redbird | joys of citrus (Reply)

I may have too many tangerines.

In addition to a crate of clementines, I bought ten of those "New Year's tangerines"

jonsinger wrote about. I'd been seeing them around Chinatown and wondering, and Jon's recommendation was good enough for me.

I also have filet of sole, baby bok choi, snow peas, ginger, and shallots. And some leftover bean curd Szechuan style, because I called

eleanor and asked her to meet me at Excellent Dumpling, and she and

fangorn and I shared an order of dumplings--my ulterior motive, since when I go there alone I'm not hungry enough to justify dumplings in addition to my regular lunch--and three main dishes. It occurred to me, after the fact, that a serving of dumplings and my usual inexpensive sweet ginger duck over rice would have cost me less than my share of our large lunch today. So I may do that sometime, and not worry about leftovers.

All this was after spending the morning at the gym. That workout: a bit over two hours of exercise, plus showering and changing time, in the morning when the gym is uncrowded, is a luxury of being underemployed. There ought to be a few. Next week I suspect I'm going to have to choose between getting up very early and doing a fast workout before being an office drone for a day, and working out in the evening when I'm tired and everyone is there.

I did a bit of extra walking, I think as a reaction to having not gone beyond the nearest bit of Inwood Hill Park yesterday. Up to Grand Street for the produce (after lunch in the more western part of Chinatown), and then along the unplowed path through the park,while carrying the sacks of citrus and other groceries. All that went smoothly, and then I misjudged my balance and stepped into a snowbank a block from home. Fortunately, it was only a block from home: I went from "got to get in out of the cold, because my foot is wet" to realizing that, since I was indoors and warm, it wasn't actually urgent to take that sock off. Nonetheless, I am in my slippers, because I can.

Exercise numbers:

Cardio, 33 minutes, top heart rate 144
Assisted chin-up, 8
Calf machine, 65 pounds, 3 sets of 12
Bench press, 60 pounds, 12, 12, 11
Seated leg curl, 95 pounds, 2 sets of 12; 85 pounds, 15
Triceps pulldown, 50 pounds, 2 sets of 12; 45 pounds, 12
Wrist curl, 30 pounds, 3 sets of 15

Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 16
Yoga tree, 3 sets of {3 on each leg}

Bicep curl, 35 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Simple lateral raise, 5 pounds each hand, 3 sets of 15
Leg press, 240 pounds, 3 sets of 13
Adjustable row, 100 pounds, 3 sets of 13
Hip adduction, 110 pounds, 3 sets of 13
Hip abduction, 95 pounds, 13, 12; 90 pounds, 12

Stretches

Given that I increased the weights on both the calf machine and the seated leg curl, my legs are likely to be sore tomorrow.

I have now used my fax machine for the first time. It works, but takes what seems to me to be an unusually long time to send documents (after scanning them and storing them in memory, which it does fairly quickly).

My back hurts, which I suspect is neither from the exercise nor from schlepping all those tangerines, but because I tend to get lower-back aches when I have my period. Am contemplating ibuprofen.