "THIS ISN'T A BLUE ROSE! YOU GUYS JUST PAINTED IT BLUE TO TRICK ME!" Then she slapped each of us and got blue paint on our faces.
November 19 Punchy and Static are mad at me for getting them yelled at. They said that I'm not allowed to help them with the garden anymore, except they expect me to pay for the seeds, so I ran to Nook's to get seeds. "Five packs of seeds?" he said. "That'll cost 400 Bells." I grudgingly paid him, and he handed me the seeds. "Oh," he interjected, "Static convinced me to make paint off-limits to you now, so I won't be selling it to you anymore." He opened a glass display case, put the paint into it, and closed and locked it. "Perhaps I should add this, too," he said, taking an axe off of the counter and locking it in the display case too. November 20
Nook won't let me buy an axe or paints, but he did allow me to buy a timer yesterday. This timer is neat. I can carry it around and time things! I timed how long I slept last night. It was 10 hours, 23 minutes, and 50 seconds. Then, I timed how long it takes me to walk from my house to the beach. One minute and 20 seconds. Then I timed how long it takes to crawl that same distance. Three minutes, 51 seconds. Then, I started to time how long it takes to run it, but halfway through, I crashed into a tree. I think it's because I was staring at the timer and wasn't watching where I was going.
November 21 "Ready..." I said to Admiral, "Go!" "One, two, three, four, five..." he counted, swiftly but steadily. I was timing how long it takes Admiral to count to a hundred. "...nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two..." "Wow," I praised as he continued to count, "you're really good!" "...fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty..." he continued. "This is usually where I start to mess up," I admitted. "...eighty-four, eighty-five, eighty-six..." I looked down at the timer to see how long it had taken him so far. Then I noticed that it was stopped at zero. I had forgotten to start the timer! "...ninety-nine, one hundred. There. How'd I do?" "Uh," I looked down at the timer, pretending to read it. "Ten minutes," I lied. "You're lying," he said. He grabbed the timer to look at it himself. Then he groaned and walked away.
November 22 I visited Static and Punchy today. They were still messing with flowers in Kiki's garden. I said, "I'll start my timer, and when you guys think a minute is up, tell me and I'll tell you who guesses the closest. Ready, set, go!" I clicked the button. They continued planting new flowers as I stared at the timer. Punchy lifted a bunch of purple roses out of the soil and replanted them next to some black roses. "Good," said Static. Then he looked at me and said, "Why haven't you been buying the seeds for us? Are we going to have to do everything here?" "I've been busy," I said, staring at the timer. It was already up to 1:05. "Well, I think you should reimburse us for the flowers we've had to buy the last two days. That's 800 Bells." "Fine," I said. Without looking away from the ticking timer, I reached into my pocket, pulled out a handful of Bells, and dropped them next to Static. "Wow, you're very generous!" he said. He divided them and handed half to Punchy. "Twenty-three hundred for me, twenty-three hundred for you!" "I can't take this much!" exclaimed Punchy. "Hand some back to him." They kept talking, and the timer passed two minutes. "Ha ha!" I exclaimed. "You guys lose!" I ran away laughing.
November 23 "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I screamed. "What are you doing?" asked Pompom. "I'm seeing how long I can scream without stopping. AAAAAAAAAAA!" "Oh, you just stopped!" she said. "You have to start the clock over now." "No, I don't. It was your fault that I had to stop. It doesn't count. AAAAAAAAAAAAA!" "Yes, it does! Don't you see? You're now timing several different screams and adding their times together!" "Time out," I said. I took a few moments to catch my breath. "Time in. AAAAAAAAAA!" "You can't call time out!" Pompom exclaimed. "You're cheating!" "Fine," I stopped screaming. "I don't like this game anymore. Here, you can have this; I don't want it anymore." I gave my timer to her. She looked down at it and said, "You never even started it! You've been screaming this whole time, and you weren't even timing it!"
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