Being on Discord (www.discordapp.com) is not required to have a Steem Blog but there are a lot of Steem communities that communicate via Discord.

• Once you create an account, click on Find or Start a conversation. (Top of the screen, left hand side)
• Enter birthdayboost and click return or enter.
• Then send me a message with the month and day you want

OR

You can send an encrypted Steem wallet message. I included instructions for that in the this post.