Downhill run!

 Hi Natty!  How's it going, Honey?  How's the knee?  Oh it looks like a light scrape, but I hate to see even the slightest blemish on you.  You're so beautiful.  Please don't do anything dangerous for fun, please keep yourself safe and pristine.  That stuff is fun to watch, but please don't do it yourself.

Oh, it's Monday!  At first I didn't want to go out, but the weather was clement so I had to take the opportunity to go to the office of the Mufti (boss Islamic official) to get the next prayer schedule.  The Islamic New Year is about a week away.  My own schedule revolves around the prayer schedule.  I get the prayer out of the way before I attend to anything else.  That's me though: Islam is flexible, but I find the best way to do the stuff I do is to attend to the prayers first.  I had takeout rice for lunch, and I fried up some noodles for dinner.  I used the leftover fond I had from the roast beef.  The noodles were successful, and sweet.  Want some?

Computer generated singer

 

Hi Natty Honey!  How are you feeling today?  I hope you are doing well, and having tons of fun.  It's Sunday over here, and as usual I had to clean my mother's bedroom.  I didn't do any cooking today though.  I had takeout rice for lunch, and one of the locals gave me some glutenous rice with salted fish.  I really like glutenous rice with salted fish, but I have to have it with fresh tomatoes.  The combination of flavors and textures is like perfection to me, I will make it for you someday inshaAllah.  I didn't have any tomatoes, so I saved the glutenous rice with salted fish for dinner and I went out in the evening to buy tomatoes.  The closest grocer is about 2km away.  It's a good thing they were open, otherwise I would have to go downtown to hunt for tomatoes.  I would have, too.  I absolutely HAVE to have tomatoes with my glutenous rice with salted fish.

Is Mary Unknown7 a computer generated singer?  Maybe...

Just an average day

 

Hi Natty!  How ya doin' today, Honey?  Just chillin' and watching TV?  That's what I've been doing.  It's just an average day over here, doing more of the same old same old.  I went grocery shopping in the morning, my cooler was empty.  So I bought beef and chicken breast.  I'm thinking of quick meals, so I'm going with the bulk roast beef approach again.  Yeah I have a lot to do on the computer, so I am not in the mood for food experimention, and probably won't be for months.  So I have a pot of roast beef slow-cooking on the stove top right now.  Dinner was sliced bread with a chicken breast cooked in honey and butter.  I think you would like that.  I bought some fruit, too.  Mangosteens are in season right now, so I bought a couple of kilos.  Despite the name, it doesn't taste anything like a mango.  It's more like a Sweetart flavored kiwi with the occasional pit.  Check out the video above.  Doesn't that look like paradise?  Fruit trees growing on flat ground with clean bubbling brooks.  Everything is oh so clean, and the grass is so short.  The only bugs in sight are a few ants.  Tell me where that is, I'll go there.

The deep

 

Honey, that looks more like a whole smile than a half smile.  It's probably because you're so pretty, and you're grimacing against the bright light.  You didn't think it would be so bright when you're in so deep?  There are more water trucks plus of different brands on the other roads.  Sorry again about the lack of privacy.  When we marry inshaAllah, it will be more of the same lack of privacy, but the difference is that we will be together.  This is showbiz, and you are of a showbiz family.  So please make sure you have a comfortable chair, so you can enjoy the show better.  How did you get that scrape on your beautiful knee?  Did you fall off your bicycle?

A serious business

 

Hi Scrapper!  Are you having fun there, you beautiful young creature?  I'm too far away to stop you from getting your kicks, Natty.  Rather, I would love for you to keep up that fighting spirit.  But don't use up all your energy on one target.  After all as the song goes, "Nobody wants to see the lovers of today happy."  What's the point of pleasing your enemies?  I'm the one who loves you, and I will marry you inshaAllah.

Mary Unknown7 gave me a scolding today.  She had been listening to "Frou-frou foxes in midsummer fire" over and over.  She said that there are definitely English lyrics there, and she refuses to just babble over the music.  She can't make out what all the words are, but the the essence of the song is about the feelings of a musician being married to a musician, living in poverty and having a baby.  She told me to work more on that song and "if I can't figure out what the actual words are, then replace them with proper words that show the song some fucking respect.  After all, you of all people should know that marriage is a serious business."  Well, then.

Rice and crayfish

 Hi Natty!  How are you today, my love?  I hope all is calm and you're having a marvelous time while enjoying tasty foods.  It's been a busy morning for me.  My mother wanted to go gallivanting, so I took her to the hospital, then to Guardian, then to the hairdresser, then we stopped by for some cakes on the way home.  Everyone else was busy too.  Traffic was heavy and people were rushing about, even though the stores and schools are closed.  Some people are obviously making money somehow.  Idiots that buy into cryptocurrency think their wealth from virtual value will get them enough money to buy whatever they want to eat, but not when nobody farms.  You can't eat Bitcoin!  The locals here like to farm rice, but those ponds can yield a double crop.  Let's farm crayfish!  Crayfish are tough (but they don't like pesticide), and the Chinese are gluttons for them.  Have you ever had crayfish, Natty?  People usually cook them like prawns, but they're closer to lobsters.  That means the gold is in the heads.  Make sure you grind up those crayfish heads and strain them, to turn into soups and fonds!

I told Mary that I found lyrics for "Cherry-coloured funk".  She said she likes that song, but she really wants to sing "Frou-frou foxes in midsummer fire".  She said that it's so beautiful that it makes her weep.  She weeps all the time, though.  Like Sailor Moon.

Spaghetti again?

 

Hi Natty!  How are you feeling, Honey?  I long to be with you always, and for us to be together all the time.  We must be patient, my love.  Right now, all I can do is make spaghetti.  It's the last bit of ingredients from the Great Pizza Day, and it will be a while before I make pizza and pasta all again.  Good quality, though.  Alhamdulillah.  I think you would like the Italian food I make.  Let's not get bloated, OK?  I say that, then I eat a whole wok (yeah I cook my pasta in a wok, because the noodles fit perfectly) full of spaghetti by myself.  That's because you're not here with me to share my life and my dinner.  I love you, Natty.

Oh goodie!  I found a Cocteau Twins song with lyrics that actually read like logical English.  It could be very well be that Liz Fraser wrote them.  Let's see if Mary wants to sing this song.