Saturday, March 10, 2018

Overwork

Honey, I don't want you to overwork.  I know I said that you should make as much money for yourself while you can, but you can't.  You have to take care of your health and happiness otherwise this marriage business is over, especially its profitability for 2nd and 3rd parties.  So whatever work you take on from now, please make sure you are able to do it at a slow pace.  Oh so slow.  Like a turtle.  Or a snail.  Make plenty of time for yourself to just hang out at home.  Practice cooking.  Languish on the couch, eat bon bons and watch TV sports.  Work out occasionally.  I think someone told us, "Things happen by itself."  That was you.  So relax and enjoy waiting, my Precious.

Natty, you're still so young.  But inshaAllah, with the influence of our marriage you won't have to struggle like many people.  Of course, they have to feed their families.  But my plan is that I am the one to finance the family, inshaAllah.  So please plan to earn enough to enjoy the waiting, and inshaAllah it won't be a long wait.



Friday, March 9, 2018

Busy?

I don't want you to overwork, Erin.  Don't just give yourself away, because they will just take as much as they can and not leave anything for you!  So please be tough and turn down some work.  Just take on enough work so that you move very, very slowly.  Please look after your heart and your health, for you are very precious to me.  And don't worry Honey, everything will turn out just fine inshaAllah.  Just relax tonight, and enjoy some chocolate mousse.

Natty, you're so cute!  You should get together with your girl gang and have movie watching parties.  And they should get into the spirit and dress up for the occasion.  Make it fun!  Plus, their involvement would help distract the public eye away from you.  If that is what you want, Movie Star.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Hi Honey

I love you with all my heart, Erin.  I really do.  I would wait for you no matter how old we get.  My mind is made up, and I am a very stubborn guy.  Of course I want you to love me.  And of course not only America, but the world is looking to see what the American Princess will do.  Please love me!  Oh, it was my Dad's 81st birthday today.  Happy Birthday Dad.  I don't know if I would live to be that age.  But I am grateful to Allah that God has kept me alive, so I can make music and love my wives.  I was late for voice training today because I had to drive my Dad around.  Sorry, folks.  In the evening I had to pick fruit.  Most of what grows in the yard of my little house/studio and over at your house inshaAllah I don't eat.  Nothing special on the menu, either.  Just fry bread and curry for lunch, and fried rice vermicelli for dinner.  I still have lots of salad dressing left, so maybe I'll go buy greens sometime soon.  I don't eat salads, but I will eat a salad for my Erin!

Hi Natty Honey!  Are you excited?  Are you?  Are you?  Your environment might be still waters on the surface, but there is a lot churning underneath.  Don't let that distract you from your studies, Honey.  Do me proud and do what I wasn't able to do- get a degree.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Chicken skin

Hi Honey!  How was your day today?  I hope it wasn't too hard, I hope that work and things are going oh so smoothly for you, and that you are having a grand old time.  I forgot to renew my driver's license.  They set the renewal day on one's birthday, so that people don't forget I guess.  But I forgot- I had so much other things going on, I totally forgot to renew my driver's license before my birthday.  So I went in this morning, and I had to renew for 2 years, since I forgot my own birthday.  Do you believe that?  Anyway, the weather has cooled down a lot since it did rain yesterday evening.  I am feeling pleasantly calm, the cool weather always cheers me up.  I can get so grumpy when it's hot!  I was looking in my freezer, and I saw all this raw chicken skin left over from the last time I processed a chicken.  Lovers of fried chicken would mostly agree with me thatt he best part of the fried chicken is the skin.  So I marinated it then fried it like one would normally fry chicken.  It was awesome!  There is no need to precook: just batter and fry it.  Want some?

