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Jenny eats ... Vegan Summer Fest

by Unknown - August 29, 2018

The weekend just gone (friday - sunday) we had the vegan summer fest going on here in Berlin. Of course I went, mainly for the food and I actually went saturday and sunday. There is not just food. They also have all sorts of informational stuff, including a VR tour of I believe a mass breeding place and you could also go into those pig transportation lorries. Also there are a lot of booth selling products, all sorts of them including clothes, Lush for example also had a booth. I was hoping to find something awesome to get my sister for her upcoming birthday, buuuut... nothing shouted her name at me.

I decided to only eat food that I don't really make myself, thus fries/wedges and falafel as well as waffles were kind of out of the picture. I also did not get one of my beloved Brammibals doughnuts, simply because there was too much other awesome stuff that I don't regularly go for.

On Saturday, I started my lunch off with a sugar free hazelnut ice cream. I am not sure what they used as sweetener. There was a booth that didn't use sugar to sweeten their ice cream, but dates, but I got it from a different booth and didn't ask. Though the dark chocolate ice cream at the date ice booth was very tempting (I decided to leave it as an option for sunday).

There was SO much too choose from, savoury as well as sweet. I was hoping, that there would be pizza but sadly, no pizza. Instead I went for fried mac'n'cheeze balls with tomato chutney. It was an awesome choice!

On Sunday I tried an Israeli street food called Katchapuri, which is a roasted veggie pita thing with an avocado dip, cauliflower, chickpeas all seasoned with some spices and some other sauce added on top. Before getting our savoury dish, we were considering sharing some churros, because we saw so many people waling around with them and they just looked so good, but after the "main" food we were all quite full and after a digesting break felt more like a light desert and got some ice cream. I just had to get the (sugar free) hazelnut ice cream again but also treated myself to a scoop of banana. I just love that it doesn't have some artificial yellow colouring that you get, it pretty much looks like home made nice cream. So after two days of not caring what sugars were in the food I ate, I was of course pretty bloated when I got home but it was so worth it! I just wanted to eat everything. So I just spend my evening with a hot water bottle on my stomach (my stomach has been A LOT worse but heat also prevents it from getting there in the first place) in bed, watching The Magicians Season 2 (I just LOVE that show!).

Let's ignore the creepy looking hand, shall we?

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Nutritional Yeast Cheese - Yay or Nay?

by Unknown - August 22, 2018

Ihr könnt für die deutsche Version mal wieder scrollen.

So, I basically follow a vegan diet. I eat cheese like once a year when I go to a special restaurant with my family. But anyway, this is not as important right now. So, as somebody who eats a vegan diet of course I have heard of nutritional yeast and how people use it as a cheese alternative. Cheese is actually the only thing I occasionally miss (which is why I have that one "cheat" day a year because it's a green pasta bake and you just need the cheese), I never liked fish and was never that keen on meat so actually this "diet" came pretty natural to me. So yeah, nutritional yeast. Since I did not really know if this was something I liked and needed in my life, I never felt convinced enough to invest in this. Turns out my flatmate has some and offered me to use it as she did not use it as much and kinda wants it emptied by the time she moves out.

So I took some with me on a visit to my bf because I really felt like making pizza and I wanted one with cheese (nowadays, the few occasions I do make pizza, I just leave out any alternative for cheese). I followed the instructions that were on the package to make kinda like a thick "cheese" sauce to drizzle all over the pizza. My bf actually also had it also over his half of the pizza.

You might have heard of beer yeast before. Well you can get beer yeast tablets that are supposed to be beneficial for your hair, nails as well as skin. So sometimes when I feel my hair and nails are not up to their usual standard I get those. The smell of the nutritional yeast flakes as well as the sauce totally reminded me of that smell. It's not a bad smell, but it doesn't really scream "Merlins Beard! I need all of this in my mouth right now!"

Making the sauce was actually pretty easy. Just some margarine, flour, oat milk and of course salt and pepper. I was really in the mood for a margarita pizza, so I just had tomato sauce, basil and the cheese. It was ok, we ate all of it and my non-vegan-non-vegetarian bf also thought it was ok, but tbh it's not like I am craving to have pizza again in the next weeks. It wasn't that great for me. If I had to choose between that and my usual cheese-less pizza, I'd go for a cheese-less one.

