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Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  Are you having tons of fun and keeping safe?  I hope so.  I love you so much!  It's a nice cool day over here.  I could have slept through it, but I didn't.  I had much to do.  Laundry in the morning, and today is Friday thus the Friday prayer.  I wanted to go out in the evening to get groceries, but the weather could have gone either way: rain or no rain.  So I decided to stay home and eat what I got.  After some thought, I chose to make fried rice vermicelli.  I could use the leftover broth from the ramen I had for lunch, then add some Mae Pranom (Siamese spicy tamarind paste typically used for tom yum) and my home made chilli-lemongrass sauce.  Then some roast beef chunks and stir fry veggies.  Now a pack of raw rice vermicelli usually has 4 bricks in it.  I just soak the whole brick without breaking it up like she does in the video, for about 10 minutes then separate the noodles after straining them.  That way the noodles are firm when you add them to heat and more moisture.  So I asked Lookie, "Should I use one or two?"  She pointed her nose at the 2 fingers, so 2 bricks of noodles it is.  I ended up with a lot of food, and the flavor was OK, maybe mediocre.  Well not bad, nothing a bit of soy sauce couldn't fix.  I think it was too many noodles for the broth.  That's what I get for asking the cat for her opinion.  She doesn't even eat rice vermicelli.

Mary's outfit today is:

Natural lips gloss II by Katt Yeetly

(AB) Kathrin necklace

MURRAY- Catherine Hairstyle

R.icielli - IRNA High Heels

Vintage Touch Sparklefleck Mini

Here are my picks from the Tod’s SPRING 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection:

Soup!

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, Honey?  Aw don't worry so much, my beloved.  You are the only girl for me, and I love you with all of my heart.  Everything will work out just dandy for us inshaAllah.  It must be super exciting being a gorgeous and glamorous supermodel like you.  I would love to be with you over there and have tons of fun!  But some one has to be here, namely me.  Location, location, location.  You know, you know.

It's been a busy day, and I didn't do much cooking.  My mother wanted some "asam pedas" from the restaurant at the crossroads, the stuff you see above, but a different recipe.  When I bought it, I wanted some for myself because I thought that would make great broth for my ramen.  And it did.  It made an excellent soup, and I washed off the fish and gave it to Lookie and Adolf Kitler.  I used beef instead.  I had to cut the grass in the evening.  At first I just wanted to be lazy, but the weather was perfect for cutting grass.  For dinner I opened a can of Campbell's cream of chicken soup, and ate it straight out of the can with sliced bread.  Want some?  Oh, don't you like Campbell's cream of chicken soup, Natty?

I don't particularly like this dress for Mary's avatar, but with the cuffs it wasn't so bad:

ALESSANDRA - Essential Bikini Bottom USA

Alli&Ali Designs Melrosa Hair

RazzaNova MakeUp - Full Lips - Golden Soul

MCC - WOMAN - Flavor Dress

[Gos] Barbarella Mules - Gold Polkadot 

Gold cuffs by MW Boa

Here are my picks from the Thebe Magugu SPRING 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection:

Pickles

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, Honey?  I hope you are feeling great, keeping safe, and enjoying yourself.  It's pretty casual here for me today.  It was a nice cool morning, but for some reason I didn't sleep in that much.  Only until 8:30!  I had ramen for lunch, so the first I did when I woke up was to make the broth so that it could simmer for a couple of hours while I did something else.  I love ramen!  The broth was perfect today.

I didn't intend on making pickles, but when I bought some veggies for my stir fry on Monday, the guy threw 4 cucumbers in for free.  I love pickles, but I don't make them very often because they don't usually cross my mind.  The video above likes to add all sorts of stuff, typical of any YouTube cooking video.  YouTube cooks like to add all sorts of stuff to their food, I guess they think it makes them stand out?  All I use for pickles is salt water.  The intensity of the salt is important of course, so I add salt to taste.  When it's strong enough, then I pour it over the cucumbers (or cabbage sometimes) in a jar, without using any fire whatsoever.  It takes about 2 weeks in the cooler for my pickles to be ready, and about a 5 day window to eat them before they turn into sludge.  So I try not to make too much.  But when the pickles are in their prime, it would be so easy to guzzle them all down.

I used the Slink Physique body for Mary's avatar's wardrobe today.  I usually use the Meshbody Classic.  The hands on the Slink aren't as graceful, while the Slink body isn't as smooth and curvy, plus there's a slight seam at the neck.  But I have thousands more clothes and shoes for the Slink Physique over the Meshbody Classic:

Classic Light Nude Nylon Seamed Stockings by INSOLENCE

Amy White and Pink Bra by INSOLENCE

Amy White and Pink Garters and String by INSOLENCE

Alli&Ali Designs Sye Hair

:KOYUKI: Bone Rock Dress

TD Zoe Necklace

Black Slink Studded Chain Heels by MiA

Here are my picks from the Staud SPRING 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection:

Old T-shirt

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, my most precious beloved?  You are the most beautiful girl in the world to me, and I love you with all of my heart.  You are the only girl I want to marry, you are the love of my life.  Don't you worry about a thing Honey, I will take sweet loving care of you inshaAllah.  Are you hungry?  I had to finish off a can of sardines.  I hope you like sardines.  It's not caviar, but it can still be good.  Today I learned that sardines & toast is better than sardines & rice.  It's something about the flavor of toasted bread that gives it the edge.   Also that sardines & eggs is better without the bread.  Learn something new everyday!

That's an old T-shirt you can see above.  It's clean, but it smells like an old rag.  A clean old rag.  What do I do with it?  Should I use it as an old rag?  Should I boil it, to get try to get rid of the old smell?  Or should I just wear it anyway, regardless of how it smells?  Decisions, decisions.

Mary's outfit today is:

**((S.A))** Angel shoes

Alli&Ali Designs Shirley Hair

zOOm - Monica Dress

It's Darling Many Loves Necklace

Here are my picks from the Sid Neigum SPRING 2022 READY-TO-WEAR collection: