Ok first and foremost Welcome to the community...let the madness begin.
I was messaged by @alexiapbullard who told me you joined Steemit.

I checked out your introduction post and you nailed it except in one area...the tags.

You might want to re-write your introductory post for this lone reason...

Yor first tag is the most important and can never be misspelled.. so if you had put (introduceyourself as your very 1st tag) I gaurantee you would have recieved many more upvotes and $$$ it's never to late to do another one becuase you just started... I screwed up on my introductory post so just passing along some experience...

Hope to see more of your posts.

Here's some links that may help... https://www.steemithelp.net/

https://steemit.com/steemit/@igsamuel/how-to-succeed-on-steemit-quick-guide-for-beginners

Oh Btw I used to live in Seattle (Snohomish) just moved to Cancun in March :-)