Chicago

Hi Honey!  Have you been busy?  Oh my poor, hardworking Sweetheart... you are so beautiful, and I love you so much.  Please take the time to get adequate rest, and try not go anywhere if you're not working.  Partying is hard work too, I'm sure you know.  But I'm sure you're earning the big bucks now.  Alhamdulillah.  Please don't waste it, and don't turn into a fat cat.  Ever since I started giving Floofy soft food instead of the cat food pellets, her tummy has been doing so much better.  But her breath is awful!  It's not coming from the mouth, either.  That breath is coming from the stomach.  Maybe I should mix some mint in with her food, but I better not.  Want some gum?  I saw the movie "Chicago" for the first time last night.  It was visually breathtaking, but I didn't like the music that much.  I guess it was acceptable for the time period, but the singing was awful.  I saw Harvey Weinstein's name in the credits.  Did he have sex with everybody in the movie?  Even Richard Gere?  Richard Gere shouldn't be singing.  I don't think I ever want to see that movie again.

Hi Natty Honey!  Is life wild and crazy for you again?  The difference is now you have a college degree.  Yay Natty!  After I watched "Chicago", I followed that with "Moulin Rouge".  These two movies, modern musicals I guess, were very impressive visually.  Great to look at.  Mind boggling.  But the music is just ugh!  I thought the music for "Chicago" was bad, but the music of "Moulin Rouge" was worse.  I couldn't even enjoy looking at the movie because I was cringing all the time because of the music.  I couldn't finish the movie.  If Kurt Cobain were alive today, he would kill himself after watching that movie.

That's a big curry pup

Hi Honey!  How are you?  Are you living out of your suitcase again?  Well, please make sure you get plenty of rest and eat properly.  Don't worry Honey, someday we'll stay in one spot and do our cooking together inshaAllah.  I made some curry pups today.  Yeah to the American mind, they are called calzones.  But to the locals (like my parents) they are known as curry pups/puffs, even though they may be stuffed with cheese and tomato sauce.  But today, I made the traditional filling which is beef, potato, onion, and curry spices.  I made 3 for my Mom who's fasting today an optional fast, and one for myself.  A HUGE one.  As you can see below.  Just so that you can gauge the size, the small ones are hand-sized.  Yes, as big as your hand.  Want one?  They're yummy!

Hi Natty Honey!  Wassap, pretty girl?  Oh, you're still on a graduation high!  As well as you should be- you have a degree and I don't.  So please make sure you get paid well for whatever you do.  I read in the news today that the new government is passing a law that all cooks in this country must be local.  Imagine that?  No imported cooks.  I've never heard of a country doing that.  Can you imagine America without imported cooks?  I'm so glad I don't have to rely on restaurants for food.  Ya Allah, thank You for the knowledge and the bounty that You have provided for me.

The point again being...

Sometimes I forget myself, and forget why what I do is so important.  I get frustrated because I'm still not married to my Erin and Natty, I still can't afford to get married.  The spiritual issue is more important than that.  When wealthy people believe that they are self-sufficient, they are not going to care much about God.  This is reflected in their actions, how they treat the poor.  Here I live in a poor state, the villagers here are not wealthy.  But there are those among the people here that truly care about God, and they treat the poor with dignity and respect.  That is one of the main reasons why I stand my ground here.

And same old same old

Hi Honey!  Aw Erin, you're so pretty.  And I love you so much.  How are you feeling today?  Don't you worry Honey, things will come together for us inshaAllah.  It's the same old same old for me here today.  I did my laundry, cut the grass, you know.  I haven't made dinner yet, I'll get to that after the sunset prayer which is coming up in half an hour.  Eggplant omelet and fries.  The vibe around here is still very political, as if people haven't gotten over the elections yet.  I sure hope they don't build an amusement park here.  Please stick to resources that are already available- don't go into debt!  The elections are definitely over for me, and my situation remains the same.  I need to be married.

Hey Natty Honey!  Hi hi!  How are you?  Are you still on a graduation high?  Enjoy it to the fullest then.  I'm with you.  I'll take care of you, inshaAllah.  You still haven't told me what your major was, I guess you want to leave me guessing.  If so, I'm guessing you are an Indiana Jones type of person.

