Thursday July 27

Today Simona has been celebrating in Rome the 90th year birthday of her uncle Saverio.

He received a few video cassette VHS to watch movie on his TV.

For the last  few days I have been out of commission.

I stayed back at the apartment.

However I run out of things to do.

I kept my gym and cooking habit.

I cleaned it all as always.

I wrote letters to everybody.

Last Tuesday July 25th  I stayed back at the apartment so I had time to do a lot of different items.

First I washed my shoes, I only have a single pair here in Bakersfield. I am walking a lot and use it a lot at the gym. So once in a while I feel they need to be washed. Simona mentioned I should not washed it often. Well as I am always using it I believe it is wise to keep it clean.

Whenever I am washing it I have to walk with my home flipper (ciabatte) down to the washing area oh yes because you will probably know that I have no washer nor drier available at the apartment. Cool arrangement isn't?

I sent a letter to my mother in Italy.  I wrote to her in Italian my native language.

Sending a letter to Italy requires 4 stamps.

As she has difficulties replying  to my writing it is has been my turn to write her.

For lunch I made time to make Marinated Atlantic Salmon

I let it marinating in a slight acidic bath.

I sliced garlic, herbs, cherry tomatoes. I used  a lot of lemon juice.

It marinated for half an hour wrapped with an Aluminum foil in the fridge

I cooked some Brown Basmati Organic Rice 

Once the rise was about done I put the Salmon in the oven which has been preheating.

The salmon cooked fast and I was careful in making sure it was cooked all the way through.

It smelled delicious, and tasted really good.

Congratulation to me.

 I  had it for dinner and then went to the gym .

On Tuesday I have body pump with Ellie and then Zumba with Alex.

I came back by myself. I let them know I was waking back at the apartment and at 7:35 I signed back in.

Last Wednesday July 26th I wake up with my shunt hurting as expected by now.

I applied some frozen peas to my poor head.

This has been taking the edge out a bit.

I put back the frozen peas in the freezer for another time.

It comes really handy as a medical tool.

As I had again a strong pain I did not come to the clinic either.

I called Amanda and let her know. She figured out something was going on with me.

I had time to cook again. 

I made stuffed tomatoes.

I carved the heirloom tomatoes first

Minced the garlic 

I washed the Quinoa under running water

It  boiled in a vegetable broth for 30 minutes

The carved tomatoes were ready for filling.

Here they are. I gently filled it with the quinoa based stuffing 

I let  it cook in the oven for 30 minutes and then drizzled with  Olive Oil and Parmesan Cheese.

It looked delicious.

Very proud of this achievement.

Chutzpah in the food, that is Audacity in the food.

Remember this words Chutzpah is in pronounced " hutzpa"  without the letter C at the beginning.

I had my perfectly balanced food, rich in flavor and very healthy.

Here is me eating my dinner. Home made of course.

As a side I made a Quinoa based spinach salad.

I cleaned the whole apartment and then feeling better I went to the gym.

At 5:25 I went to the gym  in the van with CNS.  Jenoviva was driving it.

I  had cycle with Cassie and later Body pump with Sylvia.

I stayed light and tryed to avoid any strenuous effort in order to protect my well  being.

I am trying to bend my legs while keeping my balance.

It is hard for me to knee down. It has historically been hard for me to do this  movement.

My legs are not responding. Both my brain and the muscle in my legs are not trained to do it. I supposed the pathwaves in my brain are not responding to the stimuli. My legs are not atrophied yet it is hard for me to move it in a kneeling position. At the gym I am doing a lot of  bending movement on my free time.

I have no idea what movement I should insist in doing in order to gain my mobility back.

I have no clue of what kind of PT I should be doing over there to get my brain waves and pathways back on track.

At the gym there are people  the usual familiar people. Each and everybody is  kind with me.

Most of them are conscious of my struggling effort to regain my lost  mobility. Some of them are totally indifferent.

At 7pm it was time to leave so I walked back by myself and I arrived at 7:30pm at the apartment.

At the phone they told me no pit stop along the way.

So I  came back straight from the gym.

This morning I walked by myself and I was taking my shower happy to be by myself.

At some point and NRS knocked to the door of the apartment that CNS as assigned to me.

He or she knocked vehemently.

So I had to rush out from the shower nobody there.

I was irritated to say the least.

What the hell is with you guys? Has anybody been teach you the respect and good manner.

Of course I picked up the phone and let Melanie Rodriguez the sup in charge about it

Utterly frustrating for a paying customer like me.

I hope they will fire the responsible of this not funny joke.

 I am not that amused by the CNS mistake.

There is a responsible and he/she should be held accountable.

I made overnight Oat anyway

This morning I had my normal breakfast. There is not much news about it.

I posted about it ad nauseam ( if you do not know what this means just google it or go back and study some Latin... )

Today I had a wonderful money management day a really grand total of $75 for grocery.

They learnt I am refusing the $24 for outing. 

I am not going any longer to the movie nor I am no longer going to church with CNS.

Move: since there is the new gal for activity coordinator she devised a North/ South System only.

Her new position went straight to her  head. She felt she had to change the schedule.

So in her infinite wisdom and skillful  brilliance she decided to change the schedule.

Screw you poor gal you are outdoing yourself in the new role of activity coordinator.

Needless to say that I am not going to church any longer In Bakersfield.

I  broke this spell of believing you have to go to S. Philip the Apostle  otherwise there is no tomorrow.

Well the fact is that CNS was seldom caring about it they have been many time late and all they could simply come up is " I am sorry" 

Well dear CNS and all of you thank you but no more church in Bakersfield.

I abstained from it and will maintain this position until I am depending from your own service.

Obviously when in Rome I am doing like the Romans do, that means (Mutate mutandis) that whenever I am at home in La Canada I am going to church at S. Bede

A very nice catholic church where I am going with my family on time and without any screaming people around me. 

As a result of this very poor experience of mine and poor track record from CNS I am not going at S. Philip any longer.

The magic spell is broken.

Nothing has happened to me indeed. When it is put like this is is worth recognizing to be a simple superstition.

BTW the new clinic looks great. You should have put a bit of money in the residential as well or in rising the money you dispense to each and everybody every time it is money management.

You are allowing only $75 per week.  Just a feedback for your hard hearing

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