November 26 I was outside, listening to a cicada chirping, trying to figure out which tree it was hiding in so that I could catch it with my net and squish it to shut it up, when Pompom ran over to me. Pompom gathered a bunch of us together today and sang her song to us. "Do you like it? Can it be the new town theme?" I was very upset to learn that they had changed the town theme to a song that Robin had come up with. A stupid song! It was sappy, boring, and stupid. Last night, I snuck out and changed the town theme back. We gathered for another town meeting today. "Not everyone is happy with the new town theme," Robin said, glancing at me, "so we have to have a re-vote." December 1 There was a flier stapled to the town's notice board this morning! It said that K.K. Slider is having a concert here in a few days! I ran around and told everyone how excited I was. "Who's K.K. Slider?" asked Pompom. I gasped. "You've never heard of K.K. Slider?!" "Never heard of him." "He is a guitar player and singer." "Ooooh, a musician!" said Pompom, her eyes glazing over dreamily. "Are his songs good?" she asked. "My favorite parts are when he howls," I said. Then I howled and freaked Pompom out.
December 3 "K.K. Slider will be here in two days!" I screamed around town. "We know, we know," said Static. "Are you going to the concert?" I asked. He shrugged. "I guess so. Everyone else is going." "I wonder what song I should request." "I'm going to request Meow Mix," said Punchy, who happened to be passing by. "No!" I said. "He doesn't play songs like those. He pretty much only plays songs with 'K.K.' in the title." "Fine," said Punchy. "K.K. Meow Mix."
December 4 "K.K. will be here tomorrow!" I ran around town announcing. "I know," cheered Pompom. "I'm so excited!" "How will we welcome him to Treehut?" asked Robin. "Let's all make welcome signs!" said Pompom. Kiki and Robin told me to get supplies at Nook's while they gathered everyone together. "I would like to get some sign boards," I told Nook. "Oh, hm... I don't carry sign boards anymore. Never again after what you and your neighbors used them for back in Garthton." "That sucks," I said. "But I do have some stationery." He pointed me to a shelf of paper. "I'll take it! Also, I need some paint." Then I remembered that Nook won't sell me paint anymore. It was embarrassing having to ask Static to come into the store to give Nook permission to sell it to me.
December 5
We listened to K.K.'s concert tonight in the Roost. During some of the songs, the girls got up and danced around the room, and during K.K. Love Song, Kiki asked Punchy to dance with her, and he got really embarrassed. Before one song near the end of the night, K.K. asked if I would like to come on stage and jam with him. Probably because he noticed that I had brought my violin with me. I stepped onto the stage, and he told me to play whatever came naturally. But after several minutes of trying, I couldn't play a single note! Punchy gasped as he came to a realization. "All he can play is the town theme! And our town theme right now is nothing!" "No wonder he can't play anything!" said Static. "Oh no!" said Robin. "We've crippled his musical talent! Mr. K.K., you've got to help us come up with a new town theme!" "Chill out!" said K.K. "I've got the perfect song for you." He started playing his guitar. A big smile spread across Punchy's face as he recognized the song. "K.K. Meow Mix!" I was suddenly able to play K.K. Meow Mix on my violin. K.K. and I played the song together. "That's our new town theme!" Pompom cheered over the music. "It's official now!" December 6 Nook was having a sale on TVs today! I could afford only one. We get only one channel, but at least they air different things throughout the day. Back in Garthton, for some reason, the show we could watch depended on what type of TV we had. You might think that having a big screen TV would be awesome, but actually, nothing but static came through with them. The TV I got also comes with a built-in VCR, but nobody in town sells or rents out video tapes, so I guess I won't be using that very much.
December 7 Last night, I fell asleep watching the weather forecast, which predicted that it would be cold today. When I woke up this morning, I realized that the prediction was correct! It's freezing outside! "It's too cold out!" I told Robin. "Well, you shouldn't be wearing just a t-shirt! You should have a coat on." "I can't afford a coat," I said. "I spent all my money on my new TV."
