Thursday, March 07, 2013
Up at 5:30 am….weight at 135 lbs…I was good yesterday and
dropped a pound. Now to stay on the good
path…..
Today is a school day….we’re going for the hour walk at 8:30
am on campus with the group….then the art class…lunch….and another art
class. Hoping to then stay for the travel
speech on Madrid and Andorra.
Breakfast: coffee,
oats & applesause
Left at 7:45 am….arrived early for the twice weekly walk
that they do around the campus through the arboretum. Beautiful area…I haven’t been there for
probably thirty years. We did two loops
before coming back to our OLLI area for coffee.
10 am our first art lecture began…Monet amd Degas
11:30 am…break for lunch on campus…I’d brought food with
us. We sat with a spry 89 year old woman
who was a font of information. She still
sings in her church choir and moves back and forth between two daughters…one in
Fullerton and one in Boston. Has just
recently stopped driving. What a
fireplug….told us she divorced her husband after thirty years of marriage
because she found out he had a girlfriend.
She made the hour fly.
Lunch: ½ banana,
applesauce, tiny piece of chicken & another of cheese, granola bar snd
water.
12:30 pm…our second art lecture began….Sargent, Manet,
Seurat…they are recorded lectures and fabulous….we stop half way through and
discuss what we’ve seen and then after the final one we have another
discussion.
At 2 pm…Jim took off to go shopping and I went to the Travel
Around the World session. They had moved
him to a classroom…no mike and seating was terrible. So glad it was him and not me that got
moved. So different from the auditorium
that I presented in. The University had
a special program and they have first dibs on the auditorium when they want it.
I had several people tell me that my presentation was so
much better...made me feel good. He
basically did powerpoint but they were individual photos with titles at the
top. One neat thing that he did was when
he talked about the Sophia Museum with Picasso’s Gunerica….he showed a YouTube
about a student who had created a 3D effect for her master’s project.
http://www.hdfest.com/experimental/picassosguernica2.html
copy and paste this link….or put in
Lena Gleseke…and look for:
It’s really interesting.
After class we drove to the shoe
store and I returned the Croc’s shoes…they just didn’t fit very well…wish I
could have gotten an 8.5….that would have fit.
I’ll keep looking.
Home by 4:30 pm…called Miss Betty
on the way home. Jim put a beer can
chicken on the BBQ and baked some potatoes.
My dinner was a piece of chicken and a small baked potato with only
pepper on it. And a glass of wine. Had some raisens and almond nuts later. I was a good girl food wise.
Several calls with Betty and Mary this evening...I'm going to try to call her at least once a day...think I will try doing it every morning.
I watched 3 hours of Fox trying to
find Amy (Miriam Brougher's daugher in NYC) who was on Fox Business News at 9 pm in NYC….never saw it but did
enjoy watching Glee…haven’t seen it for a while. To bed about 11:30pm after reading a chapter
of my book. Rained during the night and
our drip is back. Jim will have to work
on it again after they finish painting.
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