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Towards the end of 2024, my partner, ( knowing how much WW had helped me during a very difficult time in my life … NL not so much. I hated it. I mean, no museum? What’s that about?? I do realise though, that I am the only person in the universe who feels this way, but I digress …), suggested that I started playing AC again, hoping it would help with my ongoing stress and anxiety issues. So I treated myself to a Switch Lite and … he was right … I loved it! The creativity is what I love most about the AC games, and it was coming up to Hallowe’en so I had lots of fun turning my island orange.

I planned to do something similar, ( but not orange), for Christmas but for whatever reason that didn’t happen and I somehow managed to miss Toy Day and (thankfully) Demon Bunny Day, but was really looking forward to Cherry Blossom Season. I had looked at loads of beautiful ideas, and in the run up to April, I did a lot of crafting, planting trees and moving stuff about. (Shout out to the friend who supplied me with a million pink petals and got Cyrus to make me about 100 pink party arches)

So, me being me, of course, the end of Cherry Blossom Season 2025 arrived and I still hadn’t finished. I had a Sakura Café, Cherry Blossom Walk, Cherry Blossom Falls, and all the buildings had lanterns and branches outside them. Then, it occurred to me one day, that there was always going to be, “one more thing to do”. And, to be honest, I was starting to get a bit fed up looking at it, (especially when the trees returned to their natural green state), and my island was so cluttered with pink stuff that it was getting hard to get around it. Somehow though, I couldn’t quite let go of my dream, which was to build Cherry Blossom Island and then make a Dream Address for it. It seemed such a waste of time when I thought about how much work had gone into it. But then I realised that the whole thing had started to feel a bit of a chore, so I left it pretty much as it was, but distracted myself by doing other things, such as breeding flowers. Then life intervened and our two precious cats both became ill, and both ended up passing away just after Christmas, within 10 days of each other. My partner and I were devastated, and still are, to be honest. I have long term health issues and I am very isolated in many ways, (as you can probably tell 🤣), and my cats were my company and my comfort. I had no interest in doing any of the stuff I do for fun … crafting, crochet and AC.

Until … a few weeks ago, when a friend, knowing how much I loved it, asked me if I was going to start playing again in time for Cherry Blossom Season. I actually hadn’t even thought about it, and had honestly wondered if I would ever play again. I hadn’t even updated my game in January. Much to my surprise, I actually thought I would like to get back into it, so I charged my Switch Lite and did the update thing.

I haven’t actually played yet, but it is imminent! And so to the point of this ridiculously long message. I know my island will be a big mess, but actually the thought of mindlessly clearing flowers and weeding quite appeals to me at the moment. But then I remembered about the ongoing issue, and still couldn’t decide whether to give up and bin the whole thing, or keep going and see it through to the end even though I’m a bit tired of it.

Then I remembered about slumber islands, and really like the idea of being able to make the whole island cherry blossom themed, with a lake, and cliffs and … well you get the idea.

I honestly can’t remember if I had actually started removing items in my pink island, but that won’t be a big deal, and there are still a lot of fun things I still have to do on my original island. I don’t have Harv’s Island sorted … and I’m ashamed to say I don’t even have Brewster! So there’s plenty off things left to do, and I ado have lots of ideas.

But! There’s still a little voice inside my head that’s saying, “But you put so much work into it … Just a few more weeks” etc etc

So what should I do? Persevere and hope that someday I’ll be satisfied with my Cherry Blossom Island? Or clear up all the pink stuff, concentrate on other fun stuff, and all the while start planning my pink slumber island?

PS I’m so sorry for how ridiculously long this post is … I really need to get a life lol 🫣