I finally caught a couple new items for the museum, fishing out a moray eel and a neon tetra. Of course, I caught those two things right close together, and then didn't catch anything new all the rest of the week. Sigh.

Yeah. I don't know what this is. Showed up in my mailbox one day. I think my mom is losing it. It doesn't make any sense!

I was up again on Sunday so I sought out Joan to see how the stalk market was doing. She was selling them at 108 bells, which was a little bit high, but I decided to play rough and bought 300 of them. So imagine my delight when later in the week, Nook was buying them for 212! That's almost double what I paid! I was literally swimming in bells! I love when you get so much that you can't even hold them and Nook has to put them in a money bag to hold the overflow. Awesome! Drinks are on me! Okay, not really. I put another hundred grand in the town fund in the hopes of inching ever closer to that lighthouse...

Okay, so I was playing hide-and-go-seek with some of my friends when I was suddenly attacked by a scorpion in a cluster of trees! I got bit and passed out and woke up in front of my house as usual. Luckily, it doesn't end the game, but it certainly throws you off your game! And this was one time I was actually struggling to find Rodeo, the last one hiding. So I immediately start running from my house to double check the western side of town, and all of a sudden, another scorpion lunges out from behind a tree and bites me! The hell? I mean, I guess it could be the same scorpion... Would it be crazier to have two scorpions running around town or one scorpion that's extra thirsty for blood? Oh, but on the plus side, I was able to recover with just over a minute left and found Rodeo behind the store! Woo!

Nook stopped me on the way out of the store one day to inform me that he'd thought long and hard about his store and had decided to keep things status quo. At least for now. He seems to get paranoid about it every couple months or so, wondering if he should expand or shrink back down. I like the extra merchandise, so I told him to keep it big. Guess I'm a size queen! Glad to know he listens to me, though!

Unfortunately, it seems not everybody listens to me, though. Bud stunned me by pulling up stakes and skipping town. He'd made noise about leaving, but I told him not to. I specifically told him not to. I think I might have even sent him a present in the mail just to sweeten the deal. But he still left. Personally, I think Pippy said something to piss him off. No replacement yet, but we'll have one by next week's entry. It's like a cliffhanger!