Friday April 8

Can not believe this is real creation of Nature?

God is making sure that every day my eyes are  seeing incredibly beautiful creation.

It is so delicate,  the shape is so harmonic. The color is such a natural one like a real skin.

Roses are beautiful, aren't they?

Yesterday I went to the Foster Agency Homes of Hope where Miss Amanda's family works.

Here is another link to the center.

I met Amanda's husband. I am a bit formal but this is the way I am referring to him.

 He is  Dr  Mr Kilby Sir.

I greeted Marina and Brandon that work over there.

I met Amanda's daughters as well. Their name is Destiny and Kiana

The girls have a strong faith. They told me they go to church, they dance, they are being brought up  as my kids, happy and with  a lot of interesting activities in their life.

I am enjoying the voluntary activity very much.

I am working on a computer records that I am building slowly and surely.

I am starting to go there more often, possibly twice a week. On Tuesday and Thursday.

I came back and went to the apartment at home.

I had dinner and went to the gym

The Zumba evening had been cancelled.

I did work on my own program. I enjoyed this way.

I was able to catch the tail end of cycle with Britney.

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

As usual at about 7pm it was time to go back at home at the apartment.

David brought me to the gym and then came to pick me up as well.

As a though yesterday: happiness is being able to enjoy life at the fullest.

With Jolanta we agreed that right now I am focusing on the activities that make me feel good.

Sports, cooking, keeping the apartment clean, taking care of my family,

Of  Simona and of our kids.

The evening activity of our  kids was Taekwondo

Coming back at the apartment I was feeling well

Today it  is drizzling.

Araceli came to pack my meds for this evening movie outing.

Anyway the Roses  this morning have are  more beautiful than ever. 

It was drizzling early so they have water droplets on their petals.

Enjoy this wonder of nature.

Simona mentioned that last night she went to bed at 1pm and then wake up at 6pm to work.

She is working hard because she has no choice but to do so.

At home Anna is helping her with our kids.

By the way at the apartment there is a new person at the maintenance department.

His name is David

I had lunch today at AAC. Although I had brought  food with me, I enjoyed the rice we were offered at AAC.

It is with veggy and pineapple. A good combination of nutrient.

Enjoy the reading

Giuseppe

Wednesday April 6

Let's review the aspects of my day.

As  it is said I like to spend time blogging. Well there is nothing wrong with it.

I put my back to the podium and I do not disturb anybody. 

Yesterday I wrote a quick letter to my family.

I first cooked broccoli and made a good broccoli frittata.

I like cooking for  myself. 

I like to keep my diet healthy and get to eat what I like.

Protein from the eggs, carbs from the veggies and the fruit.

A balanced and rich diet.  

Most of time I have protein from  either lean white meat  or fish.

I always cook good food. Some time I run into minor a venial weakness of making some bad choices. It is OK overall I am trying to stay and eat  healthy.

I use my iPhone application to log my food intake and my exercise.

I am very independent as far as the meal preparation. I like to be and stay that way obviously.

Whenever it is possible I am making myself a meal.

Sunrise at the apartment, this morning I woke up early. I can not sleep past 5:45am or 6am ..

I go to bed at 9:30pm and my body wakes up automatically by itself after 8 hours of good sleep.

The beautiful sunrise of the morning hours.

Roses at the apartment

Stress aspects in life: 

The smell of smoking cigarette... I can't honestly stand it anywhere and anytime. 

Particularly when it is in the morning at transportation.

I wish it would be a smoke free place.... Well I am talking to you Mr Fred..ie

The person that zip around on a motorized wheelchair as if he were driving on a highway.

Obviously the ones who can't do anything more but smoking, do happily smoke. 

I honestly can not stand their aroma, their poor smells.

Please let them be but please do not smoke next or close to me. 

 I can not stand it and second had  smoking is bad for everybody. 

I am simply reacting to a bad situation.

