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"Friends are the sunshine of life." ~ John Hay

About 10 years ago, I remember going to work with a raging cold. It was the latest in a series of weird little illnesses I'd picked up over the two previous years. 'I have no idea what's wrong with me,' I remember lamenting to my boss, Mike. 'I'm generally healthy as a horse.' 'Oh please, Karen,' said Mike. 'You haven't noticed how you always get ill when you're stressed? I can almost predict the day you're going to come down with something, just by looking at your workload.' I remember being incredibly shocked by this, and vehemently denying it ... until I realized he was right. And you'd think by now I'd learn to stock up on vitamins during stressful times, but that would require logic and planning on my part, wouldn't it ... ... anyway, as I type this, I'm lying in bed, full of one of Marcus' fabulous seafood stews, and about to take a good swig of Nyquil. And yes, while my current state is indicative of what I've been facing at work, the truth is that today I took the first of many steps toward alleviating my stress. And it was a big first step, too. So even though I feel like hammered dog shit, the good thing is that I feel like very happy, very content hammered dog shit. You know, in a manner of speaking.

because life [and people] are already too complicated.

"When I am thinking and beginning to feel dizzy, I wonder if there is a language that's complex enough to say everything we want to say. I could just say that I'm missing you but it's not enough."

昨日之前得到了老闆娘的「批判」，今日接到大客戶的「讚賞」，當下內心就是「感恩」二字。在這二者之間的呼應有時候真是百感交集，很多話不知如何表達。

「親愛的很多事我都要跟你說，我想我是一個總是滔滔不絕的人。無時無刻都愛拿鏡頭對著身邊所有的人事物。這是我愛你的方式，我想告訴你，我無時無刻都在感受你的存在。一張張停格的畫面都是一句句我寫給你的情詩。你看我從來都不曾停止。」

「背面還可以印你想說的話喔！這是在上傳訂購時可以一併輸入的。"Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.（唯有愛與烹飪美食可以盡情享受）" 這是我很喜歡的一句話。」

"Met my good friend Laura today to catch up over cappuccino. It's mornings like this that make my entire week."