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Today I was reminded why I would never be in sales. It is the last day of the month and when you are trying to hit targets, seriously... the pressure can be crazy and that's not my kind of thing. I work to other sorts of deadlines and with other pressures, just not this kind.  Today I learnt that sometimes you have to let things be. If you can't change it why let yourself be frustrated by it? I was working on design files in Adobe Illustrator which kept hanging. Coupled with a slow server where I had to get files from, it was a pain. Especially when I knew what I wanted to do already and am generally a fast worker.  After an hour of impatience and frustration, I finally let myself relax because after all, what can you do, right? So every time it hung, I just sat back and drummed my fingers and stayed calm. It took an additional hour to finish up a job which probably could have been completed in less than half the time. But you know what? At least it ended well beca

Today at this point in time my iPhone tells me I have walked 10,001 steps. This is higher than my daily average, thanks to a lunch time walk to e's office at one end of the city. I bought baguettes for us and as usual, we tried both but he let me have the one I liked better. The sun was out and the breeze was not too cold. It was nice. We also walked to and from the train station. This probably ought to be daily fare.

Today, we were supposed to cook dinner at home because we've been eating out a lot with visiting family. But we were naughty and decided to eat out instead. After all, we both work in the city and there are plenty of options here! So we had a delicious dinner at Din Tai Fung – with a 25% discount thanks to Entertainment Book. And it was lovely.

A weekend away at Lakes Entrance, 6 friends made up of 3 couples, coinciding on my birthday weekend. Stopped at Warragul Thai which was delicious and well priced. Then crabbing on a fine afternoon with a few minutes of soaking rain. All for a good haul of sweet sand crabs, later oven baked with duck fat. Mm mm.