No holiday

Hello, my lovely Ladies!  How are you today?  I hope you are feeling great, and having a wonderful time.  I hope you get to hear Mary Unknown7 sing, because the kids do even though they get into trouble, because she's on the air in the middle of the night.  These girls look up to you because of how pretty you are!  Yes, you both should listen at the same time.  It's no holiday either for me over here.  I went downtown in the morning to pick up my parents' prescriptions, then I discovered when I got there that today is a public holiday.  The King's birthday.  I have the local public holidays bookmarked, but I still got beat.  This always happens to me, because it's all the same day to me, because I have to work everyday.  Oh I love Mary Unknown7's singing, I love music, and I love the computer work that pertains to the music, so I don't mind at all working on that everyday.   But the manual labor... eeeeehhhh...  But nobody else will do it, so I do it.  This evening, I cut the grass by the side of the road.  It's government property but like I said, nobody else will do it.

Hi Natty

How ya doin', beautiful girl?  Are you having tons of fun?  You're so beautiful Natty, and I love you so much.  It's a crazy world for us right now, so I hope you are keeping relaxed, and don't care so much about what other people say.  I want you to know that I care for you deeply, and I will marry you inshaAllah, so please have faith OK?  It was hazy yesterday, so I couldn't do any burning.  The haze is all over the world I'm sure you know, it is a sign of Judgement Day, so it's not going to get better.  But we don't allow the corruption of the world to accelerate, we are an environmentally conscious family, we try to slow the pollution down.  That in fact is Islamic: people who believe in the End of the World will try to slow it down.  And you can observe how many people who call themselves "Muslim" be callous about the trash they generate and distribute.  As do other people who just don't care, or don't care to try a little harder.  But we try to control our trash, right?  Today there were rain clouds instead of haze, so I took the opportunity to do some burning.  The rain didn't fall down, but I couldn't get much to light up.  There's so much trash to get rid of.

Hi Erin

How are you , Honey?  Super hectic, huh?  Fantasy football!  I've been getting that a lot in my inbox.  I hope you are finding time to rest and relax, and have a nice chocolate mousse.  Doesn't that sound nice?  Lat me pinch those shoulders, and loosen them right up.  I love your hair.  I like it curly.  How about a long, silent brushing?

I did take the time to organize all the trash generated by the chainsaw yesterday.  But I didn't do any burning, because it was hazy out.  It wasn't too hazy, but I didn't burn nonetheless.  Which meant I got done early, so I went downtown to buy a chicken.  I found a big fat one over 3 kilos, and it burst out of the bag.  It was so huge!  I also got some tomatoes and curry pups.  On the way home, I stopped by 7-Eleven for a Slurpee.  There's nothing like a Slurpee on a hot day.  I want to install a Slurpee machine in my home.

Chainsaw!

Hi Erin and Natty!  How are you feeling today?  Yeah, there is a flood of emotion going all over the world over Mary Unknown7.  Girl singers are so troublesome.  So we swim, and avoid the deep waters.  I hope you are having a marvelous time, and everything turns out awesome for you.  I had a lot of work to do with the chainsaw today.  It's not like in the movies and video games, where you can find a chainsaw anywhere, pick it up and it's ready to go and cut up anything into nice little logs.  First I had to oil and fuel the thing.  Then to start it, I had to pump and prime the gasoline within its fuel line.  Then assuming the chain is properly in place, pull the choke then yank the starter cord a few times until it shows some life.  Once that happens, I turn off the choke and run it for a few seconds.  Now it's ready.  I suppose by that time, I would be overwhelmed by zombies huh?  My Mom had a small tree to remove, that only took a few minutes.  It's disposing the trash that takes a long time.  Maybe I could just chuck the trash into the ocean and forget about it?  No, we try to be an environmentally conscious family.  Right?  There was an undead stump growing on the roof of my grandfather's old house that had to go.  I had to do that on a ladder.  That was awkward.  More so because the chainsaw spit sawdust right into my face due to the angle I had to hold it, above my head.  Good thing I wore goggles.  I hate using a chainsaw on a ladder.  Then I went around the compound and cut as many unwanted saplings I could find.  Ugh, labor.  Does it make me a better person?  I don't feel like a better person.  Tomorrow I go around and collect all the trash that the chainsaw generated.  InshaAllah.

Dinner was liver again.  I have a lot of liver in the freezer right now, beef and chicken.  This time, I used a base of potato and onion.  I marinated the chopped liver in turmeric powder and salt.  Simplicity, Clarice.  The tortillas are fat today.  A very filling meal.  Alhamdulillah.

The cats' water

Hi Erin and Natty!  How are you today?  How are those emotions?  Is the whole country feeling it?  I want you to know that I love you, and I will marry you inshaAllah.  I have to be the one who pays for the marriage of course, so please pray that Allah grants me wealth enough to marry soon.

"Sambal tumis" (blended onions, chillies, and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) fried in oil until saturated) is a local hot sauce.  It's a great go-to sauce, and the locals don't realize how versatile it is.  Yesterday I used it for pizza sauce and it worked great.  Today I used it to cook liver for my tortillas.  I have a lot of liver in the freezer right now, beef and chicken.  First I fry up some onions until brown, then I add cubed eggplant and cook it until the eggplant is soft.  Then I add the sliced liver, and cook it until the liver is done but not hard- don't overcook!  Soft with no redness!  Then add the "sambal tumis", heat and mix thoroughly.  It was a filling dinner.  The tortillas were fat today.