December 8 "STOP IT!" yelled Static, carrying his fire extinguisher as he ran toward my bonfire. He put out the burning pile of leaves. "But it's cold out!" I complained. "And I spent all morning making that pile of leaves!" "You're going to catch the whole town on fire some day." "But at least I won't be cold!" "Why don't you go back inside and watch TV?" he asked. "I can't," I said. "I broke it."
December 9 I was sitting on the ground, shivering in the cold weather, when Pompom walked up to me. "Why are you just sitting around?" she asked. "You know, if you run around, you'll burn some energy and warm up. Look what I found a minute ago," she said, showing me a soccer ball. "It was just lying in the middle of town. Would you like to play soccer?" Pompom and I started by passing the ball back and forth, but soon, Punchy and Static joined us as well. Pompom explained the ground rules. "Static and I get a point if the ball goes between these two trees, and you guys score if you get it between those trees there." As we were playing, Static pointed at me and yelled, "Foul!" every time I touched the ball. "You can't touch the ball with your hands," whispered Punchy. "Or paws, in my case."
December 10 Admiral and Robin joined us to play soccer today, but our game abruptly came to a halt when I accidentally kicked the ball into the river. "Oh no!" said Pompom as the ball began floating downstream. Everyone shouted for me to get it because I was closest. "Okay!" I said. I stuck my leg in the water, but quickly pulled it back out. "Brrr! This water is cold!" I said. "Get the ball!" everyone continued shouting. I kicked at the ball, but it remained in the river. "Reach over and grab it!" yelled Static. "I'm not allowed to use my hands!" I replied. And the ball floated out into the ocean. December 11 IT'S SNOWING!!!!! The ground is covered with snow! I ran outside and lay down in the snow. Then I started sweeping my arms and legs back and forth to make a snow angel. I was about to get up and look at my beautiful angel, but I felt a big, cold, wet snowball strike me right in the face. "Hah hah hah!" laughed Static. "I love snowball fights!" "Hey, that's not fair!" I said. I stood up. "I wasn't ready yet." "Fine. Get ready. Three, two, one, go." Then he threw another snowball at me. It hit me in the forehead and made me fall backwards and ruin my snow angel.
December 12 Today, I was determined to get revenge on Static. I gathered a bunch of snowballs and ran around looking for him. When I found him, I threw a few snowballs at him, but they all missed. "I'm gonna get you!" he vowed. He started to gather some snowballs; I ran away, looking for a place to hide so that I could surprise Static. I climbed up a tree and waited for him to find me. After several minutes, he ran under the branch I was sitting on, so I shook the branch to make a lot of snow fall on him. Most of it missed because he had already run past. When he noticed the snow falling behind him, he turned around to look—just in time to see me shake the tree branch so hard that it snapped, taking me down with it. "Hah!" he laughed. He pelted me with snowballs. I wondered if I had broken any bones in my fall, but I guess the snow cushioned my fall.
December 13 "No," said Nook, "I don't sell anything that will help you win a snowball fight." "But everyone keeps hitting me with snowballs!" I whined. "Well, why don't you build a fort to protect yourself?" So I took Nook's advice and spent all afternoon building a big circular fort near my house. The walls were just barely tall enough for me to stick my head out over them. "I've got you now!" shouted Static as he ran at my fort. "Ha ha!" I gloated, "You can't get me!" But then when Static arrived at my fort, he simply reached over the wall and chucked snowballs down at me. "Your fort sucks! I can reach right over it!" He stopped after he ran out of snowballs, which seemed to take an eternity!
December 17 For several exhausting days, I ran around and gathered snow from all over town, building up the walls of my fort. "This thing is gonna be impenetrable!" I said to myself. I finally finished this afternoon; my walls were all extremely tall. I ran over to Static and teased him. "Ha ha, you can't get me!" He chased as I ran back to my fort. When I finally arrived, I was in trouble. The walls were all too high, and I couldn't jump back into the fort! Static relentlessly hit me with snowballs until he stopped for dinner.
