Pretty

Wow that's a beautiful snapshot, Erin.  You are so pretty.  I wanna be pretty too!  But I'm not.  I'm guessing that you are becoming fluent in Spanish as well.

You're pretty too, Natty.  So much prettiness.  The world is certainly a beautiful place.

Qur'an 20171231

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

25.  And when Our Clear Signs are rehearsed to them, their argument is nothing but this: they say, "Bring back our forefathers, if what you say is true!"

Say, "It is Allah Who gives you life, then gives you death, then God will gather you together for the Day of Judgement about which there is no doubt," but most humans do not understand.

The Kneeling Down 45:25-26
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Envy

No, I'm not a big fan of Selena.  Oh, I apologize that last post wasn't very romantic.  Since you've been hanging out in that area a lot lately Erin, I thought it would be necessary to make you familiar with some of the baggage that comes with the music, if you didn't already know.  I don't want you to carry my luggage for me.  No gentleman would allow a lady to carry his luggage.  I can carry my own baggage.  If you didn't know the Selena story, she was done in by the president of her fan club.  Speaking spiritually, people are very intelligent and recognize the Signs of God when they see them.  It is out of selfish envy that they reject God.  Incidentally, I've been snacking on chips and home made salsa.  Corn chips are corn chips as usual, but there is a local company that has taken the monopoly over Doritos.  Tastes like corn chips to me.  I love chips and salsa!  Extra hot.  I made it out of tomatoes, onions, chilli puree, roasted hot peppers, cilantro, lime and sugar.  Dinner was tortillas, but the stuffing was unorthodox.  I sauteed sliced chicken liver in chopped fresh turmeric and garlic with curry powder.  Then I rolled that into burritos with scrambled eggs, dried onions, and salsa.  Delicious.  Alhamdulillah.  Want some?

Natty, what are you doing?  You've been eating a lot lately, huh.  It is the holiday season after all, and you're oh so cozy in the safety and comfort of the family home.  I guess since you are snowed in, you have been gorging on wine and viddles.  Please keep away from drugs and alcohol OK?  It rained a little here today, and the New Year usually brings about a heat wave.  I hate hot weather, but I must stand my ground here.  I wouldn't mind warming up with you right now.  I can live without wine, though.  Don't need it, don't want it.

Luggage

Is this American music?  No, it's AMERICAS.

No joke

Yeah, the image of Noah's Ark flying a Jolly Roger is kind of funny.  But what it represents is no joke whatsoever.  I read on Yahoo yesterday that the world's richest people earned an extra one trillion USD in 2017.  Guess who they have to thank for that...  But to give the advantage of rural over urban, small business over the banks and Islam over other religions is no laughing matter.  Anybody who jokes about that will be humiliated while they still live.  So please forgive those who do not look forward to the Days of Allah.  I think I posted this video already, but I just had to post it again for you, Erin.  If you listen closely, you can hear the guy say "Erin, is my wife down there?"

Natty Sweetheart, how are you?  I hope you are not being tempted by holiday drinking.  It's nice to be surrounded by the comfort and safety of home, but you are getting stir crazy right?  It's normal to get restless in between gigs.  But you know as well as I do that when it gets busy, it gets CRAZY!  That's why I want and need you to stay clean, so that someone doesn't tempt you to put a noose around your neck while you are in a trance, and drag you down into hell.  Did you get a hobby like I told you to?  Could you please show me?

Here, have some chocolate.  Fruit and nut.

Arr

Oh Erin, you're in Costa Rica!  I just happened to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" for the first time today.  Since you and your gang are all dressed up in yoga leotards, perhaps you would like to pick up swords and be the crew of my ship, the "Arr-k".

Natty, you're so formal!  How are you today, ma'am?  (Shakes hands)  How's the weather over there today?  Oh, you like to hide.  Good idea.  I like to hide too.

Hi Honey

How are you doing today, my love?  How's the holiday season treating you?  I'm running a little later than usual today, please forgive me.  I try to be rock steady with this letter, it's the least I can do since I have no money.  But today I spent the evening at the mosque, listening to the elderly Qur'an teacher.  I usually do so anyway, but today I skipped dinner and went early.  So after I post this, I'll cook up something to eat.  Nothing fancy or too hard on the tummy- I'm having a hankering for chicken nuggets stuffed in pocket bread.  I guess that is sort of fancy... in a most mundane way.  I have to take a break from socializing at the Second Life chat room I usually go to- Boss's orders.  But I will still log in to work on my wardrobe, if you want to IM me or something.  I always hope and look forward to hearing from you.  Well, I'm going to go make my dinner.  Take care.  I love you.

