Birthday Suits Are Optional
I know, I know.. Another birthday announcement - I know! But it’s that time of year people and it’s still early. Imagine the amount of Wisteem (Wisdom + Steem) you’ll be gallivanting with this time next year. So get comfortable, kick your feet up, there’s plenty of birthday posts headed our way. Happy Tuesday - Let’s get this birthday party started.
“Bloggcasting (I just made that up) live from Los Angeles, California, USA!! His account was verified on September 18, 2017, at sixteen hundred thirty hours Pacific Standard Time where he didn’t begin interacting with the community until approximately 30 days later. His queen is the beautiful and multi-talented @puravidaville. He’s a Creative Commons artist at #slothicorn where he’s received not one, not two, but three resteems and he’s also a proud artzonian inductee at #artzone! He’s performed three times for @comedyopenmic where he earned one Court Jester award, one Lucky Door Prize and his third appearance is currently in the judges hands! He received a nomination and was recently accepted in the @qurator community, where, by the end of his first week, he received a Resteem and a write-up! He’s a wanna be chef and a wanna you to be consumption educationalist in the @foodfightfriday family and most recently announced his involvement with @c-cubed curation league! Ladies and gentlemen of Steemit, minnows and whales, let’em hear it!! C’mon ya’all, outta your seat and on your feet, put’em together for for the luckiest guy he knows!!”
‘Righty, that was an awesome, thank you! Thanks for that introduction, I really appreciate it!’ The majority of that intro was my right thumb. Whenever I post something you really enjoy; the articles you submit or Resteem - Probably a little heavy on the right. My left thumb is the rabbit holer; it’s a lot more reserved, an outer space resident most of the time and off tempo all of the time.
A big shout out to @jlsplatts for the gif - Is that thing cool or what?! Thanks brother Splatts! The world needs more dads like you.
:sh: Steemit, can you keep a secret? I’ve anticipated this birthday more than my birthday, birthday and I’m Labor Day Weekend! It’s just me though, right, I’m sure I’m the only one.
Typing out those accomplishments just now was interesting - Dang! As I was typing them I actually surprised my own self! ‘Really? Are you sure you did these things?’ And the answer is “yes!” I did those things. Coming from a guy who doesn’t have a computer and still has never had an account at Instabookatweet or any of those social watchacallits, being surprised shouldn’t surprise you. I didn’t know what a hyperlink was this time last year and I certainly didn’t know anything about cude. Cade. Code! See what I mean? (Left) Those accomplishments are real - I don’t take them for granted.
Three things I never did: I haven’t typed a curse word yet - Nope! A whole year, some freestyle rhymes, even some #comedyopenmic entries - Still no curse words. I found a creative way around it when I think something is sofa king cool I can hardly contain myself but I still haven’t typed a curse word. I haven’t flagged anyone either (yet) - Nope! But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been flagged! There was a period of time where I was getting downvoted a few times a week it seemed like. I took a few screen shots before I remembered the picture taking clarity of my ignore button:
I haven’t backed myself into a corner. By that I mean you shouldn’t be able to predict my content. I’ve become friends with several people on here who specialize in one craft and they excel nicely. I’m having a lot of fun doing a variety of things with the same intention each time - Make this piece better than the last.
Consider developing these habits: I told you three things I have not done. Every once in awhile I have to remind myself to get tuned up on the following practices.
People don’t want to hear about what you can’t do - Nope! If you build a wooden dog and it doesn’t have a tail because you ran out of glue, don’t say that. Tell us something else: “Look, I built an Australian Shepard.” Everyone knows Australians don’t have tails.
If someone tips you and drops a line on your page that you’ve never heard from, go pay their page a visit and return the favor. It’s easy to forget to do that and we find ourselves getting behind sometimes but next time you think about it, or when you see a new name drop you a line, go return the favor. That gesture goes a long way. And try not to paste responses, that’s a bad habit to develop, you deleted #engagement when you pasted a response.
If you have an opportunity to showcase a fellow Steemians work on your page, take advantage of it. When someone responds to your work and you like what they have to say, go check out their page. If something on their page catches your attention, tell them about it. Paste their link on your page - It holds a lot of weight.
Don’t forget where you came from. @ned, @dan, @ you, me and @ everyone that reads this had a 25 reputation once - Don’t forget. We’re pushing 1.2 million people now - Know where you came from. Try not to skip over articles just because the author has a 20 something Rep. Instead, consider doing the opposite and stop by several of them with low reps from time to time, you will be surprised. When you find a decent article, open your wallet! We all remember how cool it was when you had zero idea how this platform operated but your post showed value: USD $0.17
It’s give-take - You’ve heard it before: ‘take what you can give’ and vice versa but around here it’s serious. Thank you for an exceptional year everyone and I mean that with my whole self, both thumbs. I’m achieving things I didn’t know were possible and I don’t think I can be more transparent than I’m being right now. On that note, if you catch me slippin on any of these pointers, let me have it! Happy birthday to me, Steemit, I feel welcome here. Thanks for having me. Happy Tuesday ya’all - It’s time for me to make another wish.
