Friday morning started out awesome enough.

No SteemPh meeting meaning I had the whole day freed up. I spoke to Mum today and had a good catch up and my Cosmic Messengers book is finally arriving any time now. Everything considered today looked like it was going to be a great day.

Since I only had wrapping up a parcel to send tomorrow on my to do list, I had time to burn and eventually landed on @creativecrypto's twitter page cos I heard the creator of Litecoin dropped by.

When I got there I found this.

And this.

Let me just say I am not a twitter person and although I generally dont click random links, the fact that it had the creative crypto logo and it was in the comments of a trusted source I thought it was ok.

NO. NOT OK!

Long story short. I'm the idiot who didn't read the usernames properly and got scammed out of 0.5 ETH.

And thank god it was only 0.5 ETH it could have been so much worse. Still though, to me, it was an expensive lesson on learning how to bloody read because that's what it basically was.

I didn't read who the link came from and had I just checked with the boys (@sndbox) I would have totally avoided being in this position.

SO!

This right here is what I meant the other day when I wrote about not being the type to tell people how to be a good person, but instead by sharing myself unfiltered you guys can learn from my mistakes.

And this one is a doozy. Please learn from my mistake and take the time to read and check out who the link is coming from. If you have people to ask, ASK them.

I'm not gonna lie, I shed a tear or two, stressed out about money for a bit (I've been saving for ages!) but I'm opting to take this like a man, suck that tear back up and just learn from it.

On the plus side, I was struggling to find something to write about today and thanks to this little experience I now have blogging material 😂

Not a totally crappy day.

My book finally arrived while typing this blog out. I pre-ordered it last Dec and this morning I received the delivery today notice. I bought it before the settlement was finalised, not knowing if we were going to be living here by the time the book was ready, but I had it sent here anyway.

You know, indicating to the Universe that I will not accept any other outcome and that we WILL be living here.

The postie was also very helpful. He saw the view and said it was amazing. He also told me that if they try to build on the empty block next door and they build high and block our view, we can go to the council and protest the build on account of our house/land value would go down if our view was blocked.

That was really handy information!

Blessed

Yes I got scammed today but is it weird that I still feel blessed?

Don't get me wrong, I still don't know how to break the news to Hubby, but overall I have great support here on Steemit.

Thanks for the pep talk @hansikhouse and those big cuddles @topkpop & @gohba.handcrafts

I'm sure I'll eventually earn my money back and in terms of being scammed, I've heard much worse stories where people lost thousands.

I also got my new book and received solid advice from the postie so Im pretty sure someone out there is helping me turn my day around.

Ok! Before I go absorb this book, please...

DON'T BE AN IDIOT LIKE ME AND GET SCAMMED. READ PEOPLE! READ! AND DOUBLE CHECK WITH YOUR PEEPS BEFORE SENDING MONEY OVER TO ANYTHING.

🌻 Arly

🍀 All pictures taken on my Samsung Note 8 🍀