I am not sure if it was the brand we used or if the reminder of the beer yeast had a kinda negative effect. I'd like to try out vegan pizza from a pizza place or the frozen one from Lidl, just to see if I feel the same about them (and yes, I am willing to risk sugar for that when my next pizza craving comes up). Uuuh maybe there will be some at the vegan summer fest this weekend. I shall report about that.

Silly me only took a picture of the homemade dough and not the actual pizza when it was done. Great job Jenny. I am definitely willing to give nutritional yeast another chance but I can also happily live without it.

Also, ich ernähre mich ja schon vegan. Ich esse einmal im Jahr Käse, zu einem besonderen familiären Ereignis, aber das ist auch eigentlich gar nicht Thema dieses Posts. Da ich mich ja wie gesagt vegan ernähre und mich deswegen natürlich auch schon viel mit dem Thema auseinandergesetzt habe, bin ich natürlich nicht an dem Ausdruck "Hefeflocken", genutzt als Käseersatz, dran vorbei gekommen. Käse ist bei dieser Art der Ernährung auch so ziemlich die einzige Sache die mir manchmal wirklich fehlt (auf so einer Pizza oder Auflauf), Fisch war nie meins und auch mein Fleischkonsum war super gering weil ich die meisten Fleischprodukte einfach nicht mochte. Also... Hefeflocken. Ich war bisher halt immer zu geizig, um mir die zu kaufen, weil ich nicht überzeugt genug war zu riskieren, dass ich das nachher gar nicht brauche oder nicht mag. Aber dann kam meine Mitbewohnerin damit um die Ecke, dass sie sowas hat und ich mich doch bitte sehr gerne daran bedienen soll, damit das bis zu ihrem Auszug weg ist.

Die Gelegenheit habe ich beim Schopf gepackt und mir direkt welches abgefüllt um es am Wochenende mit zu meinem Freund zu nehmen weil ich mal wieder Bock auf Pizza hatte. Die paar Male in letzter Zeit die ich dann doch mal Bock auf Pizza habe gab es dann halt immer eine käselose. Ich habe einfach die Anleitung auf der Verpackung befolgt, wonach man eine Soße machen sollte die man über Pizza und Aufläufe tröpfeln kann. Mein Freund hat sogar zugestimmt, seine Hälfte auch zur Verfügung zu stellen und sich an dem Käse zu versuchen.

Hast du schon mal von Bierhefe gehört? Gibt es zum Beispiel als Tabletten im DM. Sollen sich positiv auf Haare, Nägel und Haar auswirken. Meine Mama hatte das mal und wenn ich das Gefühl habe, dass meine Haare und Nägel sich nicht ihren Standard halten, dann gibt's mal wieder eine Packung. Sowohl die Hefeflocken als auch die fertige Soße haben einfach TOTAL nach diesen Bierhefe Tabletten geschmeckt. Das ist jetzt nicht unbedingt ein schlechter Geruch, aber man denkt sich halt auch nicht so "Bei Merlins Bart! Ich brauche ALLES davon in meinem Bauch!"

Die Soße herzustellen war tatsächlich sehr einfach. Margarine, Mehl, Hafermilch und ein bisschen Salz und Pfeffer zum abschmecken. Mir war nach einer ganz simplen Margherita Pizza, deswegen gab es für mich nur passierte Tomaten, Basilikum und dann den "Käse" oben drauf. Die Pizza war ok, wir haben die ganze Pizza verputzt, auch mein Nicht-Veganer-Nicht-Vegetarier Freund, und der fand es auch ok aber ich werde in den nächsten Wochen da jetzt kein Verlangen nach haben. Es war einfach nicht so meins. Ich ziehe dann doch meine käselose Pizza vor.

Ich weiß nicht so ganz ob es an der Marke lag, oder ob die Erinnerung an Bierhefe das so ein bisschen kaputt gemacht hat oder was auch immer. Ich würde mich aber definitiv gerne mal an veganer Pizza bei einer Pizzeria und an der begannen Lidl Pizza probieren. Um zu gucken ob ich das da dann auch nicht so gerne mag (dafür nehme ich auch das Zucker-Risiko in Kauf). Uuuuh vielleicht gibt es ja am Wochenende beim begannen Sommerfest welche... Ich werde berichten!

Und ja... ich war ein bisschen schusselig und habe nur ein Foto von diesem wunderschönen selbstgemachte Pizzaboden gemacht und nicht von der fertigen Pizza. Ganz großes Kino, Jenny. Auch nach dieser nur ok-igen Erfahrung, würde ich mich trotzdem nochmal an Hefeflocken-Käse probieren wenn ich die Chance dazu habe.

