Been awhile since I’ve had any personal updates and I’ve been meaning to make this one for awhile now, but have procrastinated on getting the pictures up here. Finally got around to it today and here’s what I’ve been entertaining myself with recently. First off I got my gf a bobble head for her birthday about two months ago and thought it turned out pretty well. When they first sent me the pics of it I didn’t think it looked too much like her but since receiving it I think it’s grown on me. I think they make great gifts, the only problem is they take 6 weeks from the time you order them to the time they get delivered so you have to order them super far in advance if you’re interested in getting one. I got mine from headbobble.com if you’re curious and no they did not pay me to endorse them or anything.
Next up I ended up making a cherpumple for Thanksgiving. For those of you who don’t know what a cherpumple is it’s three pies baked into three cakes all frosted with cream cheese frosting and stacked together. You can watch the youtube video from the creator below:
Well all I’ll say is if you’re thinking of doing it for next year I wouldn’t recommend it. Don’t get me wrong I had a lot of fun making it but it didn’t end up tasting that great, and it just ended up collapsing in on itself into one big blob. We made a few noob mistakes, like pushing the pies down and breaking them when covering them in cake mix and not using large enough pans for the cake mix step, but I think in general cherpumples probably have a habit of collapsing in on themselves. Below are the pics. You would think that because you like all the ingredients you would love the end product, but what you end up eating is more like taking your whole thanksgiving dinner, throwing it into a blender and then scooping out a big serving as your meal. It’s just kinda too weird with too many ingredients thrown into one. Definitely something new and different though. I don’t regret making it at all, I just wouldn’t do it again.
Cooked Pies look innocent enough
Action shot stacking them!
You can already see the leaning…
The chopsticks are to hold it together… they didn’t work.
End product. Ended up storing the leftovers in a bowl lol.
The last most recent thing I’ve been occupying my free time with is marathon running. About a month ago I made a bucket list which I highly recommend everyone do because there are just certain things you can only do while you’re young and if you don’t make a list and plan of when you plan on doing these things time will run out and you’ll never do any of them. Anyways, on my list one of the things I wrote down was to run a marathon which I made a goal of completing in 2011. I read up all I could on how to train, bought myself some nice running shoes and started with the following training schedule. It says you should be able to run 30 minutes straight before starting the program and I figured since I didn’t die after 30 minutes of running this was good enough to start.
Well fast forward three weeks of strictly following the schedule and I tried to do my first 8 mile run and just couldn’t. I was already super sore from a couple days ago and clearly suffered from overtraining and over exertion. I actually got really sick too a couple days later which I think was a result of trying to go to hard too quickly. It’s a pretty common rookie mistake, but I’m gonna start training again in the new year. When they say you can run 30 minutes straight before starting the schedule, what they really mean is you have run 30 minutes 3-4x per week for a month or two before you start the schedule. Anyways, I’m gonna start over now that I’m feeling a lot better and just go for a half marathon early this year, and hope for the full marathon by year’s end.
Happy new year all and best of luck in 2011!