I am officially brain fried! Oh man, did I do some research on Hive today!!!! Yes, I know I told you all that I have been reading blogs from so many different writers over the last few months and before I had even signed up to hive, but once I actually "got here" and signed in on my new account it was like WOAH there is so much to learn!!! 

Communities, upvotes, powering, re-sharing, tags and so many other things that almost made my head freeze.

For the first hour I kept trying to post my introduction and it kept failing. It was actually so silly and totally laughable because I kept staring at that error message and I wasnt even reading the darned thing!

Then I read it and my brain finally kicked in! teehee! So I powered up the little bit of savings I had moved over and like magic it all worked. I felt so dumb in that moment. thanks to that there was nobody to see me being so ignorant. I guess we have to be here to live and learn.

I spent almost my whole day today reading and learning whatever I can about how this all works and even though my brain now feels like an over ripe banana, I have to admit that I actually feel a little bit accomplished and definitely knowing a little more, I can go on!!! yay!!

ok, so I discovered the community I have posted this into "hive power". I almost posted it into leo finance, but I had a look at the description and some of the posts already there and, well they just made me feel a little bit like a stupid artist, so I guessed I was in the wrong space. I actually googled "powering up hive" and I found so much information. More than my teeny brain could handle actually. but all that searching did lead me to some good stuff! yay again!

I don't even know if I am doing this right and I am new here so I also dont know if it even counts, but so, today I decided to power some more Hive. I don't have a lot but from the moment I got here, everyone has been so amazing to me. That was one of the reasons I decided to read and learn more in the first place.

So now, I have powered up whatever I can. I see so many people do this on the first day of the month but I am excited and decided to do it today! It is ok if it doesnt matter! I have powered up 483 Hive today and also 100 when I signed up!


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I probably don't even really understand how this all works completely but I am really excited! So now, I have 585 hive power! Happy dance!

Through all the chaos today, I opened hive.blog in one instance and I didnt understand why everything all looked so different. Then later, I realised there are different places to share from and the other times I had used Peakd. Today, I also saw another one called liketu   - all I could gather was it is a photography space but couldnt see any information on the home page... perhaps someone can educate me?

It has been an interesting day! I have learnt a lot! I got a little bit of a lot! 

I am so wanting to connect with more of you but will need you to show and tell me how! Pleeeeez!

Excited!
and thanks so much again, for having me. I am going to try out some of the tags I saw today... probably doing it wrong, but you can help! :) <3

I still have a lot of questions but I guess I will learn one by one!


ELLA <3