Hello Steem World, allow me to introduce myself!

in #introduceyourself6 years ago (edited)

I am sitting here on a late Monday morning, shamelessly enjoying my recent status as a lady of leisure, while my better half is off earning money… and I have a wonderful opportunity to explore this new realm of my reality called Steemit.

I heard about Steem it while listening to a podcast called The Sustainable Living Podcast by Marianne West - who is on Steemit too off course. The episode was called Universal Income - a subject I find quite interesting, but to my surprise, it was not about political experiments in Scandinavia, but about cryptocurrencies and "new" words like Blockchain, Mana and Steemit. Shout out to @Taskmaster4450 who was explaining all these new concepts, and made me investigate immediately, and to @mariannewest for being so enthusiastic!

So here goes. I am already on my second cup of coffee, as making a hot cuppa seems like a great way to procrastinate, when writing can seem so terribly daunting. I should probably be telling you about all the interesting things I will be posting, and how it will enrich your lives and make you smarter - But the truth is, that I am not quite sure yet, how I will be using this blog.
First off, I see this as a place where I can get back into writing again, and practice writing in English. Early last year I got a part-time job that could make ends meet, and it allowed me to delve into the project of starting my own blog - only I got sucked into all the details of graphic design, specs, and planning….and it still only exists "back end". Writing the actual posts was just too hard for me, and I kept going back to finding great looking pictures and thinking about what I could write about, instead of actually writing.

So here I am, trying to write, without the distractions.

My non-existing blog is called Wondergrasp, and I hope I will be able to get that going soon as well. But one thing at a time for now. Wondergrasp is going to be a mix between book recommendations of the non-fiction and "sciency" variety, and my personal musings about the nature of reality and how humans and the universe works. I have a feeling that there might be interesting intersections between the fabric of reality, paranormal experiences, and religion. So some of those interests might bleed over into this platform.

My English writing needs practice, as I am not a native English speaker. I recently moved to England from Denmark to live with my now fiancee(tying the knot this summer). My English is quite good, but I think it is a bit hard to find my voice when writing… I used to be able to play a lot more on my choice of words when writing a Danish travel blog.

A subject that I think I will be writing about is me and my partners quest and plans for a good and meaningful life for us, now and in the future. We would both like to optimize our work-life balance, and ideally just work part-time and maybe spend time working on projects at home - projects that could either supply us with income or reduce our overall expenses. So we are looking into living off-grid, building our own container home, homesteading, and most recently we have been investigating something called One Planet Development in Wales.

So I would like to write about our thoughts and new ideas as they come up, and anything that we might do and learn in the process. We are not really in doing mode yet, as we are still planning a wedding and really need to save a lot more money… we would also like to get the travel bug out of our system before we settle down with 20 chickens and goats to take care of. One of the ideas is to go volunteer and learn about homesteading and permaculture and whatnot as we travel, so it will not be wasted. :) I see several blog posts in the making!!

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Our 3 little bantam chickens - along with our tiny little garden plot, they are all the homesteading we are practicing at the moment.

After writing this introduction ramble, I think my first post will be about the different little side-hustle ideas I have dabbled in, to try and earn an extra income without leaving the comfort of my home. Some with no success, some with modest results, and one slightly different with some serious earning potential.

Is that a cliffhanger!?! I hope so and will leave you with this for now. Hopefully you are intrigued and want to follow me on "my mission". I am off to explore more of Steemit, I will see you out there!

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Welcome!!! I am so happy that you made it to Steem and I hope that I will be able to help you find your way on this platform.

I am traveling right now and will be without internet until later tomorrow but will share a bunch of tips with you.
To start with, check out @fitinfun. She just wrote a few posts on how to be successful here.
Welcome 👍😀

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Thank you so much Marianne!! It is really something to find people in here that you "know" from real life. It is nice to put a face to the voice that I hear on the podcast. I will look forward to even more tips and check out @fitinfun. Happy travels!!

Hello!

I am glad to see you introducing yourself on Steemit! It can be complicated, but let me suggest some helpful tips! It is important to post quality content and to comment on other user's content so people can get to know you, and you can start earning STEEM!

Feel free to comment, upvote & resteem our content so that you can start to earn Steem!

We hope that helps!

Best,

@charitycurator

your English is pretty much perfect.. nothing to worry about there. Good luck on the platform, I look forward to reading your stuff!

Hi,

This is a lovely introductory post, Thank you for taking the time to write the post and say hello to the community!

I am here to help!

I would encourage you to keep posting and comment on others users content to help make a name for yourself and to get the most out of the platform!

Feel free to comment on my content and I'll up vote your comments! Drop me a follow so you can comment a lot and get a lot of my upvotes!

I have upvoted your post!

Luppers :)


Welcome to Steemit @wondergrasp!

I wish you much success and hope you find Steemit to be as rewarding and informative as I have.

Here are some links you might find useful.
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Oh yea, I have upvoted you and followed you. Many blessings!

Congratulations @wondergrasp!
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Thank you @arcange, it is so exciting to get any kind of recognition on here, and your hit parade also inspired me to connect with other newcomers. You got my vote as a witness, even though I am not quite sure what it means yet :) But I am sure you deserve it!

Thank you for your support and witness vote @wondergrasp, really appreciated!

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If you're a fan of Marianne, then man oh man you'll be my friend (pronounced "fran"). Hi, I'm Brendan.

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Thank you so much for your interest!

Welcome and you already wrote your first post LOL. Sounds to me you have plentyto write about and to share and your English is way better as mine. Most of all I wish you fun overhere!

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Thanks for the nice welcome Kitty :) I just went to your blog, and it seems like you have a lot of good stuff to share too! It was hard to choose which posts to read, so I am now following you and look forward to see what pops up next!

I follow you too, what pops up here depends on my mood and some prompts given. Wish you a great day

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