December 18 I made an entrance to my fort, but it didn't work so well. I got Static to follow me to my fort, but he also followed me through the entrance, into my fort. He threw snowballs in my face, and I couldn't escape because he was blocking the entrance! After Static got bored and left, I ran to Punchy to ask him to help me get revenge on Static. "No way!" he said, scooping up a snowball and hurling it in my face. "This is a free-for-all!" December 20 Determined to get revenge on Static, I spent all day yesterday and most of this morning making the biggest snowball I've ever seen. It's almost as big as I am! When Static came over to throw snowballs at me, I tried to lift my giant snowball, but it was too heavy! "Ha!" he laughed. I stood still as he pelted me in the face with twenty snowballs, one after the other. After the misery ended, I tried to pick up my giant snowball again, but it was too heavy still.
December 21 I got Pompom and Robin to follow me over to my giant snowball. "Help me move this." "I dunno..." said Robin. "It must be pretty heavy. Where do you want to take it?" "Over to Static's house. We're gonna get revenge." Pompom said she had a better idea. "Let's make another snowball and make a snowman!" She and I rolled a second snowball around in the snow so that it would grow large enough to be the snowman's head. It eventually became so big that we couldn't see around it very well, so Robin was in front of us, telling us where to push it. She was walking backwards and nearly tripped on a tree stump that she didn't see. "Watch out for this tree stump here. Push to the right." We pushed the snowball to the right. "No! I meant my right!" But it was too late. The snowball was already rolling down the hill toward the river. We tried to stop it, but we couldn't. It flew into the river and dissolved in the water. "Oh no!" I screamed.
December 22 Punchy came over and helped us finish the snowman. The hardest part was pushing the head up onto the body. After we finally got it up there, we were surprised when a face appeared on the snowman! The snowman roared. "RAWR!" "Oh no!" shrieked Pompom. "I think this is an evil snowman!" The evil snowman bared his fangs and started shooting laser beams out of his eyes at us. We all ran away screaming.
December 23 We had a town meeting at Robin's house. I hid under the bed as everyone else discussed what to do about the evil snowman. "We need to come up with a way to destroy the snowman we built," said Robin. Static suggested that maybe we could knock it over, but Robin rejected the idea because we'd never get close enough with it shooting laser beams at us. "It can shoot laser beams??" exclaimed Static. "At least we didn't give it legs," said Pompom. "It's stuck where we built it." "Maybe he'll starve to death," I suggested. "Nah," said Punchy. "Snowmen don't need to eat." "Yeah-huh!" "Well, I guess we'll know if he eats his carrot nose."
December 24 We thought about building a second snowman to fight the evil one, but we were too afraid that it might also turn out to be evil. We decided that the only option was to try to reason with the snowman and ask him not to zap us. Robin said I couldn't go with them to talk to the snowman, but I did anyway because I wanted to give him an M&M as a peace offering. He shot a laser beam at my hand and vaporized the M&M. I guess he doesn't like the blue ones. (I don't either—that's why I was willing to give it away to him.) We all started to run away, and the snowman continued firing laser beams at us. Suddenly, I felt my hat being vaporized. I screamed. I took out a hand mirror and held it up to see if he had vaporized my brains too. Nope, still intact. Then, a laser beam hit the mirror. But instead of vaporizing, the mirror reflected the laser beam back at the snowman. It struck him, and he exploded into a big splash of water!
December 25 I got a thank you card today! Everyone signed it, and it had a cool drawing of the exploding snowman, drawn by Punchy, on the front. Also, everyone chipped in money to have the Able Sisters make me a new hat, just like my old one. Unfortunately, I lost the card, and I don't know what happened to it. December 26 Today, I decided to get revenge on Static for the snowball fight. I snuck into his house while he was still sleeping, and I hurled a big snowball right in his face! I wish I could have seen the reaction on his face, but I was already hightailing it out of there. I ran away and hid behind a big rock, where Static was sure not to look. Unfortunately, a minute later, he peeked around the rock and threw a big wet snowball in my face. After I snorted the snow out of my nose, I asked him how he found me. "I followed your footprints in the snow," he said. "What?" I asked. I ran a little and noticed that I had left marks in the snow. "Cool!"
