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You Can't Get Older Without Birthdays (or Can You?) So as I sat in my room this morning talking to BZ1, going through a bunch of old members I knew and what the forum looked like when I joined I realized something, among the excitement of my 24th birthday and the start of a new month with great events and activities: I missed my 2 year join day!!!! So BZ1 insisted that I create the thread to celebrate the occasion. In the past, I was all about shootouts to other members when I'd write these types of things basically just listing people on the forums that I had come in contact with. But I want to focus more so on the memories and times I've had. I'd like to start with my join. I had never once seen or heard of forums too much before I hopped on here. Quite frankly, I hadn't played too much halo for a long time. I maybe stopped playing halo half way between H3 and Halo: Reach. Then a friend showed me forge... Aww forge... It really pulled me back into the scene. ​Becoming so fascinated with forge lead me to find channels with helpful tutorials of forge, and beautiful map showcases. Thus, I found THFE as one of those and wasn't too frequent to their channel but I did see one video that caught my eye. That video happened to land me here because I saw a community filled with people that loved the game and quite a handful of people that loved forge. So I started looking around, and I will say I was completely lost... Had no idea how it worked and was utterly helpless like so many of our new members are, no offense. But over time I started to get the hang of it and how things were suppose to go. What gets you in trouble and what gets you praise. When I first got here (get ready for the first shout out) I hit it off immediately with 2 members one was our very own Austintinacious the other being Robius5991. Austin and I were somehow always on at the same time and always popping up in the shout box together. He joined just a mere 5 days after me and so we made a new member bond. As we both met new members he always seemed more dedicated to the forum than the others and now look at him I also took a stroll down Staff memory lane and realized that the staff when I first joined was completely different that the one we have now. Azaxx, Archangel Tyreal, Adamj004, EgyptianGhetto, Insignia, Undead, Luke, Biggles, Quantum, The Director, GSD, Total Mayh3m, One, Drizzy_Dan, Absolute Dog, Spectral Jester, and of course Twam. I mostly just liked these folks because of their silly colors. I immediately became entangled in this idea of how to make news articles and how to get them "featured". I'd stay up late just so I could find articles in the weird hours before anyone else. I felt like I tore my arms and legs off trying to get things posted to the front page and trying to get people to enjoy what I had written hints the colors and spacing and all that garbage. SJ and Archangel Tyreal Didn't like the way I posted. So I always had to wait for AD and Adamj to get online so I could ask one of them to post my things to the front page. I kept getting put in the shadow of a member by the name of ItzVplus2. At first, I really didn't mind but once I started to realize that I was getting much less recognition than him I tried even harder. Nothing against him personally, but I really wanted to achieve what he was achieving. He still has more awards than me to this day and he's not even active. :/ Once Halo 4 came out there was a major drop in news to be posted and I felt left out since I was never the one getting posted to the news page so I slowly peaked out. Definitely more of a sub-conscience decision than a fully willing one. I went on a hiatus of about 7 months..... I would come on once every.. oh.. Idk 3-4 weeks. I'd check my notifications and look around for a short bit then off again. Then for some reason I finally came back and I came back hard. Since september last year in fact. I came back and picked up right where I left off. I started to post news again as much as I could and at the time AD noticed and asked if I'd like to be apart of the staff I said of course. But I still needed to talk to our newest Site Moderator at the time RSR. RSR told me I was in, obvi. Shortly after I joined the News Group I realized so many tasks that the staff takes on and how much they are responsible for. Made me start thinking and I realized that I wanted something different. So I eventually made the switch to Events Management (then Promotions/Events) I felt that there was more need for someone on the events team as we are a community based forum where we like to spend time together. It's been great ever since and I couldn't be happier serving such a great and awe-inspiring community. As I bring this to a close, I'd like to take the time to do some shoutouts. To the people that make this community what it is and help inspire me to try harder everyday. Encouraging. Laughing. Punishing. I want to keep this list to a minimum but I have a few. BeckoningZebra1 To my main pal and fellow follower of Christ. You deserve your name at the top of this list You're always there and keep me company even when I don't want it. You correct my grammar even when it's just fast typing Skype convos. You've become a real friend over the year or so I've known you now. Drizzy_Dan My idea partner that never has a dull pen. You are so encouraging and motivating that when you are around I can never find a reason to stop moving. Thx for that. Always down for a good time and lending some of the biggest hands with projects that end up too big for me. RedStarRocket91 You use too many words and I don't understand half of them. Your accent is funny and as BZ one said earlier today "I love Red's Accent, Full Homo" You have become a good friend. We share a lot of similar dreams, real life goals and just general story except for the whole I'm in America and you aren't thing. It's been really fun to get to know you since we are similar age and have similar experience. Obviously makes for some easy conversation. I'd consider you one of the top. Appreciate you and your hard work. Couldn't find a proper image of you so: ya? I know these are only staff members but that's not because they are staff it's really just because these guys have made their imprint on me and I want to thank them for that. Good group of fellers right here. So in the end you will go through far too many changes with your time here on the forums, such as I don't know anyone except Austin that was active back when I first started. You will go through different eras of staff sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Lose friends that you thought were close and gain friends that you thought were distant. But in the end you can have some pretty swell outcomes. But who am I minding this story doesn't end! If you just spent the time to read this whole thing I applaud and thank you. This post took me far to long and I'm literally losing sleep over it. Thanks again for being a swell community over the past couple years.