Mmm, beer...
What I did today:
Work Obviously.
Piano Lesson I really, really need to practice more. I'm doing my Grade 3 exam again. I failed it once by two marks, then scraped a pass by two marks, then studied for Grade 4 until it became obvious I was getting nowhere (due to circumstances not due to me being a bad pianist, I swear!). I know it's a little weird to go backwards, but I think it is good for me. My aim is to get a distinction. To do so, I need to do more practice!! I found it hard to get out of bed most days last year, never mind sit at the piano, and I'm finding it hard-going getting back into it.
Cinema Have discovered the joys of seefilmfirst.com and their free film showings. The idea is you get a code in a magazine or something, but they are all put on the internet in 0.2 milliseconds anyway. So I am obsessively watching out for free film codes for my city. I'm poor at the moment :( so it's nice to go for free. I saw Definitely Maybe (which was Ok for free but not my sort of thing) last month and today saw The Bank Job. I would never have chosen it myself, but I actually really enjoyed it. I went on my own - I could've got my sister to go but like going to the cinema on my own, believe it or not!
Unfortunately because it was a 6.30 showing I went straight after my piano lesson (finished at 5) thinking it would take me ages to get there by bus. But I ended up getting there an hour early so I sought refuge in the pub next door and had my first alcoholic beverage of the year (Kronenbourg Extra Cold, very nice in case you were wondering and I'm not a beer drinker!)... yes, I really haven't drunk anything since New Years Eve/early New Years Day. And thus I ensured I spent the next two hours needing to pee, I had to leave the film twice! Good job I got an aisle seat ;)
I took Wendy, my Hollywood, with me to take pictures at the Docks where the cinema is, but discovered when I got there that I had forgotten my camera! Duh! Fate is conspiring to keep me away from posting on TIB, I swear.
