Today is my church's patroness' feast day (say that thrice with sweets in your mouth!) Later tonight, I'll be at the feast day mass with… mariachis! Although the mass is technically bilingual (English and Spanish), the bulk of the music will be in the traditional Spanish language (me no hablo espanol, though). It should be a better turn out than last year, too, especially with the mariachis “headlining” the celebration.

T minus 7 days and counting.

That's how much time I have to get back in shape for my snowboard trip. This time last year, I would've already visited the slopes and would've been fine. This year, however, running has become a bit pass

It took me about three hours plus some “miscellaneous” minutes to put together my elliptical/exercise bike. It's not because I'm wetaded and I haven't a clue where things go — it's because I lacked the elbow grease to freakin' tighten this one nut… Actually, my sister and I worked together for the first 2 hours and she had to leave me to it cos she needed to get ready for church last night.

Looking back, I think it took us that long because:

1: I didn't go through all the parts (which I normally do when putting something together like this) and didn't notice that the included a freakin' multi-purpose wrench for *all* the nuts and bolts. I ended up using the mechanic socket set my younger brother gave to me last Christmas. That would've been a LOT easier to reach those darn bolts;

2: I didn't really eat lunch, nor did I quench my thirst at any point in those two hours as I was practically embroiled with this elliptical that hunger and thirst were not even considered; I only realised it was so when I arrived at church (and missed choir practise) with a throbbing headache and a growling empty stomach. I suppose my blood glucose level hadn't dropped that low, though, as I wasn't having my usual spells of vertigo when truly starving.

Anyway, the bliddy thing is fixed and after supper last night, I went on a short and slow 'run'… just testing the thing out in case I didn't tighten something enough and it might as well be me that breaks the darn thing before someone else gets hurt! It's all secure, though; I mean, the bike's fine. Perfect for running/riding indoors cos it started to rain!

HURRAY for the rain! This means, the local mountains must be getting some snoooooooow!