Shopping

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  It's that time of the year, huh!  I'm sure you are busy shopping.  I wonder if it's more stressful than ever to shop for Christmas nowadays.  I don't know.  Muslims don't celebrate Christmas.  I guess you get to step up into the mall with the gift of giving, while I slide down the handrail in my sarong.  At least you don't have to buy anything for me.

I don't have money for a lot of shopping anyway.  All I spent today was on takeout rice for lunch.  I would love to go shopping, though.  Of course I would buy for others, but probably not as much as you would spend.  Please try not to overspend.  I don't believe it to be a blessing to hustle and get something for everyone.  I think it would be more of a blessing to give to the poor.  Have fun this holiday season my darling, please take care of your health and safety, and get lots of rest.

I hate cooking rice

 

Hi Natty!  What's up, Honey?  Are you enjoying the snow?  Of course you like the snow, you are a ski bunny!  Ooh, that's pretty cool art of you.  You are such a muse, and a martyr for love.  I love you, Natty.

Oh, how small we are.  Less than a grain of rice.  I hate cooking rice.  I don't mind eating rice, but I hate cooking rice.  Because nobody eats just white rice, you have to have it with entrees.  And that makes preparing a rice dinner very time and labor consuming.  Plus it generates so much trash.  I would rather just buy takeout rice, and let them deal with the labor and trash.  But I cooked rice for dinner tonight.  I had bought 2 kilos of boneless chicken breast this morning, and I cubed the whole lot.  Then I cooked some in my mother's "Sambal tumis" (blended chillies, onions and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) fried until the oil is saturated) to go with a pot of rice.  Unlike the video below, I only wash rice when there are bugs in it.  If you cooked rice without washing, then it's a straight 2:1 ratio of water to rice.  Easy peasy.  I don't use a rice cooker, either.  Mine blew up a decade ago, but I still use the aluminum pot and lid.  Just boil the rice on medium heat until the water reaches the level of the rice, then switch to simmer and put the lid on.  When there is no more steam coming out, turn off the heat and let it sit for 10 minutes.  That was it for tonight, just rice with one entree.  It took me the entire damned evening to cook, eat and clean up.  I hate cooking rice.

Just an average Friday

 Hi Natty!  What;s going on, Honey?  I suppose you are busy being a Christmas angel.  Well, you are very pretty.  Plesae take care of your health and safety, and have a marvelous time.  I just got back from the sunset prayer at the mosque.  Today is Friday, and there was Friday prayer of course, but I've begun again to attend all the mandatory prayers along with the congregation, except the dawn prayer because I want to get right back to sleep.  When we are married inshaAllah, I will have to spend every prayer with you.  It's been a normal day, not much going on other than the usual.  Nothing special on the menu either.  In the evening I did my laundry, because I ran out of time in the morning.

Dammit, this dress doesn't fit properly on Mary's avatar!  It's one of those older mesh objects made for system avatars, but some of the older apparel can be really attractive.  Like this dress for example has some really cool back detail, but I didn't show it here.  Ahem!  Mary's avatar has many clothes that don't fit, so I make them somewhat fit then do photo trickery to make her look best.

Interference

 

Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope all is well with you, and you are safe and healthy.  I'm a bit grumpy today, I'm afraid.  Too much labor.  Ironically, more labor is needed to work off the anger.  So I did a lot of burning in the evening.  About time, too.  Things are finally drying up enough to burn.  I would have preferred to hammer on the drums.  Ugh, my left arm is shaking...

I'm sorry about the interference in Mary Unknown7's set today, folks.  Hackers.  But I'm sure you stuck around and waited for her to come back, so we would like to thank you for that.  She sang a bit of Sia's "Chandeleir" today.  I was surprised.  She always said she couldn't reach that note, and the song is worthless without that note.

Born to be a stud

 

Hi Natty!  How's the prettiest girl in the world doing today?  What, they're not as pretty as you?!  Please pray for them, and give thanks to Allah for your beauty.  You are the girl I love with all of my heart.  Ya Allah, please protect my Natty.  Check out the food in the video above!  Which one is your favorite?  I have to say that the Covid soup is the best dish!

Lookie is 7 years old now, and she needs to have her first batch of kittens because she's getting old.  She's been in heat lately, and Adolf Kitler hasn't been doing his job pumping out kittens whenever she's been in heat.  The most he's been doing for her is lying on his side and gnawing on her kitty G-spot.  If you folks don't know where the kitty G-spot is, it's the scruff of the neck but you need to bite it with sharp teeth in order to stimulate it properly.  I suppose it's good that he's relieving some of her tension while she's in heat, but we're going to need those kittens because she's not going to live forever, and Lookie is the last of Floofy's kittens.  I want to extend Floofy's bloodline as long as possible.  Today it seemed the last day of her current heat, and I finally saw them doing the deed properly.  I think we are going to have kittens!  InshaAllah.  Kittens are a big deal in this house.

This dress is supposed to be black and red, but you can't see the red with ALM on.  No wonder it was on sale.

Urban hell

 

Natty, you're so pretty!  I love those photos.  Yes there's no doubt: you are the prettiest girl in the world.  Where are you now, Honey?  Are you still in the city?  Or are you always in the city no matter where you are?  For a nature girl, you always seem to me to be enjoying the city.  I'm glad I don't live in the city.  It didn't work out that way intentionally, I just followed the path that Allah put me on.  When I was young, I always loved the city and its toys.  Then it happened, that living in the city sucks when you don't have any money.  Not having money sucks period, but poverty is more intense in the city.

Especially since the Covid, it doesn't really matter nowadays where you base your career because of the Internet.  If I had brought Mary to the city, it would have taken much longer for her to get to the karaoke joint in Second Life, and easier for Mary to get caught and killed.  It seems that neither talent nor beauty matters anymore in the city: one has to overcome the selfishness of survival.  Which is true anywhere of course, but much more intense in the city.  What about the rural poor?  How to raise the quality of life and wealth of the rural?  It seems to me that one has to turn the village into a city.  Have something to attract people to come here and plant their investment.  And once the village becomes a city, then it gets the problems and intensity of the city.  Ugh.  How awful.

 

Christmas politics

 

Hi Natty! How are you today, Honey?  I'm sure you are busy, so please take care of your health and safety.  Get lots of beauty sleep after all, you are a beauty.  I hope doing Christmas politics isn't bringing you down too much.  We have to do politics even though we're not politicians, and it sucks.  I hate politics but you are a sociologist, so perhaps you might find some enjoyment in the process.  Isn't it annoying about people who don't give a shit about God unless the situation is in their favor?  C'est la vie, such is life.  God be the Judge.

What else did I do today?  Not much that is different or interesting.  I did my laundry in the evening, because tomorrow morning I have errands to run.  This morning, I had errands to run.  So I had lunch downtown, rice vermicelli in soup.  Good stuff, you must try it someday inshaAllah.  Dinner was eggs and beans with sliced bread.  Convenient with laundry.  Want some?