Additionally the Spanish music in the morning played loud at transportation... another aspect  I come to fear tremendously. The bad words in Spanish,.. you see my day starts by having a clear view of what hell in earth can be like. And in fact in my opinion this is not far from it.

The whole scene makes my head hurting and in fact I normally have from Nursing a PRN (Tylenol)

It is a somatization  aspects of this foreign  stressing environment.

And of course my head hurts because of  my fault.

Yes because it is my own fault for being drawing into this place among you all.

 I feel it is my own damnation being among these people.

Yesterday evening I went to the gym and had body pump with Ellie.

The gym is a true home for me.. I like being there in the community.

Normally I greet Delia, Nick, Damian, Maria and many other people in the community.

They are all used to see me among there, they recognize the struggle it is for me walking in a normal way, moving my body in a clean and smooth way.

It is a struggle for me bending my legs, jumping and overall taking my knees as high as  my chest

I have been recognizing, they gave been recognizing it is all recognized. 

Over there I getting stronger and I am focused on general healthiness, repetition and range of motion.

Bending my legs.

It is place I like to be in as opposite to the AAC, I do not like to be here at all.

I am sure you already understood it.

Anyway afterward I had Zumba with Mile.

A light and funny aerobics dance

I went to the gym in the car with a bunch of other patients.

Among  them the ever present patient Nick. 

For the record I did not appreciate their mocking and crass attitude. 

Well I am not an individual that likes macho style humor.

I would like to state it for the record. I have never been playing in this league and I will not be playing in this league.

Simona and the boys are fine. The boys went to school as usual and Simona to work

Today the boys have piano with Liz.

The family has been fine for the past four years.. they are going to be fine for the next four years as well.

My mother commented that making frittata with broccoli is a good idea.

She cooked a home made pizza and a lentils soup.

By the way I have thrown the trash today as nobody else deems this action to be valuable or good enough for them.

Perhaps you should raise my salary,, after all I am trowing the trash that is left  over the stair - not mine .. 

You should check with Nick or the other guys how they feel about it.

And of course today there is the new schedule.

Then I will be booking for movie for Friday.

Giuseppe

Tuesday April 5

Running the mediation group today as Matt was  unavailable in the morning.

I did my very best in filling in for him.

He came to greet me after lunch and to let me know that I did a good job.

Even Miss Amani was there today and she was very positive on my lecture.

Miss Amani is doing well, she does not have any longer a cast at her leg.

It is always great meeting friendly people in the community.

Whenever I meet her at the gym I am always happy to see her over there.

Here is a snap shot of today's lecture of mine at the white board.. simply based on my experience and on my recollection.

Walking in  the park in the morning.

It is really getting warm and my gym  sweater is way too warm for the current weather condition.

As my program states. I am enjoying taking pictures of the scenery and of the local flowers.

Beautiful and delicate roses for today

Yesterday I had Yoga with Lilli  and then cycle with Lolita my  usual sport activity of the Monday evening

I set the bike high so that I could stretch my leg appropriately.

At 7pm it was time for me to leave and Norberto was waiting for me outside the gym to bring me back home.

Recently the boys had a hair cut. 

They look happy to be in La Canada, with Simona. Chicco on the left appears to be tired. Lapo on the right is still bubbling or he is simply  yawning. 

 Chicco has a book with him. Right now he is in the phase when he is always going around with a book to read.

In this respect he is like Simona.

Simona told me that the boys  might have had shorter hair  still.

the boys looks amused because Simona  was taking a picture of them.

Time to eat lunch.

I had a good light lunch outside under the patio. Outside it is warmer than inside.

A  rich salad with corn, tomatoes, cucumber and Salmon.

Some Ezekiel bread and a piece of fruit.

Eating healthy, carbs, protein and  fibers.

Carbs from the salad, fruit and the bread. Protein is from the salmon and the oil.

In the morning I started having my cereal together with Flax seeds. 

It is a seed very rich in omega 3 fatty acid.

The weather is getting warm,  Today I am wearing jeans and a short sleeves polo.

Simona told me the warm temperature is not going to last, the weather is going to turn cooler in the near future for the weekend.

