Wednesday, January 13, 2021: Golden Dung Beetle

From watching Nintendo's overview trailer for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury and the new Mario-themed Nintendo Switch, I was in the mood to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons again today. It was nice to say "hi" to some of my neighbors from not playing for a few days - it only hit me as I was playing how much I missed the game! (I was just working on a project of my own.) I also bought some socks from Kicks.

I also learned it was Sherb's birthday on the 18th (next Monday), and bought this flooring that reminded me of the modern flooring from the older games (although I think it's a re-color of the vinyl flooring in this game). Just makes me nostalgic for all the old furniture series! Thinking about it, maybe I'll just give this to Sherb for his birthday - he's been stuck with that D.I.Y. flooring ever since March!

Fauna was talking about how she likes to write by hand. Actually (apart from this game and blog, I suppose!), recently I've decided to take a break from the YouTube site as a whole, and read more books. I do a lot of writing by hand in my journal!

Fauna also sent me these cute paw slippers! Maybe I can make a Cat Mario outfit with them to celebrate the new Switch game. I'm excited to hear some of the new music for the new mode.

Speaking of reading, Sylvana was asking me what I like to do in my free time. I'm definitely planning on finding a good book to read tonight after my day practicing piano and violin! :) - I guess I never captured Sylvana's response...

I was working on taking the fruit and getting all the fossils to sell, and came across a lost item.

Also, see if you can spot the balloon in this picture - I snapped it the moment I saw the present! I got another new winter recipe from it.

I've been getting into creating a JRPG and high fantasy setting, using an online website (Hero Forge) to create character models for it - you'll see it next month on my channel for a new piece! Part of creating characters was choosing clothes, and I was instantly reminded of that walking into the Able Sister's. I bought a bunny nose and a mage dress for my friends, both of which are essentially things I was able to choose on the website.

Diana was the latest villager to ask to leave, which I quickly stopped. (Thinking of StacyPlays' "leaving beach" on her island, when I was watching her streams on Twitch!) I'm waiting for one of my normal villagers to ask to leave. Maybe Sydney or Merengue - and I could also let Fauna go, since Marissa has her on her island...

Avery told me the lost item probably belonged to Phil. He then proceeded to sneeze in my face. I guess I'll be stuck in my house for the next couple weeks! ;)

This may not be anything new, but when I went to send my cards to my friends, I noticed the darker lighting in the airport, since it was cloudy and snowing outside. The lighting here is always on point.

Anyways, I finally made it over to Phil's after that to drop off the thing he lost.

While I was at the neighborhood, I dropped by Sherb's since I saw he was home, and he gave me a recipe for a golden dung beetle! Uh... thanks. And of course the bugs in your floor would tell you how to do that! I've got to get you this new "modern flooring" for sure!

I played a bit later in the evening, and was heading around to mystery islands to gather resources and sell a bunch of things. My note in a bottle I got on one of them was priceless - another golden dung beetle! What are you trying to say, game?! :)