Letter to Erin 20151006

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

Hi Erin!  Hi Sweetie!  How are you feeling today?  I pray that you are feeling healthy and confident.  It's business as usual for me today.  I had to go downtown in the morning to get the new prayer schedule.  Prayer times I'm sure you know, are dawn, afternoon, early evening, sunset, and night.  But they have it all calculated accurately to the times nowadays, that I can just look at the schedule and see that the night prayer is 8:19 pm today.  The Muslim calendar is a true lunar calendar, so the full moon is always on the 14th.  The new year begins next Wednesday.  Year 1437.

I killed all my guppies yesterday.  I keep telling myself, "Don't wash the thing with soap!" and what do I do?  I washed the thing with soap.  That's why I hate house cleaning.  I kill innocent fish, that do me no harm.  They don't pee at my bathroom door.  Poor fish.  So I took 9 baby guppies from my Dad's fish pond.  He seems to have an endless supply of guppies.  They seem to be doing OK.  They all are basically the same size, about a couple of grains of rice or less each.  So I put 4 pellets of fish food in the jar, about the size of a mustard seed each.  They get bigger after soaking in water.  But the bigger fish chase away the little fish from the food.  And I'm watching them right now.  There they go, so bigger than a couple grains of rice, circling the food, making sure no one else gets it.

I don't know what it means!  I'm a guppy killer!  Maybe I do know what it means, and I'm not telling.  I hope you are doing great.  Take care of yourself, Sweetie.  I love you, and I need you.