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Weekly diary #95: starting a Youtube channel

Posted on June 20, 2019July 6, 2023

Hi, welcome back into my weekly diary! In this diary I try to show you what my eco-positive lifestyle looks like on a daily basis. I try to harm the planet and the living beings on it as little as possible and meanwhile try to make positive impact! The past week I celebrated my boyfriends’ birthday, went out to dinner twice on one day and handed in my thesis! Want to read along? Here’s weekly diary #95.

Thursday

Today is my boyfriend’s birthday! Exciting, but we can’t celebrate it together because he had to work. I slept till late and worked on my thesis. Also, I had one delivery for Loose, my package free webshop, today, which I delivered. Afterwards, I had handball training. We as a team decided very randomly to go out tonight together, so I did celebrate today a little bit. It was a fun night! It was not zero waste, because one of teammates took care of the snacks, since we sat at her house first before we went out. But that is fine, I should not control everything.

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Friday

I woke up quite late, because I gone to bed at 3:30. I got ready and hopped in the train to go to my boyfriend in Harderwijk. Today we are celebrating his birthday with a barbecue, we are making pizza’s with friends and family. My boyfriend got an experiences from me, which I think are more valuable than gifts. This is also more sustainable, because we buy nothing new. He got a cooking workshop from me, because he loves to cook. The barbecue was great and I tried to make vegan ‘cheese’ with nutritional yeast flakes and vegan mayonaise. It was tasty! So, there’s no need for me to buy vegan cheese packaged in plastic any longer. This way it is way more efficient, because the package from the nutritional yeast flakes last me a lot longer. It was a fun night, but I had to back home at around 11 pm, since I had to work the next morning.

Saturday

I worked till 12 am at my part-time job. Afterwards I went to the city centre to get some groceries for dinner. I just got some plain potatoes. They’re local, seasonal, organic and zero waste! The perfect dinner. I also picked up some seaweed salad, I have a serious addiction for that stuff. Also, I picked up some secondhand shoes I bought atย United Wardrobe. I buy secondhand clothes because it is a sustainable way to buy clothing. Also, I am planning on buying a bikini on there. But, just because I didn’t know if the model would fit me, I decided to go and try on a ‘regular’ bikini at a fast fashion store. I went to H&M. It felt quite terrible, seeing all these people buy stuff there. They are destroying the planet and making people work so hard for so little money. I hate it. I am glad I don’t contribute to that any longer. The bikini fit me fine and I hung it back in the rack. I won’t buy anything there, never again I hope.

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Sunday

Today is father’s day! I sort of have two father, a biological father and a stepfather. Me and my biological father went to Bagels and Beans for a lunch since he didn’t need anything as a gift. I thought therefore an experience would be great. I just love Bagels and Beans, they have so many vegan options! Someone I know works there and she knows I eat vegan so she asked if I wanted to see the vegan menu. I didn’t even know they had that! The person beside me heard it and recommended the vegan grilled ‘cheese’ bagel with extra avocado to me. I chose it and it was seriously delicious! We also went to grandpa and grandma that day. I saw there that the Alpro ice cream was in commercial so I got those. I tasted the salted caramel flavour and I loved it. This is a keeper. For my stepfather I did buy some gifts, since he knew what he needed. Also, we went out to dinner with the family at a wok-restaurant. It was lovely and at those places always have a lot of vegetables, which is great!

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Monday

Today is the day! I am handing in my thesis. I have worked on this thesis for 5 months, but it’s the end product of my 4 year education at the University of Applied Sciences. This feels weird and so exciting at the same time! I had an appointment with the client I wrote the thesis for. I thanked him, because I am so grateful for the opportunity I got. He thanked me too, for my thesis. He even wrote a letter! So kind. I got some bitterballen (the snack they make at the company), beer and a book as a thank you from the company! The whole process was an experience I’ll never forget. I went home and cooked some dinner, since my boyfriend was coming over. We were celebrating my holiday and thesis! I will hear if I passed in the next 3 weeks. We went to a documentary together, called the Biggest Little Farm, I won tickets for it a while back. It was an amazing film, I will write more about it soon. We had a drink to celebrate some more and that was it, my holiday begins!

