I slept from 10:00pm to 4:00am today, so six hours, not bad. I didn't nap yesterday. I also ate very lightly as i was so aroused by my TV show i was too excited for thoughts of food to bother me. There's a new series i might check out today about an agoraphobic who witnesses a murder in the building opposite thru the windows. Might have some stuff about mental illness in it, which would be interesting.

I missed my one close neighbor yesterday morning because she was running-late due to allergies and of course, i was running-early due to hypomania. My dog and i were out for dawn at 6:00am and gave up waiting at 7:30am. My neighbor is not very good about her phone and i much prefer texting to calling but i guess if i really want to reach someone i'll have to use their contact-method-of-choice, hers being phone.

I just find phone calls so intrusive and anxiety-provoking, from my past family violence involving a traditional hunk-of-metal-and-plastic phone which was used as a weapon once. My mom was squirrelly about the phone too ever after.

She tried to gaslight me (she had problems) over the phone once and claimed my uncle sexually harassed her over the phone. She was a functional alcoholic so who knows how much of it was accidentally-on-purpose, because i don't believe she was truly malicious. Her alcoholic mind just ran away with her, i guess, is what i tell myself.

It's easier now that i have my iPhone and it doesn't resemble that old-style phone but it's still stressful. My friend is older tho and resists carrying around her cell phone and responding to texts promptly. Well, i guess there's no changing her, at her age.

@Soupe du jour:

Hey, that's a really clever solution to your dangerous blind-spot on the road near your new home. Aint technology grand?

@~Christina:

Gus is cute cute cute! Is he a rascal?

Hugs to all!