Sailor Moon

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  It's good to venture out of the house and have fun occasionally.  I mean, you are successful after all, and not only financially, so have some fun for heaven's sake.  I would like to protect you and keep you in the house all the time, but right now I want you to be happy.  Or you might turn out like me, bundled up in front of the TV watching nothing but Sailor Moon.  Actually, I don't do that.  But Sailor Moon is perfect for emotional creatures like us.  Of course I don't expect you to like everything that I like.  After all I'm not a sports fan, while sports is your business.  And I'm not trying to make a competition of watching Sailor Moon.  I am simply trying to increase the sustenance of my wife.  So you are too busy to really get into Sailor Moon, and that's fine.  By the way, that sketch looks nothing like you.  Your beauty is too complex and profound to be captured accurately other than photographs.

Hi Natty honey!  Oh, you are so excited!  You look beautiful in those magazine snapshots.  But black hair?  Please, no black hair!  Please don't change your hair! 😭  I am sure you realize by now that all this excitement and power is sexually arousing, so please stay away from boys.  If you want to watch Sailor Moon, and I strongly suggest that you do, please follow these instructions.  Focus on the Japanese versions with English subtitles.  You may find dvds of Sailor Moon in many places on the Internet, or you may want to follow the more difficult approach of networking for each episode, which is more socially and financially rewarding.  There are 5 seasons of the anime that are relevant to us: season one (also known as Sailor Moon), season two (SMR), season three (SMS), season four (SMSS) and season five (SailorStars).  Please watch the cartoons in this sequence, and turn up the volume:
1.  Sailor Moon
2.  SMS
3.  SMSS
4.  SailorStars
5.  SMR

Sailor Moon

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I hope you know in your heart of hearts how much I love you, and I always try to talk to you as gently and tenderly as I can.  But it's time for you to go back to the gym.  Push that body into athletic shape, and kick away the doldrums.  Tighten up those arms and shoulders, don't let them bloat.  Get yourself a bully of a personal trainer.  I mean a real brute.  Let's get strong and fit.  I spent the evening on a ladder, cutting away at one of the plants growing on the roof of my grandfather's old house.  Boy, my legs are wobbly.  But I keep on pushing these legs while I can, to give them strength.  The food business really did a number on my legs, but I can still walk.  Alhamdulillah.

Hey there, Natty honey.  You may not know this, but we (which includes you) belong to an anime "cult" (for lack of a better word), called Sailor Moon.  Sailor Moon is an anime (Japanese cartoon) which first aired in 1992, which was derived from a manga (Japanese comic) created by Naoko Takeuchi.  How we got mixed up with Sailor Moon is when I began watching it over and over again, and became an avid fan.  1997, as I recall.  That was also when the Internet really started to gain momentum.  What's most relevant to us is the first 5 seasons of the Sailor Moon anime, which is episodes 1-200.  Watching all that is a HUGE undertaking, and I am not asking you to do it.  Watch that if you want to, and I ADVISE you to watch Sailor Moon.  It is our Japanese connection.

There is no such thing as "the perfect feeling"

Hi Honey!  How are you feeling?  Are you wanting to hide yourself again?  I think I know how you are feeling.  I suppose you are having trouble expressing yourself.  Your fans and friends try to communicate for you with good intent, but only you know the depth of your beautiful heart.  So keep on producing poetry, paintings and such.  Express yourself.  You don't have to show them to anyone.  You are unhappy.  As I told you before, there is no such thing as "the perfect feeling".  Not in this life.  The next life will be better, for the righteous soul.  Please learn to embrace the next best feeling, which is patience.  However, even unhappiness isn't absolute.  If you try hard and want it hard enough, you will find some sort of blessing in yourself that ruins the gloom.  Now don't you worry Honey, everything is going to turn out just great inshaAllah.  I will marry you inshaAllah.  We'll get there.  I love you.

Hey there, Natty honey!  You on the other hand, don't feel fear at all right now.  You are excited as can be, all this craziness is tons of fun, and it's kicking you upstairs.  Which is great, of course!  It is OK to be afraid, though.  Put your fear in God.  God can make the pits bearable.  Please pray.

Fire drill

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I hope everything is going great for you, and that you are safe and happy.  It's a routine day for me.  Nothing special on the menu, either.  When you make plans for your house, I hope you think about escape routes in case of emergency.  Like getting out of the house easily, quick access to the children, etc.  Having an upstairs complicates things, but I guess we have no choice about that.