 

 

 

 

Have a Happy Christmas

What are you doing for today, Erin?  Try to stay indoors OK?  You have a beautiful family, Natty.  Have fun eating OK?  I had to work today.  Yes Honey, it's the tourist season.  I woke up at about 5 am, took a shower, did some extra worship, then got ready to leave right after the dawn prayer.  I went to the market.  The stock market is closed today, but the market was definitely open.  So were the restaurants.  I went to Razak Curry House by the bus depot to get some flat bread, and the area was crowded.  This was 6:30 am.  Then the whole morning was spent doing chores, and gutting fish, and processing chicken.  I managed to squeeze in a nap, then it was time for voice training.  I made a whole lot of won tons in the evening- that took a lot of time.  Tedious to make, goes down fast.  Then I went to the night market to pick up some chicken wings.  Yeah, it's tourist season all right.   When you plan our vacation Honey, please remember that the holiday season is not our holiday season.

 

 

 

Sunday

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  Are you all settled and relaxed for the holiday season?  I hope you got all your shopping done.  You look so marvelous, so are so beautiful without makeup, you don't need makeup.  It's just an average Sunday here for me, nothing out of the ordinary going on.  I cleaned my parents' bedroom Sunday morning as usual, then in the evening I dug a ditch for my Mom.  She wants to plant okra.  Nothing special on the menu either.  I had 15 pieces of the nugget part of the chicken for dinner.  I hope you be safe and stay indoors this holiday season.  Have a happy holidays!

 

 

 

Our book of memories

That's what it is Erin Honey, we build our marriage on a series of memories of feelings and actions generated by the touch of the tips of our fingers onto a keyboard or mouse button, where the tips of our fingers cannot touch the tips of our fingers.  While I do not know everything, God knows everything, and I prayed to God to make our connection and tell me your heart and actions, all while the Public Eye watches it like some kind of movie.  Don't expect them to help, in God we put our trust.  And God has given me some cats to hug and kiss in lieu of you, but I hope that you will see that I truly love you, and I would wait until I die for you, inshaAllah it won't come to that.  The Holiday Season is peak tourist season here, one of the peaks that is.  Although I don't get a holiday, it did rain all day today so God gave me a holiday from manual labor.  I watched a movie instead: "Myra Breckenridge".  It was a gross movie actually, but I liked the ending so much that I liked the whole movie.

Natty honey, to do your Christmas shopping on the weekend of Christmas is not just unwise, but it seems that you are intentionally being unwise because I know you had plenty of spare time.  It appears to me that you are making an endorsement of holiday shopping, a well-known and beautiful girl like you.  But you are not me, you must get paid for your endorsements.  So please make sure of that OK?  Muslims don't celebrate Christmas, we celebrate Ramadan and the 2 Eids.  What the kids expect is cash and food on the first Eid, and presents for their birthdays.  No holiday shopping for presents!

 

 

 

Keyser Söze

Hey Erin Darling!  How are you feeling today?  It's a Friday, and I had to attend the Friday prayer.  My mornings are crammed from the moment I wake up, but after all the chores were done I decided to take it easy today, and watch a movie.  I finally got around to watching "The Usual Suspects".  Now I wouldn't have watched that movie if you hadn't posted about it a little over a couple of Ramadans ago.  I thought you were mad at me or something.  You probably are still mad at me for the same reason.  I saw the movie today, though.  It's a great movie that's for sure.  Oh, I'm not that mysterious.  People think that I'm mysterious, and they're wrong.  Allah is the One Who is mysterious.

Hi there Mountain Girl!  You know, I would rather be in snowy weather than sweltering heat, but my mission is to stand my ground here.  I feel that it's easier to warm up than it is to cool down, especially when there's a nice cozy fire.  What a charming snow princess you are.  My snowbird.

 

 

 

 

Feedback

Hi Honey!  How are you?  I hope you are feeling and doing great.  I'm running a little late today, I'm sorry.  I'm kind of a busy person, just doing everyday stuff.  Chores, mostly.  It's all so mundane.  I have been experimenting with my rehearsal space to get the sweetest sound with just the physics of it all, and today I think I found the perfect blend between space, volume, and technique.  Where I can control feedback while singing, so it sounds like I'm using a lot of echo but I'm not.  Plus, I'm not all that loud either, but it sounds huge.  Then the whole countryside becomes quiet, not even a chirp of a bird.  Glory to Allah.  I didn't go to the Second Life chat room last night.  Oh dear, I don't have any snapshots to post.  What shall I do?  How about some Metallica instead?

