1 month on Steemit! 50 Rep. 330+ Followers. 😀 I've made around 20 genuine acquaintances. I feel this was a successful month.

Making Friends

The hardest part about making friends on Steemit has been breaking the ice. It's not easy to stand out here and it rails against my introvert nature to pursue others. Despite this and other quirks that make me a social nightmare, I'm really proud to have found some people and groups I'm comfortable engaging with.

Autism Families

@jazzyfish has been seeking out and organizing Autism families on Steemit. So far, her list includes @imaginedragon, @aspiejoe, @arteagaile, @erodedthoughts, @bronxb17, @winstonwolfe, @ladymaharet, and myself. It's April and it's Autism Awareness month so hopefully, we can raise awareness on Steemit.

Single Parents

@dflo has been curating Steemit single parents network. So far she's featured @falseydols and @wildempress in her articles. Single parents have a unique challenge having both roles to wield and full responsibility at home.

Sims Gaming Community

While not really involved (yet, although I am getting weaker and weaker resisting lol) @snook and @simgirl have been making waves playing one of my favorite games ever, Sims.

I haven't played since Sims 3 and I'm really soon about to break and download Sims 4 for my daughter and I. Between Sims, Minecraft, and League of Legends (one of my son's favorites)— I'm about to be doomed. I better get that OBS setup cracking soon.

Steemers

Steemers is a Steemit group that started on Facebook head up by @scottcbusiness with a focus on onboarding Facebook users. The discord is here: https://discord.gg/YQW3wUb

Steemit Mastermind Group

I'm brand new to the group and learning what it's all about. The community is super nice. Also on Facebook, I'm not sure the public can really join (can they @kenistyles?) but I'm glad I'm part of it.

Minnow Support Project

While mentioned before, the Minnow Support Project has been incredibly helpful this month— especially in way of answering tough questions in their help forums on their discord channel.

Steem Punks

I joined their Minnow group which occasionally supervotes for each other whenever idle/logged off and whenever vote power is 100%, secondary to trails. I saw something similar to this before but didn't join because they asked for your key. This program they created uses Steem Connect but is the same concept. After visiting, I overall enjoy the dev talk and ideas they have cooking. The discord is here: https://discord.gg/hGJnpJu

#Sharkschool

So @yallapapi officially responded to one of my comments (finally) after a month of my being a prick. I'm a big fan of his banter and evil. Lots of fun people also stalk him and his writing tips. If it were not for his brutal honest advice, I would not have written my rant that earned me a Curie vote. So if you like him or not, what he teaches is effective.

Things That Happenned This Month

Curie Liked Me

I got a Curie vote! I heard that's pretty rare. I was shocked and awoken by notifications in the middle of the night. It reminded me of my first winner on Shopify because the darn program goes bling bling bling every time you get an order. It felt good. It sort of felt like when you hit on a slot machine. Everyone should try to get one. Lol!

I Won 10,000 PiggyCoin

This was a bounty situation but I didn't think I'd actually get the coins, lol. Well, well, well, ...I did. And my kids were super excited to learn about their first coin. Woop there it is!!! So now I have to promo this coin out the arse. Yo, go cop that! I referred the devs over to a new mobile wallet too and that is doing a launch with multi-coin airdrop. I heard they're working on getting involved sooo hopefully, that will happen. Go cop that. View the bounties on discord: https://discord.gg/XpHZhZj

I'm Whitelisted by Smartsteem

So I'm only 1 out of 3 stars currently, and I don't know what that means (does that mean my blog sucks? hahaha) but none the less, I'm in there! That apparently means I get better accounts voting for me when I use the bot— I think... lol

My First Delegation

In the spirit is goodness, @novacadian was kind enough to delegate me 1 Steem Power. I've been asking in my signature since I can't do enough on Steemit like I wish I could. The gesture was an act of faith. Despite powering up here to the tune of $100 (which is a Stretch for a single mom with 2 kids with special needs) the market pretty much ate it. I really would like to hang in there until the end of 2018. Support makes that possible.

Hello Whales

A few high holding accounts have been upvoting me occasionally. Kind of these to recognize me among the many. I feel flatterred. I took the liberty of going beyond Steemit to see who is who on other Social Networks. It was no surprise that some big players here are just regular folks like you and I, and some regular folks here are whales in the real world. How's that for illusion. In general, it seems people appreciate when you get to know the real them.