I have to say that the current weather temperature is confusing my sense.

I am not sure what to expect during the day nor how to dress during my day.

I am normally dressed too much or too little.

I am simply confused. We have agreed to bring a sweater and to leave it on my locker.

It is a good plan I will be implementing starting tomorrow.

Temperature for the next few days. It is getting warm and then rainy for the weekend.

Hopefully we will have some rain as well.

Monday April 4

I had  a very busy weekend at the apartment.

I stayed busy and enjoyed my own time.



Last Friday April 1 we had lunch at the  Harris Park and a few activities over there.


I played Jenga at the park.

In the evening  I went to see a movie Batman vs Superman.

The movie made more than $400M at the box office.

Well at the box office it is clearly a great success.

The market reception was very good and  the movie made a lot of money.

It is the second installment of this very lucky franchise.

Most likely it will be followed by more sequels in order to build on the current momentum.

The movie I saw was in Atmos technology.

 It is a 3D sound technology and  it makes an immersive experience going to the movie theater.

At the movie Igreeted  Morgana who came  hack from her school break.

I had a green tea and Edamame. No more soda nor ice cream.

The ticket is $11 while for the snack it is $9.75

The total is $20.75. This leaves $4.25 for church offering.

Eating healthy and cleansing the body from the bad food.

I showed her images of Lapo having a birth cake for his birthday. In fact  turned 7 year old.
Yes he is an April fool boy.

I was sent this picture from Italy.

It is of my sister's Elementary school.

It is a very old picture. About 40 years old.

Last Saturday the usual routine. Cleaning my apartment, washing it all you know.

It as it has been a few years it happens.

Hence I feel I do not have to get into the details of this matter.

I then went to do grocery shopping as usual at Trader Joe's

I spent $79.26.  This time I stayed light, it means I was not frustrated nor distracted by any marketing offering.

The routine is always the same: grocery list to stick to, stickers and bags to reuse...

A picture with Meredith  at my left.

In the afternoon Simona came with the boys.

As Lapo turned seven  on April 1st we went to eat at California Pizza Kitchen and to celebrate Lapo's birthday with a family meal all together.

Simona  brought a present for me. It is a Lego set to play with.

They both seemed happy to be together.

Chicco sat next to me to enjoy a good meal

I had pasta with seafood, however they added Parmesan cheese on it.

A combination that is hardly considered authentic to the Italian food.

The boys had maccaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets.

Lapo enjoyed his Sundae.

Afterward Simona took the family to Barnes and Nobles.

Lapo had to buy a new and latest Lego set.

 I found a book myself about nutrition and I started reading it.

Simona's comment about the book was "Another book that you will never read"


Last  Sunday the usual routine.

I went to S. Philips church. The offering to church was the left from my outing money.
I had $4.25 left to give at church.

At church I met Cassie with her grandma Rose.

 I normally see Cassie at the gym where she is teaching. I will see her there soon or later.

On Sunday I walked to the gym from the apartment by myself.

At the gym I greeted Leon and his wife Suzy.

The procedure to follow to walk to the gym by myself  is the following one:

1) sign out and let them know about the destination place (gym)
2) once I reached the place call them to let them know I was there
3) Stay at the gym for about one hour
4) Before leaving the gym call CNS to let them know I was leaving
5) Sign back in once you reach CNS destination.

It is all good... walking along the walkways and respect the green light to cross the street.

Afterward a good frittata

Our kids had a hair cut or as Simona says they are Scocuzzati ( it is an Italian words for getting a hair cut done)

The local rose are getting really beautiful  ... as it said in my program Giuseppe likes to snap picture of the local flowers..

I was able to reach Simona after my lunch break. She actually messaged me and then called me.

She mentioned that our kids will be going to   Taekwondo today.

They are also attending a post school program where  they will be playing chess.

Simona told met the boys have been playing chess for quite some time. I did not know about it.

I am sure they are enjoying their activity.

Have a good reading

Giuseppe