Letter to Erin 20151224

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

Hi, pretty girl!  Hello, beautiful woman!  How's business today?  I hope you are wearing beautiful suits.  I may have told you, that I love beautiful ladies suits.  Since I can't wear them, I want to see you wear them.  You won't have to take it off.  Yum!  Please make sure you take good care of your health, and please maintain your prayers.  I love you and I need you.

I spent the evening chopping down the trees growing on the roof of the old house that's on the area of your house inshaAllah.  It's taking me so long to get them all down because there's always something else to do, plus I didn't have a tall enough ladder.  But today I do, so I managed to hack down a few more branches.  The tree was covered with red army ants, which have a nasty painful bite.  At one point, they were on my left hand.  But my hand was covered in resin, so the bites were floating on the resin.  It was like magic, an invisible force field.  The ants were chomping on my hand, but not penetrating the invisible armor.

Anyway, I need to remove the debris and adjust the ladder, so I'll have to continue tomorrow inshaAllah.  My Mom treated me to dinner, so I went out for fried noodles.  Thanks, Mom!  The guy was open today, thank God.  I bought myself a big old man-sized take out.  Would you like some?

Letter to Erin 20151223

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

Hi there!  How December going?  Oh my, it's almost 2016.  Time sure whizzes by.  Well, I'm still here for you.  Have patience!  Be righteous!  Everyone else is at a loss.  I love you, and I need you.

I spent the whole morning in the kitchen again.  This time I was working on my steamed dumplings.  I used the stuffing mix that I normally use for stuffed won tons, thinking that that would be appropriate.  I used rice flour for the dough.  My dumplings steamed up quite nicely, though the skin was a little too thick and the stuffing too mild.  I think with rice flour, I should have stronger flavored stuffing.  Like beef or chicken.  Next time I'll use corn flour, which should make the dumplings translucent.  I still have some dumplings left, so I'll have them for lunch tomorrow as a soup.  Rather, I'll pour hot chicken soup over the dumplings and chicken.  I think it'll work great, and be a nice change from noodles.

Last night's dinner was so good, I had to have it again.  This time my half pitas bubbled up nicely, and I had a lot of room for stuffing.  I wish I had shredded lettuce!  This time instead of mole sauce, my Mom gave me some brown gravy mix.  So I whipped it up extra thick, and it went great with my steak pitas.  Ah!  I wish I had shredded lettuce and tomatoes!

Letter to Erin 20151222

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

Hi Sweetheart!  Hello Dahlink!  How are you feeling today?  Are you having fun?  How's business?  Make lots of money and don't waste it, OK?  Please take good care of yourself, and don't forget to pray.  I love you and I need you.

I tried to take it easy this morning, because I had some sneezies left over from yesterday.  I wound up spending most of my day in the kitchen.  I made a pizza for myself this morning.   Nothing special, just a sausage and basil pizza.  I was really tired, but I got through voice training OK.  I want to make pot stickers tomorrow for lunch, so I went to the night market for some tofu and fish balls.  There was quite a multicultural crowd at the night market.  It's hard to believe that we are out here in the sticks.  Must be a whole bunch of lodgers.  I wonder how they cope with the non-Muslims?  Obviously they do, and quite peacefully.

Before I went to the night market, I went and tidied up my grandparents' grave.  It can quite overgrown with really long grass, so much that I could barely park my motorcycle.  I only had energy to cut the grass around my grandparents, so their grave looks like an island in a sea of grass.  If you can see past the grass, that is.

You know how they serve pitas over at fast food restaurants, right?  They don't give you a whole pita, but half a pita.  Then they slice it open and stuff it with whatever.  So for dinner, I fried up some dough as half pitas, sliced then open and stuffed them with kelisa beans, onions, hot red peppers, and sliced tenderloin.  For sauce I used mole sauce.  Totally yummy.  Alhamdulillah.  I love mole sauce.  So simple, so delicious.  It's chilli puree and cooking chocolate, people.  So simple, so delicious.

Letter to Erin 20151221

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

**sniffle**  I'm writing this letter later than usual because all that smoke and dust gave me the sniffles.  **sniffle**  I spent almost 2 hours draining my sinus cavity and struggling through the sunset and night prayers with a glass cup and a roll of toilet paper for company.  I started to get the sniffles before I had voice training, but that didn't stop me from finishing my set, even though I wasn't feeling 100%.  I think I got most of the snot out, so I should be ready to work tomorrow inshaAllah.  I can't sing at all with a stuffed up nose or sore throat.

If you didn't already know, I believe that infected sinus fluids are extremely dangerous, and the best way to get rid of them is to empty out the sinus cavity.  So I let it all drip into a cup, which amounts to about a quarter cup of snot, until the vacuum gives me a headache.  The only medication I take is a couple of aspirin to remedy the headache.  The sinus fluids will be renewed, so it's important to remove all of the infected stuff, otherwise it will infect the new fluids.

Sorry to be so gross.  If possible I prefer to doctor myself than to put my life in the hands of a stranger.  I wasn't always this way, just a couple of bad experiences wised me up to my situation.  I won't do the same for you, though.  You will have to go to hospital, but at least I will be there to keep an eye on suspicious doctors inshaAllah.  Meanwhile, please try to stay healthy.  I love you, and I need you.  **sniffle**

Letter to Erin 20151220

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

Hello Sweetheart!  Hi Darling!  How's it going today?  Staying busy?  I've been busy all day.  I had kitchen work in the morning, like making dough and such.  Then my parents have been re-landscaping their yard lately, so in the evening I helped them do some burning.  So I'm kind of tired right now.  I hope you're not overworking yourself, or over partying.  Please look after yourself, OK?  I love you and I need you.

So I'm too tired to practice bass tonight, I think I'll just take it easy and rest my feet, because I'll be busy again tomorrow morning.  I usually write bass first, and I have a lot of music in my head.  When I was younger I was influenced by Led Zeppelin, but not anymore.  Nowadays all the music I write is inspired by the Qur'an.  People like to compare in accordance with their own desires.   But nowadays, the music I write is inspired by the Qur'an.

All animals belong to Allah, and I am grateful for my kitties, to be able to share my like with them for a while.  Alhamdulillah.  This kitty is ----.  She's such a sweet little kitty, and the most well behaved of all my kittens.  She's the most like her mother in personality.  She's in heat right now, so I try to hug her as often as possible to relieve the tension.  She loves my singing, but she gets alarmed when I make kissy kissy sounds.  Mwah!  For dinner, I had a cheeseburger.  My Mom gave me a can of tuna the other day, so I also made a tuna melt.  My other female kitten ------- has acquired a taste for dirty old mop water for some reason.  How gross!  Here -------, have some tuna juices instead.  Now doesn't that taste better than old mop water?  By the way, I want you to please try to stop drinking those funny tasting beverages, OK?

Letter to Erin 20151219

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

Hey there, you beautiful creature!  How are you feeling today?  Oh, it's so hard for me not to be there with you to help take care of you.  Are you keeping your nose clean?  You might think that you're just playing around, but accidents do happen so please play safe.  I want to look after you, my beloved.  I love you and I need you.

Letter to Erin 20151218

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

Hi there!  Are you feeling better today?  Are you feeling more confident today?  Good.  Please try to get plenty of rest, exercise, and eat properly.  I want you to look after yourself, because I love you and I need you.  OK?

I was quite busy today.  I spent the morning with my crops, so I only had time for a simple lunch, which was bread sticks and marinara sauce.  I spent the evening in the yard again, this time my parents' yard.  After that I got the craving for "sambal belacan" cheeseburgers again.  So I cooked up and ate 3 of them.  Yeah, I ate your burger.