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Hi Natty!  How are you, my love?  Are you learning how to relax and take it easy?  I hope you are.  I think you will enjoy life more if you stop to smell the roses.  I'm doing OK here, I just finished my dinner.  I made a batch of chili a few days ago, I spread that on a couple of pita breads then added a burger.  I think it was a success.  It didn't need cheese or onions.  Chili (and Mexican food in general) is low in cost, so I can eat until I'm bloated if I want to.  But I find that if the beans don't overwhelm the bread, then there's less chance of indigestion.  I hope.

Here's the latest snapshot of Yoolie the meme.  She's all grown up now!  But she still walks like a kitten.  So cute!  Don't worry about her left eye folks, it's big, clear and healthy.  It's just dark in the photo because of the shadow.  Or maybe it's because she's the cat of death.

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You were totally on the ball today, Natty.  Great job.  Right after my last post, I checked the local news and they reported that the lead singer of Roxette just passed away.  It took Yahoo over 12 hours later to display the news.  So much for the instantaneous delivery of information in the Internet age.  I guess it depends on where you look.  Yahoo did report on this years Nobel prize ceremony though, but mostly on what the girls were wearing.  Tiaras!

Mary Unknown7 suddenly had a fever while she was singing today.  Right in the middle of the set, she came down with a fever and was weakened.  I gave her a couple of aspirin and she felt better, but she's still feeling quite miserable.

You look Swedish

Hi Natty!  I just barely got done doing wardrobe with Mary Unknown7.  You certainly do have many faces!  You look beautiful in all of them, my darling.  And it certainly looks cold, so you better bundle up and wear your boots when you go swimming. 

Edie

Hi Natty!  You are looking fabulously beautiful as ever.  Like painted glass.  That photo makes you look somewhat like Edie Sedgwick, but with nicer eyebrows and skin.  Yeah Google has been baiting me with Edie Sedgwick lately, I guess they want me to study up on Andy Warhol or something.  I guess.  **shrugs**  I never really caught interest in Andy Warhol nor pop art, even though I had many artist friends.  Edie Sedgwick strikes me as another casualty junkie of the city.  Not a superstar, more of an urban legend but because of Andy Warhol.  I like Campbell's cream of chicken soup, though.  Very tasty.

Today's outfit is green!  I don't have many green outfits for Mary.  Not many people design in green, not that I've found at least.  That backdrop is spinach!

Qur'an 20191210

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

68.  If they do wrangle with you say, "Allah knows best what it is you are doing."

69.  Allah will judge between you on the Day of Judgment concerning the matters in which you differ.

70.  Know you not that Allah knows all that is in the heavens and on earth?  Indeed it is all in a record, and that is easy for Allah.

71.  Yet they worship besides Allah, things for which no authority has been sent down to them, and of which they have no knowledge: for those that do wrong there is no helper.

72.  When Our clear Signs are rehearsed to them, you will notice a denial on the faces of the unbelievers!  They nearly attack with violence those who rehearse Our Signs to them.  Say, "Shall I tell you of something worse than these Signs?  It is the fire!  Allah has promised it to the unbelievers!  And evil is that destination!"

The Pilgrimage 22:68-72

The tree is dead, long live the tree

Hi Natty!  How are you, my love?  Are you managing those stress levels OK?  Let me guess, you are having a 60% success at controlling stress, but it's difficult to rid of it absolutely.  Well that's understandable, there's more responsibility and stuff to do now you are successful.  Plus, it's the holiday season.  The logic is that you will never catch up, so you had better procrastinate in favor of your heart.  You will be fine inshaAllah, please follow my instructions.  Everyday after completing your business or at a certain time, stop whatever it is you're doing and go back to that quiet place and slow your pulse down.  You MUST take care of your heart.  Accept no engagements that interfere with this routine.  Don't worry about jealous rivals, my darling.  Yes, you are a nice person.  That's one of the reasons why I love you.

I finally dismantled that dead amra tree by my front gate.  I was successful in planning it, thus I am grateful I didn't get hurt or killed alhamdulillah.  That old tree was fine in January, and producing lots of fruit.  Now it's dead: things change fast.  When I chopped it up into manageable logs, I found that it was full of parasites, flying everywhere all over me along with the sawdust.  Bleah!  They only eat trees and not humans, I hope.  Right next to the dead tree I planted an Inai a couple years ago, which is used for its fragrance and dye.  It's supposed to be a shrub, but now it's become huge.  I wonder if it will become a giant...