User blog:SpaceWeather/Thank you... Thank you all sooo much!

I just wanna say one thing to start off... Y'all are like the friends I never really had. I've poured a lot of myself here into this wiki and it's been so amazing to be here! Now after seven months y'all have bestowed upon me a great honor to be a Featured User, "One of the best and most beloved Users on the wiki." It honestly means a lot to me... and it's been my goal since day one here to get that FU title. Now that I have it... it feels sooo amazing!

First and Foremost I gotta thank the people who voted for me in thi month's FU race:
Avi

Jordan

Fire

Toad

Epic

JE

Dra

Johnny

Kevvy

Mikey

Jay

Stars

Liam

Bruno

Reddy

and last but not least Gideon

Secondly I gotta thank each of these users individually for how they impacted my journey:
Avi: We tried to get the WikiProject off the ground... but we kinda failed. We tried to do a collab... but we kinda failed. We tried to become wiki buddies and... we succeeded. I suppose 1/3 ain't bad :P

Jordan: We're working on a collab and we've given eachother a lot of advice towards the other's work. All in all I'd say we're pretty solid at thi point.

Fire: Probably my first true buddy here on the wiki and a person I turned to for acvice more than once. We've had a bit of a falling out recently, but things happen and I can still call you a friend.

Toad: Someone I turn to for help constantly and always manages to pull through when I need him. He's also a user who's put a lot of confidence in me and I respect him a great deal.

Epic: Epic and I started getting really active around the same time... and we were the two "newbs" for a while. He's a person I can trust a great deal here and I know he won't break that trust.

JE: Probably one of the first users I talked to in great length was JE. I enjoyed his story and he enjoyed the fact that I enjoyed it (I still gotta get on reading the most recent chapter though). I believe we've built a mutual respect between the two of us.

Dra: Dra and I didn't really talk much when I was starting out here because we had two VERY different personalities. In fact the fist time I spoke to Dra in great length I ended up getting furious at him for a few choice things he said. Over the past month though we've seemed to develop a mutual friemdship with eachother, even though our ideals may differ from time to time.

Johnny: Johnny is another user I never really spoke to a lot before this past month or two. Over the past month however we've figured out we share a few common interests and have been able to hold some pretty good conversations from time to time.

Kevvy: Kevvy's a user I always found to be the jokester of the group. We haven't talked very much at all but he seems to be able to make me crack a smile every now and again.

Mikey: Another user I haven't really talked to a lot, but I respect Mikey from the small amount I know about him.

Jay: On my third day here Jay became like the first user here to ever PM me. She asked me a ton of stuff about what I was like and what type of backround I came from and was probably the first user here who made me feel completely at ease and welcome. Jay's also responsible for introducing me to RP's because she coaxed me into joining FireVivor: South Pacific and I can't thank her enough for that. She's one of the first users who really helped me get involved in the wiki and that's aweosme!

Stars: Another user who I haven't spoken to in great detail, but I love Stars's writing!

Liam: Liam is one of the few users who got active after I did and was the first person I really helped get a feel for the wiki. Now I consider him a pretty cool dude!

Bruno: Bruno was the user who really introduced me to memes and what they're about. He's also like the first person I've ever met from Brazil so that's really awesome!

Reddy: Reddy was the first admin who ever helped me out with something around here and the first time I spoke to him was slightly awkward but he really did help me out quite a bit. Now I consider Reddy to be one of my really good friends here on the wiki and a person I can really talk to and have a good conversation with.

Gideon: I've said multiple times that I consider Gid to be like a mentor to me. When I was starting out here he took time to teach me a ton about the wiki and to make sure I understood everything about this place. He was also the first person to try and help me improve the quality of my work when it came to my fics. He's a user I've got a ton of respect for and I know will help me out whenever I ask.

I'd also like to mention other users who didn't vote for me but I still fell I should mention:
BB and Mana: I put BB and Mana as one part because both of you have done similar things to impact me. You're both level headed thinkers who try to resolve issues and fellow college kids. I've spoken with BB quite a bit more than Mana but I respect you both equally.

OHF: Now if y'all remember O's account got hacked around the same time I joined the wiki. I got a very awkward PM the night his account was hacked and it ceeped me out. The reason I gotta mention O though is because of how he's cleaned up his act over the span of time I've been here. O's been progressively getting nicer and nicer since that night. We also seem to see eye to eye on a lot of issues... not always how to handle those issues but we reckognize problems that need to be handled.

Survivor: Probably the person I've spoken to the most since I've been here. Survivor and I have PM'd everytime we've been on chat together since my fist full day as a user. He's probably the person I know the most about and the person who knows the most about me. We've both turned to eachother with tons of issues in the past and have always tried to help the other out.

Nalyd: My first night here, New Year's Eve, I slipped onto chat amongst a buzzing chatter. Everyone seemed to be in high spirits and then they noticed me and some people asked the dreaded question, "Sock?" What saved me was the fact that I had posted a reply to what seemed to be Nalyd's ultamatum blog post. The blog where he informed everyone he was leaving the wiki around now because he was off to college. I replied to him telling him, "Wow Nalyd I've been here for all of 2 days and know very little about the wiki and it's community, but that was powerful.  I'm already in college and started writing fanfics, to know that some one just a bit younger than me has done so much...  You've earned my respect man and I wish you the best of luck at whichever college you choose.  Trust me though I'm sure you'll find the down time to do what you want, but then again electrical engineering (my course of study) is natural to me and everypersons different, I just wish you good luck." Nalyd the said I seemed cool and legit. He's also the first person to win an RP I've hosted so that counts for something!

Closing Statement:
So yeah y'all that's about it. Oh... I also should thank the admins and the wiki users for feelin g so much confidence in me to make me a chatmod, it seriously means a to to me! Anyways thanks for an amazing seven months and quite a few great accomplishment's. Here's to hoping the rest of the year is even better! Ciao y'all!