December 27 I was running around a lot this morning, making footprints in the snow. I ran in circles and made big circles of footprints. Then, I started running zigzags, making zigzag footprints. "Be careful," said Kiki. But she said it too late; I crashed into a tree. A bunch of snow fell from the branches and covered me in snow.
December 28 Today, I was hopping around town to make bunny rabbit footprints. But then I tripped and fell face-first in the snow! When I got up, I had left a big imprint in the snow, shaped like me! Then I started throwing myself face-first into the snow to make a bunch more me-prints.
December 29 I was about to spend an hour walking backwards so that I could see if my footprints are different when I walk backwards, but then I saw Static a little ways away. He was running after me with a snowball. I screamed and started running away. I thought about hiding, but I realized that he would be able to follow my footprints! So I started crisscrossing so that my footprints would be really confusing to follow. But after a while, I got tired and collapsed in the snow, and that's when Static started pelting me with snowballs.
December 30 Static started chasing me again, and I knew I wouldn't be able to hide from him, but at least I'm a little faster than him, so he couldn't quite catch me. So he chased me for a good ten minutes. But then I made the mistake of running into my snow fort, and he followed me into it, and blocked the entrance, and pegged me in the face with snowballs for several minutes. Then he got tired and left. December 31 Today, I noticed a big electronic clock in the middle of town. It was counting down to midnight. It's New Year's Eve! "I am sooo excited!" exclaimed Pompom. "Why?" I asked. "Because it's going to be a new year!" "What was wrong with this year?" I asked. Overall, I thought it was a pretty good year. I caught a coelacanth with Punchy, got to shoot fireworks, moved to Treehut, went to a concert, got addicted to coffee, danced with Blaire, and got a haircut. "I think it was a good year." "You're right," said Pompom. "This was a very good year. And maybe we can hope that the next year will be even better!"
January 1 We celebrated the new year all night! For an hour before the new year, I stood in front of the electronic countdown clock. For a few minutes before the new year, everyone was gathered around it. As the clock counted down from ten seconds, we counted out loud with it. Then, when it reached zero, we all started screaming like crazy because it was the new year. Everyone started shooting party poppers, and I didn't have any, so I had to ask people if I could shoot some too, and they said I could as long as I didn't shoot them at people. Also, once the new year started, fireworks started exploding in the sky! I don't know who was shooting them, but they were going off for six whole hours! January 2 Can you believe it's still snowing outside? This weather is crazy! Anyway, I finally convinced Punchy to help me get revenge on Static for the snowball fights. We made a few snowballs and then I led him into my snow fort. "This is no good," said Punchy, shaking his head disapprovingly. "The walls are way too high! We can't even see if Static is outside." "But at least he can't hit us. Unless he comes in and blocks the entrance again." "Your fort is cool, though. It's like a secret clubhouse! It's like an igloo, except there's no roof! Hey, that's it! Let's turn this fort into an igloo!" "Nah."
January 3 We finished the roof of the igloo this morning. At first, I didn't want to make it, but I changed my mind after Punchy told me that it would be awesome. The hardest part was putting the big domed roof up. We also made a bunch of awesome furniture out of snow for the igloo. Punchy made a couch and a coffee table, and I made a refrigerator. (You can't open the fridge—you have to pretend to open it and take food out. Also, you have to pretend you have food.) So, yeah, our club is pretty cool! One of the rules is that you have to wear socks on your hands to be a member. Also, no girls allowed.
January 4 I convinced Static and Admiral to join our new club. We sat in the igloo on the big couch, and we couldn't think of anything to do. I would pretend to take food out of the refrigerator and serve it to everyone, but that was fun only for a while. Static started to complain about being bored. I pretended to serve him some ice cream to cheer him up, but he rejected it. "You promised there would be real food!" he said. "That's not what I meant," I said. "I meant real pretend food." "Well, there's nothing to do here. You said this igloo would be fun." So I piled up some snow and made a TV out of it, but Static was not impressed.
