Tuesday May 31

Let's review the salient facts for the weekend

Last Friday

I went to the Maya theater

I saw the X-man.

I my opinion is a very dull movie.

I  understand that Marvel is licensing all its superhero characters. Overall in my opinion  the result   was a movie very below expectation.  I guess next time I will need to make a better call. 

She is Morgana always kind with me.

I guess next Friday I will be going to the  gym instead at least I am having always a good time over there.

Last  Saturday the usual  activities of the weekend.

Cleaning the apartment and washing all my clothes. I used the laundry service  in the 500 building.

Should not be a surprise for you.  I had hard time finding a washing machine in order as there is always something that makes the facility machine out of order.
I guess such is life when you do not own the place.

At 10:30 I went for grocery shopping at Trader Joe's.

I purchased all I wanted to buy.

A lot of Organic fresh produce.

As always Meredith was there to greet me.

I spent $103.65

At least I  buy what I want at this place.

Good and healthy food comes with a good price.

I frankly believe it is OK

She is Meredith always glad to see me there.

Afterward I did put away all my food, tagged as required.

I started cooking.

I prepared a lentils soup.

Chopped carrot, potato and onion.

I  cooked for 40 minutes in a large pot.

Once done I added some shredded cheese, Olive Oil.

While cooking I 've done some THP.

Last  Sunday I went to church as always at St. Philips the Apostle church.

Monseigneur Sanchez was back  at the altar.

His preaching style is very captivating and makes worth attending church.

After Church I went to the gym

As always I signed off from CNS and went to the gym by myself.
It is one mile to go there and one mile to go back.

Once at the gym  I called CNS let them know how long I was going to stay for .

At the gym I weigh my self at it is 179.2 lb

Going to the gym is 1 mile on each direction.

Once there I worked on the following program.

I am increasing the number of repetition for every exercise I am doing.
Slowly and steady.

Rather than focusing on the weigh value I am focusing on the number of repetition.

I enjoyed my time at the gym.

The gym is the place I  like to be and I am going there as much as possible.

Then a 3pm  it was time for me to go walk back from the gym. I  walked back  and  signed back in at the apartment.

Walking back respecting the rules of the street and the green traffic light.

I brought my own water, as always.  

For the Memorial day barbecue on Monday I brought a Zucchini rise that I made from scratch

I cut the veggie and cooked the rise.

Once ready I put in the oven for a crispy fishing crust

10  minutes in the oven was enough to give it the desired finishing touch.

On Memorial day there was no CNS.
We had a barbecue at the Swan Center. There was a lot of food, I brought the Zucchini rise.

We all had a good time.

Afterward I went to the gym.

Daisy the sup drove me over there and came to pick me up once I was done.

I am always at the gym as I feel well over there. Looking forward to go back soon.

The family is well. The kids are on vacation so I do not dare calling there at home.
My wife is busier than ever so I am letting her free to do her things.

Over the Memorial weekend I have been putting order into my working bags.

I found a map of Beijing China and  a coin.

Clearly the coin is of Chinese Origin per the picture below




I  clearly brought back from China when I was there.




I also have some Yen note that I keep as a souvenir of when I used to travel to Japan on a regular basis.

Oh well this is a well known story of course.

I am happy that I have unlocked the China memory anyway

Sincerely
Giuseppe

Thursday May 26

Already,  it is all well.
I read the current event today and then at 11 am.

I went to my work program today. The place was closed.  I  used the inter phone and there was no answer. Josie drove me there.

Lucky Josie had not left me there.
So I took the van and we drove back here  to the  mount Vernon clinic.

The day is hot.


Simona and the kids are fine.
As usual the kids are at school. My mother in law Anna is taking care of the family while Simona is working as hard as possible to made sure the household is well maintained.

While at the park I greeted Michelle

The flowers at the apartment are too beautiful to ignore.
I post the flowers for everybody's eye and for everybody's kindness.

Yesterday I went to the gym 

Yesterday I distributed the new schedule then booked for the Maya theater for this Friday. 

 I did cycle with Cassie and bodycombah with Sylvia.

At Cycle I set the bike on high so that I could fully extend my legs.

I enjoyed myself  working out as usual.

My morning breakfast was a good one as usual

Cereal, Milk, blueberry, coffee with foamed milk.

Finally yogurt with flax seeds.

A healthy breakfast.

I cleaned the kitchen before leaving the apartment.

I mentioned Anna that the apartment needed some maintenance work.

She confirmed me that today they are going to fix what needs to be done.

Enjoy the reading 

Sincerely

Giuseppe

Tuesday May 24

Already,
yesterday I went to the gym
I had  Yoga with Lilly, be Kind to yourself and to your neighbors.

I had then cycle with Lolita, I set the bike on the highest level so that I could fully extend my legs.

At 7pm it was time to leave the gym and I was ready to go.


At the gym I   greeted  Damian, Maria, Delia,  and Lee. There are two people that have the same name Lee.


Afterward I came back to the apartment. get a snack a shower and my night meds.
Yoga is a good and relaxing activity to do.
I guess doing sport releases endorphin and reduces the feeling stressed hormone.

Doing regular exercise has many health benefit. It keeps you busy in a good way, it makes you eat right and regularize your sleep.

As in general all sort of sport activity is good for my own body. I always liked sport, and I will always will like doing sport.

I like to be active and it makes feeling empowered to do more.. always within the limit of my body.




