Halloween was awesome. Spooky music was playing, and everyone was walking around in costume as Jack, with the big pumpkin head. The trick was that you had to figure out which one of them was the real Jack. Then you give him a piece of candy (the ones you'd been buying at Nook over the past month) and he gives you a piece of the spooky furniture set in exchange. But if one of the townspeople in costume caught up to you, they would demand a piece of your candy and not give you anything for it! And if you refused to give them candy, they'd transform one of the items in your pocket into a jack-in-the-box, which is only good to do once, just so you have one. What I noticed was that the townspeople would chase after you to get the candy, so all you had to do was look for the one guy in costume who didn't seem interested at all. That's Jack.

I'd bought a lot of candy at Nook's to stock up, and I had some leftover from Pavé's visit back in the spring or whenever that was. But luckily, if you were running out, all you had to do was look for somebody who was home and then go trick or treating. They'd hand you a piece of candy, and you could go back out searching for Jack again. I actually did this a bunch of times because it was easier than going all the way back to my house. I'm not centrally located. Of course, it took me two sessions to get the entire spooky set, at a couple hours apiece. I got so many duplicates it's not even funny.

But I did eventually get the entire set, and it threw my HRA point score above 150,000 points, so Lyle sent me a two story model house which I added to my collection of models in the basement. Plus, since I'd made extra cash selling extra spooky pieces (they go for over 10,000 each), I put some bells in the bank for a rainy day and the Bank of Nintendo sent me a note congratulating me on saving over 100,000 bells in my account and commemorating that achievement with a special gift: A box of tissues. No, seriously. How random is that? You can see it in this picture on the table. Weird.

Rod was all packed up to move, and no matter how much I tried talking to him, I didn't even once get the opportunity to try and change his mind. I guess it was really made up. I even sent him presents in the mail a couple days in a row just to see if I could convince him to stay. Sigh.

So I was very, very sad to find this letter in my mailbox the following day. I don't understand why he moved. I thought we had something special. Oh well, I won't hold a grudge or anything..

Well, except for the fact that later in the week, I totally ran into Rod in the city, and he acted like he didn't even know me! How rude! Now I'm mad. FYI, Rod — I'll never be the date you meet in front of the fountain. Ever. Jerk.

Also while I was in the city, I checked Gracie's shop, and she'd rotated the stock back around again to that luxury furniture again. But Gracie herself was there, and I got a little tongue lashing from her about my outfit. So immediately after she mentioned this, I added the tortoise shell glasses to go with my blue argyle top. (I'd changed because it wasn't Halloween anymore and I didn't know what else to wear. Nothing was striking my fancy, so I just wore regular clothes.)

I also got my shoes shined so now they're black instead of purple with white polka dots. Then I went to get a hair cut, since I wasn't wearing a hat anymore. It's been ages since I've seen my hair, and I realized I didn't like it. I told Harriet I didn't really know what I wanted, so she suggested I get the same cut she'd recently given to Cranky T. I accepted, because for whatever reason, folks in Narnia are really into Cranky T. Huh. Anyway, I told her I wanted to keep the same color, and I actually really like how it came out. Yay!

November is mushroom season, where every day, one of the mushrooms growing around town is actually a piece of mush furniture in disguise. I remember this from last year, although I didn't move into Narnia until the end of the month, so I didn't really have the opportunity to collect the entire set. I've already gotten a mush closet and a mush stand that I didn't have before, so that's good. Plus, I dug up a couple of truffles, which they call rare mushrooms here. I don't remember those from the last time around, but they're great because they go for 16,000 bells at Nook's! Nice! (I want to try and save up a ton of money so I can buy the crown or the throne the next time I see them. I was always donating money to the town so I could get the lighthouse. But now I can be selfish!)

One last bit of random business before I sign off for this week, Diary. While I was in Jitters' house this week, I noticed for the first time that he has a birdcage. Who keeps a member of their own species as a pet?! Yikes!