January 5 Pompom stopped me on my way to the igloo this morning. "Hiya. I was wondering if I could hang out with you guys in your club!" I said, "No girls allowed!" When I got to the igloo and told everyone about what had happened, Admiral seemed upset. "That's not one of the rules! Our only rule is that you have to wear socks on your hands. And look, you're breaking that rule!" "Oops," I said. I took a pair of socks out of my pocket and put them on my hands. "Well, no girls allowed is the new rule." "No!" said Admiral. "The girls are fun to be with. They don't make stupid rules that exclude people from having fun." I looked for Static to back me up. Punchy noticed this and said, "Static left the club because he thinks it's boring. Our membership is down twenty-five percent! Maybe we should start recruiting girls..." I took out a sheet of stationery and wrote "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" on it. Then I stuck the sign right outside the entrance. "Sorry," I said. "Now it's official."
January 6 The girls started their own club today, and they wouldn't let me join! "No boys allowed!" said Robin, blocking me from entering her house. Kiki and Pompom were inside taking slices out of a box of pizza. "But I would like a slice of pizza, please." I tried using my manners so that she would say yes, but she didn't. She said no. Kiki took a bite of her pizza. "Yum," she said. She started purring. Pompom shouted to me from the sofa, "Why don't you go back to your club?" "Because we don't have pizza," I said. I explained how all we had was pretend food.
January 7 I went to Robin's house today to ask again if I could join their club, or at least have a slice of pizza. I knocked on the door, but then I got scared that they would say no again, so I ran off the doorstep and hid behind the bushes. "Hello?" asked Robin as she opened the door. "Is anyone there?" Then she shut the door. It was funny that she was so confused, so I ran up to the door, knocked it again, and hid back in the bushes. "Is someone there?" she asked after she opened the door again. She shouted, "I could have sworn that someone knocked on my door!" Then she gave up and shut the door again. This next time, I decided to make things more interesting. I made a snowball and then knocked on the door again, but this time, I didn't hide. Robin opened the door. "Why do you keep knocking—" SPLUT! I hit her in the face with the snowball! I thought she was going to chase me as I started running away, but she didn't. Phew.
January 8 This morning, I went over to the igloo and was surprised to see it totally destroyed!! In the middle, on top of the destruction, was a pizza crust. After I ate the pizza crust, I decided I better tell Punchy that our club is finished. I knocked on his door. Then I thought it would be funny to hide from him, so I dove behind the bushes. "Who's there?" asked Punchy, as he opened the door. Then I threw a snowball in his face. At first, I thought it was funny, but I learned my lesson after he tricked me the same way ten different times during the day. January 9 Today, I decided to get revenge on the girls for destroying my igloo, so I picked up a bunch of snow and started packing it into a snowball. When I looked down at my new snowball, I realized how beautiful and round it was. The sunlight made it glimmer and sparkle. "This snowball is beautiful!" I announced. I took it to the museum. "No, no, no, no, no!" spatted Blathers. "We have only four exhibits: fish, fossils, insects, and paintings. Snowballs do not fit into any of those four categories." "Please take the snowball!" I said. "Look how pretty it is!" "We cannot accept it. We do not have a snowball exhibit." "If you don't take this snowball," I said, "I'm going to throw it in your face." Blathers knocked the snowball out of my hands with his wing; it splattered on the floor. "Please do not throw things in the museum." I started to leave, but Blathers stopped me. "Oh, be sure to visit the new observatory my sister built." He pointed me to some stairs. "Maybe later," I said. I was sad that my beautiful snowball was destroyed, and was too sad to go to an observatory, whatever that is.
January 10 I woke up, returned to the museum, and ran up to the observatory. Blathers' little sister, Celeste, is sooo cute! "Welcome to the Treehut Observatory! Can I help you with something?" "You're cute," I said. "Are you teasing me?" she asked. "You're teasing me, aren't you? Why don't you just take a peek through the telescope?" I looked into the telescope. "Whoa!" I said. I looked up at the sun. "Oh, be careful," Celeste said, pushing me away from the eyepiece. "It's really bright," I said, looking back into the eyepiece. "Stop it!" Celeste pushed me away from the telescope. "From now on, you may only come to the observatory at night."
