I hate rum.
But I am completely in love with THIS rum.
There’s just one small problem: you can only get it in Guatemala.
So cheers, this is the last of the bottle Mark has. I’ve been enjoying it with Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper or Cherry Coke Zero.
Hey all, just wanted to let you know that I can mark another project off my list: wallets!
I finished a bunch just in time for last week’s craft show, and they sold like hot cakes! I’m slowly listing the rest on my etsy store.
… and I’m not talking public relations.
I’m talking personal record.
I made myself get out of bed this morning bright and early (5:30) and get out and run (6:30 — takes me an hour to fuel/hydrate/wake up).
I go out not expecting to do much, but I figure if I can do 3ish miles or a half hour, that’s pretty good for early in the morning. I totally don’t expect a PR.
I only went 2.83 miles today (I turned around 5 blocks earlier than I normally do for the sake of time), but apparently I set a new mile PR on nikeplus. It’s not my actual PR because I’ve ran miles in faster times than this, but they just weren’t recorded on nikeplus. I started using nikeplus when I was distance training for the marathon last year … so my times are pretty slow.
Anywho … here’s today’s run:
Here’s my PR’s from nikeplus:
My PR for a 10K is actually more like 50-something (could be 48-something if I keep my “fast” running trend up and can make it back up to 10K … someday). My mile PR is more like 6:15 or something. Probably could go faster than that, but I’m afraid to push myself. Never tried running just ONE mile either … except when I was coming off an injury, and there was no speedwork then.
Anyway, I’ve got time to make a real breakfast this morning, so I’m going to go do that now.
In light of recent developments and lack of blogging about exercise and running, I probably should change the masthead to something else. I really should blog about those recent developments. I just haven’t had a chance. I tend to blog when I’ve got something I want to show off…not when I’ve got something sucky that happens (unless I’m mad about it…then yeah. I’ll blog). Anyway, last weekend I made some of Bakerella’s Red Velvet Cake Balls for my friend Steph‘s housewarming party. They went over pretty well, so I decided I should make them again.
I went grocery shopping on Wednesday and lo and behold cake mix was on sale. d’oh. So I picked up a box of strawberry cake mix and a box of devils food and the rest of the stuff for the balls. Fabulous. I love baking…but I really shouldn’t be eating this kind of crap all the time!
Tonight I decided I might as well make them since I had the whole night to myself. I was going to start working on an album cover for a friend of a friend but my scanner decided that it wasn’t going to work because the printer attached to it was out of ink. Well, guess what? I don’t have money for ink this month. I’m going to hit up work tomorrow and scan it there quick I think. I spent enough time there today so I didn’t want to have to go back.
Anywho. Back on topic. I busted out my fancy pyrex that I had just purchased on e-bay (I had some of the bowls, but not all of them) to make the cake balls. Exciting! I baked the cakes while doing some visual research for the album cover and trying to scan the artwork (and trying to trick the printer into thinking that there was more ink… didn’t work. just got all inked up). When they were done, I let them cool for an hour and a half while I went and rode the stationary bike and read 2 issues of Runner’s World, an issue of SELF and an issue of Fitness. Needless to say it wasn’t a hard workout, but I’m trying not to push myself right now since I’m injured. I figured an hour at a moderate pace was better than nothing.
I came home… stretched, washed up and got back to work.
I formed balls out of the strawberry cake ball mix (ie: half a can of frosting and a strawberry cake — I managed to eat some of the frosting before I got to making the balls). I melted down the white almond bark for the first batch and mixed together a bunch of random sprinkles that I had in my cupboard (valentines and easter). I also realized pyrex gets hot when it’s heated up in the microwave. I totally forgot about that. I know. Dumb.
The strawberry balls went off without a hitch. Not the prettiest in the world (I shouldn’t have added the green sugar to the sprinkle mix), but whatever. They taste good. Ideally I would have had a lot more fun sprinkles and rolled each ball in sprinkles so it was completely covered, but I was working with what I had. I could have busted out my halloween sprinkles but it would have ruined the mood.
Finished the strawberry balls…moved on to the devils food. For whatever reason the devils food cake ball mix made about 55 balls vs the 36 strawberry. Not sure why. I made them all pretty much the same size…maybe because there was less frosting in the strawberry mix? I don’t know. That being said, I unfortunately didn’t have enough almond bark to cover ALL my devils food balls. I had to pitch about 10 balls (I couldn’t eat any more at this point. was getting shaky from all the sugar!). Also, the chocolate almond bark is harder to work with because apparently it carmelizes faster than the regular almond bark if you heat it too fast in the microwave. Boo.
I finished my balls and they’re in the fridge. I really don’t know what to do with them. I just had an itch to make some. 
check out my awesome pyrex.
these turned out really cute actually. strawberry cake balls with white chocolate and sprinkles
half and half
covering the chocolate cake balls mmmmm.
these balls are covered in chocolate.
These are so fun to make. I want to try making the cake pops sometime though. She’s got so many permutations of the pops… sooo many fun ways to try it!
