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Eco-positive weekly diary #134: Buying something at IKEA?

Posted on September 10, 2020January 24, 2023

Hi there! Welcome back into my personal weekly diary. In these weekly posts I try to show you what an eco-positive lifestyle looks like on a daily basis. An eco-positive lifestyle sits in the little things, the tiny choices on a daily basis. The past week I bought secondhand shoes, quit handball and went to the hospital for another laser appointment. Want to read along? Here’s eco-positive weekly diary #134.

Thursday

Another guest came by, my dad! He came to take a look at our new apartment and spend the day with me and my boyfriend. Unfortunately, it rained all day, literally all day. We went for a little walk (as planned), but it just didn’t work out. In the end, we did manage to go to the city centre to eat a (vegan) donut and go to Het Forum (a very high building from which you can see the whole city). We went pooling and afterwards went home for dinner. After dinner I quickly went to Albert Heijn to pick up an order from Too Good To Go, we had rescued some food again. Finally, my dad and I went back to Enschede since I was spending the weekend there.

Friday

I went back to Enschede because I had a laser appointment today at the hospital. This was the second time I was going to laser my bikini area and the sixth time for my armpits. It’s painful and expensive, but for me it’s worth it. For dinner we had vegan pancakes, I had been craving them for days!

Saturday

I went to the city center of Enschede to try on some shoes I had seen secondhand online. That’s a tip for you too. Doubting if you really like the secondhand shoes or worry about the size? Try them in a store and then just don’t buy them. The shoes I wanted fitted perfectly and so I ordered them secondhand online. I also tried the vegan nuggets from Lidl today, my mom had bought them. They were quite good actually!

Sunday

A few weeks ago I quit handball in Enschede, since I was moving. I did however still make a promise to participate in a tournament for the last time. In the end, I wasn’t able to play because of some bureaucratic reasons, but I did sat at the side as an official. I was still glad to help! I am not sure yet if I’ll pick up handball again in Groningen, since I have other plans too and I first need to get a job.

Monday

I went back to Groningen, by train this time. It is about 3 hours from door to door. I did some necessary chores at home and for dinner I made a recipe from Gaz from his book Plants Only Kitchen. I afterwards wanted to see a live-cast about racism, but the internet wasn’t good enough yet (since we still use the internet from our neighbor). From next week on I can watch tv again!

eco-positive weekly diary #134

Tuesday

I was up a lot this night because I all of a sudden got really sick from dinner I had cooked yesterday. It was a strange thing, I have never experienced such a thing. I just thought automatically about eggplants all the time (which was included in the recipe) and then I got nauseous. Strange as hell. I still have it now. I can’t even think about eggplants anymore, it makes me sick. Same goes with lentils, which was also in the recipe. I hope that’ll go away soon again. I made a lovely salad for lunch today when I felt a little better. Very nutritious! I try to focus more on feeding my body with good ingredients lately. The more fruits and veggies, the better! We also went to IKEA today again. We bought 4 items! Crazy, right? I intend to not buy there but the things we needed were things I couldn’t find secondhand and I also need to negotiate with my boyfriend haha, he doesn’t always want the sustainable-expensive type of product. Anyway, we bought a curtain for our bedroom and something to hang up our (secondhand!) poster. For dinner we had some lovely wraps!

eco-positive weekly diary #134
eco-positive weekly diary #134
eco-positive weekly diary #134

Wednesday

Up until dinner, today was a chores day. I also went to gym again (I also did last night and I really liked it again, I don’t know why haha). I did some laundry, cleaned some things, had an appointment with the caretaker, worked on my Youtube-video’s and more. For dinner, we went to Happy Italy again after 1000 years because they now have introduced a new vegan menu. It was quite tasty! Afterwards, we went to the cinema to see Tenet. That was a real mindfuck, but fun! I would compare it to inception.

eco-positive weekly diary #134
eco-positive weekly diary #134
eco-positive weekly diary #134

Favorite song of the week: Tabitha – Het spijt me niet

Yours sincerely,
Romee

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Hi! My name is Romee Hoeksma and I am on a journey to an eco-positive life. An eco-positive lifestyle is a lifestyle in which I have a more positive than negative impact on the beautiful planet earth. On this blog you can follow my journey to a life with only positive impact. At this blog you can find all sorts of things, from tips to recipes to personal experiences, but most of all fun (I hope!). I write about how I want to change the world, but don’t look at it as if I’m judging you. If anything, I like responses from my dear readers the most, so don’t hesitate to contact me or respond to any of my posts!

Yours sincerely,
Romee

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Eén van mijn favoriete vegan snacks, bij de Lidl tijdens de Griekse week 🇬🇷. Op dit moment is plantaardig eten nog niet de norm in Nederland, helaas. Daarom hebben veel mensen dan ook geen idee wat veganisten eten. Om die reden heb ik de afgelopen week weer eens een eetdagboek bijgehouden, want wat eet ik nou als veganist gedurende de week? Je leest het nu in mijn vegan food diary via de link in mijn bio 🥭. #plantaardig #veganfood #dagboek Verpakkingsvrij wasmiddel kopen, dat hoeft niet moeilijk te zijn! In deze reel laat ik je zien hoe ik dat doe 🧺. Volg mijn account voor meer duurzame tips. Elke maand doneer ik ongeveer 7% van mijn inkomen aan goede doelen, omdat ik dat zie als enorm belangrijk en het juiste ding om te doen 💸. Maar daarmee komt de vraag op: geloof ik dat goede doelen het antwoord zijn op alle grote problemen van onze tijd? Oftewel: is geld doneren de oplossing? Over die vraag én het antwoord schreef ik een uitgebreid artikel die vandaag online staat, de link vind je in mijn bio. #goeddoel #doneren #blog Vegan pizza tonno, hmmmm. Dacht je dat vegans geen tonijnpizza kunnen eten? Think again! 🐟 Een hele tijd geleden schreef ik een artikel over e-mail activisme: een vorm van activisme die je thuis op de bank kan doen. Vandaag deel ik graag een geslaagd voorbeeld daarvan met jullie ✨. Vandaag staat er een documentaire-tip op mijn blog. Disclosure, een documentaire over de representatie van transgender personen in de media 📽. Echt een must-see, want wat wij hebben als cis-gender personen nog een hoop te leren. Lees meer over de documentaire via de link in mijn bio. #disclosure #documentaire #transgender Vandaag deel 2 van de vegan hotspots in Londen 🧆. Wat heb ik lekker gegeten daar, niet te doen! Bubala was mijn absolute favoriet, dus als je iets moet kiezen, kies Bubala. Vorige week verscheen er een artikel over treinreizen naar Londen op mijn blog. Aanvullend daarop verscheen er vandaag een artikel over een ander aspect van duurzaam reizen: het eten. Lees nu het artikel met mijn favoriete veganistische restaurants in Londen nu via de link in mijn bio 🌮. #veganfood #veganlondon #veganrestaurants

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