Please Steemit In A Pot, Nine Days Old

Hello Steemit! We are officially nine days old today and in those last nine days I have gone from never ever having heard of Steemit before, or knowing what exactly a cryptocurrency was, let alone an sbd, a poloniex (what is that, some kind of horse breed?), a re-steem, or anything else about this new territory, to sitting here today writing this.

What I did know is that I have always loved to write. I also love to teach and I love to inspire others... So when @mountainjewel mentioned it, I thought I would check it out. As soon as I joined it felt like hopping a fast moving train, exciting but wondering how to navigate, and where it would take me. I immediately realized that I was serious about Steemit.

I have met tons of amazing people here from all over the world who are working hard in the physical realm to carve out a simpler and more sustainable existence, and people who want to make the world a better place... I have been inspired to keep working at it myself.

I blog here in between all the other work and chores in my life, including raising and homeschooling my kiddos, taking care of the house, the sheep, the goats, the chickens, and planning our 2018 market garden season.

Winter has always been a tough time for us financially, no matter how hard we try to save up (such is the song the farmer sings, eh?) This winter has felt slightly different. Although I want to and plan to invest Steem back into the Steem community, I was also excited to experience my first payout and to actualize $USD to literally go buy some groceries and nice new wool socks for my son.

I stayed up late several nights, eyes reddening, and even in tears at times trying to understand this new technology I knew nothing about. I watched countless YouTube videos, read countless Steemit posts, and little by little pecked away at this goal of coming to some sort of understanding....

I took a chunk of my SBD to Poloniex and traded it for Bitcoin, and then sent it to Localbitcoins dot com. I had 263 USD$ worth of bitcoin, and then it decreased to 153 USD$ in Bitcoin by the time it got there. Now according to their site it's basically too low of an amount to sell it there to try to get the money in my bank account for an actual purchase of groceries and socks.

Whew. I was in tears for a moment, but it might have been the pregnancy hormones...

My point here is that over the last two days I've thought hard about this. I am absolutely blown away that after all these years of creating content, writing, etc. that I finally have the privilege to be on a platform that supports my work.

I cannot emphasize enough how blown away I am at how much I have learned in such a short amount of time. Nine days....

I learned that if I could have that 100 USD$ worth of crypto back I would've loved to use it to power up, so that my vote would count more, and to keep it in the Steemit community...

But I have also come to the conclusion that I can look at the loss of that 100USD as a price I paid for an intensive education, an initiation... And it was a price well paid in that regard.

Steem on!!!

Cheers Fam