Wizard101: 2016 Goals!

Hello Wizards!

I hope you're having a great first day of 2016! I can't believe it's already 2016. I joined Wizard101 nearly SEVEN years ago! I've been in the community nearly five years! I've enjoyed every moment of the community and seeing how much it's grown is amazing. I joined when there were a few hundred people in the Twitter community and now I guess you could say there are THOUSANDS. :D My website has also grown thanks to you (the W101/P101 Facebook and Twitter communities). I am thankful for each and every one of you and it really means a lot that you like reading my posts, attending my events and even entering my contests. :D Last year was an amazing year, but I have plenty of Wizard101 game and Around The Spiral goals for this year. Here are a few important goals that I have for this year:

Build The Community: The community is very important to me and there have been many incidents of bullying last year. My goal is to let everyone in the community to know that they're welcomed and to ignore anyone that says they're not. I want to do this by having more events on the game so everyone has a chance to make true friends. We have to remind everyone that no matter what, they're welcomed in the Wizard101 (and Pirate101) community. 

Build Our Website: There are many things that I want to do to this website this year. I want to improve Around The Spiral by making more blog posts this year and maybe a few design updates here and there. I'm not going to update it too much because I want to keep the older theme. :) I have many plans/goals for this website and I hope everything works out. One goal is going to be to try for W101 Fansite. I think anything is possible if you don't give up and even after five years, I'm not giving up. :) Regardless, It's going to be a great year!

Quest My Wizards: I need to quest my wizards through Polaris. I've been doing a great job so far and I think the next month or so I will quest many of my wizards after school. I have to make it to level 110 on seven wizards... I don't think it'll be that bad. I have to keep in mind that there's always Summer too! :D By the way... I will make posts. :D

Family Friendly Blog: This website has been and will always be a family friendly website. Being family friendly is not a struggle so this is really not a goal. This is a promise! This website will always be family friendly and I hope you enjoy each and every blog post this year. :D This year is going to be a great year because I'm going to make it a great year! I hope all of you have an amazing 2016. Thank you again for all of your support that you gave me over the past six years!

2015: A Year In Review

Hi there!

I hope you're having a wonderful break so far. Can you believe that we only have a couple days left of the year 2015? I can't believe in a few short days we can finally say that it's 2016! This year has been a great year for Around the Spiral with Edward Lifegem. I wasn't here for the first five months since I decided to take a long needed break from blogging. Will I take another break? Maybe.. years from now! I love making posts about the game and if you ever see that I'm quiet, there's always a reason behind it. Lately, I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do next year. I have MANY goals for this website next year and I hope you stick around to see them. :D We'll talk about this year in this post for now...

Questing My Death Wizard

I started questing my 2nd death wizard, Edward, again in May 2015. I didn't think I'd ever quest that wizard again but I was lucky to start questing him again and with my myth wizard after awhile. I had a few blog posts, but it was a major moment for me. I hope I can quest him again soon and hopefully make more blog posts about him next year. :D I started questing him again at level 45 in Dragonspyre and now he's currently level 76 at the end of Avalon! :)

 My Fire Wizard

My second favorite moment of the year was questing with Autumn Dreamwalker's Balance and Life wizards. We've been questing for awhile and this year our wizards quested through Azteca, Khrysalis and we're currently waiting for Polaris. :D It was very nice to quest with Autumn again! I am hoping we can quest again through Polaris the start of next year. :D

Completing Cool Ranch

On Pirate101, my swashbuckler, Edward Cringle, said goodbye to Cool Ranch and Hello to Mooshu. This was a major accomplishment this year because Edward was in this world longer than expected. I'm currently questing through Mooshu and hopefully, I'll get back to posting about my swashbuckler soon! :D You know I'm not giving up.. By the way... Edward Cringle recently turned 3 (on December 23rd)! I can't believe it's already been three years since I started questing my swashbuckler. I will say that I've enjoyed making each and every blog post for you to read. Hopefully next year I can get some kind of guide together for this character's questing posts so far. :)

 Pirate101 Events

Pirate101 has been a lot of fun this year! I hope next year we can have more events like the one above (Welcome Back Event with Autumn in early August). That event was a lot of fun and really a great way to get the community together! :) I can't wait to have more events next year, hopefully we'll have mroe than we did this year. I need to get back to my regular Pirate101 posting. :)

Santa Run #3

Santa Run #3 2015 on Wizard101 is one last thing that I'm going to post about on here. This was one of the best event turnouts that I've ever had. It's all of you that made it happen and that really means a lot to me. Thank you for attending this event! I WILL have more Wizard101 events soon, so I hope you stick around to see what I have planned. :D We will bring all of the Wizard101 community together next year. :) 

Your Support

Overall, I had a great year! I hope all of you had a great 2015 too. There were a few stressful times, but it seems to have ended on a great note. We only have 30 hours until 2016 arrives. :D I am thankful for all of you and your support that you gave me this year (and all past years). I also want to thank Kingsisle for their support. I'm not the best blogger in the world, but its nice to see that Kingsisle (Tom, Leala and #JuliaFromKI) gave me a second chance to be a Pirate101 Fansite owner after my break. :D There is so much more that I enjoyed this year, but I can't post about all of them.. I'd have at least 100 favorite things on this post! :P Thank you all for reading. Until next time, I'll see you around the Spiral.

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Merry Christmas from Edward Lifegem!

Hi there,

I hope all of you had an amazing Christmas! I certainly did! Christmas is my favorite Holiday of the year and it's always great to celebrate it, all the way up until the day. I'm glad I could spend time with my family today because in the end family is most important (and Jesus ;D)! I am glad today was such a great day and I hope you had a great day too. Here's the LAST Christmas song of the year. :) I don't own the video below. :) MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! :D

The First Noel

Hello,

Here's one last song that I'm going to publish tonight. This song is a very important song to me because of Jesus. I'm not afraid to post this on my website and let everyone know that I praise Jesus, no matter what. :) I love you, Jesus! Read this while you listen to the song below ---> Luke 2:1-20 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+2:1-20)

Good King Wenceslas!

Hello,

Here's another great Christmas Song that I've listened to for many years. Here's Good King Wenceslas by Bing Crosby. :) I don't own the video attached below!