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A Breakfast Homage

by Unknown - August 15, 2018

Baked Oats

Breakfast is my favourite meal oft he day, and the meal I could never skip (ok, tbh I don’t really ever skip meals because my stomach normally cries for food every 4 to 5 hours) I have very fond memories of breakfast and I go to bed at night excited for breakfast. While a lot of my friends, and still now, prefer staying in bed as long as possible, I plan at least half an hour for breakfast. I just love making breakfast and sitting down enjoying the bit of quiet time before the day starts.

When I was still going to school, I would always have breakfast with my mum, but we actually didn’t talk, we had a quiet agreement where we wouldn’t really talk (unless something important was up for some reason). Instead we had our nose stuck in books while eating (we both love reading). And yes maybe sometimes that led to me forgetting the time but since I always got up early enough I was still never late.

I am a real morning person. I wake up before my alarm most of the time, I actually only set my alarm because I feel like the one time I don’t I will sleep in like crazy. Waking up around 6 is pretty normal for me, with some exceptions when I wake up way earlier or sleep till after 7… crazy I know. I also tend to be the kind of person who wakes up and is hungry (or just wants breakfast), which could also have something to do with the fact that I have dinner around 5pm.

I know many people who find my internal clock pretty insane, but it is what I am used to, even on the weekends, sleeping in for my family means we have breakfast between 9 and 10. In addition to that, I am most productive in the morning, so of course I don’t want to waste that time. I also really enjoy getting my work out of the way in the morning, especially when I have a really busy day and in the evening just want to not move.

I am also very much in love with breakfast food. My first or second week at uni I legit ate muesli for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I love bread, oats, pancakes, (some) mueslis, buns and all the baked goods (Germany is heaven for that) and oh when in England all the toast I can get sitting on my nans sofa, watching TV with her while everyone else is still asleep because it is so early. I could probably happily live of breakfast food forever (especially when you keep English breakfast with beans on toast and potatoes and all that in mind), it would just lack in veggies quite a bit. I have sweet breakfast more often than savoury ones. Not sure if that has something to do, that I don’t eat a lot of other sweet stuff because of my fructose intolerance or because I just like waking up to something kinda sweet. I don’t add sugar to my pancakes and the only sweet thing about my overnight oats are dark (85%) chocolate and a banana, but you know what I mean.

So yeah, this is a very random homage to breakfast, maybe because I tried something new (for me) that I really enjoy: baked oats. Which basically tastes like banana bread. I used this recipe but left out the white vinegar, used just normal oats, and also dextrose (instead of sugar) and some rice syrup instead of maple syrup. It is perfection. Actually just realised while copying the link, that it is called vegan banana oat bread, not baked oats :D

Have a lovely day and tell me your favourite breakfast!

My all time favourite - pb an banana

I do actually prefer making my french toast with home made bread but I still had bread...

I love going out for breakfast every now and then.

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I am struggling

by Unknown - August 09, 2018

Originally W.W.J.D. stands for "What Would Jesus Do".

But a while ago, I decided to change its meaning for myself, to "What Would Jenny Do".

Do remind myself to question my happy self on what I would do and to be true to myself. Something I find very hard at the moment

I am struggling.

There is no other way to say this. I think this is what people call the "struggle of the millennials" but correct me if I am wrong. I'll paint you a light picture of what I am struggling with.

I used to be full of all these ideas and dreams of what I wanted to do with my life. Realistic ones as well as the ones that you know will never come true but sometimes you still imagine one day just quitting what you are doing to pursue that dream. I wanted to make like cards and t-shirts on the side, just for fun. Open a biscuit shop with my youngest sister (we bake good stuff). I miss that carefree time. With the end of my time at university heading towards the finishing line with a terrifying speed, the questions of what the next step is have been piling up.

And with that the pressure. The fear. The doubt.

I feel like some people expect me to do something great, because I will be finishing my MA just after turning 24. "OMG you are so young!"

At the same time, from the other side, you get to hear that you are so young and can still do EVERYTHING.

Then there are also those people telling you, to take time off, go traveling, see the world; "you won't have the time to do it this way once you start working".

I feel like people expect me to get this great job in my area of "expertise" and not just do something to hold me over until I get that job.

