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My Goals For 2022 We are about to enter a new year and that means it is not just time to reflect on what we have done the past year, but more importantly to look ahead at the year that is coming: Source https://www.ytcc.nl/2021/11/08/2022/ I have decided to put a couple of important goals for me on a row: Getting a permanent contract at work. This will be my main focus. I switches jobs this summer and we moved quite far for it. I love my new job and a permanent contract…
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End Of Season Rewards: Made It To Bronze II Again! Hi all! Hadn't managed to make a post yet about the end of season rewards, as NYE kind of got in the way of that haha. Anyway, I had a decent season. I bought my first Chaos Legion Packc, rented my way to Bronze II again and was rewarded with more cards than ever before! Things are looking up! Unfortunately it still isn't profitable to rent my way to Bronze II, the rent costs more than the battles give me, but the rewards…
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Opening My First Rising Star Pack! The moment has finally arrived for me to open my first Rising Star pack! I have been saving for those 10,000 starbits to buy it for quite a while but I finally got to the magical moment! **What Is Rising Star?** So for those of you that don't know Rising Star is a fun blockchain based game on the Hive chain. You have to build a band, perform and can earn rewards and other things that you need to advance in the game. You can also buy cards…
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Bearly Able To Knit As a kid I always did very poorly at any types of crafts and in high school I nearly failed design and technology after making a desk lamp that never worked and lighting a project on fire accidentally..... In the end I got a pity pass. But Even I Have Some Creativity in Me I have spend the past days trying to figure out what the hell that I do is creative and I asked everyone in the house to help me think. It was the boyfriend (bless him) that at some…
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Hopping Around in the Dutch Dunes Like so many people I wanted to use the new year as a start of more exercise. But unlike I expected I am having great fun with walking this past week! I've discovered some beautiful areas near our home and it has been fantastic, despite winter, to be out and about and I wanted to share some of my walks with you! If you are ever in the Netherlands, we live near a beautiful area of dunes, Schoorl. All pictures are made by myself. Chilly Beach…
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The Canadian Dream On Hive this weekend we got given a challenge to talk about firsts: first kiss, first pet, first time to move out or first time to move abroad. I decided to share my adventure of living in Canada! It All Starts With An Opportunity When I was studying in the Netherlands during my bachelor at uni there was an option to apply for studying abroad without having to pay extra fees. I applied to go to Canada, the nature and university appealed to me. Obviously…
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Book Review: The Century Trilogy: Captures the 20th Century I have set myself the challenge to read 52 books for 2022 or 1 book per week for the entire year. Will be interesting to see if I make it but I am well on my way! The last book I finished was part three of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follet, which all three impressed me. Source https://carlcotarobles.com/2019/05/31/four-most-interesting-questions-about-ken-folletts-century-trilogy/ **The Trilogy** Those of you that…
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The Antidote: The Negative Effects of Positive Thinking I have recently been reading The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman, a fascinating read about the negative effects of the whole positivity hype that is going on. For decades now the idea has been, if you put your mind to it you can achieve anything you want. Burkeman shows that this is not the reality and that actually thinking like that can make you feel worse instead of better. Why Positive Thinking Doesn't Work According to…
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Spending New Years With The Song I Hate Another weekend and another engagement topic in the Weekend community on Hive and I was happy to see a topic that I am not familiar with blogging about at all! I think that is the beauty of the engagement topic, it draws you out of your comfort zone and allows you to think outside the box. Now I love music, but option number 5 about a song that grinds my gears won, because not only do I have a song that grinds my gears, but I have also…
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A Stroll On The Beach In Winter There is a Dutch tradition called 'uitwaaien' which means to go outside, even when the weather is not so nice and let the wind blow through you and let you forget all your problems. And that was exactly what I needed this weekend. So despite the chilly 5 degrees, the wind and a bit of rain I headed to the beach! This picture is the reason I love going to the beach in the winter, it is moody, it is empty and I feel in touch with nature. This…
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Rising Star- Update and New Pack I have been playing away at Rising Star, which I love! Such a fun game to play. I made more progress since my last update and made enough starbits again to buy another pack- my second one in the game! What Is Rising Star? So for those of you that don't know Rising Star is a fun blockchain based game on the Hive chain. You have to build a band, perform and can earn rewards and other things that you need to advance in the game. You can also buy…
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The Great Unknown What I have always wondered is what most of us wonder sometimes, and some of us wonder often: What happens when we die? What lies in that great unknown? Source https://www.istockphoto.com/nl/search/2/image?phrase=afterlife&utm_source=pixabay&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=ADP_image_sponsored&referrer_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpixabay.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch%2Fafterlife%2F&utm_term=afterlife **The Great Question That Has No Answer** I think what makes it so…
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My Ideal Weekend: Friends, Fun and Mountains welcome to my ideal weekend! It is going to be a great ride! The Friday Night So in our ideal weekend we head straight from work Friday to the mountains. Since it is my ideal weekend, we are not taking the car or the train but we are teleporting straight there. We make it to the south of Switzerland in the alps and this is our view: My best friends have also made it to the teleportation place, we are all camping and we have a big…
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The Last One Standing **What if you are the last on only person left?** Would you talk to a volleybal like Tom Hanks in Cast Away? What would absolute solitude really do to a person? Would it drive you mad? Would you learn to cope? Would you find an object to attack to like Tom Hanks? Would you kill yourself? The Scene Imagine, some disaster has struck: a deadly virus to which you alone are immune, a volcanic eruption that killed all life but you. It has been featured in…
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Beloved - A Gut Wrenching Classic This year I have set myself the challenge to read 52 books in 2022 or one book a week. This is a decent challenge but I am very excited about it! Number 3 of 2022 was Beloved by Tony Morrison. Source https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/117647/beloved-by-toni-morrison/ Toni Morrison You may have heard of the writer, Toni Morrison. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 and also wrote Song of Salomon. She was an editor before but…