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Today I woke up at 2 PM; better than 3 PM, right? It’s hot as HELL outside so I didn’t do much else than hang around in my bedroom -not that that’s any different from what I usually do but y’know, this time it’s hot.

I woke up without having any appetite, which is weird as I hadn’t eaten anything in like 17 hours. So I didn’t go downstairs for breakfast nor lunch and just stayed in my room, in front of my computer, watching Stranger Things. Which I’ve got to say has gotten A LOT better in the second season.

For dinner I ate a fried egg-and-mozzarella sandwhich, which tasted quite descent.

But continuing on Stranger Things; I woke up at 2 PM and haven’t done anything else until now next to watching Stranger Things season 2. It’s 9 AM and I still haven’t slept, I watched the whole of season 2 in one go. 9 Episodes, ranging from around 45 to 60 minutes each. Season 2 was pretty great, I got to see more of Jim Hopper’s badassery and more of the Upside Down, but one thing I can’t stand is Steve’s luck; the poor guy left his group of friends for this one girl and then she all of a sudden just bails on their relationship; Then when Steve tries to make up for it -which he shouldn’t even have to do- by suprising her at her house with a rose bokeh, she isn’t even there cause she screwing some other dude, Jonathan; which is also a really great guy. I just think that Nancy’s kind off a b***tch. But it’s like 9 AM so don’t take any of this too seriously, I’m tired and might have missed some parts of the show essential to understanding Nancy’s behaviour. I just feel bad for Steve alright.

Also, El and Mike are hella cute together. When Eleven suddenly showed up at the school Snowball to suprise Mike; that was the cutest shit ever. Haha and that joke about the pull-out really cracked me up good.

I feel bad about Bob dying, that part really sucked cause he did seem to be a genuinely nice guy.

It’s clear as day outside and it’s time to go to bed.

I’ve been a vegetarian for over a week now and to be frank, I kinda like it; I don’t feel guilty for things like eating meat or having such a great impact on the greenhouse effect. I know it’s stupid to say that because animals keep getting slaughtered each day and a single indivual isn’t going to make a difference to that nor to the tremendous carbon emissions that gets released into the environment each day. But still, it makes me feel like I’m not adding such a ”heavy” weight to the environment(or animals, etc.)’s back.

It’s a moral dilemma, eating meat; We love animals, yet we do constantly practice mass-genocide on a group of them for our own consumption. But is it wrong? I couldn’t tell you. We are biologically hardwired to eat meat, it’s part of our survival. But have we digressed so far from this state of having to survive as a species that we should proceed as —okay wait it’s like 7 AM and I still haven’t slept, I’m not in the mood to get all philosophical and stuff.

Okay so quick summary of the day: Woke up at 3 PM, don’t judge me; ate nothing, lol how wasn’t I hungry; watched Stranger Things the rest of the day, isn’t that bad of a show after all, in fact I kinda like it and I’ve got to say that it does deserve some part of its staggering popularity eventhough I still think it’s a bit overrated, but I just finished season 1 so what do I have to say, right? We had dinner at around 8 PM and that’s it, first and only meal of the day; it was tomato-rice(holy sh*t that sounds stupid) with french fries and a mixture of scrambled eggs, mushrooms and cabbage, I believe. It was pretty tasty. Hats off to my dad.

So that’s it, I should probably go to sleep now but I still have like 40 minutes left on this Stranger Things episode so, priorities.

Today I woke up at around 2 PM, somehow already tired; I should really try to fix my sleeping patterns. I had nothing planned for today so I just sat behind my computer most of the day. I’d heard in the past that people were getting super syked about a netflix-show called Stranger Things -which was recommended to me multiple times but since its popularity and me not liking mainstream things I just figured not to bother watching it. Later I was looking around on polaroidoriginals’ website and I found a limited edition polaroid camera themed after the show, it seemed like something I’d love to have if I actually was a genuine fan of the show. After this I decided to take a look, because why not? Maybe I’d fall in love with it and afterwards purchase the camera.

So I began watching it and after one or two episodes I concluded that it’s an okay show. Don’t know if it lives up to the hype though; but I still have many episodes to go, so my opinion might change in the future.

It’s pretty stupid that the only reason I began watching the show is because I saw a cool camera themed after it.

In the evening I got called up by my friend to hang out with him and a mutual friend of ours, we watched a couple of movies together and did some other fun things.

To be honest I have no idea what I ate for breakfast today. My dinner was some leftovers from the night before; Nothing special, still vegetarian though : ).

