I'm hungry

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are doing and feeling great.  It's all the same old day really, and someday we will be together inshaAllah.  I'm hungry today.  Instead of my usual 2 burritos, I had 3 for dinner.  I put milk in the dough, so the tortillas browned easily, and were very soft.  I wrapped the tortillas with shredded lettuce, fried egg, chicken nuggets, sauteed onions, cheese and pickled radish.  No sauces necessary.  It has egg, do I don't need mayo.  The salted radish adds the flavor kick, so the burritos are very mild.  Yeah, I guess it is like breakfast.  Except that it's dinner.
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That jacket

Hi Natty!  Wow, what an awesome snapshot.  I absolutely had to put it in my slideshow.  What a wonderful and sincere smile you have, my darling.  My Natty you are so beautiful, and I love you.  Don't worry so much about not being ready for what is to come.  None of us are ever ready.  It is the way of Allah to test us from directions we do not perceive.  But you are going to do just fine, Natty.  InshaAllah, things will turn out just great for you and for us.  So you hang in there, don't worry so much, have tons of fun, keep safe, and pray.

You've had that furry jacket for a while already, huh?  My guess is that you got it when you started college, so that would make it about 5 years old.  It looks great on you, my Natty.  Take it to a pro who can spruce it up and make it look like new again.  Hang on to yourself.

I found another excellent singer on the Postmodern Jukebox.  This is Aubrey Logan, doing "Beauty and the Beast".  Fitting, right?  She's a mean trombone player, too.  What a great performance.  Don't you just love it when live music sounds like a recording?  Except for the aura.  Yes, live music has an aura about it that separates it from recordings.  Especially when the music comes from human beings, not machines.

Qur'an 20190213

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

71.  Say, "Shall we call upon others besides Allah, things that can do us neither harm nor good, and turn back after receiving guidance from Allah, like one whom the evil ones have made into a fool, wandering bewildered through the earth, his friends calling 'Come to us", guiding him to the path?"  Say, "Allah's guidance is The Guidance, and we have been directed to submit ourselves to the Lord of the worlds."

(The Cattle 6:71)
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Tuesday

Hi Natty!  How are you doing, beautiful girl?  Sorry I'm running late today.  It's Tuesday, and I just got back from the mosque.  I always try to be present to listen to the elderly Qur'an teacher talk, every Tuesday evening.  It's so wonderful to see you again!  Natty, you're so cute!  I love your beautiful smile.  I only drink one cup of coffee every day, which would be about 40 minutes into voice training.  Having that voice bounce around in my head could easily put me to sleep, like it does many other people.  So I drink one cup of coffee at the right time, of the right strength, so that I don't have to take a nap in the middle of my set, which is quite an embarrassing thing to do.  Too much coffee doesn't really keep me awake for some reason (unless it's time to go to sleep), but it does mess with my blood pressure.  So I keep it at just one cup a day, for business purposes.  Anyway, I have to go and prepare tomorrow's outfit.  Have tons of fun my darling, keep safe, and please pray.

Oh by the way, Muslims don't celebrate Valentine's Day, so please don't expect me to post any sort of Valentine's Day wishes.  I want you to know that I love you, and I love you every day, so I guess like the song goes, "every day is Valentine's Day".

Qur'an 20190212

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

63.  Say, "Who is it that delivers you from the dark recesses of land and sea.  When you call upon God in humility and in silent terror, 'If God only delivers us from these, we shall truly show our gratitude'?"

64.  Say, "It is Allah that delivers you from these and all distresses, and yet you worship false gods!"

65.  Say, "God has power to send calamities on you from above and below, or to cover you with confusion in party strife, giving you a taste of mutual vengeance, each from the other."  See how We explain the Signs by various ways, that they may understand.

66.  But your people reject this.  Say, "Not mine is the responsibility for arranging your affairs."

(The Cattle 6:63-66)
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Gunhild Carling is so awesome!

Hi Natty!  What's going on with you today?  I'm happy to see your having fun with your beautiful group of people.  Are you getting ready to go globetrotting again?  It's time to soak up some sunshine on a tropical beach, right?  It's hot here today, but not so hot that I had to nap on a chair this before voice training.  Yes dear, I'm trying to cheer up.  As long as I'm left alone when I'm grumpy, I calm down quite easily.  Plus, it's not that hot today.  I had steamed rice with eggs for lunch.  Simplicity!  Best for a 2 hour set.  Yes, I had my eggs sunny side up as usual.  Almost perfect, except that I broke one yolk when I was plating the eggs.  I didn't ruin them completely, it just leaked out the bottom a little.  Oh well, there's no such thing as perfect in this life anyhow.

I love this crazy lady!  She's so awesome!