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Weekly diary #108: Time to finally start vlogging on a weekly basis!

Posted on October 24, 2019January 24, 2023

Hi there! Welcome back into my weekly diary. In this weekly diary I try to show you what an eco-positive lifestyle looks like on a daily basis. How do I reduce my negative impact and increase my positive impact? The past week I had a vegan sushi lunch, have been sick for a day and had my first exam Sustainability and Environmental Change. Want to read along? Here’s weekly diary #108.

Thursday

Today I spend most of my time studying. Next weeks I have two exams. Afterwards I went to my grandma, it was her birthday. Spending time with family is always good. At night I had handball training, but in Enschede this time! Since I am in Enschede this week I asked if I could train with my old team for once. It was a lot of fun, playing handball always feels good, but with my old teammates it felt even better. We had a drink afterwards! Also, today the bloggers Nicky and Jessie from HetZeroWasteProject wrote a blogpost about the expansion of Loose! So kind! And amazing!

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Friday

Off to the gym! And after that, again long hours of studying. At lunchtime I met up with one of my best friends to go for sushi at Ginza in Enschede. They have a lot of vegan sushi options there and so I love to go there. We had a lovely time. Sushi is my favorite food of all times, I can eat it anytime. My favorite is the flamed avocado, hmmmm.

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Saturday

I woke up sick. I tried to go to work still but I was too sick. A wonderful colleague of mine took my hours and I went home where I slept all day.

Sunday

I felt a lot better today but since I had some work planned yesterday there were some things to do today. In the morning I made a new batch of zero waste deodorant and I finished a bottle of essential oil for the first time (I got it from my mom about four years ago and at the time I thought it was almost empty, these things last so long!) and so I do have some waste now, because I can’t find essential oils zero waste or plastic free. Good thing these bottles last forever! I caught up on my homework and finished the blogpost about The Game Changers which was planned for tomorrow. At night I had a delivery for Loose! Always good to bring some package free groceries to people! At night I watched Zondag met Lubach (a Dutch tv comedy) and also I watched an episode of the series Why We Hate on Discovery. The world and the people on it are divided today and this show tells us the science behind it. Very interesting! But concerning too.

Monday

Since I felt better I could go to the gym again, that feels good! I did some taxes afterwards and studied again for the upcoming exams. During my break I went into the city centre to pick up my video camera. It had broken a while ago (this is why I haven’t posted anything on Youtube the past weeks). I had brought it to MediaMarket (where I bought it years ago) to see what was wrong with it. They sent it to the technical team and they said it works perfectly fine and that I could pick it up again. I was so surprised and the guy that had sent it to the technical team for me was too. He saw it did not work. But now, when I picked it up it worked! I was very happy but once back home it didn’t work any longer. So frustrating! Same story with my watch. It didn’t work anymore and so I ordered a new battery. I put the battery in but it still didn’t work. I wanted it to be repaired since I don’t throw things away. Repairing is zero waste! Once in front of the store I checked my watch and all of a sudden it was working again. All this is so strange! At night I cooked a vegan dinner and my boyfriend came over.

Weekly diary #108

Tuesday

I woke up to help my stepdad with something. His car had to go to the garage and so I had to pick him up since the car stayed there. My watch is still very strange, sometimes it runs too fast and sometimes too slow. Ugggh! I don’t know what to do. I can try to get it repaired but I have to see if they can guarantee it will work again (not like with my camera). My boyfriend came up with the brilliant idea to start vlogging with my phone. I bought a very good one recently and I can just film with that he said. What a great idea! This way I don’t have to buy another secondhand camera since mine is broken. Very minimalistic! So, today on I will start vlogging again! Finally! I enjoy vlogging a lot. A package came in today too, low-waste mascara. A mascara that comes in a tin and they sent it in paper. I saw it on Etsy and wanted to try that so I ordered it. I hadn’t found entirely plastic-free low waste mascara up until now. Today I studied a lot home while I waited for the local thrift shop to come pick up my old bed. I recently got a better one (secondhand) and so this one can go to someone else. It took a while before they came and so afterwards I was in a rush to go to Haarlem again. I wanted to go to the handball training at 19:30 but it takes 3 hours to travel there. In the end it took me 4,5 hours because of delay and maintenance on the tracks. No handball for me.

Weekly diary #108
Weekly diary #108

 

Wednesday

Judgement day! Or well, exam day. I felt ready and so I went to school with confidence. I sometimes do have a hard time when other people are nervous, that makes me question my confidence again. Anyway, it went well! At least, I think so. After the exam I went back home to study for the second exam of tomorrow. I ended up studying a bit but I felt like I had done enough already. I had planned on finishing studying for both tests on Tuesday and so today I read over my notes briefly. Yes, I am ready for tomorrow I think! Today for the first time in a long time my e-mail inbox is empty as well and that feels so good! I use it as a sort of to-do list and this gives me more space in my head haha.

Weekly diary #108
Weekly diary #108
Weekly diary #108

How has your week been?

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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Een greep uit de vegan maaltijden die ik at in mei 2023 🧆. Als ik zo terugkijk heb ik de italiaanse weer helemaal ontdekt, haha! Maar het hoogtepunt was wel echt de vegan, zero waste, kaassaus die ik maakte voor over de nachoschotel 🫘. Welke vegan ijs-, toetjes- of yoghurtproducten zijn het lekkerst? Ik zette het voor je op een rijtje in een artikel die vanaf vandaag te lezen is 🍧. Je vindt de link in mijn bio. Spoiler: deze van Hertog staat er zeker tussen! #plantaardig #vegan #blogger ✨ 4 tweedehands outfits die ik droeg in mei 2023 👗. Ik had op iets beter weer en iets koudere outfits gehoopt, maar goed, dat schuiven we dan maar naar juni! Ik ben poepdonor 💩. Ja, écht. Ik doe mee met een wetenschappelijk onderzoek waarbij mijn darmflora gebruikt wordt om mensen met een leveraandoening te genezen. Ik ben zo blij met de positieve impact die ik hiermee kan maken! En ik krijg er nog betaald voor ook. Meer weten? Lees het artikel dat ik erover schreef via de link in mijn bio. Binnenkort zal ik er ook een Youtube-video aan wijden. #donor #positieveimpact #nafldnashresearch Minimaliseren en ontspullen blijft een ongoing process 📦. Ik vind dat ik niet al te veel spullen heb, maar toch geef ik nog geregeld spullen weg aan de kringloopwinkel. In deze reel laat ik de laatste 5 items aan je zien. Plantaardiger eten hoeft niet moeilijk te zijn, je moet net even weten welke producten vegan zijn. Vandaag deel ik een makkelijke swap voor mayonaise 🍟. Het is weer mei! En dat betekent dat er weer een artikel met podcast-tips op mijn blog staat (de vijfde in de reeks inmiddels!). Vandaag lees je over 4 podcasts die ik aan bijna iedereen zou aanraden 🎧. 5 vegan maaltijden die ik at in april 2023 🥙. En ja, écht alles is vegan. Want elk gerecht is te veganizen. Vandaag verscheen er weer een kijktip op mijn blog. Ik tipte de serie Dominee of Koopman, een serie over ontwikkelingshulp. Wat ik ervan vond lees je in het artikel 💰. #blog #serie #ontwikkelingshulp

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