Sailing

Hi Honey!  How's it going?  Oh, you're still not ready yet?  Well, none of us are really ready for anything.  But you're such a resilient girl, I'm sure you will be able to cope with what you have at the time.  That's what it's all about Honey, sailing.  Going with the breeze.  And it sure looks like you are having an awesomely fabulous time being a beautiful high fashion model, living the life the rest of us commoners could only dream about.  That's a beautiful day/night snapshot too.  Take lots of snapshots!  You will want to look back them someday in the future, and laugh and remember about how wonderfully charmed your life is.  Don't worry so much about not having everything prepared, part of the fun is to come up with unexpected resources inshaAllah.  And I'm sure you have more with you than most people do.  Me, I'm sailing the cooler right now.  I was going to have rice and chicken for lunch, then I forgot to add extra rice for the cat, so I gave my rice to the cat and ate bread instead.  I had rice for dinner though, and it's a good thing my Mom had some okra growing that she didn't want (otherwise she would have picked it before it got hard) so that gave my rice and curry some vegetables.  C'est la vie, huh?

Qur'an 20181126

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

168.  The ones that say while they themselves sit, "If only they had listened to us, they would not have been slain."  Say, "Avert death from your own selves, if you speak the truth."

(The Family of Imran 3:168)
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Sunday

Hi Honey!  I'm sorry but I have to blog and run again today.  I must say that you are looking radiant under the sun, and happy thereof.  Nice change from the grey and snow, huh?  I hope you are having tons of fun, and when your schedule becomes hectic remember what I told you: walk slower!  Yeah, I took too much time eating my dinner.  I don't know where the time went.  Sunday mornings, I always clean my mother's bedroom.  This evening I lugged the leftover dirt from my failed mango farm project over to my Mom's yard, because she wants it to plant okra probably.  Well, I have to run to the mosque next.  Have tons of fun, OK?  You're beautiful, and I love you.

Qur'an 20181125

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

165.  What!  When a single disaster smites you, although you smote with one twice as great, do you say, "What is this?"  Say, "It is from yourselves, for Allah has power over all things."

(The Family of Imran 3:165)
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The dying cat stares at the water

From Allah is our origin and to Allah is our return.

Hi Honey.  How are you?  If you're not feeling ready, then don't hurry.  Don't hurry so much at anything.  Slow down your pace, and don't forget to smell the flowers.  Take lots of snapshots!  My elderly kitty Chee Cheah died this morning.  She had been with me 10 years, and she was 10 years old when I met her.  I had just returned here from the US, and she was my Dad's cat, staying with my parents.  Then when I moved here to live alone, I took her with me.  She got old, and her digestive system shut down.  It happened very quickly: even though she was old and thin, she was eating a lot.  Then yesterday, she couldn't stomach anything and stopped eating, then this morning she died.  I could tell this was it, so at first light I dug her grave.  Everything was so clean and organized, this death wasn't messy at all.  After I dug her grave, I went inside and waited and watched her take her last breath.  Then I wrapped her up in newspaper.  The headline read, "Born To Be A Queen."  It was about a beauty pageant.

I don't really feel like giving an extensive eulogy, because she used to be my Dad's cat.  Of course I loved her: I love all my cats.  One thing about her is that she was very adept at flashing her eyes.  In the photo below which was the very first snapshot I took of her, she was 11 years old and flashing her eyes at the camera.  After she died, I cradled her body as I took her to be buried, and she flashed her eyes at me for the last time.  Poor little Chee Cheah.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hi Honey!  Are you enjoying your day?  Feasting on roast turkey and giblet gravy?  We don't have a lot of turkeys here, just chickens.  Though the neighbor has a white turkey.  Hm, strange.  It's been an easy day in the kitchen for me.  Lunch and dinner were already cooked from yesterday, so all I had to do was heat it up.  No, I didn't set up a feast here.  Thanksgiving is an American holiday.  I guess it's not Thanksgiving yet in Canada.  I'm thankful that I didn't have to slave in the kitchen for a day.  I heated up some soup that my Mom gave me yesterday for lunch, and for dinner I had an extra calzone stuffed with chili and cheese, so I heated that up.  With the extra time, I spent it on YouTube watching a lot of The Voice, Got Talent, and the like.  I did manage to do some yard work in the evening, I cut the grass.  It was a hot day, but hot and dry for a change.  Anyway, I'm going to head out to the mosque for the night prayer.  I hope you are having a great time!

I am who I am

Hi Honey!  That certainly is a wonderful new campaign you have there, and you are perfectly cast as a model for ski attire.  Your voice has lowered a little, and it makes you sound more confident and sexier.  I like it.  I want you to enjoy this time where things get crazy and exciting.  Get your fill of it before we get married inshaAllah, but be sure to protect your chastity.

As for me, I have already done my time doing crazy and exciting stuff, and under more dangerous circumstances than you.  Now I have to stand my ground here and follow this routine, because this is my mission, this is what Allah instructs me to do.  I endorse you because you are my wife inshaAllah.  So be prepared to someday give up the crazy life to live the life of a bored housewife, who gets a free house and all expenses paid, to raise children who together we will train to take care of their mother when she gets old.  A good Muslim wife inshaAllah.  If you can't do this then go ahead and bail out now, and I will go online shopping for another pretty blonde/s to marry.