r3d:
this is kinda weird in a way, because i just remembered this weekend how my family used to be obsessed with animal crossing. you could only get 4 characters in the game, so my 2 sisters, my dad and and I had one, but while i was away at school, my mom would play as my character, making sure my animal crossing house was clean.
she was never very good at video games. she would get too anxious and nervous to play them. animal crossing was the only one she could play (and bubble bobble back in the NES days). she did play it enough to get all the fossils, and fish, and all. she tried to get us all back into animal crossing last christmas, xmas of 08, by getting the newest version. but now i worked in ny, so i only played it for a few days. she probably thought we could all spend time playing like we used to…
seeing this, really has made me get all emotional. it reminds me of her. of how she used to look out for me, and my little animal crossing avatar, Dante… I wonder, what has happened in the animal crossing village since I last visited. I wonder what other things she got for me and put in my basement, so that i could decide what I would sell and what i would keep.
i try and be and act tough. be strong. but then, the smallest thing hits you. its been a little over a month, and i miss her terribly. i miss her constantly calling just to see how I am. i miss her sending me packages or letters for no reason every other week. the last things i got from her, a birthday email i received the day after she passed away, telling me how proud of me she was, a small package of some things i had asked, and i saw when i went home that she had already gotten bubble wrap and a few things for the next little package.
