Sunday

Hi Honey!  I'm sorry but I have to blog and run again today.  I must say that you are looking radiant under the sun, and happy thereof.  Nice change from the grey and snow, huh?  I hope you are having tons of fun, and when your schedule becomes hectic remember what I told you: walk slower!  Yeah, I took too much time eating my dinner.  I don't know where the time went.  Sunday mornings, I always clean my mother's bedroom.  This evening I lugged the leftover dirt from my failed mango farm project over to my Mom's yard, because she wants it to plant okra probably.  Well, I have to run to the mosque next.  Have tons of fun, OK?  You're beautiful, and I love you.

Qur'an 20181125

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

165.  What!  When a single disaster smites you, although you smote with one twice as great, do you say, "What is this?"  Say, "It is from yourselves, for Allah has power over all things."

(The Family of Imran 3:165)
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The dying cat stares at the water

From Allah is our origin and to Allah is our return.

Hi Honey.  How are you?  If you're not feeling ready, then don't hurry.  Don't hurry so much at anything.  Slow down your pace, and don't forget to smell the flowers.  Take lots of snapshots!  My elderly kitty Chee Cheah died this morning.  She had been with me 10 years, and she was 10 years old when I met her.  I had just returned here from the US, and she was my Dad's cat, staying with my parents.  Then when I moved here to live alone, I took her with me.  She got old, and her digestive system shut down.  It happened very quickly: even though she was old and thin, she was eating a lot.  Then yesterday, she couldn't stomach anything and stopped eating, then this morning she died.  I could tell this was it, so at first light I dug her grave.  Everything was so clean and organized, this death wasn't messy at all.  After I dug her grave, I went inside and waited and watched her take her last breath.  Then I wrapped her up in newspaper.  The headline read, "Born To Be A Queen."  It was about a beauty pageant.

I don't really feel like giving an extensive eulogy, because she used to be my Dad's cat.  Of course I loved her: I love all my cats.  One thing about her is that she was very adept at flashing her eyes.  In the photo below which was the very first snapshot I took of her, she was 11 years old and flashing her eyes at the camera.  After she died, I cradled her body as I took her to be buried, and she flashed her eyes at me for the last time.  Poor little Chee Cheah.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hi Honey!  Are you enjoying your day?  Feasting on roast turkey and giblet gravy?  We don't have a lot of turkeys here, just chickens.  Though the neighbor has a white turkey.  Hm, strange.  It's been an easy day in the kitchen for me.  Lunch and dinner were already cooked from yesterday, so all I had to do was heat it up.  No, I didn't set up a feast here.  Thanksgiving is an American holiday.  I guess it's not Thanksgiving yet in Canada.  I'm thankful that I didn't have to slave in the kitchen for a day.  I heated up some soup that my Mom gave me yesterday for lunch, and for dinner I had an extra calzone stuffed with chili and cheese, so I heated that up.  With the extra time, I spent it on YouTube watching a lot of The Voice, Got Talent, and the like.  I did manage to do some yard work in the evening, I cut the grass.  It was a hot day, but hot and dry for a change.  Anyway, I'm going to head out to the mosque for the night prayer.  I hope you are having a great time!

I am who I am

Hi Honey!  That certainly is a wonderful new campaign you have there, and you are perfectly cast as a model for ski attire.  Your voice has lowered a little, and it makes you sound more confident and sexier.  I like it.  I want you to enjoy this time where things get crazy and exciting.  Get your fill of it before we get married inshaAllah, but be sure to protect your chastity.

As for me, I have already done my time doing crazy and exciting stuff, and under more dangerous circumstances than you.  Now I have to stand my ground here and follow this routine, because this is my mission, this is what Allah instructs me to do.  I endorse you because you are my wife inshaAllah.  So be prepared to someday give up the crazy life to live the life of a bored housewife, who gets a free house and all expenses paid, to raise children who together we will train to take care of their mother when she gets old.  A good Muslim wife inshaAllah.  If you can't do this then go ahead and bail out now, and I will go online shopping for another pretty blonde/s to marry.

Qur'an 20181122

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

154.  After the distress, God sent down calm on a band of you overcome with slumber, while another band was stirred to anxiety by their own feelings, moved by wrong suspicions of Allah, suspicions due to ignorance.  They said, "What affair is this of ours?"  Say you, "Indeed, this affair is wholly Allah's."  They hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to you.  They say, "If we had had anything to do with this affair, we should not have been in the slaughter here."  Say, "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death."  But that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts.

(The Family of Imran 3:154)
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Hot soup

Oh that's right, it is 2018 isn't it?  I knew you had graduated, but you were still in school so I was confused.  And it's November already, wow time sure flies.  I want you to know how proud I am of you, that you stayed and finished school, yet be in the entertainment business.  Now you're going back into the hot soup, you're probably out of practice, and all the gossip is starting up again, and making your ears itch.  It's probably mostly just models 10 years younger than you, being jealous and what not.  Make as much money for yourself while you can, and save it don't waste it, and try not to consume interest.  Yes Honey, you are my Rock and Roll Queen.  You are beautiful, and I love you.

Speaking of hot soup, lunch was very enjoyable today.  I had some chicken broth, plus some okra from the yard and some tomatoes so I made rice noodles in soup in a huge man-sized bowl about a foot across.  Alhamdulillah.  But it was such a huge portion, and all that hot soup had an effect on my throat, and I had lots of trouble voice training.  I couldn't channel Billie Holiday at all, and Karen Carpenter didn't want to stick around either.  I guess they don't like hot soup.  I won't do that again, eat that much hot soup before I have to sing.  It took me an hour before I got some control back.

I like the color white best in my clothes, off-white in particular.  Pearl, like I wore today.  It's pearl, do you agree?  It's a great thing that white in virtual clothes don't stain.  In real life, I would only be able to wear this outfit once.