Dance Piene, dance!

And a good year to you too, Erin.  Incidentally, the Muslim New Year (called Awal Muharam) was on Sunday October 2.  I don't know much about Jewish rituals.  I had to Google it up.

Nat Sweetie, I don't want you to feel slighted because I haven't given you a dowry yet so we don't any anniversaries, be it not a dowry of music.  I must have a first wife before I can put down a dowry for a second wife, and right now I can't afford any wife.  That's why I gave Erin a dowry of music, but I'm not doing that anymore because people get too fanatical about music.  When the time comes for a formal proposal inshaAllah, you will get a ring for a dowry.  And the song I posted wasn't really a gift to her, it was a gift to everybody on the occasion of our anniversary of my proposal to her.  I do want to marry you and I am faithful, InshaAllah.  Right now, it's just a matter of money.

Dinner was steak and pan-fried hummus.  Pan frying brings out the nutty flavor of the hummus, though it dries up a little.