I've lost a huge chunk of progress due to my game crashing on a lot of the things I've been playing recently, so I've been pretty discouraged. :( I mostly just play a bit of GTA while waiting out for New Leaf. The huge contrast between those two games is pretty funny.
My best case scenario would be to drag my friends along 30 minutes before the store opens and stare intensely at the employees until they get the game out. That is, if they still stock anything other than pre-orders at Best Buy :(...
I'll definitely keep a small binder for these kind of notes but I'm thinking of doing it in a RP-style, where everything is in character. :0 I think that would be pretty fun, keeping a mayor's log sort-of-thing every now and then.