January 12 I looked up at the sky through the telescope today. "What's that?" I asked. "Let me see," said Celeste, looking into the eyepiece. "Oh my goodness, is that a spaceship?" "A spaceship?! Let me see!" I pushed her out of the way so I could see it again. It was blue and had green lights on the bottom, and was zooming across the sky. I reached over and pressed the big red fire button, and hit the spaceship with a missile. "Oh my!" gasped Celeste. "You just shot down the spaceship?!" "Yes. Me: One. Aliens: Zero." January 13
I was running around in circles this morning and came across a seagull in a space suit! He was lying unconscious outside of his UFO, so I slapped him awake. "Who are you?" I asked.
January 14 It happened that I encountered all of Gulliver's UFO parts when I was running in circles yesterday. They had all been pushed into the ground because they fell so fast; I tripped over them when I was running around, and I had to use my shovel to dig them out. I carried the pile of UFO parts to Gulliver's spaceship. "Here you go," I said, throwing them at his feet. "Hey, please be careful with those parts!" he exclaimed. He picked up a glowing green box. "Without this, I can't make right turns!" "What's this?" I asked, pressing a red button on an oblong silvery gizmo. Suddenly, a beam of bright light surrounded Gulliver and shrunk him down to five inches tall. I screamed and ran away.
January 15 Gulliver flew away after sending me a message. He said that he managed to reverse the shrink ray and that if I hadn't been so clumsy, he might have left me with a wondrous gift from the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Instead, he left me with a red balloon! I ran around with it all afternoon; it floated behind me. "Cool balloon!" said Punchy. "Can I see it?"
January 16 Today, I was running around with my new balloon and I tripped and let go of my balloon and it floated away! I didn't get up; I just sat there crying all afternoon until Pompom came up to me and tried to make me feel better. I told her how I wanted to have a funeral for the balloon, but we couldn't because I would never be able to find it. "The balloon's not dead!" said Pompom. "It floated away, but it didn't pop! It's just out exploring the world. Instead of grieving over its loss, we should be celebrating that it gets to see places that we haven't seen."
January 17 The stuff Pompom said yesterday inspired me to see some more of the world, so I jumped onto the train. "I want to see the world!" I shouted to Porter the monkey. The train pulled out of the station, and while I was sitting on the train, a really weird cat sat down across from me. I screamed. "You don't have a face!" The cat introduced herself as Blanca and asked me to draw her a new face, but I didn't have any crayons on me, and nobody else aboard the train had any crayons (and I asked everybody, even the engineer), so I couldn't draw her one.
January 18 I spent all afternoon looking everywhere on the train for a box of crayons. I dug through cupboards and boxes on the train even though there were signs that said that these places were for employees only. Porter told me to stay in my seat or else they would kick me off the train.
January 19 I totally gave up on giving Blanca a face, so I got off the train. I jumped onto the platform and started running around in the cold, fresh air. "Hey, you're back!" said Woolio. "Man, Blaire's gonna kill you." "Huh?" Oops, the train had dropped me off back in Garthton. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" screamed Blaire, who was running at me with an axe in her hands. I screamed and jumped into the train just as it was leaving. "Treehut, please!" I shouted. Phew, Blaire wasn't able to catch the train. Note to self: No more going to Garthton. January 21 The train made it back to Treehut today. I was tired, so I went right to my house. When I opened the door, I looked inside, and was surprised to find cockroaches running around inside! I screamed. I chased the cockroaches around in my house so that I could stomp on them. "DIE!" I screamed. One cockroach ran under my bed. "Oh no you don't!" I threatened. I grabbed onto the foot of my bed and pulled it away from the wall. Several more cockroaches ran out from under the bed and started scurrying around my room. I screamed and ran out of my house.
