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Hair thinned out too, for sure. Not the hair on the top of my head though.
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@LoriDee Dear LoriDee:Along with your other readers and avid followers, I am eagerly awaiting for your next installment of "The Story of Lori"Many HUGS, Danielle
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Last post by imallie - Today at 02:00:40 PM
High praise for Cambodian food, by the way.
Not that that should be a surprise - we've found when you are lucky enough to find a good quality, authentic representation of any ethnic cuisine you are normally in for a treat.
Cambodian, because of its region, certainly shared similarities with Chinese and Thai, but was definitely distinctive in its own way.
We had Loc Lac - a marinated steak tip dish that was somewhere between a satay and a teriyaki beef in terms of texture... but with a distinctive flavor.
A pineapple fried rice with chicken, which was cooked in a half of a pineapple, and while it is called a fried rice, in flavor and texture it was very different from its Chinese doppelgänger.
The last dish - Cha Kroeung with fish - was a lightly fried fish dish, with peppers, onions, and jalapeños in a lemongrass sauce. That was our favorite, mostly because it really didn't read like anything familiar at all. It was spicy though. Luckily for us we're really been getting more and more comfortable with that the last year.
And because it's me, one thing that I was fascinated by was — no chopsticks. The restaurant was filled with Cambodian people. I think we were the only non-Cambodians in the place, and not a single table was using them. I found that odd. If you were at a Chinese, or Vietnamese restaurant, for example, that would not be the case.
So I commented that it must be a cultural thing, perhaps like the Thai. For those who do not know (and I have always found THIS fascinating) if you wonder why you don't see chopsticks in a Thai restaurant (except for noodle dishes) it's because some long-ago king of Thailand was impressed by a colonial visitor and his utensils and made an edict that forks and spoons were to be the official tools of the land (not knives - too likely to be used as weapons)
Cambodian or Khmer food, was traditionally eaten by hand. But when the French and Chinese immigrants found their way to Cambodia, they brought both Eastern and Western traditions... and so Cambodia now uses fork and spoon as their traditional tools (to use chopsticks for everyday meals they consider "weird"), but they will sometimes use chopsticks out of respect for their Chinese guests. So it is not a law. It is custom.
No knives, though.. but that is because their food is all cut into small enough pieces that it is not required.
Again, I know most find minutiae like this utterly boring... while I find it fascinating. Apologies!
Love,
Allie
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Quote from: Jessica_K on Yesterday at 05:03:06 PMMy first SL avatar was called Caralyn O'Toole, I never deleted her so could be still there. I have forgotten her password. I had a successful business too, there is many 100's $US still in there that I have never withdrawn. No password no money lol
Hugs
Jessica xxx
wasnt too long ago I was able to recover my original account from 2007, all I needed was my email address that it was registered to. It seems they relaxed the requirements to reset. If you still have access to that email address, you can try.
#7
Last post by LoriDee - Today at 01:43:36 PM
I do have certain bras that I use the chicken cutlets with. It just boosts the cleavage to make things look nicer. I don't consider it any more fake than wearing mascara to add volume and tint to eyelashes.
I have hip pads too, but I seldom wear them. They do add to the curves, which I really like, but I have so few clothes that are stretchy enough to accommodate me plus them. They are nice to wear in the winter to provide shape and warmth. But they are just too hot to wear in the summer, except maybe in the evening.
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This story appears growing. The City of Austin has positioned itself on the opposite side of AG Paxton. Paxton is rolling the recent successes of an age verification for hardcore access with Texas IP addresses and near sweeping primaries efforts.
https://www.kxan.com/lgbtq/austin-city-council-to-vote-on-transgender-protections-resolution/"AUSTIN (KXAN) — Members of the Austin City Council voted Thursday afternoon to approve offering some protections to local transgender people seeking gender-affirming care, though it may lead to more pushback by Texas Republican lawmakers."
By all accounts the Texas Legislature is likely to sit a very pro-AG Paxton majority for the 2025 Full Session.
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Last post by LoriDee - Today at 01:37:01 PM
Congratulations, Devlyn!
That is an awesome achievement. Thank you for sharing, wishing you many more years of the same.