Natty Honey, the computer is telling me that the global movie industry is highly interested in your movie watching!  Well, tell them that it's OUR movie watching.  I hope you take the time to dress up and act like a movie star when you watch movies.  But if you don't, it doesn't really matter- you are still MY girl.  Today the computer wants you to watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark" from 1981.  I'm sure you have already seen this movie, but watch it again.  Dress up like an archaeologist if you can.  This movie brings up so many questions, like:
1.  Do archaeologists really look like Indiana Jones?
2.  Is archaeology really like that?
3.  Did the ancient people really have that technology like photo receptors that trigger traps which impale intruders on arrays of massive spikes?
4.  Why is there all that imported liquor in a bar in the secluded Nepalese highlands?
5.  Was the Ark of the Covenant really a gold and jewel encrusted box, when it is clear 2 movies later that the Cup of Christ is an ordinary carpenter's cup?  Was Moses really that flamboyant?
And so many more...  I guess if a movie leaves you asking so many questions, then it MUST be good.  I guess the best part of this movie is that Spielberg didn't screen any small kids being chased by monsters like he usually does.


Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Beef

Hi Honey!  How are you doing?  My guess is that you are very busy, being America's name brand and American Princess.  Please make lots of money for yourself while you can.  Now that the birthday month is over, I can go back to preparing Zam food.  So I looked inside my cooler, and decided that today I make beef and potato curry.  I've been trying to simplify my curry recipe, and I think it's working.  The tummy is happy, and all is good.  But it turned out a bit sweet though, I guess it must be the sweetness of the blended onions.  So I had curry and fry bread for lunch.  I didn't eat too much, just a bowlful and bread to match.  Then I froze the rest.  I still had some fry bread left, so I made chili for dinner- I had the fixings for that in my cooler too.  Actually, it was chili con carne con queso: chili with cheese mixed in.  Mighty tasty, but not the dark red you would normally expect from chili.  The cheese lightened it up a bit.  Want some?

Hey Natty Honey!  How's life?  Is life a movie?  Well enough with the action flicks, the computer wants you to watch a romantic movie today.  I like romantic movies, but not all romantic movies.  If a movie is romantic, would that make it a "chick flick"?  I wonder.  From 2001, "Amélie" starring Audrey Tautou.  I like that hair,  I used to sport a smaller version of that hair.  But my head is too big, and the back of my head is unattractive.  Wah!  I wanna be pretty too!

Monday, March 5, 2018

Qur'an 20180306

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

47.  And they used to say, "What!  When we die and become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raised up again?"

48.  "And our fathers of old?"

49.  Say, "Yes, those of old and those of later times."

The Inevitable 56:47-49
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Searching

Hi Honey!  How was your birthday?  Or are you back to work already?  That was a full moon on your birthday, or did you not notice...  I certainly did!  I didn't feel out of place or anything.  I'm rather busy, and it's awfully hot.  Today, I had to go downtown and pay my phone bill.  It's too hot to commute in the morning, too hot for me at least.  I burn easily- i can't spend my life lying on the beach getting tanned.  That would kill me.  I have to stay indoors to an extent- oh I wish I had AC!  Anyway, after paying my phone bill I browsed the hardware stores, searching for things I could make a drum with.  Yes, it looks like I am going to have to make a drum.  Because I certainly can't afford to buy the right drum, or buy a drum period.  Expensive, musical instruments are.  But it's time to write the next album, because I am still able to.

Natty Honey, remember I told you that watching a movie over and over again can bend reality?  Well it can, but some times the computer gives you a movie to watch again.  For a reason- the computer can be very clever sometimes.  Please watch "Speed 2- Cruise Control" again.  The computer makes me watch this one over and over again, this time it's making you watch it again.  You don't have to focus on it Honey, just let it play while you study or something.  "Speed 2" is definitely, or historically rather, a B movie.  But it looks like it had a big budget.  After all, I'm sure it took lots of money to trash a cruise liner, an oil tanker, a seaplane, and a harbor town plus a few extraneous boats.  For us though, it's just a symbol of the tourist trade that fuels our family.

Want some candy?