The month of March was full of rain and food. Damn good food.

Just before writing this, I was:

Eating blueberry pancakes 😍

This path month, I achieved:

• 🥡 Moved my blog over to Netlify for easier deployments of my statically generated site
• 🔨 Built a Haiku site, which involved using Markov chains for the very first time! Check it out here: haikufriday.club
• ⛺ Hosted a successful DevCamp offsite at Campaign Monitor
• 🛫 Went to Melbourne with my boyfriend and had a super relaxing long weekend
• 🎵 Saw “Muriels Wedding: The Musical” live
• 🏗️ Started a new project at work that has some exciting potential

This month, I was reading:

• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
• How To Travel by The School of Life

This past month, I learnt:

I can be quite tricky to travel with. I tend to stress out a lot, both of a morning and midway through the day when plans change. This is due to a deep drive to make the most of my time and get the most out of the experience.

This was hard and led to a few arguments. I think I’m slowly learning to take my time on things, and enjoy the present a little bit more. It’s still hard, but I’m going to make a concerted effort to do it going forward.

I also bought a little book while I was away, called “How To Travel”, that has a series of essays and meditations on what it means to travel.

This month, I couldn’t stop listening to

• The entire “Muriels Wedding” soundtrack
• “Tieduprightnow” by Parcels
• “Palo Alto” by Jack River

Today, something that made me happy was:

A lesbian couple walking down my sunny street with two dogs, as I come back from the shops with some blueberries for breakfast 😄

Today, something that I could’ve done better was:

Honestly? I started today pretty darn well.

Tomorrow, I’m going to:

Go to work, then get ready to drive up to the coast where I’m getting my wisdom teeth out on Tuesday 😱

In April, I’m looking forward to:

• The release of Jenny O’Dell’s book, the aptly titled “How To Do Nothing”, which expands on her talk and Medium post of the same name
• The Easter break and a few parties
• Potentially seeing Megan Washington live at the Golden Age cinema
• Some projects at work which will unblock some high-priority features that I’ve wanted since I started at CM 😄

In April, I’m going to make the positive change of:

Spending more lunchtimes in a meditative state. I’ll try keeping my log on Streaks and report back progress next month!

One thing on my to-do list is:

Now that I’ve got a password manager (Dashlane), I need to tighten up security on all my major apps, so I’m going to put together an ordered list of sites I want to reset passwords for and provision them autogenerated passwords.

One happy photo from the past month is:

Our arvo trip to Brighton beach in Melbourne

After this post, I’m going to:

Start on my book notes sub-site then go for a bike ride 😀