Today my crappy saturday was started by the excruciating sound of my alarm going off at 9 AM; with only having slept 6 hours I headed off to work after having devoured some crackers with cheese which, to my suprise, actually tasted pretty decent.

I had a torturous seven-hour shift at work.

I returned from work all happy because I had the rest of the day to myself. After work I ate some lunch and headed up to my room. 5 hours later I awoke from a nap I didn’t knew I was having; I’d accidentally fallen asleep and my whole ”free” rest of the day was spent on a nap which wasn’t even that good to begin with. I woke up at around 9 PM and of course that meant that I wasn’t going to be able to sleep until at least around 4 AM, screwing up my sleep schedule even more. Shortly said: GoSh ThE DaY WaS So MuCH FuN!!1!

Sidenote: Although being a vegetarian seems to go quite smoothly I am aware that there are a lot of slippery slopes which can lead me into ingesting something which has a trace of something originating from a dead animal in it. I heard somewhere that gelatin wasn’t vegetarian since it’s somehow derived from the collagen inside animals’ skin and bones.

All these things that seem to be totally vegetarian-friendly turning out to be the opposite makes me paranoid about me accidentally ingesting something which is laced with a byproduct of the meat industry; which wouldn’t necessarily hurt our main goal of reducing the meat industry’s carbon emissions since very much of these byproducts require very little of the animal itself to produce. But still, as someone who is also participating in this challenge as a result of his compassion for animals, it still kinda sucks.

Today seemed to be a relatively short day so I don’t have much news to add to my blog.

I woke up at around 3 PM because of my abhorrent sleep schedule, I’m not proud of it. Before I went to sleep the day before -or actually the same day- I’d saved a link to a youtube video which showcased how to make a Korean type breakfast. It seemed tasty and since that I don’t have many other things happening in my boring life I thought: ”Heck, why not try it?”. So that’s what I did; After I’d woken up -eventhough breakfast and lunchtime being LONG overdue- I was driven into making myself a ”Korean style breakfast”. It was 2 fried eggs with salt and pepper on top of a bowl of rice with a tiny amount of butter added followed by 2 tablespoons of soy sauce. It tasted alright, it wasn’t bad; I might add the recipe to the blog sometime if I’m ever out of ideas.

Following my ”breakfast” I spent an hour doing -god knows what and after that I headed off to work. Work was boring as usual but I did get a little bit internally annoyed when like 8 Poles showed up out of nowhere at closing time; we were all inattentive towards the entrance so we didn’t notice them going into the store and after we’d locked the doors we discovered like a dozen people still being inside, lol. We closed around 25 minutes later which is pretty unusual for the place I work at.

After work I was as tired as one could be and after previously having declined an offer to hang out with 2 of my friends I got called up by them and lacking the social nerve to say ”no” I went out with them regardlessly; it turned out to be a fun time. 3 hours later I returned back home and did a little discording with Luca before heading off to bed.

For dinner I had an outstandingly good meal consisting of, penne, cheese, spinach and mushrooms.

Today I was woken up by my alarm clock at 1 PM, I know that that’s super late and that you’re wondering why someone would ever set an alarm for 1 PM to wake up, but I had only gone to bed at 4 AM and I’d made plans to workout with Luca -and y’know, actually show up this time.

I started the day with a milkshake my dad made for me, sweet guy. I didn’t make it myself so honestly I have no clue what he could’ve possibly put in it but I remember it tasting like blueberries so there’s that. Before heading to the gym I wanted to make myself a protein shake but I found myself being too lazy to put the prescribed measurement of the powder in the shaker cup and adding a precise amount of milk so I just ended up jamming a spoon or two of the substance into a glass and filling it with milk while stirring. Took it down in one gulp :D.

I headed over to the gym where I met Luca and a mutual friend of ours. We worked out for around 70 minutes mainly focussing on the biceps and triceps and then I went off to go prepare myself for my lousy part-time job. If you’re wondering which workout plan I’m following; It’s Brad Pitt’s workout which he used to get in shape to play Tyler Durden in Fight club (which may be my favourite film of all time), because come on, who doesn’t want to look like Brad Pitt.

After the 3 hours of hell I spent at my job I headed home to eat some of the same spaghetti I’ve mentioned like 8 times already. It still tasted great but I can’t keep eating the same thing over and over again because I’m gradually getting sick of it. I’m beginning to wonder if my dad even knows any other vegetarian recipes.

Later I went up to my room to play some Counter Strike with Mika and after that I began updating my blog, and now we’re here.

