Friday, October 2, 2015

Letter to Erin 20151003















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

Happy 2nd anniversary, Sweetie!  I love you, Erin.  I want to marry you.  And I need you.  I'll have to admit that I stopped working on these house plans when I figured out that you have your own house plan.  But if you don't have any house plan when the time comes inshaAllah, I'll go ahead and use these. 

1.  I didn't write the measurements down because this is just a simple view of what I had planned, besides I will need to re-measure everything professionally before construction. 

2.  Right now there are trees bordering the property of your house inshaAllah, but I intend to remove them all and build a wall.  It would help slow snakes down, and block out debris from floods. 

3.  I didn't label the west facade correctly: it's actually the north facade.

4.  You have a nice and big walk in closet and bathroom.  All yours!  I'll just use the other restrooms.  I made a mistake with placing the toilets: none of the toilets must face west (or towards Mecca).  Instructions of the Prophet (peace be on him).

5.  The trees aren't scaled correctly.  The south facade actually faces a whole lot of banana trees, which I intend to clear.  They don't taste very good, and I want to keep that area open.

6.  Your house is actually an upgraded version of my little house.  My little house is actually smaller by about 30% than what you see in this plan.  I had to make it bigger so I could play Sims 3 more comfortably.  I plan to use my little house as an office/studio, plus it will be my doghouse whenever you're mad at me.

7.  No. we're not situated on a hill overlooking the sea.  We have neighbors on the north, south, and west.  My parents are my north neighbor, and my younger brother lives with them.

8.  I didn't decorate the walls of the house.  Just to remind you, a Muslim house must not have statues and human effigies (like posters of celebrities) in it.  Please unload such items before we marry, if you have them.  Photos of your friends and relatives are OK.

9.  The main entrance/driveway is on the east, and it connects to a small road leading to an elementary school located north.

10.  There is a laundry room on the ground floor.  Sims 3 doesn't have washers and dryers, so the laundry room may not be obvious.  Options for clothes dryers are poor in this country, so be prepared to dry your clothes on a line.  Oh, I can do my own laundry.  It may not please you how I do laundry, but I will do my own laundry.

11.  I put big showroom style windows on the first floor overlooking the yard on the south.  I plan to have metal shutters on these windows like you would see on businesses, to close when we leave for vacation for instance.

12.  Please expect the presence of cats!  Mouse control!  My cats are expert mousers, so you must be nice to them.

Erin, please make a donation to a worthwhile charity of a minimum of one US dollar.