And I know, that when people suggest stuff for me to do because I don't know what to do, they just want to help but to be very honest with you, it just confuses me even more.

I feel overwhelmed by all the things I could be doing and not really feeling like I have much of a passion at the moment. My head is in constant stress mode with finishing my thesis (which is quite a bit of work) and finding a job. And this might seem stupid to some, and I envy everybody who is not struggling with this but I have always found it hard to accept change.

For me, my bachelor studies could have gone on forever. I was in a happy place. I was pretty close to home while still living somewhere else, I had THE best flatmates/friends. The closeness to home also meant I could easily see my other friends. I met my boyfriend there. I had a great job at the university.

And then it all ended. And I guess I am still kinda heartbroken about that, especially being so far away from anything. And now, that I have settled in with uni and found a research group that I feel so at home with again I have to leave? I don't feel ready for that yet.

I spend my days improving my thesis, which I LOVED working on, I check my emails every now and then and every time that I don't get an email about a job I have applied to my heart kinda drops. And I applied to jobs that I would be excited about getting, but I am also scared that if I get my hopes up too high, I will fall into this pit of disappointment and self doubt.

So far, this not knowing what will be happening very soon is probably one of the scariest things I have experienced so far. Being so consumed with my thesis helps in the sense of distracting me but then when I do take a second off it kinda just drops from the distracting-safety-net.

I miss drawing and writing and taking random photos. I love all those things, which is one of the reasons I even startet "Jenny Side Up", I love this creative balance. But at the moment I fear it will just add a ton of extra stress instead of balance. However I miss writing on about all the random things in life.

I will try to get back to it. This balancing out might do me some good.

So excuse this thursday night outburst. It had to be let out.

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Jenny eats ... resetting my tummy

by Unknown - Juli 17, 2018

Runter für die deutsche Version :)

Hallöchen!
So as I have mentioned (a billion times) before, my stomach is extremely sensitive, especially due to my fructose intolerance. So before and after a tough stomach weekend (basically that means it includes sugar/fruit) or sometimes just because it feels like it needs to remind me that it is not an easy-going stomach (or you know, period) I need to be very gentle on my stomach and reset/prepare it.

I am not sure what caused it this time, it started around thursday and I had my last bit of sugar (1.3 doughnuts) on monday, so it should have not been the sugar, because I usually get the consequences like right away/hours later or the next day... But I have just been randomly feeling extremely sick, so sick I wish I would vomit (sorry, tmi).

But since my bestie (ok, I have more than one, but ssssh) is coming over this weekend I want my stomach to be prepared for any possible fun.

So here is what I was eating saturday to calm it down again (hopefully stop this icky sick feeling) and to prepare it. This is of course only one day but the next days are going to look pretty similar.

Breakfast

Shocking news: I did not have chocolate porridge. But I felt it most sensible to have a little break (I doubt it will last longer than the weekend). I got some nice bread, toasted it shortly, spread some (vegan) margarine all over it, added sliced tomatoes and a bit of salt and done.

Snack

A pre-work out snack was very much needed, because I had such an early breakfast that I could feel my stomach telling me it wants food soon around 11.30. So I had a banana with cinnamon to hold me over until lunch.

Lunch

For lunch I had a Jenny-standard, rice with oven baked chickpeas (salted of course). It is still a favourite and I enjoyed it very much. Sometimes I also have some mashed avocado with it. I was briefly considering making a hot tahini sauce but I thought something hot (as in spicy) is probably not the best thing for my stomach.

Dinner
For dinner I just had a packet (100g). Now could there be anything more gentle on your stomach.
And yes, it is indeed quite full of carbs. But well who doesn't like carbs? Plus that is something that my stomach does not complain about so easily.

Hope you have a nice week!

Hallöchen!
Wie ich ja schon (eine Millionen) mal erwähnt habe, ist mein Magen sehr empfindlich, vor allem wegen meiner Fruktoseintoleranz. Wenn ich also gerade ein magenbelastendes Wochenende (das heißt es gab was mit Zucker/Obst) hinter oder vor mir habe, oder wenn mein Magen einfach mal so aufmuckt, heißt es für mich "Schonkost".
Ich bin mir ehrlich gesagt nicht sicher, woran es dieses Mal lag. Es find so Donnerstag damit an und zog sich so ziemlich durchs ganze Wochenende, aber mein letztes bisschen Zucker (1.3 Doughnuts) war am Montag. Eigentlich kommt die Reaktion wenn sofort/nach wenigen Stunden oder am nächsten Tag.
Also, hier seht ihr, was "Schonkost" für mich bedeutet. So sah mein Wochenende aus, und da ich am Wochenende wunderbaren Besuch bekomme, wird es wohl auch den Rest der Woche vorsichtig damit ich just in case für was bereit bin.

