I just found the email sent to me a while back. I clicked on it again and a screen came up on steemit.com saying, "You need to Logout before you can create another account.
Please note that Steemit can only register one account per verified user."
So I must have done that earlier, a few months ago. I honestly don't remember but I hope that verifies me and the email address. I signed up a few months ago and did not start posting until last week... I think I am good, what do you think?