January 22 I spent the night at Punchy's house. When Punchy woke up, he was really surprised to find me sleeping on the couch, mostly because I hadn't asked if I could spend the night; I had snuck in while he was asleep. He complained, waking me up, "Gross! You drooled on my couch!" For a minute, I couldn't remember why I was sleeping on his couch. Then, I remembered, and screamed, "Cockroaches!" I grabbed Punchy by the wrist and pulled him all the way to my house. I opened the door and showed him all the cockroaches. "Gross!" said Punchy. I asked him to help me stomp on all the cockroaches, but he refused to because he doesn't have any shoes. Also because they grossed him out.
January 23 I went to Nook's store today. "My house is infested with cockroaches!" I told him. "Ah. Well, I regret to tell you that I do not carry any pesticides in my store." "No no no no no," I said, "I didn't come here for pesticides. I came to ask if you could please build me a new house." "A new house?!" Nook's eyes grew wide. "Why, you still haven't paid me for the house you have now!" "Then kill the cockroaches." "No," said Nook, pushing me from his store.
January 24 I knocked on Static's door. He opened it. "Hello." "Hi!" I said. "I was wondering..." "Yes?" "My house has cockroaches in it, and I was wondering..." "What?" "Could I borrow some fireworks so that I could blow them up?" The only answer Static gave me was a slammed door in my face.
January 25 Today, I went to Robin's house. "My house is infested with cockroaches!" "I was wondering if you would come over and help me kill them." "Kill them? No! They're living beings! How could you kill those poor, innocent creatures?" So my plan worked: she came over, carefully gathered all the cockroaches in a box, and released them all into the wild. Yay, no more cockroaches! January 26 I woke up this morning sneezing. "AH-CHOO! Oh no, I'm sick!" My house was still kinda gross because the cockroaches left icky smells behind, so I slept with my windows open to vent the air. This was stupid because all the freezing winter air came inside and gave me a cold. I ran to Nook's store. By the time I got there, I was panting—too sick to run. Nook spoke, "Wow, you don't look very well." It was true. My eyes were red and heavy-lidded, and the lower half of my face was encrusted with dry snot. "Gimme medicines!" I said. I headed over to the medicine. I popped the lid off of a bottle and swallowed the pills all in one gulp. "They're not working!" I cried.
January 27 They say that throwing up is one of the greatest miracles of the universe, but I don't believe a word of it. Throwing up sucks. I woke up in the middle of the night and threw up all the medicines I took yesterday, so I ran back to Nook's store so that I could take more, but his store was closed. On my way back home, I threw up in the snow, and it froze into a solid! The thought of picking it up and licking it like a popsicle made me throw up again.
January 28 I hate being sick! If someone made me choose at gunpoint between being sick and being healthy, I would have to choose to be healthy. Pompom knocked on my door in the morning. "I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling sick," she said. "I brought you a box of tissues." I took one of the tissues and tried to blow my nose, but it was too stuffy and I couldn't get any air through it. "AUUUGH!" I yelled. I told her that the tissues didn't work and I gave them back.
January 29 Pompom suggested I try to take my mind off of my sickness, so I went to the museum. I was looking at the paintings when I started sneezing again. "AH-CHOO!" The sound of my sneezing echoed loudly throughout the museum. "Are you all right in there?" asked Blathers as he entered the paintings exhibit. "AH-CHOO!" Then Blathers kicked me out because I sneezed all over a painting.
January 30 Static said that I could get rid of my headache if I spun in place really fast for several minutes and then stood on my head, but it only made me very dizzy and want to throw up more. Sometimes, I think Static doesn't always tell me the truth.
January 31 Kiki said that a great way to get better is to eat chicken noodle soup. I thought about making some, but the closest thing to a chicken I could think of was Admiral, and I don't think I could justify killing him just to make some soup. When I went over to ask him about it anyway, Admiral suggested that I instead gargle some warm salt water to make my sore throat feel better. So I went to the ocean and scooped a cup of water. I couldn't think of a way to heat it, so I decided to gargle it cold. It was awful! I spit it out into the snow. I was surprised to find a little fish in the puddle of water!
February 1 I woke up this morning, and I was feeling 100% better! Thanks, February! I ran around town dancing, yodeling, and clapping my hands. Everybody was glad to see that I wasn't sick anymore. Me: Two. Aliens: Zero. Being sick: Zero.
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