Frühstück
Zum Frühstück gab es Mehrkornbrot (relativ dick weil ich es selbst geschnitten habe - hab es aber geschafft, dieses mal nicht dick anzufangen und unten keinen Rand mehr habe). Das habe ich leicht angetastet, mit der leichten Deli (Margarine, vegan) bestrichen und ein paar Tomatenscheiben draufgelegt. Ein bisschen Salz kam natürlich auch noch oben drauf.

Snack
Weil ich schon so übertrieben früh gefrühstückt habe, hatte ich dann ab 11:00 auch schon wieder Hunger. Ich wollte aber frühestens um 12:00 mit'm kochen anfangen und vorher noch ein kleines Work Out einschieben also gab es eine Zimt-Banane.

Mittagessen
Zum Mittag gab es ein Jenny-Standard-Essen: Reis mit im Ofen gerösteten Kichererbsen, gesalzen. Ich LIEBE es. Manchmal gibt es dazu auch Avocado und ich hatte auch kurz überlegt ob ich ne scharfe Tahini-Soße mache, aber ich dachte mir, dass was scharfes für meinen Magen wohl nicht die beste Wahl gewesen wäre.

Abendessen
Da gab es dann das so ziemlich sicherste Essen für einen empfindlichen Magen: eine Packung Zwieback (100g) - Dinkel - denn das ist meistens ohne Zucker.

Ich wünsche euch allen eine wunderbare Woche!

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Let's catch up!

by Unknown - Juli 13, 2018

Hallöchen!

I am sorry I was absent once again... but I have a good reason for that. Last week I was extremely stressed because I had a presentation last thursday. And standing up in front of people and talking and then being asked questions is a nightmare come to life for me. It only took me half the time it took me practicing at home and I am not sure what was more shaky; my hand holding the pointer or my voice. But that is why I was pretty much useless saturday til thursday...

And then on friday my younger sisters came over to stay with me for a couple of days and my bf joined us on saturday. So I was pretty busy all weekend, ate lots of food and also got lots of steps in (reached the 25.000 twice).

That probably is the reason my stomach is so messed up now; all the stress and then some sugar over the weekend... I feel incredibly sick right now (I have a hot water bottle on my stomach right now). So I will be eating light food for the next few days to calm it down again, especially since I have plans for the next coming weekends (except this one) which might require my stomach to be strong.

At the moment, I am just busy writing my MA and taking care of my babies in the lab every two days and working out. Writing my thesis is going quite well though and I am currently not stressing about it (I have other things to stress about). And trying to find my second bed sheet which seems to have disappeared after I washed it... I have one more flatmate to ask if she accidentally took it but if not I guess I will be buying a new one next week, because it is kinda annoying to have just of them. That isn't the only thing that has disappeared though... I seem to have also lost my in-ear headphones.

And in case you haven't noticed yet, season 5 of Bates Motel and all of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is up on the German Netflix. And there is going to be another Spin-Off Vampire Diaries series!

I made THE perfect banana bread the other day.

And I am OBSESSED with this song: Ride With U by Smash Into Pieces. I can't stop listening to it.

Also, I made wraps for the bf to take to a conference and for me to have at home the other day and I made a lovely sauce, which I was actually able to eat and it was LUSH. It was just tahini, water, a pinch of salt and garlic, and a bit of habanero sauce. So good.

I am gutted that football did not come home, but let's not talk about that. Got to keep my head busy and distracted with happy thoughts!
Weekend plans: work on my MA, (hopefully) write one/some job applications, clean and tidy my room.
What are your weekend plans?

Have a lovely weekend!

Hallöchen!

Tut mir leid, dass ich schon wieder ein wenig abwesend war... aber ich hatte meine Gründe. Ich war letzte Woche übertrieben gestresst, weil ich letzten Donnerstag eine Präsentation halten musste. Und vor Leuten zu stehen und zu reden und Fragen beantworten zu müssen ist für mich ein wahr gewordener Albtraum. Ich brauchte in der tatsächlichen Präsentation nur die Hälfte der Zeit die ich beim Üben zuhause gebraucht habe und ich weiß nicht was mehr gezittert hat: meine Hand die den Pointer gehalten hat oder meine Stimme. Auf jeden Fall war ich dessen von Samstag bis Donnerstag für so ziemlich nichts zu gebrauchen.

