Letter to Julia 20140415

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

Say Julia, have you been having trouble with pimples lately?  The reason I asked is that I had a dream that you grew a pimple.  It so happens that I also have a pimple growing on my left cheek next to my nose.  Well, everybody knows that supermodels don't get pimples.  I just happened to get a pimple because I keep massaging my sinus cavity when I lie on my right side, because it eases my breathing.  It's not as if I'm getting a teenage hormone rush.  I told you before that I'm an old man, and I've used up most of my libido.  I'm going to have to do drugs to keep up with one of you, let alone the both of you.  Well, don't go and grow any pimples.  I love you just the way you are.  You too, Erin.  Don't start growing pimples just because I dreamed that Julia grew a pimple.  Supermodels don't get pimples.

For dinner tonight at Casa de Julia is sushi again.  I love sushi.  I happen to be eating sushi all the time lately because I found seaweed sheets and a good wasabi substitute at the Chinese grocery store.  I can't eat sushi without wasabi.  I was going to buy my fish at the night market, but this morning when I went to the local grocer at the crossroads to get bean sprouts and cilantro for my Mom, I found a huge snapper for a reasonable price.  I like sushi best with snapper.  I can't afford bluefin tuna, I can't get it here even if I could, but the local fish is the best in the world anyway, as long as they care enough to keep the environment clean.  So today the fish is snapper, with egg and cilantro.  Snapper meat is so transparent in taste- you know and sense and taste that you're eating fish, but the fish is almost invisible.  And the meat around the belly tastes like garlic.  I just downed 20 golf ball-sized rolls, not those puny pinky sized insults that you pay 50 bucks a plate for at a restaurant.  Want some?  Can you fit a golf ball in your mouth?  I have 4 rolls left.  We'll be having sushi often when we're married, inshaAllah.  Now it's time for tea.

Letter to Julia 20140412

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

Hi there, my dearest wives.  You are the most beautiful in the world.  You should have noticed by now that it doesn't matter if you go out all the time or just stay at home, your advertising has been done for you, mashaAllah.  So don't try too hard to be noticed.  I will marry you inshaAllah, so you already have that settled.  So work on those other skills.  Like accounting, cooking, database management, soldering, phone and Internet sales, and I also need someone to hit the "record" button when I do a take... all the stuff I can't do!  Well, I can cook a little.  I really love black sole.  It's so sweet.  After I filleted what I needed for sushi, I deep fried the rest.  It made a nice crispy fry, great with plain old salt and pepper.  Anyway, don't try too hard to be noticed.  You'll get as much PR done just staying home and watching TV, inshaAllah.  It's like Floofy, whether she stays inside or goes outside, she's still pregnant.  It's all part of the business of marriage.  Our marriage.  Don't forget to hide your beauty, you beautiful thing you.  As for me, I want your chastity and integrity.  Also please stay fit and healthy, don't get any tans, and be as blonde as humanly possible at all times.  That's what I like.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Remember when you were 18?  That wasn't too long ago for you, but you've traveled so far since then, so it must seem like light years away.  I was loathed in high school, but I was done with that and packed full of libido and on my way to USA.  Now I don't have as much libido left, but I am ready to settle down.  InshaAllah.

Letter to Julia 20140410

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

Greetings, my beloved Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  How are those precious emotions?  Please know that I love you, I love you, and I fully intend to fulfill my promise to you inshaAllah, my dearest wives.  You are the world to me, so let's work towards the Hereafter together.  I don't ever want you to feel abandoned.  I will always love you, I will always love you.

Whew.  It's been a busy week for me.  It's been raining everyday, and I'm feeling feverish.  No, it's not weather distortion: it's supposed to be the rainy season right now.  I think I'll just lie back and watch TV for the rest of the night.  It's movie night tonight on Shadowplay TV, and the movie is "Arrisalah".

Qur'an 20140410

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

40. Whether We shall show you part of what We promised them, or take to Ourself your soul, your duty is to make reach them.  It is Our part to call them to account.

41.  See they not that We gradually reduce the land from its outlying border?  Allah commands: there is none to put back God's command, and God is Swift in calling to account.

42.  Those before them did devise plots, but in all things the master-planning is Allah's.  God knows the doings of every soul, and soon will the unbelievers know who gets home in the end.

43.  The unbelievers say, "No messenger are you."  Say, "Enough for a witness between me and you is Allah, and such as have knowledge of the Book."

The Thunder 13:40-43
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Enough for a witness between me and you is Allah, and such as have knowledge of the Book.

Letter to Julia 20140409

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

Hello Wednesday, my dearest, precious wives.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.  I had my letter prepared yesterday, but I didn't come in to blog because it was too dangerous to travel.  So I had to stay close to the homestead instead.  How do I know?  Let's just say that Allah grants me some knowledge.  Let's also say that Allah gives me the responsibility of protecting the voices of some dead women, and that your husband serves Allah.  So I cut the grass around Casa de Julia inshaAllah, and I chopped down one of the trees on the west border.  You know, the one that leaned towards the inside.

I just had my first ripe mango this year.  I don't eat a lot of the local fruits because they're too damned sweet, but I love certain types of mangoes.  The big tree in my yard is a "harumanis", and that's one of types I like.  It's not officially mango season yet, and right now only the birds, the squirrels and the bugs know which fruits are ready to eat.  So they fall on the ground, usually half eaten.  I found one on the ground still firm and intact, and it smelled almost ripe, so I kept it in the house for a day before I put it in the cooler.  It turned out that the bugs took over the seed, but the flesh was unharmed.  Alhamdulillah.

Letter to Julia 20140408

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

So hang in there, my dearest wives.  I am your knight inshaAllah, your knight in armor of shadow.  Allah will bring us together, so what's most important is that you pray and have faith.  Marriage is sacred.  So this is a spiritual trip that we share.  Sure, you're getting more attention because of me.  I'm also sure that your bosses will love you more for that, so just tell all the nosy people that you are my wife inshaAllah.  You are MINE, MINE.  And I love you, I love you with all my heart.

It's been a busy day for me, so I'm rather tired.  Would you like some dinner?  It's sushi again today.  The fish is black sole, with oyster mushrooms sauteed in butter, and egg.  Sole meat is sweet, combined with the mushrooms made the sushi very sweet today.  I'm stuffed.  Alhamdulillah.

Qur'an 20140409

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

36.  Those to whom We have given the Book rejoice at what has been revealed unto you.  But there are among the sects those who reject a part thereof.  Say, "I am commanded to worship Allah, and not to join partners with God.  Unto God do I call, and unto God is my return."

37.  Thus have We revealed it to be a judgement of authority in Arabic.  Were you to follow their desires after the knowledge which has reached you, then would you find neither protector nor helper against Allah.

The Thunder 13:36-37
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I am commanded to worship Allah, and not to join partners with God.  Unto God do I call, and unto God is my return.