Local flavor

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  Is everything okay with you over there?  I hope you are having a marvelous time Mrs Global, and keeping safe and healthy.  I love you with all of my heart!  As you know, corporate food joints you are familiar with have taken hold locally here where I am.  Yeah it's still the sticks but I have absolutely no desire to travel anywhere, not even to shop.  So it's great for me that Starbucks and McDonald's are here.  The locals however have local taste buds, and the corporations try to come up with items on their menu that appeal to the locals.  I personally go to McDonald's for burgers and KFC for fried chicken but that's just me, maybe I'm a weirdo.  But I won't buy local flavor at those places when I can get them at a fifth of the price by the roadside.

I was at the supermarket yesterday and I noticed the Oreos you see above in the bargain bin, so I bought a pack.  I haven't tried them yet, I had some banana cake in my cookie bin to eat first to make room.  I'll have an Oreo right now...  Hmm...  Yes, it's nasty.  That's why it was in the bargain bin.  Why lychee and orange?  Why not just lychee?  At least the filling would be white, and familiar to look at.  It's going to take me a long time to finish these cookies.  You wanna try one, Honey?

Mary's outfit is:

Amy White and Pink String Panties by INSOLENCE

-FABIA- Mesh Hair < Aly>

CR - Enchant Earrings - Blue Topaz

FAVOR - SIRENA GOWN

Pure Poison - Shira Sandals

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Burger!

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  I'm sure you're keeping busy doing glamorous supermodel things, so please make sure you keep safe and healthy.  I'm doing OK over here.  There's a lot of resistance over the Internet nowadays, but it has become routine so I don't really think too much about it.  The Great Pizza Day is coming up soon!  Are you excited?  I have to prepare now for the formality, so I did a little shopping this evening.  Wow, it takes 50 times longer for me to make pizza than it did 20 years ago.  Mozzarella cheese is so expensive!  I'm not done shopping for it yet, but I had to quit for now.  I bought dinner on the way home at a roadside burger stall.  These stalls are a staple of local life, and have been around as long as I've been alive.  The burgers have Westernized since they now have McDonald's to compare with, so no more putting baked beans or sweet corn on burgers.  Thank God!  And it's half the price of McDonald's, for a bigger burger.

Mary's outfit is:

ADN Tashia outfit

bonbon - bon hair

"Dark Angel" necklace by Earth & Sky Designs

-KC- NANCY HEELS

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No thanks

 

Hi Natty!  What's going on today, Honey?  I hope you are having tons of fun!  I love you very much, my darling.  Please keep safe and healthy in your escapades.  I spent the entire evening portioning out the 2½ kilos of beef I bought yesterday.  Yes I am a carnivore, and so are my cats.  Right, Anna?  I have to have some meat everyday or I will get heart problems.  Just a burger patty's amount will do.  The beef I bought had a lot of gristle, but the cats ate it all in less than a minute.  I cut all the beef into sugar cube sized pieces, so my teeth wouldn't have to work so hard.  Meat!  It's something worth fighting for.

There's been a lot of videos lately about people throwing stuff at singers on stage.  Many think it's a recent development, but I see it as always having happened.  It's part of the price you pay for being a "winner".  We here at Shadowplay do not endorse idol worship.  Allah is the only One worthy of worship.

Mary's outfit is:

Alli&Ali Designs Debbie Hair

GLINT Circle Pearl Summer Earrings

ELUSIVE - HAPPY 4TH OF JULY GIFT

tomoto, starstarstar headband

-KC- AMIRA BOOTS

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A dream house

 

Hi Natty!  How are you feeling today, Honey?  Are you enjoying the front line?  I get the sensation that you rush to the spotlight as quickly as possible whenever you can.  It wasn't like that years ago.  Where are those panic attacks now?  Oh, you conquered them.  You did well then, Honey.  Please keep safe and healthy in your adventures.  I'm doing OK over here.  I went grocery shopping today.  The cheap cuts of beef that I usually get have gone up in price.  It's probably a seasonal thing due to the Eid, and not necessarily due to global inflation (something created by the wealthy where the hoarding of excessive amounts of money makes everything more expensive for everyone else).

It's the front line over here too, by the way.  Not the glitz and glam of the fashion biz, but of the spiritual sense.  When we marry inshaAllah, it will still be the front line for you and I.  The difference is that we will be together.  So double check your perspective on your situation, Honey.  "Wherever you go, there you are.". Check out the photo of a Barbie dream house Vogue sent me.  Not from the movie, but a real mansion in Malibu.  Do you like it?  You must regard practical house plans, Honey.  A house you can maintain with your own strength.  Because the biggest problem with hired labor (besides trust) is that they don't show up for work.

Mary's outfit is:

Alli&Ali Designs Sonera Hair

!!BH!!Moira's sling back pumps v13

Pure Poison - Envy Me Gown

Swallow- handmade Earrings Silver

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