New Years Resolutions

Hello again,

I wanted to thank all of you and Kingsisle for a great year last year. It was the best year I've had on the game and I'm ready to make this year the best year too! I can't believe everything that happened last year, from Around the Spiral becoming a Pirate101 Fansite to reaching 200 members and 100k views. Its crazy all of this happened in a short amount of time and I'm ready to make this year epic. I have huge plans that I plan to accomplish and I hope you're ready for them because you're involved more than you know :). I hope all of you stick around with me another year to see all of the surprises I have planned for you...

1. Wizard101 UK- I plan to start blogging about Wizard101 UK again and hopefully level my character through the game. I haven't had a chance to level on Wizard101 UK since the beginning of last year and I would love to level on there once again. I would also like to try to submit for fansite for UK after awhile, I'll have to see how that goes! 
2. Updates to Site- This is another main goal that I hope to accomplish. Its not only updates, its more of an improvement. Right now the site isn't doing too good on graphics with the background, I am hoping to fix that soon though. I am also going to add more information to the pages on the bottom of this blog, I haven't had a chance to do that yet! 
3. One last one- My last new years resolution is to impress you with all of the other surprises I have for you! I am hoping you like everything I have planned even though there's some things I haven't told you yet. 2013 will be the biggest year for Around the Spiral. I'm hoping it beats last year, if it doesn't it'll tie with last year! I hope you enjoy everything. :)

What are your New Years Resolutions? 

Some wizards/pirates may not make new years resolutions but I think its good to make them! Its like goals you have for yourself and sometimes it does help.. Well last year I think it did more than help because I've completed all of my goals for my blog in a matter of a few months! If you have any goals you should try for yourself, you never know what might happen if you do. Good luck with your goals and I hope you enjoy Around the Spiral 2013! Futuristic... wow.. x stops typing x

2012: The best of Around the Spiral?

Hi there!

Well, this is the last day/ hours of 2012. I've had such a great year with all of you and I can't believe I'm saying it but I'll be gone until 2013. Yeah... Its awhile.. Okay maybe I should say next month, or.. tomorrow! Lol! :) I would never make a post like that. Today I'm going to make a great post of all of my favorite adventures on Around the Spiral and my favorite things about this year in blogging.

The beginning of 2012- Jan-May

I started off at a rough start on Around the Spiral due to personal issues but everything started to get better and I had my first huge contest! If you don't remember, I had my 10x10x10 contest  and that had to be the biggest contest I had this year. I was planning on having another contest which was supposed to be right about now. I decided to reschedule that until the beginning of next year though! I'll explain more in a little.. My other favorite thing about this time period was when Pirate101 was released. I was very excited and I had to start blogging about the announcement and all! I couldn't wait to start playing that. I found out about Pirate101 in April and I had to wait awhile until my ship arrived so I could finally experience my Pirate adventure. Around the Spiral had 150 members/50,000 views during this time period.

Middle Of 2012- June-September

Wow, this was a crazy time period. I loved every single moment of it though! In June I found out about the Pirate101 Fansite submission and was trying for that a few times. August was my favorite month, I couldn't blog about my adventures on Pirate101, but I really loved being accepted to Beta and really thank Kingsisle for that! I always wanted to join Wizard101 beta but I arrived to late and I'm glad I had a chance to participate in Pirate101 Beta! I think its made me a better player and its weird but I think its made me a better player in Pirate101 and Wizard101! Around the Spiral had about 175 members during this time period/ 80,000 views!

*End of 2012- October- December*

Yeah.. This time period.. It had to be the best Around the Spiral has ever had! In October I was trying my best to level and I didn't focus on blogging much. I was trying to figure out what my blog could be like at the end of the year if I made official Pirate101 fansite, this brings me to November 2012. On November 8th I finally made Pirate101 Official Fansite within an hour after submitting my blog. This was the third time and I couldn't believe it. I had a lot of hope that I would make it though :) This was a huge goal accomplished including 100,000 views on blog and 200 members. In December, this month, I had a chance to talk about my Pirate101 character, explain more about myself to my new members. I also had a chance to think about how great 2013 is going to be. I have a lot of goals, and I'm planning on completing them. Maybe I could have some help from you! I hope you stick around with me and continue your adventure Around the Spiral! 

Maintenance Update

We're halfway through the maintenance! You're probably wondering where the pages have gone, they will be added soon. Its not going to be like it was before, there will be a few links to posts below the header and all of the Information Pages will be down at the bottom of the blog! The drop-down menu is going to be removed, I will try to figure out how to do that on another update to the blog. This is the biggest update we've had and trying to take time. Soon I'm going to submit for Pirate101 Fansite! I have a good feeling about submitting this time :) If it isn't true don't worry, everything is going to be okay. I am planning on blogging for quite some time and having more interesting posts :) And lets not forget the big contest we're having. Have you check out that post? Click the picture of the header above to see it! Good luck to all of you. It will be ending awhile from now but we will be having great contests before then. Hope to see you during the contests. See you around the Spiral, I'll be blogging soon!

Blogs/ Sites to follow! (November 2012)

Hello there!

I'm sorry I haven't made a post like this in awhile (last time being Spring), I really wanted to make these posts again! There are so many sites I haven't mentioned but there a few new ones that I would love to mention during this post. Here they are!

The Spiral Wonders is a great new site that I'm sure you'll love! The author Pavlina (Sophia) has been a friend of mine since this Summer. She's very nice and I'm sure you'll love reading her posts! Did I mention she did an interview with me sometime ago? Go read it on her blog when you can. (first interview) Keep of the great work Sophia! 

Blake's Guide to the Spiral is another great new blog! The author of this blog (Blake Ravenhunter) sent me a link to his site the other day and I think he's off to a great start. So far he's made one post, I'm looking forward to more Blake! :) Thanks again for showing me your site, I needed a few blogs to put on my post. Good luck and keep up the great work!

I'm glad I made this post. Make sure to look at these new great blogs :) See you around the Spiral!

Blog Maintenance

I'm doing a maintenance for the next few weeks on this blog! You may have heard about it in recent posts, I won't be closing the blog down because this maintenance will last awhile. I'm going to spend more time on this maintenance than any other. I'm hoping it will be the biggest update we've ever had on this site! Here's a list of a few updates being made..

• Pages: More information on pages will be added on all of the pages, not to mention an easier way to get around. The drop-down option may be removed! 
• Background: The background will also be changed. Its not Halloween anymore so this background should be changed to a Pirate101/Wizard101 related background. I will be adding a Christmas background the day after Thanksgiving! 
• Header: The header will be changed too, I would like to thank Cody for a great header for the past few months, I'm going to miss the header, but we never know, it may come back! The new header will be a mix of Wizard101 and Pirate101 also.
• Blogging: In the next few weeks, I'm going to try to start blogging about Wizard101 and Wizard101 UK a little more, I've been taking a break from both games to start playing Pirate101. I hope you wizards don't mind me taking a break!

I really do hope you like the new blog design and everything to be added! I can't wait for you to see all of my new guides, pages, and my background and header. Wish me good luck! You will see a lot of changes in the next few days on the pages. I will still be making new posts. Oh and I hope you liked the red and green! Happy Holidays! :D (Been waiting 11 months to say that again)!