My downstairs neighbor (the guy I saw nekkid) is outside again talking on his cellphone.  He’s obviously not scared of me yelling at him!  ha ha.  What an asshole.

Just spent an hour blabbing on the phone myself, with Marc Lipscher, the (upright) bassist in the old rockabilly band I sang for in NYC ten years ago.  What a great guy, it was so cool hearing his voice again and catching up on stuff.  He just started doing yoga last week just like me!  He’s taking a class and recommends I do the same.  I’m probably not holding my ass high enough when I do that downward facing dog; the teacher will come around and pull it up for me, right?  heheh.

So yeah, I have permission — Marc’s permission at least! — to post those rockabilly MP3s for whoever wants ‘em.  I need to crank out some better-quality MP3s and decide whether to put ‘em up here or elsewhere.  We’ll see.  It’s only four songs, not enough for an album, so I dunno.  But it’s definitely enough to suck up my bandwidth if I host ‘em here and let everybody grab ‘em at once.

It’s so cool talking on the phone again.  I love my unlimited long distance plan!!  I’m still only using it for one or two good long calls per week but I’m getting back into it little by little.  It just took me awhile to get back in the swing of actually talking on the phone — maybe it was the internet effect, and definitely the ridiculous costs of long distance that drove me away from phone-yakking and more towards e-mail and IM.  Which kinda sucks; it’s a lot better to talk on the phone, isn’t it?  So much better.  I actually just forked over another $5 per month so I can call Canada as well; that kicks in on Tuesday.  I’ve been burning up a lotta time yakking over IM with Matthew so I’m thinkin’ this will be better — more yakking can be done in less time I believe.  And who knows, I have some other pals up there too… I wonder if Richard the Black wants to yak on the phone?  :-) Oh, it’s all in good fun.  I just love to talk, ain’t no shame.

I sure am feeling better the past few days now that I’m not being a DIET FREAK.  That was the most harebrained idea I ever had!  I know, other people have had great success with those extreme diets but ugh, they’re just not for me.  I like to eat a balanced diet with no hard’n'fast restrictions on CANDY, heheh.  If I’m gonna lose weight (which I totally can do, and have done) I’m doing it the old-fashioned way: by paying attention to what I eat, and by getting exercise every day.  No shortcuts for this gal.  I like myself just the way I am: balanced and happy and eating right and walking around a lot.  I’m lookin’ good, I’m not smoking and it ain’t no problem, so there!  :-P