Und am Freitag sind dann meine jüngeren Schwestern für ein paar Tage gekommen und am Samstag hat sich dann auch mein Freund dazu gesellt. Ich war also den ganzen Tag sehr beschäftigt, habe viel gegessen und habe viele Schritte gemacht (habe auch zweimal die 25.000 geknackt).

Das ist wahrscheinlich auch der Grund warum mein Magen jetzt nicht bester Laune ist; der ganze Stress und ein bisschen Zucker übers Wochenende... Jetzt gerade ist mir auch super übel (sitze hier auch gerade mit einer Wärmflasche auf meinem armen Bauch). Deswegen heißt es für mich jetzt auch erstmal wieder Schonkost, vor allem weil die nächsten Wochenende (außer dieses) auch Pläne anstehen die vielleicht einen starken Magen gebrauchen könnten.

Zurzeit bin ich die meiste Zeit mit dem schreiben meiner MA beschäftigt und mich alle zwei Tage um meine Babies im Labor zu kümmern und Sport. Die MA läuft sogar ganz gut, bin in meinem Zeitplan und habe bisher noch keinen Stress (gibt ja noch andere Dinge von denen man sich stressen lassen kann...). Ich bin auch immer noch auf der Suche nach meinem zweiten Bettlaken, nur eins ist nämlich super unpraktisch. Ich hab das gewaschen und aufgegangen und seitdem ist das verschwunden. Meine letzte Chance ist noch meine eine Mitbewohnerin zu fragen ob sie es vielleicht aus Versehen in ihren Schrank geräumt hat... Sonst muss ich wohl nächste Woche ein neues kaufen (da gibt es die nämlich bei Lidl). Das ist tatsächlich nicht die einzige Sache die verschwunden ist, meine in-ear Kopfhörer habe ich scheinbar auch verloren.

Und falls es euch noch nicht aufgefallen ist, ist die fünfte Staffel Bates Motel und alle Staffeln Der Prinz von Bel-Air sind auf Netflix. Und OMG es wird noch eine Spin-Off Serie zu Vampire Diaries geben.

Ich habe letztens DAS perfekte Bananenbrot gebacken.

Ich bin absolut VERNARRT in diesen Song: Ride With U von Smash Into Pieces. Ich kann nicht aufhören ihn mir anzuhören!

Und ich habe die Tage Wraps für meinen Freund zum mitnehmen und wir mich gemacht und ich habe eine richtig geile Soße dafür gemacht, die ich sogar essen konnte! Einfach mir Tahin, Wasser, ein bisschen Salz und Knoblauch und ein paar Spritzern Habanero Soße. Die war SUPER.

Lasst und lieber nicht darüber reden, dass England raus ist... Ich muss mich mit positiven Gedanken von den negativen Sorgen abhalten.
Meine Wochenendpläne: an meiner MA arbeiten, (hoffentlich) ein/mehrere Bewerbungen schreiben, mein Zimmer aufräumen und putzen.
Was steht bei euch so an?

Ich wünsche allen ein schönes Wochenende!

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Back in time: teenage things

by Unknown - Juli 03, 2018

Hallöchen!

While on a walk on saturday I was thinking about some things that were part of my teenage days. And since I love lists, here is a list of things that were part of my like every day teenage life, and me wondering if my 14 yr old sister and her fellow teenagers still do those things... Merlins Beard, I just realised that it has been nearly ten years and seven months since I was allowed to officially call myself a teenager. That can not be right...

1) "So, will you be online later?" yes, at school, we basically made a date to chat on icq later in the day. I don't think icq is still a thing, so I guess teenagers don't do this anymore with WhatsApp and everything else.

2) Sometimes, when meeting up with (certain) friends we basically spend all the time on icq chatting to other people (boys)

3) We had a special computer room in our house (and so did like all my friends), or a corner somewhere where it stood. Which for me meant sitting in what was kinda like our attic all by myself (really hot in summer, really cold in winter) to chat to my friends while my family was downstairs.

4) I spend quite a few hours with friends at the football field just watching (cute) boys play football. Please tell me girls nowadays still do this...

