Today, Spiral-Bound is one year old.
I’ve been blogging for an entire year.
My brain can not process that.
Party Cannon?
One whole year…
And here we are.
I want to thank you all. There are 184 of you precious followers, which is also mind blowing.
150 posts (this is #151).
2,983 comments.
7,827 views. (Though I’m honestly not sure how accurate this is…)
Quite a few weird search terms, the most notable of which:
“26. we had to write the paper (in,with ) ink.” —I’m sorry. Personally, I prefer ink to pencil.
“the quotes i am the villain of my stor”— You are? What’s a villain of a store, anyway? Is that like Phantom of the Opera?
“play write from long ago earnest hemingway 493 117 923”— I don’t even know. What is that chain of numbers? ISBN? Locker combination? Phone number? (By the way, I believe it’s “playwright”, not “play write”.)
“no way can spiral bound”—*glowers* No way can Spiral-Bound what???
“bound by her ring (bound series book 1)”— This is either a LOTR based book… or an icky romance. *looks it up* Romance. Ick.
“song lyrics “i went searching for something you left”— How did this get them to my blog? I can guess how the others got here, but this one?
My stats for most popular posts are pretty interesting, too.
The most popular one is A Writing Process in which I illustrated the writing process with Les-Mis gifs. (It’s still one of my favorites.)
You’re a Sand-Wizard, Claire… is number 2 (what’s sad is that I pretty much gave up on that story).
Don’t Step on a Crack… in which I talk about world-building superstitions, is number 3.
Project 3K Revealed– A Surprise for Liam Wood, Head Phil (posted just last Friday) jumped up to my 4th most popular post. I’m not exactly sure what to think about that. I’m happy, though. (It also wins for longest post. Thank you, to all you lovely peoples who helped write what is the longest post my blog will probably ever have.)
I’m not going to name specific people (because I don’t want to leave someone out), but thank you for all your lovely comment conversations and support and just general awesomeness this past year. CAKE FOR YOU ALL!
You guys aren’t going to get sick from all this cake, are you?
It just seems like I’ve been feeding you a lot recently…
Hopefully, that’s not the reason you keep coming back.
Well, if it is, fear not. I’m going to keep blogging for a long time and I’m sure I will still be feeding you, every now and then.
Have to take care of your minions pets reader-peeps, you know.
Spiral-Bound 
Happy blogoversary! And yes, you’re giving us an awful lot of cake lately…not that I’m complaining. Also, may I just say that those are the weirdest search terms in the history of weird search terms? Particularly that last one…Blogger claims to be able to show me search terms but does nothing of the kind (though as far as I can tell, the only way to find my blog through Google is searching “spellbound adventures of a teen book lover” or something similar, and that isn’t exactly a trending search term).
Thank you!
LET YOU EAT CAKE!
Theses are just the interesting ones. The rest are fairly dull or “Unknown”. 😛
It’s not a trending search term??? Why ever not? XD
Excellent question. I have no idea.
I mean… gracious, who wouldn’t Google that???
Umm…only seven billion people who have better things to do with their time than type random phrases into the Google search box.
…I suppose so.
Happy happy blogiversary!!!! *throws confetti*
Thank you!!!!! *dances in confetti*
Congratulations on making it to a full year of blogging! *throws glitter* And no, I won’t get sick on the cake, don’t worry, hehe.
Those are some weird search terms… I find it funny, I don’t really have any odd search terms…
Thank you, Shim!!! Ooh, glitter!
That’s good. XD
Huh.
Hehe.
Yup! The weirdest search term I have is “temporal osmosis”, and that was from like two years ago.
I honestly don’t remember talking about osmosis at any point, though, so I really don’t know how my blog came up in that search.
Wow…
WHOOO! *throws cake at you because you need some for yourself* Congratulations! And those search terms…just… *shakes head*
See? Aren’t you glad you finally started a blog? 🙂
HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY/BLOGAVERSARY/BLOGIVERSARY/HOWEVER YOU SPELL THAT WORD!
*eats cake* *mouth full* Fank you berry much.
Yeah. Those search terms…
THANK YOU!
No, no, no. No berries. Unless they’re strawberries. Don’t much care for the others. Well. I guess blueberries are okay as long as they’re really ripe.
*gives you strawberries*
Mmmmm. Thank you. Hey, since you’re the berry queen, mind scaring all the tomato worms off my plants? *looks hopeful*
It really mystifies me how they get in the screen cage…grrr.SHOO TOMATO WORMS! GO AWAY!
Julia killed the one I found on the plant this morning. She’s the official bug killer, you see. It was…rather interesting how she went about it. I think she tried to drown it first and then when that didn’t work smushed it. She told me “Its guts were full of your tomato.” That just made me mad. And a little bit grossed out. But mostly mad. 😉
Eww…
Yes. And infuriating.
MY TOMATOES!!!! NOT YOURS, BUGGIES! I’M THE ONE HAULING THE WATER!
If they hauled water, would they get a share in the profit?
Probably…
EEEEEP HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY!!!! 😀 *noms cake* Why thank you. ^_^ *showers you in a glowing shower of fairy dust to show my thanks* Keep being awesome! 🙂 🙂
THANK YOU!
Fairy dust?!?!???? EEP!!! You are now the queen of awesomeness here! (At least for a little while. 😉 )
You keep being awesome, too!
Wooohooo, Happy Blogoversary!
I forgot about mine…oops.You have a wonderful blog! *accepts cake*Thank you! 😀
Happy Birthday, Spiral-Bound! *bakes terrible cake*
Hey, you got the celebration right! It actually is/was a birthday! 😛
I’m going to pass on that cake though.
Woohoo!
Hey, this cake is amazing. Far better than my last one. Though admittedly, it couldn’t have been any worse. . .
*cautiously tastes cake* Hmm. Not bad. What flavor is this?
cake flavored
That’s a good flavor.
Thank you very much! 😀
OH MY GOSH HAPPY BLOG BIRTHDAY TO YOUR LIL BABY BLOG, TUC! (: I remember when you first told me you made one and I was like, no way, but it was true and I’m so proud of you for keep ping this amazing little corner of cyberspace up and running for a year. Here’s to many more years of wonderfulness!
THANK YOU, SEA! 🙂
To many more years!!! I very much love my little corner of cyberspace. 😀
Happy happy birthday to your blog. I like what you’ve done with it, and I hope you continue to do good things with it. I apologize for never commenting. I’m terrible in that area.
Thank you very much. I hope so, too.
Apology accepted. It makes it more special when you do comment.