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!!
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!