#97 A Not So Christmassy Vlog | Garlic Confit Pasta with Salmon | Orange Mango Kefir Drink 

Thank you so much for watching and dropping me kind words! I love the kefir so much, the mixture of milky white with fruit is so pleasing to my eyes and heart. I hope 2024 will be a great year for you. Stay blessed always.

@@lebooshdiaries You're welcome! Yes, I could almost taste the kefir mix - the fresh oranges plus the tang of the kefir - because I made my own kefir at home for almost two years. I only stopped making it a couple of months ago because I simply tired of *always* having to be working on kefir, haha. Out on the countertop, then straining, straining, straining, then many jars of it in the refrigerator in different stages. One mixture that I often made that was so yummy to me was a glass of kefir with a tablespoon of dark cherry juice concentrate in it. I never thought of mixing orange juice into it, and now I really wish I had! I suppose I could get a bottle of commercial kefir from the grocery and try this now since I no longer have the grains. And I totally agree about the swirly mix being so pleasing to look at; I love that kind of thing too! Thank you, and I sincerely hope that things can get easier with your father-in-law's health difficulties.

@@SunrayStar oh nice to know that you made kefir too! I know what u mean, i am constantly straining but I need it and love it so much that I will do it. It's orange but because it was too runny due to the orange being very juicy, i added some mangos into it so that it's thick. We drink kefir 2 times a day so it goes down pretty fast. Hope one day you can get back into making kefir at home because store bought kefir is so sour. I imagined all the good bacteria have died off because there is usually so much whey in it. I have a video on the different types of fruits I mix with kefir, hope you will be around to watch that next month. Thank you for the kind wish for FIL. Appreciate it.

@@lebooshdiaries Oh, somehow I missed that mangos were part of the mix, too. Yummy! I may start making it again sometime in the future, but I just needed a break from it. There is always so much to do every day, and sometimes all the many little chores get overwhelming. Yes, I will definitely be around to watch your new videos. I will be watching all of the older original ones until I get caught up. I already started with the cat videos at the very beginning! Your way of making videos and the commentary you add in is exactly the kind of thing I love to watch and I often watch these while I'm eating lunch, or in the evening to just relax. Have a wonderful week!

@@SunrayStar Awww, thank you. Yes I do know. It can be so overwhelming. Even making videos takes 2 weeks now vs 1 week like in 2022. Have a wonderful week too.

Well thank u for watching so many videos and being consistent in being chronological! Even I don't watch someone's videos in chronological order, you have a lot of discipline. That holey shirt lol. I rarely carry the cats unless I have to, like to the bathroom for baths, or to remove them from danger. I only carry Pikachu like a baby, sometimes Sesame (but he hates it). All the cats do not really like to be carried, it's in their character. But some cats may love being carried around, just that I don't have such cats. Mine all struggle the moment you carry them. Also, I do have apron on for most of the day when I am not in the study so, if they did claw me, it would be my apron. Husband loves to catch the cats and carry them around like babies, hence the holes! Ah, I just wanted to give some excuse why i don't put up any decorations but it didn't mean that u have to be a christian then only be able to put up the decorations. I do know Xmas, which is a religious celebration is one of the most embraced celebration universally, and a lot of people, regardless of religion puts up lights and decorations for the warmth and festive cheer it brings. But typically in Malaysia, the ones who puts up the decorations are church goers. U won't see Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus doing so. I believe if i had asked my parents to put up a tree and lights during xmas when i was a kid, my mom would scold me. I think a tree strewn with fairy lights is so ethereal. We have been talking about doing this for many many years now. But u know, my husband takes a year to do anything. But this one is a huge project, he would take 10 years to get to it. I wanted some of the bigger trees to have fairy lights on their branches and trunk but we haven't figured out how to do the lighting and all, who is gonna climb up the tall trees to hang those lights. So for now, I can only just imagine my garden with fairy lights.

@@lebooshdiaries Regarding watching in chronological order, it really isn't discipline for me; it's just the orderly, well-organized person in me. I'm an organizer! haha. I have fun organizing cabinets and closets, for instance (some people absolutely hate that kind of activity). So in watching videos, I did the same thing with Nami's and Hamimommy's and Niko's videos - once I found them and really enjoyed the channel by watching a recent video and being interested in watching more, rather than just pick up from there and go forward, I would rather go back to the beginning and start from there and watch them in order, so I will see the natural time progression in their lives. It's a way more satisfying experience for me doing it in order that way than to disjointedly watch them here and there, higgledy-piggledy. And that explains why I'm still not yet caught up and am now in something around May of this year for them! I will get caught up sometime this year; it just takes time to get through them all and up to date, and eventually when I reach the newest current ones, I'll then just watch the newest ones as they're posted, and it just seems much more satisfying and less confusing to me arriving at the newest ones, having already seen all the ones that came before. If I jumped around, I would likely miss some and never get to see them. And I enjoy every one immensely as I go along! Happy time. (That includes yours!!) Oh, and I never fail to get such high amusement out of your husband's holey cat shirts, so that's an added bonus, haha. Have a super weekend!!!

@@SunrayStar I used to do that for hamimommy then i lost interest and just watched whatever new ones she posted. Sometimes i miss some and i never bother to go to those. I like it all over the place even tho I am quite an organizer. But for videos, for some reason, not so much.