Monday

 

Hi Natty!  How's it going today, Honey?  Back to business, I'm sure.  Are you going to be spending Christmas with the parents this year?  Or do you have to work through the holidays?  As long as you have tons of fun, and keeping safe and healthy.  

I don't get any holidays.  Ya Allah, please ease my financial burdens.  I don't mind so much working until I die.  It's Monday over here.  I took my mother to the hospital in the morning.  Tonight is the night market, so I will have fried chicken inshaAllah.  Want some?

Don't cry over onions

 

Natty, you're so beautiful!  Those arm warmers are the same as long gloves, so with that dress you look kind of formal.  I think you would look awesome in formal wear.  Oh yeah, shoes...  Whatever.  I love you with all my heart, Natty.  Keep safe and healthy OK!

I wanted to make ranch dressing this morning, but the price of onions suddenly spiked.  What was there was crappy.  I think it's because of excessive moisture.  I didn't want to pay for that, good thing I had a few onions left over at home.  The ranch came out a bit thick.  Hooray!  Yummy!

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

135.  They say, "Become Jews or Christians if you would be guided."  Say, "No!  The religion of Abraham the True: and he joined not gods with Allah."

The Heifer 2:135

Movie night

 

Hi Natty!  You are looking absolutely lovely, my love.  There's something about cashmere that hugs the skin, we can see your underwear.  Did it snow over there?  Make sure you keep warm.  Keep safe and healthy too.

I've had to throw out the metronome when writing a couple of bass parts lately, it just didn't groove right.  Speaking of timing, it's movie night!  "The Equalizer 3" (2023).  All the Equalizer movies are great, and Denzel is one of the best.  I'm happy to see Robert finding a home at last.  Is this the last one?  I guess he does need to retire.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

101.  Say, "Observe what is in the sky and on the earth!"  Of no use are the signs and messengers that give reminders to those who have no faith.

Jonah 10:101

Second language

 

Hi Natty!  You are looking beautiful, Honey.  Is that NYC?  It looks like NYC.  I suppose you would be wearing a coat then.  You must still be in Los Angeles.  Nice outfit, a modest sophistication.  You do look cold, though.  Please keep warm, safe and healthy.

How long now have you been in Los Angeles?  Can you speak Spanish now?  I can't speak Spanish.  Neither can Mary.

Why not tea?

 

Natty, where are you?  Please talk to me.  I love you.

Tea, salmon and rice?  If the Japanese ate tea and salmon together, why not use tea in ramen?  So that's what I did for lunch: used a tea bag instead of miso.  Tea is essentially a vegetable broth which we normally consume with sugar.  I didn't use sugar but the usual savory items like seaweed, beef bone, salted fish, soy sauce, garlic, onion, carrots with a touch of MSG.  There was a ring of scum at the side of the bowl most likely from the fish, which for the sake of the photo, I removed with a swab of toilet paper (which the dumb ass cat stole and ate).  The result was a darkened and intensified seaweed broth.  It didn't taste strange at all.  It tasted like... a bowl of ramen.  The cats liked today's ramen.  They rated it 5 out of 7.  Usually only the boys and mama cat like ramen.

Harvesting the deep

 

Natty, where are you?  Please talk to me.  I love you.

I was at the Tuesday market yesterday, and there was squid there.  Tiny, though.  I hate processing small squid.  The sea water around here isn't that deep,  so the squid don't get big.  There must be a lot of meat in the deep ocean.  Deep waters are so dangerous, though.

Movie night

 

Hi Natty!  Were you worrying about me?  Don't worry, be happy!  I love you, you're MY girl!  What are you drinking?  It's iced tea for me, no sugar.  Keep safe and healthy OK!

It's movie night again!  Please watch a movie with me!  "Alita: Battle Angel" (2019).  There's a quote in the movie, "Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a ruler in hell?"  The trouble with this life is that all of it is hell, with maybe a few glimpses of heaven.  Unless you can get a man to go through hell for you so you don't have to.  In this movie, Alita is the girl.  Isn't it interesting how technology changes in just a couple of years?  Alita's eyes are on cell phones everywhere now.  If they had waited a couple of years, they could have saved millions on special effects.  This is a great movie and character.  Sequel, please.