Sunday

Hi Erin!  How are you, Honey?  Are you working hard this weekend?  I hope you are staying fit, and enjoying your life.  I want you to know that I love you, and I always think of you, and wonder how you are.  It's been a week since the Eid and my oh my, that was one hell of a weekend.  It's calmed down now, the weather is back to being hot and awful, and the kids have gone home because school starts again tomorrow.  It's Sunday, and I always clean my mother's bedroom on Sunday.  I always buy my lunch on Sundays so I don't have to cook.  For dinner I had hot wings.  I love hot wings!  My stomach isn't as tolerant as it used to be but if it were, I would go for as hot as possible.  I used to get suicide wings regularly, they're so good!  But I paid the price for that, rather my stomach paid the price, and now it's mild wings only.  😢  I have a McDonald's stomach.  In the evening I did some burning, and got rid of a lot of coconut leaves.  The tornado threw a lot of coconut leaves on the ground, so I had to get rid of them.  I heard the neighbors shoot wild dogs.  The locals don't like dogs.  Please remember that.  Anyway, I'm going to head out to the mosque to join the congregation for the night prayer.  Please take sweet, loving care of yourself because I would.

Then Allah sendeth a kitten...

Aw Natty, you precious darling.  You are so beautiful.  Please don't you worry about a thing my beloved Natty, everything will turn out just fine for us inshaAllah.  You just hang in there, try to enjoy your success, and know that I love you deeply and we will be married inshaAllah.

The one great thing about the past week is that I have been sleeping so soundly.  Since the Internet went out on the 9th the night of the big storm, I have been getting at least 7 hours of sleep per night.  Even when I had to mop up the flood in my bedroom from the rain pouring from the ceiling, I still got so much sleep.  Then on the day the Internet came back, bam!  I'm up at 2:30 am again.  I think having the white cat of death choose me made me feel on edge.  Wait, I had been sleepless earlier than that...  Whatever, since the tornado hit, I have been sleeping very well.

I love kittens!  Here's a size comparison of Floofy and Yoolie:

It seems that Floofy is being nicer to little Yoolie lately.  I caught them snuggling up to each other during voice training.  I think it was probably just an isolated incident, I had put them in a coma or something.

Children

Hi, my beautiful Ladies.  I'm back.  The school holidays started last Friday the 9th of August and thus another tourist season began, so my Internet got shut down so as I would not be able to globalcast my voice training and therefore keep the music local.  Of course that's not what they told me over the phone.  But the Qur'an told me to let it slide, so I ask you my wives inshaAllah to also let my week long radio silence slide.  I wish you were here with me so you could witness for yourself some of the stuff that happens, but I'm glad you are not here with me to endure some of the stuff that happens.  Let me take the lumps for us, OK?  That's my job.  Please forgive me.

Also on the night of Friday the 9th of August, a mild tornado came and ripped off my roof with a loud explosion.  Very dramatic.  I call it a mild tornado because it was my roof that exploded, and not me.  When it came down to it, it was my immediate family that helped put a roof over my head again, and it was my mother who paid for it, so thank you.  Everyone else was understandably busy patching up their own roofs.  After all, who am I?  At best, I am like the Alaskan king crab: eventually I will run out, whither away and die, so whoever is blatantly making a killing off this tourism windfall should beware.  It was very dramatic, though.  I was just about to post on my blog, when the storm hit.  I still have the draft saved on my blog.  It was Erin's turn for me to address her by name:

Hi Erin

How are you doing, Honey?  Keeping busy?  I hope you are feeling good, and everything is going well.  I'm doing all right here, just the usual going on.  The school holidays start tomorrow, so it's tourist season again.  Tomorrow I'll be fasting inshaAllah.  The 9th day of Zulhijjah, I always fast on this day, the day before the Hajj Eid.  I do it for bonus points with God!  Nothing special on the menu today, just tortillas with chicken and eggplant in the morning then a pizza for dinner.  Boring, huh?  I want you to know that I love you, you are my girl.

Creepy, huh?  I had to suffer one night of the rain pouring through my bedroom ceiling, but I was able to keep up with it and stop it from flooding.  Good thing the roofer came to work on the Public Holiday, because it has been raining everyday since.

Natty my love, I'm sorry I couldn't reply immediately to your posts.  I only just saw them a few hours ago when my Internet came back.  Please don't worry, because I love you so much.  Everything is going to work out just dandy for us inshaAllah.  You look as beautiful as ever, you are such a natural beauty, and I love you.  About that house, I like the colors.  But it looks kind of big.  I suppose it's not too flamboyant... if only you could see what the neighborhood looks like.  I guess I should take photos, huh?  Are you sure you don't have the longing to live in Beverly Hills instead of being married to a servant of Allah like me?

Radio silence

Dear Erin and Natty, I'm sorry about my sudden radio silence.  I have no Internet right now, it will be another week until I can talk more. I love you.

Hi Natty

Natty, you're so beautiful.  I love you.  I'm sorry you have the need to escape at all.  I'm sorry everything is so serious.  But you have to be serious if you want to be taken seriously, I hope you understand.  Perhaps you have noticed, but I never joke around with the lyrics when I sing.  Because it's very damned serious, people don't want to hear their beloved songs become messed up.  Don't you worry my gorgeous Sweetheart, everything is going to turn out just fine for us InshaAllah.  Me?  I don't want to escape.  I want to work.  What I don't want is manual labor.  My feet hurt.

As you can see folks, the swelling has gone down and she's using both eyes.  But we still have a way to go before she's fully recovered.  Please pray with me.  Ya Allah, please heal my kitten.