Steady As She Goes

It's been a really crazy time in my personal life, so I haven't gotten around to playing ACNL as much as I'd like, or blogging about it.

A lot of my free time was tied up with friends, in part because of a death in one of their families. On Sunday my family and I did our Easter thing (mountains of food) and watched Big Brother Canada. Since then my life's gone back to mostly normal and I've gotten back to my game and my badge collecting with renewed dedication!

If only there were; I'm sure I'd have the gold by now.

A lot of little things have been going on in Arcadia recently. I have now TT'd to mid-September, hoping to catch the last of my fish, etc.

I officially have only 4 bugs, 3 deep-sea creatures, and 2 fish left to catch in the game!

I have been having some mixed luck overall:

 In case you didn't notice from the previous pictures, I finally bought my (female) crown!
Which is apparently what put me over the line for my next shopper badge (although it started a weird rumour about me...?)

I dunno, dropping 1.2 mil on a crown seemed less-than-thrifty to me...

 I tried out working at Brewster's café, and used the guide to make sure I did it all right:

I continued working on the refurbishing badges:

"Someone already did a nice job on this."

Had a weird exchange between myself, Klaus, and Olaf:
(Olaf asked me for a cherry, then Klaus asked me for something and after I gave him a salmon, he gave me a cherry in exchange, which I passed on to Olaf.)

I got a couple badges (including the shopping one above):

And I now have both a (magical) white katana AND a black katana in my favourite room in my house:

Floating and glowing pink? NBD.

And that's what I've been up to! Not that much, but enough to have fun.
I also have another blog drafted, but I'm not ready to publish it yet, so I figured I'd just do a little update today.

Catch you on the flipside!

~ Mayor Blair