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Weekly diary #95
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Weekly diary #95

Tuesday

First day of the holiday, this is weird! I had already planned on what I wanted to do really bad: making Youtube video’s. And so I did! Today I filmed a sort of introduction video for it. It is so exciting and scary to start something new. I am really putting myself out there. You can find the video here. I hope you like it, it is in Dutch though. I have wanted to start vlogging for so long and now it’s happening. Let’s do this!

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Wednesday

Today was a really busy day. I started the day at the gym, to attend yoga class. Then I did some chores in the house and went to work. Afterwards, I worked till 5 pm and then went to the library, to get a new book. Since my holiday started I now have a ton of time to read books haha! I still can’t believe my holiday has started. I also started vlogging today and am planning to publish that video tomorrow!

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!

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Dit zijn vegan aanraders in Warschau, Polen ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ. De nummer 1 in dit lijstje is voor mij wel Veganda, en dan vooral het voorgerecht: die boontjes ๐Ÿ˜. Maar dit is echt nog lang niet alles. Warschau heeft me enorm verrast qua vegan opties, echt fantastisch! Hoi! Op dit account deel ik tips om duurzaam/eco-positief te leven. Maar! Het is ook gewoon mijn persoonlijke account waar ik dingen deel over mezelf. En dus leek het me tof om een kleine introductie te schrijven over mij ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ. So, here it goes; Okรฉ, ik weet niet waarom ik dacht dat deze overgangen mooi zouden worden ๐Ÿ˜‚. Ik post het toch maar, want ik vond het te grappig en tja, alle outfits zijn wel echt 100% tweedehands.. De afgelopen jaren heb ik geleerd hoe ik met weinig tot geen olie lekkere gerechten op tafel kan zetten (helemaal plantaardig uiteraard) ๐ŸŒฏ. Weten hoe en waarom ik dat doe? Ik schreef er een artikel over die je nu kan vinden via de link in mijn bio. Dit is al het vegan eten wat ik at in Bratislava, Slowakije ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ. De stad heeft me verbaasd, want er zijn echt veel vegan restaurants. Moet je er 1 kiezen? Ga dan voor Balans Bistro, die is echt het beste. Vandaag maakte in voor het eerst sinds in veganistisch leef (6 jaar) weer eens quiche! Want ik kon nooit echt een simpel receptje vinden voor vegan quiche en dat schrok me af. Tot vandaag, want ik vond een recept van de Albert Heijn, met vegan kookroom en vegan ei van Plant B die ze sinds dit jaar verkopen. Op deze manier is het echt een makkie en quiche is dan ook zeker toegevoegd aan mijn kookportfolio! Ik ga dit vaker maken, en ook verschillende varianten. Het is zรณ makkelijk, maar wel heel lekker. Vandaag zat er eigenlijk alleen broccoli in, maar ik ben benieuwd naar wat nog meer mogelijk is. Vegan spekjes lijken me er bijvoorbeeld heerlijk in! ๐Ÿฅ“ Als je gaat wandelen/hiken, kan je heel makkelijk positieve impact maken! Neem een klein zakje of tasje mee en raap al het afval wat je tegen komt op: easy peasy ๐Ÿšฎ. Vandaag verscheen het laatste artikel op mijn blog over onze interrail avonturen. Je leest over hoe we met de trein van Kopenhagen terug naar Amsterdam reisden met de trein ๐Ÿšƒ. De foto past er niet echt bij haha, hier ben ik namelijk aan het genieten van een vegan milkshake (met herbruikbaar rietje!) in Warschau, maar ach. Ik ben van mening dat je niet ver hoeft te reizen om mooie dingen te zien. Europa is prachtig! Dit is Boheems Zwitserland in Tsjechiรซ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ.

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