February 12, 2012 6:03 PM HKT

Sunday Funday

Woke up this am and went for another 20 minute run, this time I really tried to push that first mile so I could see if I could cut some time off. I cut close to a minute off the time and did the mile in 8:34 seconds, but yesterday I was only jogging and the course around the summer palace is just way too hilly to get an accurate read, so the results are a bit debatable. Anyway, next weekend I am going to run around Jingu, which is much more even, and try to figure out how far I need to go to break a 6min mile... Got the workouts done midday and even did 6 pull-ups in a row...YAY!!! 

The set-back today was steaming... :-(  The cauliflower went fine.. The summer squash and the zucchini were way too soggy but still eatable... But the FKKN lotus root, well that basically ruined my day and my pan and my steamer tray... Basically, I was watching the video of the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup last year (again) and got really into it and I smelled something burning and a fkkn cloud forming in my living room. I thought, "HOLY SH!T, the building's on fire!!!" But alas, it was just the FKKN lotus root being steamed with no water; the pan and steamer looked like they were both carbonized in coal...It was the most god awful smell as well...You would need a hammer and chisel to get this shit off the pan...Currently, both are on my balcony. Anyway, I turned the stove off and opened all the windows, but I was doing so well in the kitchen that this is a minor setback for me... I mean I have come such a long way from not eating with the fork I moved the raw chicken with, or needing a box of band-aids in the kitchen at all times because every time the knife comes out I self-mutilate, or cooking rice in a rice cooker and forgetting about it for 2 days(which I must remember to do after I write this,) or under boiling eggs so that I end up wearing an embryo at work, or buying fresh veggies and then they die in my fridge because I put them in a drawer I have never used and it turns out its a drawer in your fridge to freeze sh!t...or buying too much bread and not putting it in a paper bag so it gets moldy, or cutting onions without having gum in your mouth, or grading ginger and holding it in your hand so you shred skin as well...etc... Anyway, I will definitely rebound, but it was just a bonehead move and I will need to lift another pan. 

Also, worth noting I got the self-counting jump-rope, I mean it's great that it counts because I hate counting, but the cable is rubbery and stretches(it's like a giant elastic band) and that p1sses me off bc I have been using weighted handles with a solid cable the whole time and it is legit...With this new one, if I go to fast, which I have been doing, the rope warps out and doesn't respond like it should... So I have to slow it down and I hate it... Absolutely hate it, complete waste of time and money... Y2.5k and its yours, used once.