Who actually reads this lol

So today I woke up at around 10 AM. My friend spent the night at my house and since I had a doctor’s appointment at 11 I decided to wake him in none other way than blasting PEPE’s Shadilay through a bluetooth speaker I’d placed in his room. After he left I made myself some lunch; I wasn’t in the mood to make anything big so I just ended up smearing two pieces of bread with butter and adding some cheese on top. Still tasted alright in the end.

Nothing much happened the rest of the day next to some very frustrating internet malfunctions hindering me from using my computer and phone.

For dinner we went out to eat at a Vietnamese street food restaurant; I believe it was tripadvisor certified or something. The staff was decent but they weren’t very fluent in English nor could they speak the Dutch language so communication was kind off problematic. Not trying to be the annoying vegetarian type I still asked them around 4 times what their meat replacers were, they pointed at some kind of special section in the menu which I believed at the time to be their vegetarian alternatives. Unsure what to pick I chose their barbecue shrimp with rice and vegetables. The food tasted great and it was really cheap but something was definitely off about their ”vegetarian” shrimp; it tasted WAY too real, even the texture seemed to perfectly match the one of regular shrimp. I’d maken it clear several times that I wanted a meat-substitute and either they thought I meant fish, they didn’t have a clue at all of what I was implying or they just straight up didn’t care but they still handed me this bowl with extremely realistic looking shrimp. Or maybe I’m just dumb and unaware about the miraculous wonder of extremely realistic meat replacers. If what I ate tonight ends up being real shrimp -which I have no way of varifying- I’d be pretty upset since I’m very dedicated to this whole experiment and the vegetarian lifestyle.

After dinner I ate some leftovers of a vegetarian pizza and went to sleep. I hope I wasn’t conned and this is where I’ll end the blog for now. New upload in 24 hours.

Today I woke up at around 12’ish, totally unaware of the plans I had previously made with Luca, we’d agreed to meet up at around 11:30 at our local gym but of course I overslept. I felt quite bad about it since it was my idea and tried to head there asap. I jumped into my gym-clothes and ready to do some grinding I stepped outside my door, then I was suddenly reminded that I was lacking my gym membership-card. I looked in my wallet, not there; I looked in my drawers, not there; I looked in the pockets of my jacket, not there; I looked EVERYWHERE and was unable to find it. Around the time I’d almost given up I received a whatsapp-message from Luca telling me that he was almost done with his workout and that I shouldn’t bother coming anymore since he was going to leave soon.

Trust me, I’m a big, strong, testosterone-filled, goliath of a man but this did make me quite upset :(. In a fit of self-anger and disappointment I decided to make myself some of that heavenly-savoured spaghetti I’d eaten yesterday. Still tasted as amazing as the first time I’d laid my tastebuds on her.

At around 4 PM I agreed to meet up with a friend of mine to head out to a party in the nearby city Nijmegen. I was feeling all fine and dandy but after knocking back some *coughs in innocence* non-alcoholic beverages, I began craving some junkfood. I headed out to a nearby Mcdonald’s and after 7 years of visiting the place I finally tried their veggie chicken burger, to my suprise it did taste like chicken yet it did feel like it was lacking something. Of course I prefer the real thing, but for such a big thing with major importance like our global carbon emission I really can’t be bothered with eating a less-tastier meat substitute. I also had some spicy cheese snacks with my meal.

It’s my first day participating in this month-long journey. I anticipated to encounter a myriad of difficulties yet the contrary turned out to be the case. It’s been rather simple following an all-vegetarian diet yet to the extent that I am scared of accidentally consuming something non-vegetarian as due to following this diet being as easy as it seems to be. I think that if vegetarianism turns out to be an ease to follow I might make a habit out of it and prolong my journey. Though it’s only been day one and my opinion might change at any given moment.

I woke up at around 8:00 AM, half awake and slightly startled knowing that my vegetarian diet had begon. I wasn’t hungry around that time so I decided to skip breakfast and go and spend some time on my computer.

Fast forward to lunch, I requested my dad to cook me something vegetarian, and so he did, after 30 minutes or so he called me downstairs and I was met with a bowl of spaghetti with mushrooms, eggs and onion. At first glance it seemed that it was going to turn into an okay meal but after tasting it I was pleasantly suprised by it’s great savour. It tasted so good in fact that I am considering publishing this recipe on sunday.

For dinner I was greeted with a vegetarian twist on a popular Portuguese dish which normally contains shrimp, in this dish eggs and mushrooms were the substitutes for the shrimp. The dish was okay, it wasn’t anything great or comparable to what I’d eaten for lunch but it wasn’t bad to any degree.

For now I’m tired and heading off to bed, tomorrow a second day of vegetarianism awaits!