The two of them call me every day, ideally, but on Saturdays my husband also joins and we mainly discuss how her fiancé’s new business is doing driving tourists, so far just to and around Maasai Mara (we’ve gotten some fabulous videos!)
We helped him buy the vehicle, a Land Rover that’s specially equipped for driving tourists, and we’re all very excited about how things are going even though the high season is off to a slower start than usual because of Ebola and gas prices.
With the health issues it wouldn’t have worked at all for me to go, they’ve all had a really good time, and I’ve really enjoyed having the house all to myself.
I’ve been on an increasingly less strict low histamine diet since late July 2022, and this food was a big jump up to a higher-histamine risk level (red meat.) I had a noticeable reaction but it wasn’t terrible and the symptoms weren’t there for a long time afterwards.
I love that my husband is kind that way.
They have to be soaked because there’s a chemical in them that’s bad for some people and I’m at risk for that problem [Edited: I’ve been doing this for some months now and had forgotten exactly what that was. It’s phytic acid, which binds to certain important minerals and impacts their absorption, but soaking them breaks down the acid. Besides having to be on this diet to begin with, I already have absorption issues from an intestinal surgery and do what I can to maximize my nutrition.]
Then I have to roast them at a very low temperature or they burn before they’re roasted enough, so it takes hours. I also want them salted or they’re boring, and the only way to get salt to stick is if I coat them in melted ghee and sprinkle really fine salt on them, which takes a lot of salting and stirring to get them all coated enough because 4 pounds is a lot of pecans.
It takes a lot of my day every other Saturday because I only have two ovens!
Edited: Since people seem to be confused about the concept of an original vagina, trans women who have had “bottom surgery” don’t have an original one. Trans men who haven’t had bottom surgery and cisgender women do.
Why YSK?
If you chronically have a fishy smell you should definitely get tested for an infection in case that could be part of the problem, but either way, washing your inner and outer labia with soap or any other kind of unnatural product strips the tissue and membranes of the natural secretions that help keep everything in balance, whereas washing with water helps maintain it.
I had this problem for years and it happened to come up in conversation with my pelvic floor physical therapist. Within a week the problem stopped completely.
I met L. through my mother‘s emails after her death and have been helping her, her fiancé and her family as much as I can, including getting donations to send all of her nieces and nephews to decent schools (the family is Maasai and can’t afford them, which is how my mother ended up sponsoring this young woman for eight years, eventually developing a personal relationship with her herself.)
I believe I appreciate having them in my life at least as much as they appreciate me being in theirs, I just love them all so much.
And this morning I had what wasn’t the first conversation with her older brother, thanks to Facebook Messenger and Google translate.
For all its faults, technology is amazing!
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Edited: Those of you are giving examples of children learning to speak perfectly with no accent *in about a year*, I’m confused about how that’s relevant to my post, which is clearly about a child learning how to do that in less than six months, as well as learning to read in a completely new language that has a completely different alphabet.