I had a good night and wake up fully rested.
It is a cloudy day today.

I took a stroll in the park to get my blood flowing.

I helped around at the apartment at my best. I like being helpful within the community,



I keep my own unit as clean as possible.

Whenever I notice there is some maintenance tasks to be done I let the people in charge know.

For instance today I had them refilling the paper towel.

I then let know Lupe in charge of the deep  cleaning that the shower curtain needed to be cleaned as well.

She confirmed she is on it as well.

This morning I had a good breakfast
Foamed milk, coffee, blueberry Creek yogurt, Chia Seeds, and cereals.

Finally it was time for me to  take the bus.

Simona is as busy as ever always following her own activity at Caltech.

Our kids are fine. They entered the last week of school. Afterward they are going staying at home with Anna for a couple of weeks and start summer camp.

The daily beautiful flowers at the apartment

Great California allows to have great flowers..

The flowers plant in my balcony have started growing. They are a couple of inches tall.

Today at the AAC, I read the newspapers as always, then I run the Meditation group.

I used an app on my phone that Matt recommended me to use. This is the link to the guided meditation. audio.

It is a good mediation website.

Finally it was time to have lunch.
A healthy zucchini frittata,  Ezekiel bread. A salad side with Arugula, avocado, pearl tomato, walnut with home made dressing (Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar)

Finally kiwi and apple for desert.

Taking care of your own health start by eating healthy.

Outside the tree in front is full of prunes

Enjoy the reading
Sincerely

Monday May 23

Already, I am back on business.

My computer is the number 2 where I have all my work saved inside.


I had a good weekend.

Last Friday I went to do my voluntary work at the homes of hope.


This is the parrot that is always happy to be there.

This community environment  is a placement agency for foster parent placement.

I like going over there as much as possible,
As I am going there as a voluntary placement job, it is a low pressure job.
I am always tying to work at my best.

In the evening I went to the Maya theater to see a nice movie.

It is a typical LA  movie with Russel Crowe and Brian Gosling.

I enjoyed very much it.

As always I had edamame (soy beam) and green tea.

No soda for me any longer. I do not feel the need nor the desire to get sodas.

I called home and Lapo got confused as he believed I was my wife Simona.
He called me Mami..


 Last Saturday  I went to the walk for thoughts organized by CNS.
The event was very well organized the attendance was great and everybody in my opinion had a good time. There was good food at the stand a very nice lottery.

Dr Ashley and his sons performed playing American sons, they are all talented people.
A lot of people from CNS won many prices as they got many lottery tickets.

I purchased only a few this year. I had a good time.

I wrote a letter to my family (this is called THP)

Therapeutic Home Program

On Saturday evening after the walk for thoughts I cleaned everything in the apartments.

The usual activity of cleaning, washing all my attire, bedding and personal clothes.

My mother sent me picture of her days back in Italy.

She took a walk along a path near her apartment in Verona.

She mentioned that she did sent the following two pictures as well.

This is from a place called "Fossi di Montorio" . It translates to the Montorio's ditch.

I did not realize Verona has so many nice places and all at a short distance from my mother's home.

Last Sunday May 22 I went to grocery shopping as I had no time on Saturday so I did not go to church.

As usual I went to the local Trader Joe's store. I greeted everybody and I was happy to greet  Jamie as well. 

She is the lady with the orange hat of this picture.

Jamie mentioned she was going to Disneyland with her daughter Delaney and her niece.

It was going to be a girls day out.

She knows me very well, and she knows my family as well.

I was happy seeing her as normally I do not see her any longer.

She does not work on Saturday when I am going to do my Grocery Shopping.

I spent $80.29 got a lot of good, healthy food.

Organic produce as it lasts longer.

After grocery shopping I went to the gym by myself.

I  signed out, let the reception know about my destination.  I walked to the gym.

Once I reached the gym I call CNS to let them know I  had arrived.

I worked out at the gym between 2:50pm and 3:50pm

I took my weight.  It is 181 lb. I let Nursing and Amanda know about it.

this is my free PT program

A lot of repetitions and light weights.

Legs, chest, torso all the body parts that make me walk better and faster.

I am working at my best.

I noticed the rotary torso is currently helping a lot keeping my body in the correct position to walk.

At 3:50pm I called CNS, let them know I was leaving the gym and walked back to the apartment.

I enjoyed my walk both ways. Always on the side walk, respecting the rules of the pedestrian and crossing the road on protected intersection only.

For dinner I  made a good zucchini frittata.

I cooked the zucchini squash first, then the rise.

I mixed it all with milk and dressed with Parmesan cheese.

This morning  I went to walk in the park as always I like starting my day with a good PT.

I had a general headache so Nursing came to give me a PRN medication for my head. 

I keep taking pictures of the nice things I am seeing in the community

Last I saw was an expensive cars.

They are all very nice to look at, yet we have two kids that needs to stay comfortable.

They belongs to community people of Bakersfield. People that have expensive tastes.

Our kids enjoy our current honda CRV, a good family and reliable cars  for us.

I had lunch outside, it is a good day to seat outside under the patio

During lunch I called my mother back in Italy.

She is doing well, She had a rough night.

Last night the temperature plunged to cold from being hot and humid.

It is  an indication of the local weather that has not stabilized yet.

Enjoy the reading.

I am going to read and off from the computer.

Sincerely