User blog:Loney 97/The End of the Beginning

The title really doesn't make all that much sense in hindsight of just writing it; I was originally going to call this something like 'All Good Things Come to an End,' but that statement is completely false because all the really good things go on forever, and also this really isn't much of an ending anyway. But hey everyone, well, here it is, my LMB wiki retirement speech. I really never thought that this day would come, way back when in my younger days, but hey, here it is, and as I've said way too many times in a phrase I quote way too often, everyone's turn on the wheel ends sometime.

So, I'm not completely retiring, much more of a semi-retiring kind of thing, and I'll still hop back on here every once in a while. In the meantime though, I figured I had to leave sometime and now seemed as good a time (or even better a time) as any.

I'm not going to say I don't regret a minute of it because hey, most of those evenings where I sat staring at a screen on chat for two hours straight I'm sure I could have done something better, but all of the amazing, beautiful moments make up for that.

Most of the time when people write stuff like this they always say "oh blah blah I'm not going to give any shoutouts because I don't want to leave anyone out," and go off on some tangent about that and everyone feels all happy and rainbow-y because no one was left out, but I hope you will please forgive me and feel just as happy and rainbow-y if I do do a couple shoutouts here.

First one will have to my amazing, beautiful, incredible two daughters, Arya and Aravis. Sorry to all you other people who tried to get into my family, Riol, BCG, ect, but I never could have loved you the way I love these two. And as I told Aravis, I'm not leaving either of you girls anyway so I'll quit sniffling and hugging and get on to everyone else on the list.

Next one is to all those people that I count in among my friends here; Swipe, Peat, Abby, Galileo, Indi, Riol, BCG, BCGirl, Harry, Boyo, Jedil, Drew, Spy, good ole Alemas, A5, Chicago...

Next a shoutout to all my friends who have retired or left, you'll never see this but you still deserve it; Reminal, Glitter, GSlover, Kiff, Emma...

Now a shoutout to all the admins and CMs and Patrollers and everyone who helps to run this place, you deserve a shoutout just for all the work you do around here, it's amazing.

And lastly, just in case someone goes "Hey, that idiot didn't give me a shoutout" because I know there was a ton of people that I never mentioned at all, here's a shoutout to every. single. one. of you; you have all shaped me, and made me exactly what I am right now.

Anyway, this is only a semi-retirement so I don't know how this blog post got so long, and yeah, now you all can leave those long sappy messages about how much you'll miss me when I'm gone. See you, everyone. *Fade to black*