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Eco-positive weekly diary #139: piercing my ear!

Posted on October 15, 2020January 24, 2023

Hi there! Welcome back into my personal weekly diary. In these weekly diaries I try to show you what an eco-positive lifestyle looks like on a daily basis and what choices and habits I’ve created to make this lifestyle standard. The past week I bought 3 new secondhand items, decided to quit buying flowers for other people and came up with a sustainable investing strategy! Want to read along? Here’s eco-positive weekly diary #139.

Thursday

After some contact with my new employer, I finally found out how to do the online training I am supposed to do. And so today, I did only that all day. It feels good to have it done! I also wore the new secondhand sweater I bought yesterday and it is very comfy. Very warm and it doesn’t itch. A good purchase!

Friday

Starting off today, I did some groceries at Ekoplaza (a store that only sells organic food). I am going to my grandma today for her birthday. I normally buy flowers, but I decided to quit doing that. It’s not a gift I support. Growing flowers is not a sustainable proces and it is basically a single-use item, you throw them away after one week. I think it’s unnecessary and so I decided to buy something else. Some organic snacks! I bought chocolate, chips, lemonade and tea! A little package and I think she liked it very much!


Saturday

Big day today! Yesterday, I made an appointment at a piercing shop and today I going there to get them! Two helix piercings, in one ear. I’ve been wanting for a long time, because I was doubting sustainability-wise. In the end, I just did it, because I’ll figure it out. Right now, I got titanium steels. You can’t choose anything else when you first get piercings. But after 6 months, you’re allowed to choose something else. I will search for secondhand piercings or recycled gold. It was scary, I didn’t know what to expect. But the piercing itself didn’t hurt that much. Afterwards was worse, the entire day. And I had to sleep on one ear haha! All in all, it’s not that much of a big deal. I now clean it with special soap and disinfection spray. Not zero waste, but very necessary! It happy I finally have them even though it might not be the most sustainable thing to do. You shouldn’t compromise your happiness because of sustainability.

eco-positive weekly diary #139

Sunday

In the afternoon, I went to a friend in Enschede. I hadn’t seen her in a while, since I now live in Groningen. It was good to see her again and we played some Rummikub (a board game). I also watched some more Netflix, I am currently watching The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez and it so intense. Also, I made vegan tuna salad again for dinner. I love that salad!

eco-positive weekly diary #139

Monday

What a chaotic day! Something with work and it was unclear at first. As it turns out, I am still on the waiting list for the training I have to follow for work. That means I am still free this entire week. That made me decide to go back to Groningen again, because I can do much more there, all my stuff is in my own home. So after dinner, I went back by train to Groningen. I feel like traveling since I moved to Groningen is going good so far. I almost always travel by train and not that much anymore. The photo you see below is a magnificent tip from me, apple with peanut butter! Such a lovely snack, you should try it out some time!

eco-positive weekly diary #139

Tuesday

Back in Groningen and I started with the good habits again right a way! I made myself a good green smoothie for breakfast and lended some new books. My boyfriend and I went into the city center as well to get some food, a tiny celebration because of my new job (tiny, because it’s not really a time to celebrate). I had an amazing vegan donut, muffin and falafel! I also picked up a Vinted package again, I had ordered secondhand fancy heels. They look amazing and I couldn’t be happier with them. Now I hope I can walk on them for an entire day (most heals aren’t so comfy).

eco-positive weekly diary #139
eco-positive weekly diary #139

Wednesday

Today was all about finances. I had already made a budget a while back, but now that I precisely know what my paycheck is I wanted to do it again. It was mostly to see how much money I would have left for saving, investing and donating. That’s the most fun part of budgeting if you’d ask me. I finally listed the 10 charities I wanted to donate to and scheduled the yearly payments. My investing strategy is all done and automated too! I am quite happy with the result, during the work I even forgot to have breakfast. I’ll share about the charities and investing on here soon! At 2 PM I finally did have breakfast, with some ice-cream, I blended some frozen bananas and strawberries with water, hmmmm.

eco-positive weekly diary #139

Favorite song of this week:

Miley Cyrus – Midnight Sky

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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Ik ga dit jaar weer de challenge aan om de winter door te komen zonder de warming aan te zetten. Hiervoor ging mijn essential, een warmwaterkruik 💦, kapot. In deze reel laat ik je zien hoe ik een ‘nieuwe’ tweedehands kruik kocht. Vandaag te lezen op whenateengoesgreen.com: een inspirerende documentary over Greta Thunberg: I am Greta. Een documentaire over hoop, maar vooral over doorzettingsvermogen 🔥. Lees het nu via de link in mijn bio. Meer vegan producten in de schappen, yay! Gisteren probeerde ik voor het eerst de vegan lentil tikki masala saus van Patak’s 🧑🏼‍🍳. Zie in deze reel wat ik ervan vond. Vandaag verscheen er een nieuw artikel op mijn blog over: 5 dingen die ik niet koop. Want we denken vaak dat we dingen écht nodig hebben, maar vaak is dat niet zo 🧠. Check het artikel via de link in miijn bio. Vorige week verscheen er een artikel op mijn blog over alles wat ik nieuw kocht in 2022. Dat is een groot deel van mijn negatieve impact. Deze week was het tijd om te kijken naar de andere kant van de medaille. Vandaag lees je op mijn blog een artikel over al mijn positive impact in 2022 🌞. Je vind de link naar het artikel in de link in mijn bio. Afgelopen week verscheen er op mijn blog een artikel over alles wat ik nieuw heb gekocht in 2022. Eén ding op de lijst waren deze onderbroeken (een stuk of 20). En nu denk je misschien: waarom zou je in één keer zoveel onderbroeken kopen? Op 31 december, nog net op de valreep in 2022, kwam er een video online op mijn Youtube-kanaal over voedselcoöperaties. Ik denk namelijk dat voedselcoöperaties ons voedselsysteem democratischer en eerlijker kunnen maken 🥦. Elk jaar stel ik mezelf als doel om geen nieuwe spullen te kopen. Er is weer een jaar voorbij, dus het was tijd om te evalueren. Is het me gelukt om in 2022 geen nieuwe spullen te kopen? 🛒 Je leest het vandaag op m’n blog. Ook tijdens het gourmetten kan je heel makkelijk vegan eten 🌱. Zie hier wat ik at als vegan op de tweede kerstdag 🎄. Gourmetten is een topoplossing als je niet uren in de keuken wilt staan. Lekkere snacks kopen, even snijden en alles neerzetten en bakken maar!

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