This is me, I love sunsets. I can’t explain it but the beauty of life and the universe can be encapsulated by a single sunset.

I started the day with mommy duties then moved on to manager chores, editing duties, and pursuing my own stories as a journalist. At the end of the day, I went outside to clear my head and breathe in fresh air because it was a bit stuffy inside. The rain stopped at last.

I had tea while I watched Kimchi explore the stairs again. Flowers do elevate the look of a home. I love them but they don’t love me as I started sneezing again. I don’t care; they’re pretty and they make me happy.

I decided to cook adobo after watching two horrible adobo cooking demonstrations by Rachel Ray and Geoffrey Zakarian of Food Network. Uncle Roger roasted them good.

I started cooking at 8 am by bringing the chicken-pork adobo concoction to a roiling boil and then had the sauce reduced to nothing for two hours on low fire.

I chose not to use the Instant Pot because the magic is in the sauce reduction and you can’t do that on a pressure cooker. Slow cooking on top of the stove is key. 👌 Every now and then I had to adjust the taste by adding soy sauce, vinegar, a bit (teeny bit) of sugar to neutralize the sourness, and water.

While going back and forth the kitchen and my room for two hours, I realized that human traffic is impeded by the dining table position. I then tried a new orientation to see if this works better.

I think I will change the entire living area into one big dining area with a six or eight-seater table (there’s a convertible table in Ikea) since the TV/couch area is seldom used by my kids and I feed more than three people every week. But let’s see once school starts and they start bringing friends over to hang in our house, they might start using the TV area for Netflix watching. Because that’s what happened when we were in high school—everyone was coming over because of our proximity to everything.