Hey Natty honey!  Are you busy?  I'm guessing that you are, because you are so popular now.  Beautiful girl!  Please be safe, eat properly, and get plenty of rest.  And don't forget to pray.

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Hi Honey!  Are you feeling more relaxed today?  The weekends must be very hectic for a Sports Princess like you, so I hope you are taking your time to enjoy your success, and to get lots of rest.  It's Monday today.  Well, it's the same old day to me, I have to work everyday, but this morning I got done with my chores early, so I was able to take an early nap before voice training.  After this, I'll be heading out to the mosque to pray the night prayer with the congregation.  How are your emotions?  Don't be sad, because I love you and I will marry you inshaAllah.  Be optimistic, and pray.

Hey Natty honey!  You must be a busy girl.  But I suppose you do have your nights free.  I made BBQ chicken burritos with mushrooms for dinner.  I love the mushrooms that are available here.  Big, fat, juicy, meaty, fragrant, white oyster mushrooms.  They really blossom when the weather is wet.  I picked some up at the night market just now.  Cheap, too.  What are you having for dinner, anyway?  You don't show us your food.  I guess they have to pay for your endorsement, huh?

Turmeric

Erin, you're so busy!  Honey, please make sure you get sufficient rest and eat properly.  Everyone wants to see my girl.  Everyone wants to see how beautiful she is.  And she is beautiful.  Yes, you do have a doll face, Honey.  I love you.  I've been busy all morning myself.  Sunday I have to clean my mother's bedroom, then I had other stuff to do plus cook my lunch.  I didn't get much of a nap before voice training.  I'm sure you feel the same way I do, that it's so hard to control emotions when exhausted.  The other day, I harvested some turmeric for my Mom.  Turmeric is a root used as a curry spice, it's the spice that gives curry its yellowness.  I noticed that turmeric shoots were similar to scallions, maybe slightly chewier but not as chewy as lemongrass.  I have turmeric growing in pots in my yard.  It's the kind of plant I like, where I just leave it alone and it grows like mad.  Here's what it looks like:

Here's what the root looks like.  You have to peel it then grind it to use as a spice.  The locals mix it with salt to flavor meats.  It turns everything yellow: fingers, knives, cutting boards, you name it.  It doesn't wash off easily, either.  I don't recommend using it as chewing gum!

So I decided to use the turmeric shoots instead of scallions in my fried rice.  I used the turmeric and salt combo to flavor the fried rice.  It did turn out very flavorful.  And yellow.  Would you like to try some?

Hi Natty Honey!  I suppose you are busy too.  That's great, Honey.  Make lots of money for yourself while you can.  Make sure you look after your health, and don't forget to pray.  Today the computer wants you to watch "Gentlemen prefer Blondes" (1953) featuring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe.  Jane Russell was a big star when this movie was made, and beautiful too.  But when put side by side to Marilyn Monroe, she comes across like a drag queen.  Marilyn is much more relaxed and uninhibited than Jane, and a more graceful dancer too.  With bouncity-bounce!  Judging from the title. it seems like a setup to have Jane Russell pair up with Marilyn Monroe.  That's Hollywood for you.  Watch and learn.

Today's theme is goth!  I love this outfit!  I think it's sooooo sexy.  Do you agree?

Friends

Hi Honey!  Are you busy today?  Everybody wants to see how beautiful you are, so you must be busy.  I'm usually quite busy everyday.  Besides the usual chores, today I harvested some turmeric in the morning for my Mom, then did a lot of burning in the evening.  I just had dinner- just plain old fry bread with curry, but you are more than welcome to share it with me.

If gangsters are active in this area, then it's because there is money to be made for them here.  Usually gangs operate by theft or extortion.  Motion sensors, sirens, and led floodlights would make theft more difficult.  Extortion can only be handled by the police.  If the cops don't take care of extortion, it means weakness in the local government, possibly bribery.  Which means weakness in the people who voted for them.  But if you let the gangs do what they want, then the gangs become the government.  Allah does not love cowards.

Hey Natty Honey!  It was very sweet of you to say that.  Yes, fans are friends.  I've spent 38 years as an independent musician, and I'm still alive.  God keeps on saving my life for some reason, so God has been my only friend for the most part.  Alhamdulillah.  I don't really blame the fans.  The music wasn't that great in the beginning, because I was young and filled with anger.  Now that I'm older, Allah has helped me control my emotions so as to make the music better.  This is especially true with singing.  I didn't achieve consistency with my singing until after I finished "Woo Hoo".  I suppose that album needed the anger and loss of control.