lettuce pray....

i must say that, while it's only been a couple of weeks of more-regular-than-not exercise, i already feel a change in my body. tonight, i put on my 'laundry jeans' (you know, the ones that you don't really wear out in public because they don't fit super well) and they are decidedly looser. i just ate a rather large green salad for dinner with some roasted chicken, a bit of cheese, and then had an orange. i'm stuffed and feeling like lying on the floor and moaning for awhile....

speaking of exercise, i worked my arms like crazy today, and they were weak for several hours afterwards, with occasional 'twitching'. is this bad? i don't even know.

my clothes are churning in some soapy water on the floor below us (our laundry room sucks), and tonight i will sleep on clean sheets. gotta love that....

i finished a novel today. it was just okay. nothing that blew my socks off, but i wasn't really expecting that it would. it's hard to find actual literature these days....

off to bed in a few hours with hopes that i'll sleep through the night without serious back pain. God, please hook me up with some mercy!!

postscript: i just read on yahoo news that barry white had a stroke on may 1 and is also battling kidney failure. he's in bad shape, yo....come on, barry. work it out....i'm not sure we'll ever be able to get enough of your love, babe...it's that velvety deep voice. i'm having serious flashbacks of living in monty county and hearing his soothing, sexy tones talking to me from our living room stereo where salimah was blasting his greatest hits. it used to freak me out from time to time when it would take me a minute to realize that there wasn't some strange, lovemaking man in our apartment:)