How's work?

Hi Honey!  How was your day today?  How was work?  I had a tough day at work today.  I know it's going to be a bad work day when my voice doesn't want to come out on the very first song.  I know why singers like to do drugs or kill themselves- it's very difficult to sing well.  To sing well, you have to sing perfectly.  To sing perfectly, you have to have the perfect feeling, and you have to have the perfect feeling all the time.  Which is impossible for a human being, but it is the job of a singer.  Today was such a hot day.  It was so hot, I couldn't rest or sleep.  It's so important for me that I nap before I sing, but I couldn't rest at all, it was so hot.  Today's set was a failure.  There were maybe a couple of good songs in there, but most of the set was crap.  I need air conditioning.  It won't solve everything, but at least it would help me rest.

Natty Honey, are you getting an award?  Wow!  You haven't worked at all this year, and it's already the middle of March.  You must be a movie star or something.  Well, congratulations.  You deserve it, and you are beautiful.  You are MY girl.

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Hi Honey!  How's it going today?  I hope you are looking after yourself and keeping safe.  I hope you are not doing something foolishly brave like challenging Latino gangs because you feel like you have to match up to me or something.  It's not your place or your job to do so.  What you should be doing is be beautiful.  That's all you have to do.  And you are beautiful.  You are very, very beautiful.  So please keep yourself safe, because you are very precious and very valuable, not just to me, but to many many people.

Hey Natty Honey!  Today the computer wants you to watch another Bond movie: "Skyfall" from 2012.  Daniel Craig makes a pretty good Bond.  But the writing is not as good as the earlier Bond movies, even though "Skyfall" is better than most of the recent ones.  Admit it, movie people- Ian Fleming wrote the best Bond movies.  There is so much emphasis on stunts and effects, that there is no time for intrigue.  To me, Daniel Craig scores 2-2 in his Bond movies compared to Sean Connery, who scores 7-0.  All because of the writing.  In all fairness, I haven't seen SPECTRE yet.  Should I?

Entertainment

Hi Honey!  How was work today?  I hope you are doing great, and feeling healthy and confident.  You don't really seem like the type to just stay on the couch and watch TV, although you could.  I would want you to live safely and comfortably, while I do the hard work.  Please be safe, OK?  Yeah, I'm feeling better than yesterday.  Of course you may have noticed some developments that happened to me that I don't talk about, but such is life.  We want to take the high road, perhaps Allah will grant us strength to keep our integrity.  Anyway, the business of entertainment has been the same for a long time now all over the world, and there is no doubt anymore that it is a dangerous business.  If you would study Frank Sinatra, then you would see the connection of entertainment to gambling and the underworld etc, which happens to be the same mode of operation worldwide.  This path that I chose was chosen for me by Allah, and I merely obey.  To give the advantage of the rural over the urban, small business over the banks, and Islam over other religions.  The advantage of music.  You are my wife inshaAllah.

Natty Honey, today the computer wants you to watch "Casino" from 1995.  Evil does the same thing over and over again, because it cannot create: it only wants to rob.  This movie is based on a true story so it says.  Well you can be certain that all the glitz and glamor is the same cycle repeating itself: it doesn't even try to hide anymore.  Why would the mob abandon Vegas?  Because they got bought out by the corporations.  And who are the corporations?

The power drain

Hi Honey!  How are you feeling today?  How's work?  I'm kind of tired myself.  Sunday is always a busy day for me, and I have a lot going on in the morning.  When I was voice training today, I sort of lost power at around 40 minutes.  It was going along just fine, when suddenly I ran out of gas.  But I continued at half luminescence, until the power cut out.  Somehow I tripped a fuse.  I didn't have anything on other than the usual devices I have on at this time for the past 7 years or so, so I guess I might need to replace my power strips or something.  I managed to finish my set, even though I was too tired.  The show must go on, you know.  A couple of hours later, the power went out for the whole area.

Hi Natty honey!  How are you doing today, my beautiful little princess?  Oh I don't have a movie for you today.  The computer didn't assign one for you.  But we all need a break sometimes, even though you are still young and bursting with energy.  It's curious that when I was young, I had all this energy with nothing to do- rather, I didn't do anything worthwhile.  Now I have so much to do, and not enough energy.  Not enough time too.  Diverse now!

Overwork

Honey, I don't want you to overwork.  I know I said that you should make as much money for yourself while you can, but you can't.  You have to take care of your health and happiness otherwise this marriage business is over, especially its profitability for 2nd and 3rd parties.  So whatever work you take on from now, please make sure you are able to do it at a slow pace.  Oh so slow.  Like a turtle.  Or a snail.  Make plenty of time for yourself to just hang out at home.  Practice cooking.  Languish on the couch, eat bon bons and watch TV sports.  Work out occasionally.  I think someone told us, "Things happen by itself."  That was you.  So relax and enjoy waiting, my Precious.

Natty, you're still so young.  But inshaAllah, with the influence of our marriage you won't have to struggle like many people.  Of course, they have to feed their families.  But my plan is that I am the one to finance the family, inshaAllah.  So please plan to earn enough to enjoy the waiting, and inshaAllah it won't be a long wait.

Busy?

I don't want you to overwork, Erin.  Don't just give yourself away, because they will just take as much as they can and not leave anything for you!  So please be tough and turn down some work.  Just take on enough work so that you move very, very slowly.  Please look after your heart and your health, for you are very precious to me.  And don't worry Honey, everything will turn out just fine inshaAllah.  Just relax tonight, and enjoy some chocolate mousse.

Natty, you're so cute!  You should get together with your girl gang and have movie watching parties.  And they should get into the spirit and dress up for the occasion.  Make it fun!  Plus, their involvement would help distract the public eye away from you.  If that is what you want, Movie Star.

Hi Honey

I love you with all my heart, Erin.  I really do.  I would wait for you no matter how old we get.  My mind is made up, and I am a very stubborn guy.  Of course I want you to love me.  And of course not only America, but the world is looking to see what the American Princess will do.  Please love me!  Oh, it was my Dad's 81st birthday today.  Happy Birthday Dad.  I don't know if I would live to be that age.  But I am grateful to Allah that God has kept me alive, so I can make music and love my wives.  I was late for voice training today because I had to drive my Dad around.  Sorry, folks.  In the evening I had to pick fruit.  Most of what grows in the yard of my little house/studio and over at your house inshaAllah I don't eat.  Nothing special on the menu, either.  Just fry bread and curry for lunch, and fried rice vermicelli for dinner.  I still have lots of salad dressing left, so maybe I'll go buy greens sometime soon.  I don't eat salads, but I will eat a salad for my Erin!

Hi Natty Honey!  Are you excited?  Are you?  Are you?  Your environment might be still waters on the surface, but there is a lot churning underneath.  Don't let that distract you from your studies, Honey.  Do me proud and do what I wasn't able to do- get a degree.