5) I am pretty sure this thing is not happening anymore and I am quite glad about that because well yeah I did it but it was also a strange thing if you ask me. Those thin scarves that did not do anything to keep your neck warm but were only worn as an accessory really.

6) Calling your friends on the actual telephone, like the house telephone. Not a mobile phone. That's how I set up meeting up with my friends. Not texting them. That is in my early teenage years of course, because mobile phones became more and more part of our life.

7) I always knew what was going on in the charts and had seen SO many music videos because I watched the Top 100/50/20 whatever on VIVA (I miss Parental Control and Young&Married so much) so much.

That is it for today, seven seems like a good amount of teenage things. But kinda seeing what my sisters teenage days are like I am quite grateful for the fact that I did not grow up with Instagram and WhatsApp and all that definitely awesome stuff, but it can cause drama so easily and quickly.

So, let's raise our Powerrade and that ice cream made up of those small ice cream balls to our teenage years! Have a lovely week!

Hallöchen!

Am Samstag habe ich einen kleinen Spaziergang gemacht und musste dabei an meine Teenagertage zurück denken. Und weil ich Listen liebe dachte ich mir, ich schreibe eine kleine Liste über ein paar Dinge die total "normal" und fast alltäglich waren. Bei manchen habe ich mich auch gefragt, ob die Teenager (inklusive meiner jüngsten Schwester) das heutzutage wohl noch machen... Bei Merlins Bart! Mir geht gerade auf, dass es schon fast zehn Jahre und sieben Monate her ist, dass ich mich ganz offiziell Teenager nennen durfte... Das kann nicht sein.

1) "Bist du heute Abend online?" - eine Frage die quasi täglich gestellt wurde und sich auf icq bezogen hat. Ich denke nicht, dass die Teenager im Jahre 2018 noch icq benutzen wenn ich ehrlich bin...

2) Und nach der Schule (und den Hausaufgaben und so) mit seinen Freunden zu chatten hat einfach nicht gereicht. Ich habe das ein oder andere Mal wenn ich mich (vor allem mit einer bestimmten und dann den ganzen Tag) Freunden getroffen habe STUNDEN damit verbracht mit anderen Leuten (meistens Jungs) auf icq zu chatten. Total spannend.

3) Wir haben zuhause tatsächlich eine extra Computerecke in einem bestimmten Zimmer. Und ich weiß, dass viele meiner Freunde den Familiencomputer in einem extra Raum/Ecke stehen hatten. Da der bei uns direkt unterm Dach war, war es sehr heiß im Sommer und sehr kalt im Winter... Und einige quasi einsame Stunden in denen ich alleine unterm Dach saß während meine Familie unten im Wohnzimmer saß.

4) Am Wochenende habe ich einiges an Zeit damit verbracht mit meinen Freundinnen (süßen) Jungs beim Fußballspielen zuzusehen. Und nein, dafür mussten wir nicht unbedingt einen von ihnen von vornherein kennen.

5) Eine Sache die nicht mehr wirklich vorkommt und über die ich eigentlich ziemlich froh bin (die ich aber trotzdem mitgemacht habe) sind diese super dünnen Schals die man nicht zum wärmen sondern quasi als Schmuck getragen hat. Ich hatte einen so mmm cremefarbenen mit Glitzerfäden und Fransen an den Enden...

6) Zum Verabrede habe ich meine Freunde auf'm Festnetztelefon angerufen. Verrückt, oder? Zumindest zum Anfang meiner Jahre als Teenager, während meiner Schullaufbahn lief es dann auch auf WhatsApp hinaus, aber das gab es als ich 13 wurde noch nicht.

7) Und als letztes: In dem Alter wusste ich noch genau was in den Charts abging und kannte SO viele Musikvideos. Ich habe (zusammen mit meiner Schwester) sehr oft Viva laufen gehabt (mir fehlt Parental Control und Young & Married).

So und das soll für heute auch reichen. Und wenn ich ehrlich bin, bin ich ziemlich froh, dass ich nicht in der heutigen Zeit Teenager bin. Wenn ich das so bei meiner Schwester sehe, bin ich sehr dankbar, dass ich ohne Instagram und WhatsApp aufgewachsen bin. Beides Apps die ich gerne mag aber in dem Alter verursacht dass sehr schnell Drama...

Also heben wir die Blonde und dieses Eis aus kleinen Eiskügelchen hoch und stoßen auf unsere Teenager-Jahre an! Habt eine schöne Woche!