Fashion

Aw Erin, I love you.  I love you so much.  Calm our raging hearts my love, for we are together.  We are always together.  Please be patient with me, and pray.  I made an awesome dinner for us, alhamdulillah.  Dinner was linguini in alfredo sauce with sliced chicken.  Delicious, and disgustingly simple.  One more ingredient, and it would have been perfecto.  But that's for next time.  But it's oh so good now!  Want some?

Oh Natty, how are you?  I'm glad you are keeping your cool, but you can't fool me- I bet you have tons of energy right now!  Please stay safe, and have tons of fun.  I've been watching that movie over and over again.  Meryl Streep is so awesome!  I think I have a role model now...  But I don't have nice clothes.  I don't have a tuxedo, and I don't have anywhere to wear one to.  However, I have lots of clothes in Second Life, even though it's not enough.  There's never enough clothes, huh?  Especially shoes...  And my Mom gave me this T-shirt for real life.

 

 

 

The Devil Wears Prada

I liked that movie so much, I had to watch it again today!  Well it was raining all evening, so I couldn't do any yard work.  So I made an early dinner- a couple of cheeseburgers and a huge helping of fries- and watched that movie again.  You're not interested in that stuff, are you Erin?  Maybe a little bit I guess, but not so all out even when you were actively in that scene, you didn't seem too active about it.  You follow your heart, Honey.

But Natty, I think you really enjoy that scene!  Well God bless you, that's where you are!  Give Karl-baby a big old smack in the pants for me if you happen to meet him.  He will probably never meet me.  I don't think I could ever be like Miranda Priestly.  I'm too easy going.  Except when it comes to the music I make.  I'm a serious tyrant there.  It's a good thing I work alone.  But if I ever happen to play live with a band or orchestra....  I wasn't like this when I was young.  When it comes to this music, I can be a dictator.  Serious and mean.

 

 

 

Homemade but corporate

Aw Erin, I love you so much.  Have faith Honey, and please be patient.  Everything will fall into place just right inshaAllah.  I had been feeding Floofy dried cat food pellets but not anymore, because the stuff blocks her up.  So I started making her fish smoothies, but there's the issue of processing and storage of fish, which can be be time-consuming.  Not to mention the fact that if the product is inconsistent, the food would be rejected by Her Majesty in her own subtle way, which is by puking it all out on my bedroom floor.  One day I didn't have time to shop for fish, so I bought a can of cat food from the supermarket and mixed that with steamed rice.  Behold, Floofy loves that mix.  She has never been more pleased with me in her life, and she's been treating me like gold.  Now the locals generally feed their cats with leftover fried fish mixed with leftover rice, and Floofy grew up as a local kitten.  So it makes sense that she would love fish mixed with rice, only this time it's canned cat food mixed with rice.  How ironic.  My cat is homemade but corporate.

There is a duck farm behind my little house, and be warned that it can get quite smelly.  The ducks have been singing along with this song lately.  Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack....


Natty honey, how are you Sweetie?  I watched "The Devil Wears Prada" yesterday.  Since you are smack dab right in the middle of that scene, I want to remind you of who you are.  You are not a lowly assistant to an editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine.  You the wife of a Rock Star.  This is important!  Don't forget who you are!  You are MINE!

 

 

Life's a beach

Isn't it?  Wow Erin, what an awesome life you are living.  Away from all that cold and snow, away from the sewers and rats, down by the beach in a tropical paradise.  This is way better than the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!  Sooth your heart sweet sailor, by the water's edge we be.  Into the water we peer and each other's heart we see.  We are together.

Oh Natty, are you already tired of waiting?  I'm so sorry, but we have to put in our time.  I want to be with you too, I need my wife.  I need her soooo badly.  I have been waiting all my life.  But I have faith that Allah will grant me my wives soon.  InshaAllah.  You are such a beautiful girl.  So beautiful.  Do not worry, please don't worry.  InshaAllah, I will not abandon you.  Meanwhile, as you wait, please enjoy your career and make lots of money for yourself.  At least you don't have to wait for money.

 

 

Crazy

I'm going crazy with love with you!  Aaaah I just want to be married.  I attended my niece's wedding this morning, and that got me agitated.  But Allah commands that I be patient.  Needless to say, I was quite busy this Monday morning.  I had to get all my chores done as usual, then I paid my bills, went home for more chores, then attended the wedding luncheon all before voice training.  I didn't get a chance for a nap before singing, so I took a one (or was it two?) song nap after 4 songs.  I guess I'm the only singer that has to take a nap right in the middle of a set.  It's all those damned love songs.  Puts people right to sleep.  Yes Honey, I went to the night market without my helmet.  It's not that I have a pretty face- on the contrary.  It's just a face.

Natty Honey, how are you?  Are you longing to be a movie star?  Oh dear.  Well don't try too hard, Sweetie.  All you need to do is be beautiful, and you are beautiful.

 

 

 

Sunday

Hi Erin Darling!  How are you feeling today, my gorgeous love?  I am wondering if you are busy on weekends while in Costa Rica.  Perhaps you are receiving guests at your island paradise or something.  Best wishes and all my love to you.  It is Sunday here.  Just another average day, just me and my doing my same old same old.  I had to clean my mother's bedroom as usual.  My niece is getting married tomorrow morning, so the whole immediate family is here in town, and my sister is staying with my mother.  I have two brothers and one sister.  The weather had been nice and cool this first week of 2018, but today was hot and muggy.  Yuck.  Tropical heat.  In the evening, I cut the grass by the side of the road over at your house inshaAllah.  That's actually government property, you know the land at the side of the road, but since the government doesn't give a rat's ass about the mosquito and snake hazard the long grass poses, I guess I have to do it.  Besides, it makes your house look messy.  I hope you are not taking the mosquitoes lightly while you are in the tropics.  Mosquitoes are VERY dangerous.

Hi Nattikins!  How's it going today Sweetheart?  I had to wait a bit to clean my Mom's bedroom this morning, so I watched TV.  My parents have satellite TV, nothing I would ever subscribe to but I guess my wife would like to have it someday inshaAllah.  Anyway, I saw the trailer for the latest Vikings episode- they will be premiering it here at the same time it will premier in the US.  No lag.  Wow, the battle scenes look quite epic, just like a movie.  But it's the History channel!  TV sure has changed a lot since you were born.  Your big brother looks like a real viking, I must say.  Whatever that is...

I don't particularly like dresses of this type.  It looks like I'm wearing a towel.

 

 

 

 

Milk

Hi Erin!  How are you today, my love?  How's your tummy today?  I'm guessing you've been practicing cooking, or have to eat local food.  What is local food in Costa Rica?  Perhaps you would like to show us?  Oh don't worry so much, Honey.  You have tons of courage.  Just be cool, and pray.  I made chicken and potatoes stewed in milk for dinner.  Asians usually are lactose intolerant, but I'm only like that sometimes.  Usually with bad combinations, or bad recipes.  After all, I did have to work with a lot of cheese for half my life.  So for dinner I cooked up chicken, potatoes, ginger, garlic and butter in milk and let it simmer for about an hour or so.  Then I garnished it with black pepper and dried onions.  It was a marvelous success!  Very cheesy.  No stomach problems either, at least not right now.  You must try some!  Oh, you don't like chicken?

Hey Natty!  Oh those shoes are so cute!  Do they hurt?  They're so pretty though.  I like your hair too.  I'm guessing that you are finally calming down, and getting into your work groove.  That's awesome.  You are more resilient than you give yourself credit for.