Old Bond

Hi Honey!  How are you?  How's work?  It's football season right now, so I assume you are busy.  I mean the football-you-play-with-your-feet football.  I suppose it's not the usual football you have to deal with, but since you are a sports fan and Sports Princess, I would expect your bosses would want you to get involved with it in some way, seeing that it is a multi-billion dollar industry, and you have gone global as Mrs. Global.  I'm sorry Honey, I'm not a football fan.  I have absolutely no interest in watching a bunch of guys running around on a field chasing after a ball, and I don't really understand why other men show such fascination for it.  That's why you are the pro in that area.

Hey Natty Honey!  How's your exciting life today?  The computer wants you to watch another James Bond movie.  "Never Say Never Again" (1983).  This was Sean Connery's last appearance as 007, and he made it when he was, well, my age.  It's also a curiously independent movie out from a franchise, I wonder how they were able to release it.  Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:

It is the second adaptation of Fleming's Thunderball,^[2] which was previously adapted as the 1965 film of the same name. Unlike the majority of James Bond films, Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, but by an independent production company, one of whose members was Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball story, who retained the filming rights of the novel following a legal dispute over them.

Wow.  We'll probably never see a situation like that again.  Never?  Movie franchises rule the business nowadays.  Franchising is so ingrained into the consumer, that any successful independent movie is likely to become a franchise in itself.  Sean Connery managed to break out of the Bond typecast, but no one will deny that it was Bond that made Sean Connery a superstar.

Nice and cool

Hi Honey!  How's life today?  How was work?  I hope everything went great for you.  Oh, it's been such a nice and cool day here for me.  I'm in such a good mood!  I hate hot weather.  Last night was so comfortable, I slept so well!  I got a total of 7 and a half hours of sleep, which is awesome.  I actually kept my shirt on most of the day, it was so cool.  Finally the rain stopped in the evening, now I'm sweating again.  Oh well, nothing lasts forever.  But I'm sure it's going to be another cool night.  Beautiful dreams!  Dinner was awesome too.  I had some spicy marinara sauce left over from Ramadan.  So I heated that up, and fried up some sliced eggplant and some ground beef.  I topped fettuccine with the eggplant and beef, then poured the hot sauce over that, with a slice of cheese.  Awesome!  Want some?  Oh I ate it all!  I should have taken a snapshot.

Hi Natty Honey!  How's it going for you today?  I wonder what you are doing now that school's out.  You are probably working, since you are such a hot babe and in hot demand.  Relax, and enjoy.  Put in lots of lazy time!  I watched "Scarface" last night.  No, you don't have to watch it.  Not yet.  I found it so hilarious that scene where he's sitting at his desk in his office in his mansion, he's accumulated all that wealth, and he's staring at a mountain of cocaine.  Everybody wants to be rich!

Hi Honey

How are you doing today?  I hope you are doing and feeling great.  Of course I think of you all the time.  I love you and I will marry you inshaAllah.  Today is Sunday.  As usual I had to clean my mother's bedroom in the morning.  I have all this extra time now that the fasting month is over.  It's still not enough time though, plus I'm lazy.  It rained today, so I didn't have to do any yard work.  Instead, I worked a little on Shadowplay's next album.  What's it called?  It's a secret!  😆  I put down a few drum tracks with my wonderful new drum which I made myself.  It sounds so huge!  Real drums make all the difference for me.  Nothing special on the menu today.  Just leftovers from the Eid and fasting month, of which I have plenty to use up.  I had a dough ball that was one month old.  But that's what's so great about bread- it's now sourdough!  I LOVE sourdough.  Maybe I should always let my dough age a month.  Want some?  Oooh it's still gluten though...

Hi Natty Honey!  Wassap, beautiful girl?  Natty loves the drums!  Right?  Are you a dancing girl, Natty?  You certainly have the agility, but do you have the moves?  It's dark and gloomy here today, and very wet.  But I like that!  I loathe hot weather.  It's nice and cool right now, so I'm in a great mood.  The computer wants you to watch a movie today.  Sherlock Holmes!  "The House Of Fear" (1945).  This one is on YouTube!