Four incredible years...

It's crazy how time flies.... One day you are creating a new website on Webs.com hoping that someone will read it. Next day you are creating graphic art and coding for your website to make it appeal to your 150 followers. Before you know it, you are at 223 Followers that come along with a crazy 135,000 page views. Four years. It has been four years since I started Tales of the Spiral or as it used to be known as, Mywizard101site.

As many of you know from my tweeting today and over the past few days, I have been ridiculously busy with school, job interviews, and studying for the ACT. I have had no time at all this week to work on my blogaversary post so I am making this quick one to just say how much I appreciate all of the support you have given me these past four years. I wouldn't be here without you guys and your support truly means the world to me. I will be going much more in depth with this all tomorrow as I make my official blogaversary post so check back then because I've got lots of amazing news to tell you!

Hope you all had an amazing week and I will see you.... tomorrow!
-Blaze
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Never Forget the Fallen

Every year, I try finding a new angle to talk about this day, September 11th, and what it means to myself and our nation.

Thirteen years ago, two airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York, one went into the side of the Pentagon and one into a field in Pennsylvania. My father was driving to the Pentagon that day for a meeting he had and it was supposed to be a regular day. I was in Pre-School, 5 years old to be exact, and my mom suddenly came and got me from school. I had no idea why or what was going on. Next thing I know, I was at home and I saw my mom sitting in front of the TV screen, watching what I would later know as the first two planes hitting the World Trade Center. My mom wasn't sure what was going on and so she called my father who was already driving to the Pentagon and she told him to come home. She had a weird feeling and was preferring that he came home immediately during this time. This call from my mom may have saved his life. What felt like a half hour later, the next plane hit the Pentagon and my mom let out a sad sigh of relief. It was a tragedy knowing that so many people were losing their lives yet by a chance of luck, my father was able to avoid this and arrive home safely.

To be completely honest, I never know how to write posts such as this. What am I supposed to talk about when it deals with a national tragedy? It's always a difficult topic to write about, yet sometimes the best things to say require the least effort.

I found this prayer by a Navy Chaplain in regards to 9/11 and I feel like it is well worth the share.


"Almighty God, the past year will be indelibly inscribed in our memories.

We looked with horror on the terrorist attacks of last September 11th. But we looked with honor on acts of courage by ordinary people who sacrificed themselves to prevent further death and destruction.


We shed our tears in a common bond of grief for those we loved and lost. We journeyed through a dark valley, but your light has led us to a place of hope. You have turned our grief into determination. We are resolved to do what is good, and right, and just.

Help us to remember what it means to be Americans— a people endowed with abundant blessings. Help us to cherish the freedoms we enjoy and inspire us to stand with courage, united as one Nation in the midst of any adversity.

Lord, hear this prayer for our Nation. Amen." -A Navy Chaplain

We shall never forget the horrors of this day and all the lives that were lost. We as a Nation will only get stronger and will always be there for one another during these tough times.


Keep those who have fallen in your hearts.
Have a nice day,
-Blaze

Previous 9/11 posts:
September 11th post from 2011
September 11th post from 2012
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Six years... Time flies when you're having fun!


Happy (almost) birthday to Wizard101! Just one more day until it is official. September 2nd is on it's way! Before I get started, I just wanted to say that since my last post, I have finally gotten my new laptop and am working on getting back up to speed with posting. I have a long list of topics to write about and not to mention wanting to start thinking about new blog aesthetic changes. Wizards, have no fear. Things will be up, and than you can cheer! Now on to what you're reading this for, the Wizard101 Sixth Birthday Extravaganza!!!
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#TwizardIceBucketChallenge

Hello there wonderful people, 

Blaze Shadowhorn here to talk to you about something that has hit the nation by storm. Over the past few weeks, people all around the United States and Abroad have taken a bucket filled with very cold water and ice and dumped it on their heads. You may wonder why they are doing this and I am here to explain that to you.
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A Tragic Loss...

This morning at 10:52am in Paris, France, A tragedy occurred. After waking up, I found it unable to work or process vital information. The love of my life had finally left me. RIP my laptop. You were such an amazing friend and I will miss you dearly. Although this means no video games for 2 weeks until I get back to America, this also means I can't type up my English Summer Homework essays so woohoo! You will be missed. Hopefully we will be able to retrieve your soul and move your memories over into another computer.

Thank you for all you have done.

With much love,
Blaze



So yeah, I'm typing this on my phone quickly but unfortunately there will be no posts until I get back to the states and get a new laptop which will be around mid August. I'll keep you updated on my travels in France whenever I have wifi so make sure to check my twitter for all the info.
Hope you guys have a great summer!
-Blaze

P.S. It's not letting me schedule this post so it's super early in the morning for you all haha.
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