Thanks chef! You’re tackling so many activities at once around here you got yourself all backed up with the judging. Anyone reading this, please click on that link and cast a couple votes.
Thanks a lot for stopping by @foodfightfriday, I’ll see you in the kitchen in about 48 hours, deal?!
You got it buddy!! As long as your not wielding a knife like the kid in the gif above. LOL
Happy Birthday @dandays… you are a great Steemit role model and even better content producer. Thanks for relentlessly pushing me to post more often and become part of the community. You are one of a kind inside and outside of this platform :) Muah
Biased or not, I’ll take that compliment all day long, shooooooot. Thank you! It’s pretty cool when your’re the biggest fan of your biggest fan.
And being the beneficiary of your award winning dishes is pretty sweet!
muah right on your face @puravidaville!
Muah muah muah
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i was wondering if you were going to make it, did traffic on the 405 hold you up?
Thanks for stopping by @steemitboard.
Wise words indeed and a big happy birthday.
Well it sure is a pleasure to hear from you, I’m a big fan of your work, thanks a lot for reading mine. And I’m glad you think so!
Hey while you’re here, ever since I started following you I’ve wondered where your screen name can from. Your profile page says Ireland, anyone before you from the Jordan River/ Red Sea area?
Thanks for stopping by @ammonite! I still think it’s pretty funny they nsfw’d a sand sculpture.
Congratulations and a very Happy Birthday!
Wishing you the all the best in this fantastic community, Thank you for sharing all your right ups and we look forward to more. Blessings!
Well, well, well, this sure is a pleasant surprise! I wasn’t prepared for a visit from a recent qurite of the week, how’s my hair?! Is my tie straight? ...Do I have anything in my teeth??
Thank you for stopping by @sherylneil, I appreciate you taking the time to drop me line Chef! <— that’s you.
Haha, This made me laugh today :D
Its always a pleasure to visit your blogs. It feels like your talking to me in real person.
Thank you Sir, have a wonderful day with your fam:)
This post was shared in the Curation Collective Discord community for curators, and upvoted and resteemed by the @c-squared community account after manual review.
@c-squared, I sure do appreciate it when you guys pay me a visit. Thank you!
Happy birthday @dandays!! I'm gonna admit right off the bat, that your title caught me hook, line, and sinker! :)
No swear words in a year! Sofa king cool :) (May I borrow that one from time to time?)
Love the lesson of the wooden Australian Shepherd and the whole common courtesy thing here too; it's all rather simple, isn't it. Just be good, and kind, and considerate, and thoughtful. There's some Wisteem for ya right there! :)
This one's got c-squared written all over it too. Nice work!
You know you rock right? I sure do appreciate the encouraging words, the more you get to know me the more you’ll realize my sincerity. This is my first platform of its kind, reality is it’s you, them and everyone else here that gives me confidence to do these things. Thank you a bajillion Times!
And while you’re here, I hope ya’all know we’re actively talking about it! And speaking ya’all, where’d he go???
About the other thing.. it’s just so a Monday thing!
Thanks a lot for all of the support @lynncoyle1, it means sofa king much more than either of these thumbs can explain! (Heck ya you can use it!)
awww thank you @dandays; you're pretty awesome yourself! Truthfully, I had a facebook account but never posted anything; I just used it to stay in touch with friends/family around the world. This is the first time I've blogged (still feels weird to type that), shared myself publicly, photos etc. I've never felt comfortable doing that, but this all seems very 'safe' and most, like yourself, are very encouraging as well :) So I totally get where you're coming from!
Continue to actively talk about it :) Brian broke the top of his foot/by the big toe and has been feeling generally "hitty" with an "s" (takin' a page from your book buddy!), so he's taking a bit of a steemit break :)
Sofa king awesome that I can use that too! You rock @dandays :)
I wish you to have enough SP when STEEM price finally reaches $100.
Well this sure is a pleasant surprise! You’ve been so supportive of both @puravidaville and myself I’ve wanted to drop you a line somewhere for awhile and give you an extra thank you. I just didn’t want to intrude on any of the BTC posts you Resteem, I hope you understand. But this is way better!
Hey thanks a lot for stopping by @scorer, I appreciate all your support. If the day should ever come and SP is valued at $100, you and I are gonna have to revisit this conversation and punch ourselves for just looking at it when it was $0.70!
Your wife enjoys writing (high quality) posts about food - unique, nice images and good text that describes them. I like that. There are not so many authors who does the same on Steemit. She resteemed your posts and I liked them, too.
The thing is that I feel responsible for the SP I hold and have to vote for the content I like. When I have done with crypto posts, I vote for the rest. 😉
About STEEM price. Probably you have missed the post I resteemed. It is not the easiest and fastest process, but if you are patient enough... What it is Really Like Buying ETH for $1
Yes she does enjoy it. It took me probably 6 months to boost her confidence enough to involve her cooking talents here on Steemit. Now she’s putting up quality after quality.
And thanks for that link, too, some insightful information. $100 SP sounds just fine to me @scorer. Happy
Fridayedit yup! Guilty! I wrote Friday @scorer. That’s how lucky I am.. every day is Friday. I can’t back here to edit it but didn’t feel like changing it to Thursday! Happy Thursday.