random things about me
I've been writing down some things about me, so that you, lovely blog readers can get to know me a little bit. As part of a series that you can read in the 'get to know me' section on my it's me mrmr page. I love reading about that on other blogs... I love getting a little peek into someones life! So here's mine.
a list that will keep growing
✏ I'm in my early 40s, married and have one daughter✏ I speak Dutch, a Dutch dialect, English and German
✏ my husband has a different nationality and our daughter is being raised with 3 languages
✏ we live in a small village in The Netherlands
✏ we picked this place to live because it's near to family, and because we are surrounded by a lot of trees and nature here
✏ I wear glasses and am known as 'the girl with the headband'
✏ when I was 20 I went to college and stopped eating animals, I haven't eaten one since
✏ I went to graphic design school and art academy to learn how to be an art teacher (and dropped out because I really didn't like it)
✏ I eventually got my degree in social work
✏ and now I'm a parttime florist
✏ I can only work parttime because of my chronic illness, fibromyalgia and hypermobility syndrome
✏ I put a lot of worth on living my life with a positive outlook
✏ in my spare time I love to be creative
✏ journalling is my way of taking care of my mental health
✏ I'm definitely a morning person, that's the time of day when I have the most energy
✏ I shower every morning and feel like I can't start my day 'right' if I don't
✏ this is my go-to daily playlist
✏ I love watching movies and enjoy quirky movies with good cinematography the most
✏ that's why my favorite movie of all time is le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain
✏ sometimes I think I should've gone to film acadamy instead of art academy
✏ I love reading non-fiction more than fiction, but I have a hard time making time to read
✏ I read somewhere once; buy books even if you don't end up reading them, and now I buy more books than I used to, and hope I will eventually read them
✏ I try to buy secondhand before buying new
✏ for years I loved doing tai chi and qi gong lessons every week, but I temporarily had to quit due to knee problems.
✏ because of that, I changed my way of exercising in early 2026. since then I've turned into sporty spice, doing daily exercises like pilates, hiking (with weighted vest), indoor biking and rowing.
✏ with this new routine, I have been putting less time into my creative hobbies and more in getting strong and healthy. something that feels important as a 40 year old woman.
✏ on my blog you can read about all sorts of things. my interests can change quickly and I can get into very different hobbies. so you can read about me losing myself in a puzzle one day, or see the newest linocut I've made, or me going full in exploring weight training the next. I like living my life following where the interests takes me.