Peace @krnel

My name is Omi and I'm new here. Although my account is a year old, I've only been active on Steemit about a month. My first month here was both awesome and discouraging. I won 2 Curie awards and their Author Spotlight, as well as, a few other honorable recognitions. On the downside, I struggle with participating at my would-be pace, because I run out of votes. I like to upvote the posts I leave comments on and reward my readers. Early on a few weeks back, I ran out of bandwidth and couldn't even login. I invested $100 into my account when the price of Steem was almost $4. At the internal market value during the dip, I bottomed out. Some friends bailed me out by delegating to me and I won a contest that will soon expire, then I'm back to about 60SP. I just want to keep Steeming.

I'm a former musician who gave up the road and my job after having 2 kids diagnosed with Autism. I'm trying to learn to blog. Steemit is helping me improve my writing skills through immersion. I write about my life, my thoughts, I have contests for minnows, and take photos of my neighborhood. I'm sure what I do is not as admirable or impressive as others here— many of whom would probably use your delegation better. I feel I should get the delegation so I can Power Up to a more secure level, grow my presence on Steemit, and broaden my activities here.

The first thing I would do if I received a delegation is delegate some of my own SP to @steemitkids. Steemitkids is a second account I started to curate Kid Friendly content for my children to interact with via an RSS feed to Wordpress. I've been teaching them about crypto, although Steemit has a 13+ requirement. My kids are 6 and 8. We're waiting for SMTs so we can possibly set up a kids coin. At present, the Stemmitkids account has 3SP and 5 delegated from my account. I would add another 30 at least so I can set up the page to follow some curation trails and have a header, post some initatives and goals, so its not a dead page. I also have a second project @wordsteem which I hope to grow in the Summer to experiment with various applications of integrating Steem with Wordpress. There's already plugins for it, but not many people using the merged technologies in practical ways. One such way I plan to use it is with Steemitkids. But I'm also hoping to design a few themes and easy-installs for artists, magazines, ecommerce, etc. This would show people the capabilities of using Steem/SMT integrated sites of their own, on their own domains. I would try to get the Wordsteem page set up so it's not dead looking, and so it has a proper proposal on the blog.

At present I don't do much upvote-curating at my level, but I tweet posts at MAYBORNSTAR on Twitter, and roundup some of my favorites in my own blogs. Most of my votes go to engaging my readers, steem posts, and following a dozen or so authors I really like. It would be really exciting to be able to experience what it's like to vote when I want, not worried about running out of votes.

I would love to explore and curate more street photography, psychology, recipes, maybe even spirituality- which I have a broad taste for from soapbox rants, to case studies, athiesm, religion, to occult topics. I'd really like to give some hope to unseen talent in wide range of categories. Sometimes just a few good upvotes can make a big difference in someone's motivation. For me it has.

Here is one of my own blog rants: Why Everyone On Steemit Would Benefit From Watching Divergent, The Movie

Now I'll be straightforward with you. I'm not a Saint like others here. I self-upvote. I have sold votes before. And I've used bid-bots. I'm probably the least valuable player here. I will say as well, I feel I have no choice but to. I dread a dip in Steem would lock me out of my account. I feel until I've rooted a stronger vest of my own, I just have to do what I have to do. I'm not funding my account anymore from the outside. I have 2 kids at home and have already lost so I'm just seeing how far I can go with what I've done for the rest of the year. I think by then I should be stable enough to invest more. In the meantime, I'm a goldfish in a sharktank.

I was referred here by @simplymike who I also nominate. I think what has been said for her already and what she's spoken of herself pretty much cover why. She's awesome.

Thanks for the opportunity to appeal for a delegation.

Peace and Blessings.

Omi