Express yourself

Hi Honey.  I hope you are feeling great, and work is easy for you.  It's been an intense year for you so far, and you've seen past the haze as to where in the world you stand.  Yeah big business is scary, but the alternate is scary too.  To be unnoticed, to be walked over.  So please express yourself, don't keep your feelings and perspective bottled up inside, especially if it can make the world a better place, because you definitely have the influence to do so.  You are beautiful, and you are a beautiful person, and I love you with all of my heart.  My cat Floofy got constipated again today.  I had determined that it was the solid cat food that did it to her, so I cut it out of her diet.  But rice and wet cat food gave her diarrhea, so I added a little crushed solid cat food to the mix to temper her tummy.  But she got constipated again today.  I couldn't even get the enema in her, because the poop blocked her butthole, and ended up blocking the nozzle of the enema.  So I thought to give her a little time, since it looked like it was about to come out eventually, and did my chores to pass the time.  But the poop didn't come out, so I put on a latex glove and pulled it out, the cat growling and snarling away.  At least I could get the enema in now, so I gave her a few hours before I administered the enema, with the cat growling and snarling away.  I was blessed not to get mauled.  But she was able to pass the entire blockage and boy, it was a mess I tell you.  The experience made her throw up her breakfast.  So sensitive.  So no more mixing in crushed cat food pellets to temper her stomach.  We'll have to go with the diarrhea, and hope her body adapts to it.

You too Natty, don't be afraid to express yourself.  Don't keep your feelings bottled up.  I know you dislike people talking about you, whether it be positive or whatever, but the worst they can do to you is to shut you up.  Yeah, big business is scary.  But being intimidated into silence is not a blessing.  So please do not be afraid to use your Instagram regularly.  I am with you.  I will always be with you inshaAllah.  I will take care of you inshaAllah.

Hi Honey

Hi there, my beautiful Erin.  Please don't be mad at me, because I love you so much.  I know you must be very busy, probably living out of a suitcase, because everybody loves you and wants you.  So please get lots of rest and relaxation time.  Try not to stay occupied.  Spend lots of time doing nothing.  I love just vegging out and being lazy.  I don't do that often, but I love doing it, and I would love to do it with you.  Just snuggle and be with you.  But there's always something to do, especially until then.  I cleaned my mother's bedroom this morning.  I made a cheese omelet for lunch.  I cut the grass after voice training.  I made one of those huge curry pups for dinner, plus a couple of hot dog pups.  Hot dogs cooked up as calzones, and enjoyed with mustard.  You have to cut up those hot dogs, or they will expand and burst through the dough.  After this I'll go to the mosque, then after that I'll stay on Second Life until I pass out, and run the other computer at the same time.

Hi Natty Honey!  Oh, everybody wants the beautiful college graduate!  I want you too, Gorgeous.  Have you seen those musicals "Chicago" and "Moulin Rouge"?  You don't have to see them.  Because they're not that great.  The music was poor, and it ruined the movies.  Which is a shame, because I think Danny Elfman is a great writer of music.  Too bad the stars weren't great singers.  I guess Hollywood hasn't made a good musical since "Grease".  The movies looked great, but I guess you can't "razzle dazzle" with bad music.

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.