Hey Natty honey!  Aw don't you worry you beautiful creature you, I'm not going to abandon you inshaAllah.  You just have faith, and everything will turn out just fine.  Please pray, OK?  Meanwhile, please enjoy your career.  You're just getting started!  Have you found yourself a nice hobby yet?

Peace

It is a magnificent world, Erin Darling.  I want to share it with you.  Wish you were here with me.

Natty Honey, you look absolutely great in the morning.  How do you do it?

 

 

 

 

Dead squirrel, dead rat

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  How's business?  Are you staying safe and eating properly and resting adequately?  Of course I think of you all the time.  I think of how beautiful you are, and how much I love you.  Nothing much going on here for me today besides the usual.  But I do want to talk about a dead squirrel and a dead rat.

Now my Bat Cat has acquired a taste for squirrel meat.  I saw him going after squirrels before, and he's getting quite good at hunting them.  He doesn't just hunt them for sport, but he eats the abdomen and the stomach then he leaves the rest for the ants.  Yesterday, he enjoyed a squirrel dinner on the concrete of my parents' yard.  You can see the trademark of his dining habit: only the head and the tail/hind legs are left, plus you can see all the army ants digging into the leftovers.  But what does it mean?  Does it mean that it's pointless for me to save for tomorrow, and just live for today?  Or does it mean that I can already reap the fruits of my work?

Last night, I laid a trap for a mouse in my parents' kitchen.  My Mom had been complaining about a fat mouse terrorizing her kitchen, then I also saw evidence of a mouse eating half a banana.  This morning when I went to get the trap, there was a big fat mouse in there.  So fat, that I guess it should be a rat.  Now I usually leave the trap out in the sun to finish off the mouse, and the ants usually come and kill it for me, or the sun would do the job.  But the ants strangely enough were not interested in this rat, so it took 6 hours under the sun for it to die.  As you can see from the snapshot, the rat had been dead for a few hours and is waiting to be cremated in the bonfire, and there are still no ants on it.  But what does it mean?  Could it be that a fat, corrupt politician finally gets what he deserves, and nobody pays any respect to his body?

Nah people, maybe it's just a dead squirrel and a dead rat.

 

 

 

Qur'an 20171219

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

81.  Say, "If the Most Gracious had a son, I would be the first to worship."

The Gold Adornments 43:81
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Monday

Hi Honey!  How are you?  How's work today?  Oh, I'm staying busy as usual.  I'm always doing something, so I guess I'm always busy.  I hope you are pacing yourself if you do have lots to do- I find that my emotions are more in control if I work slowly.  Then I find that I have worked at a good pace even though I tried to work slowly... If you're on holiday, then try not to get too stir crazy.  There are always fun things to do.  There are always fun hobbies out there, which can turn into very profitable ways of diversifying, which is what we want out of our careers as we grow older, right?  Nothing much on the menu today.  Ramen for lunch- I love ramen- then I bought fried chicken at the night market for dinner.  I had had a craving for fried chicken lately, and I'm way too lazy to make my own.  Fried chicken generates such a huge mess, I might as well just buy it since everybody else makes fried chicken.  Well, take it easy playing the waiting game.  Have faith, OK?  When God decides things to happen, they happen immediately.  I love you.  You are beautiful.

 

 

 

Green

Hey Erin!  I'm happy to see you so pumped up and excited.  I like how you've been conducting your business, so keep it up!  I'm sure your use of that word has nothing to do with being worshiped, but more to do with the empowerment of women.  Thus it is.  Be the role model that you already are.

Hey Natty!  What fall?  We're only just getting started!  Look Honey, the best we can be is on the edge, so don't worry about illusions of security.  Maybe you're just too idle in your free time.  Could it be that you are a... workaholic?  Did you get a hobby like I told you?  Don't count your fingers, Sweetie: use them.  Besides, I didn't see you fall in that photo- you would have ruined all that beautiful tulle.  So grab my hand and hold on tight, this is Rock and Roll.  I won't let you go inshaAllah.

 

 

 

 

Spaghetti and meatballs

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I hope you are having tons of fun, and you should be, because you are MY girl.  You are so beautiful.  I would like to grab you and hold you tight.  Oh, nothing much out of the ordinary going on here.  I trimmed the mango tree this evening.  It was full of army ants!  Ouch!  Dinner isn't all that special either, just spaghetti and meatballs.  Actually, it's linguini and meatballs.  I was in the middle of preparing it, when my Mom gave me some curry noodles.  Thanks Mom!  It's not enough food for me though, because I have my appetite back now, so I'll eat the pasta after I finish this letter.  I ate all the ice cream- nearly half a gallon in one sitting!  Oh my God, I had such a craving.  You want some pasta?