Hello everyone!
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My given name is Leandre Warren, a rather pretentious and often difficult name for most people to pronounce, I have encountered every interesting pronounciation under the sun, however to my friends and my loved one I am simply Lee 😀 often called Foxy by certain of my buddies.
Photo by Alex Andrews: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-fox-sitting-on-ground-2295744/
I became pretty fox obsessed at one stage, and was looking for a business name and well, The Foxy Geek SA was born. An ode to my love of foxes, read mild obsession, and my tendency to love everything technology related. I am a geek at heart, having been in a variety of technical based jobs in the past.
I live in the very beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. Although I am in the midst of a very sudden relocation, location still mildly undetermined, but as soon as that is nailed down you will receive multiple move updates and sharing, a girls got to vent somewhere 😉
Photo by Taryn Elliott: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-mountain-during-dawn-3889935/
So more about me, and well this is an interesting one to be sure.
I am 41, almost 42, which in all honesty is a shock, I am not sure how one is supposed to feel at 42, but I'm sure that this isn't it.
I have a beautiful 14 year old son, and just like his mom he is tech obsessed.
I am thoroughly blessed to say our family grew by one more, with the addition of my very beauitul wife. We officially said I do on the 9th of September, a mere 1 month ago. So yes we are very much newly weds.
She is based in the army, and is currently away from home on a course for her next rank, Sargeant Major, an amazing achievement in every sense.
Beautiful wedding photo by https://reayphoto.com/
I am a mixed of a very many things, I am an artist by nature, although not by trade. I run a small sticker and journal supply business, as most South Africans having a side hussle.
I draw, paint, crochet and my latest obsession is junk journalling.
Or creative journalling.
This is a beautiful process of just trusting the process and letting go, putting pieces together to form a journal for no other reason that to be art and to be pretty.
Creative journalling is a exceptionally healing process, as many people in our world, I have a few mental health issues rambling around, depression, PTSD and Adhd to mention a few. The phrase I love that is being widely used is neuro divergent, a wonderful term to embrace all the differences.
I am a tentative writer, and always have a few book ideas muddling about in my head, although they never quite make it to paper.
Maybe this might be the correct outlet to finally start writing that book, who knows 🤔
So there we are, me in a nutshell, or just nutty, you make the choice, but uniquely weird and embracing all my weirdness and now subjecting you all to it too
I am thrilled to be here and cannot wait to start an amazing journey and make some amazing friends along the way!!
Lotsa love! mwah
what a lovely intro I hope u will have a lot of fun here on hive
Thank you so much, so far it's so interesting!!
Hey @thefoxygeeksa! This is @indayclara from the @ocd team. Congratulations and welcome to Hive!
We are delighted to have you here and share us your story. It's my first time meeting someone obsessed with foxes and I think that's so cool! But what I'm excited to read more about from you is your "creative journaling". That seems to be a wonderful process of healing. Anyways, I think you will love these communities: NeedleWorkMonday, ThoughtfulDailyPost, and Sketchbook.
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Welcome to Hive Lee ! 😀
If you enjoy creative writing, this is the perfect place for it ! Most of my posts are in the creative writing communities - Worldbuilding, Scholar and Scribe, Freewriters are the main ones. It's really got me writing again after a bit of a lull.
One of the things I most love about Hive (especially compared to traditional social media) is that it is organised into communities, mostly by interest, meaning you can avoid any toxic or triggering ones (something which I have a real problem with in other places). My favourite way to find interesting communities isn't to look through the list, it's to visit friend's profiles and see which communities they are in that might be interesting.
The most important thing, though is... enjoy ! 😀
Thank you, was actually chatting about writers groups and quite a few you mentioned were also mentioned.
I love writing but honestly most of the time I just consider them Doodles. Nothing serious, and suppose have been told too many time my writing is rubbish.
So I'm quite nervous about putting my writing out there
Doodles are good ! If you like that style, the Freewriters Zapfic prompts (most Mondays & Fridays) are an awesome source of ideas. You get 50 words or 240 characters to tell a story, which is both challenging and amazing amounts of fun.
That sounds really challenging.. 50 words... Wow
Hello, that is a great intro post there, Love it!! And I like your nicky and business name too. For your rants, you can post them in the Rant, Complain, Talk Community.
An OCD rep most likely will visit your post and leave you some guide links. When they do, be sure to follow the links. They’ll really help you get you started. Good luck and have fun!!!
Awesome, that is awesome. Will check those out. It's always good knowing where I can rant ;)
Hey! Cape Town HIVE is growing! This is really awesome! Welcome to a rather small club - I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
So far I am loving the interactions and friendliness!!
A hearty welcome Lee! Well done, this is a great introduction! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much!! Was super nervous about it
Yeah, the think with Hive posts and even introductions is you never know how much you could earn from them but you will never earn nothing!
A percentage of your content is likely to get notice and sometimes, inexplicably, the less work content gets more notice than the hard work.
Mostly solid, consistent work will result in progress!
Let's see what happens, but you should not sit and watch the value initially. Right now you want to make followers and make your first 10HP. You first need to start gaining momentum.
Will starting more and more. It might be a wonderful outlet for my writing
That is a great idea!
Scholar and Scribe is a great place to go.
If I had the time, I would post into multiple communities to increase my spread!
Welcome to Hive Lee 😊👋🏻 Feel at home here…
Have a wonderful week!
Thank you littlebee:) lovely to meet you and thank you for the welcome
You are welcome 😊🤗
Have a great week further!
Any questions, let me or others know. Always happy to help.
Tha k you sooo much. The welcome has been amazing!
Beautiful introduction fellow Cape Tonian. Take care of yourself and goodluck with the relocation💛
Thank you so much, its a total nightmare
Great introduction. Welcome to Hive. I am looking forward to reading more of your posts!!
Thank you so much :) can't wait to get stuck in with everything and everyone :)
A huge welcome @thefoxygeeksa 🦄you're going to love it here! and well done on your introduction post! look at you go!
Thank you :)
Has been lovely to read about you! Welcome to Hive :)
I would love to see more of your art, it sounds so promising, you sound so creative :)
Also I wanna share that I was so happy when I found the term “neuro divergent” Inhave finally integrated it and I use it a lot, as you said, it embraces the differences, being inclusive and respectful.
Good to see you around and looking forward to read more :)
Thank you, it is so lovely to meet a fellow divergent.
Honestly I think I have loved it since the divergent series. It's about not fitting into boxes, and yet the differences being our strengths in a society that sees them as weaknesses :)
I will post some time about my artwork and show some of it. Lol a huge step on its own ;)
Look forward to chatting more.
Exactly, totally agree.
Yes looking forward to it all :)
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