Trumped.

I was going to blog about my misadventures in trying to get to the symphony on Friday night, however, after reading J1's blog, mine would just be whinging. So I'll tell you about my weekend instead.

As stated earlier, on Friday night, I went to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Camper Dan. We missed the first half, which is quite funny considering the tickets were booked in May this year, but managed to get in during the interval and catch the Rachmaninov, which is what we were there to see anyway. I wonder what they played in the first half.

Anyway, in our front row centre seats, we were able to see the intricate movements of the violinists... as well as hear some deep breathing by the conductor. It was utterly captivating and put 'learn to play the violin' on my things to do list.

Based on CD's scale of enjoyability, the score is MTC - 1; MSO - 1; and Australian Ballet - 0. Now it's back to the theatre.

On Saturday, I caved and went to the hairdresser's. When I booked, I was a bit reluctant to take the appointment because my regular hairdresser was taking the day off. However, seeing as it had been nearly 3 months since my last hair cut and after a week-long struggle with really bad hair, I decided to give Perry a go. It looks like I've found myself a new hairdresser. Perry's a little more forthcoming than Cisco in that he told me when to come back, what to do with my hair, how to do my hair, what he was doing to it and showed me some tricks with different products. The last bit may have been some clever up-selling but I didn't care. And while he did blow-wave and leave me with BIG hair, it didn't really matter because I had to ride my bike home anyway and the helmet crushed it back to normal height.

Now I have to work on my guilt for swapping hairdressers. You see, I've already pre-booked my next appointment with Perry. But Cisco's partner took my booking so maybe she can break it to him. I wonder if hairdresser's actually care that you swap. Is it worse when you swap within the salon or if you go somewhere new completely?

Sunday... I took my new pedometer out for a spin. 16,000 steps (approx 10km) from downtown Abbotsford to Port Melbourne. That includes sidetracking through Middle Park, walking along the beach, wandering through the residential streets of Port Melbourne and Bay Street Shops (there's a Coles!), and then finally cracking it because whilst I could see the city in the distance, I couldn't find a street that took me back to the city.

Sunday afternoon was spent at the pub watching the Ashes. Then I had a quick beer with CD in the park and then went home and chilled for the forthcoming week at work. Yippee.