Oh, it's just another average day

Hi Natty!  How are you feeling?  I'm sure you are having tons of fun being a fabulous high fashion model.  You seem to be coping with it better than you used to.  You seem more relaxed, and your tummy is more relaxed.  I want you to know that I'm always with you.  I will not abandon you inshaAllah.

Yeah, it's just another average day for me.  I did my laundry in the morning.  I had spicy chicken and onions with tortillas for lunch.  I had rice and curry for dinner.  I need to measure my curry recipe more precisely, so it will be consistent.  The trouble is that I've been using young coconuts for the coconut milk, which make a thicker curry.  This last batch I had to use coconut milk squeezed from the shavings of a mature coconut, which made a runnier and lighter curry.  I guess I should decide one or the other, huh?  I just go with the flow, with whatever is available.  I like to make a generic curry, which is good by itself or you can add stuff to it.  Today I added an okra, a couple of hot dogs, and some mushrooms that my Mom gave me.  It's what I had at the moment.

The computer wants you to watch "The Godfather" (1972) today.  Yeah you've probably seen it already, but with all great movies you get more out of it the more you watch it.  Plus, timing is everything.  "Women and children can be careless, but not men."  That's a quote from the movie.

Beautiful as you

Natty, that is a gorgeous location.  Where is that?  It can't be Canada.  I'm guessing that it must be South America.  Are you still in Colombia?  I pray that you are enjoying the warmth and excitement.  The world is in your palm, my darling.  Alhamdulillah.  I wish I were there with you to share these wonderful moments in your life.  But I am with you.  I'm always with you, I think of you all the time, how I long to be with you.  Don't you worry about a thing, my dearest Natty.  Everything is going to turn out just fantastic for us, inshaAllah.  You are beautiful, and I love you.

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Hi Natty!  How are you feeling today, beautiful girl?  Still not ready?  None of us are ever ready, my love.  Allah will always test us from directions we do not perceive.  So please learn to go with the flow, yet maintain your integrity.  Ride the snake.

If you had not noticed, the history of this blog began as a link from my old website www.mysteryrockband.com, which I had hosted on a webhost at a monthly fee.  This blog was meant to be my Qur'an blog, especially when it became obvious that I won't be making any money here.  Even though times were tough, I managed to maintain the monthly payments on my old website until a point, which was about the middle of 2011.  As you can see, that year I began to post more on this blog where previously I had posted on my website.  When I posted on my website, I did it by changing the layout every time I posted so there is no catalog of what I had written/posted.  I sincerely doubt anybody kept a record of my posts on my old website, so all that has blown with the wind.  😁  I'm nothing like Kurt Cobain: I hate keeping a journal, and I have no desire for people to try figure me out.  Let them not know as they not cared before.  If it were not for my wife, I probably would only post a few times per month.  This also goes for the music and production: the knowledge will probably disappear with me.  😁  Let the people worship Allah instead.

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

77.  Haven't you turned your vision to those who were told to restrain their hands, but establish regular prayers and spend in regular charity?  When the order for fighting was issued to them, behold!  A section of them feared humans as, or even more than, they should have feared Allah.  They said, "Our Lord!  Why have You ordered us to fight?  Would You not grant us respite to our term, soon?"  Say, "Short is the enjoyment of this world.  The hereafter is the best for those who do right: never will you be dealt with unjustly in the very least!"

78.  Wherever you are, death will find you out, even if you are in towers built up strong and high!  If some good befalls them, they say, "This is from Allah."  But if evil, they say, "This is from you."  Say, "All things are from Allah."  But what has come to these people that they fail to understand a single fact?

(The Women 4:77-78)
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Shadows

Hi Natty!  How are you feeling, my darling?  I hope you are having a fabulous time.  Don't forget who you are: you are MY girl, and I love you.  We will be married, inshaAllah.

This blog is the closest thing that people will get to my autobiography.  I'm sure I would tell more of myself to my wife, but I am not married yet.  She probably might think it's just the ramblings of a senile old person.  I was looking at my first and second post just now.  I was about a month and a half away from being homeless!  I knew back then that my eviction was inevitable, the banners were a last ditch attempt to make money.  I had managed to finish the drum tracks for "Woo Hoo", which took me 10 years to complete.  Yeah not only did I become homeless, I had to leave the country.  Anyway, I started the band in 1990.  At first I wanted to call it "White Man Speak With Forked Tongue" but the rest of the band didn't like it, so we opened up the dictionary and searched for a word then came up with "Shadowplay".  Since then there were many changes in the band roster, and I managed to keep the band together (in shadow form at times) up until André died in 2002, then I was on my own.  Needless to say, no former band member could know what happened to me if they had left the band.  And would they have left the band if they knew that Shadowplay would be successful?  Well, I am NOT successful.  I have no money.  I can't afford to marry.  I could get evicted at any given moment.  Allah is The One who has kept the music (and me) alive.

It's time for you to watch another movie, Natty dearest!  Yeah I know you are super busy, but this one is an important movie.  Many film critics regard this movie as the greatest movie ever.  I like this movie too. Citizen Kane (1941).

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.