Eggs

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my beautiful Rock and Roll Babe?  I hope you are keeping yourself safe and healthy, and having a marvelous time.

Eggs are surprisingly difficult for me to prepare consistently well.  I prefer my eggs sunny side up, but I don't make it the same way every time.  I think it's because I get impatient, and I screw up the eggs.  Sometimes I break the yolk.  It's exasperating.  But today my eggs took on a distinct pattern, and it happened all by itself.  I want to share this snapshot with you.

The child singer

Hi Natty!  What's up, tough girl?  It's great to be strong.  Allah loves the strong, as long as you use your strength to be consistently righteous.  So please be a good cop, and please pray.  I love you, Natty.

I've been watching a lot of those talent shows that are so popular all around the world lately, like X Factor, Got Talent, The Voice, etc.  There are a lot of good singers out there!  I'm so impressed with this one, she is so awesome:

She is so cute!  I've heard many a super talented little girl singer, even around here as they migrate to this village for whatever reason.  Little girls love to sing!  And their purity comes out in their voices.  But the child singer is like the child actor, and we don't see/hear that many child singers grow up to remain as professional singers.  Nothing ruins purity more than corruption, and when one's heart becomes corrupted so does the voice.  What coach can save the heart of a child singer from becoming corrupted?  Look at it from the entertainment business point of view: little girls love to sing.  So there will always be a steady supply of meat for the monster.  Who says you can't make money from corruption?  I guess as a parent, it would be wise to consider one of these major talent shows as the peak of their child's singing career, not the beginning.

It's time for you to watch a movie, Natty.  Apocalypto (2006).

Deep Purple

Hey Natty!  How are you doing, Sweetheart?  No news from you means you're super busy... that's my guess.  Lots of traveling, huh?  Please remember to pray, and look after your tummy!  Here's a song for you, my beautiful darling.

Nah, I don't want to tour.  I just want to stay put, plants my roots in the ground and be a tree.  Besides, I'm too lazy to tour.  You however, should be doing as much traveling as possible at your age.  Make sure you get your fill of travel before we marry inshaAllah.  Tour on my behalf, OK?  When people come to see you, they come to see me.  You are me, we are one.  It's nice and mild weather over here, and I'm in a good mood.  I even enjoyed cutting the grass.  Alhamdulillah.

I love this color!  I dunno if it's my favorite color, but I do so love it!

The Public Restroom

Hi Natty!  How are you feeling?  I hope you are having a great time.  Please keep safe, and don't forget to pray.  It was a busy day for me.  I had to pick my parents up at the airport.  The airport is in the next state and a one and a half hour drive, so I had to adjust all my other responsibilities in order to be able to do them and still make it to the airport in time.  Everything went nice and smoothly, alhamdulillah.  I used the public restroom at the airport!  It had been years since I last used the public restroom, in fact it was the same restroom, and I picked up my parents at the airport.  I should have taken a snapshot... The locals like to wash with water, but thank God there was toilet paper there.  There were no toilet seats as you would expect, instead you would have to squat over a stylized hole in order to take a poop.  I didn't take a poop, I just wanted to pee.  The restroom at the airport is air conditioned and probably way cleaner than any other public restroom around here.  Certainly not as clean as a typical public restroom at a mall in the US!  I pray that I will never have to use the public restroom ever again.