one of the signs of adulting
is when you don't
celebrate your birthday
as much as you did before.
Adulting says "Hi!"
It was my time-off so I woke up and did the usual:
morning coffee with bread while the laundry is spinning in the washing machine.
I didn't really feel like doing anything. (That's a Bruno Mars song in the background.)
I just wanna lay in my bed.
Don't feel like picking up my phone,
so leave a message at the tone.
'Cause today, I swear,
I'm not doing anything..."🙊🙉🙈
-Bruno Mars, The Lazy Song
I wanted some time alone and try to reflect on the past years and what they taught me. Or, it may just be the uncertainty of the future giving me anxiety. #Confessions of an overthinker
After the house chores, I went to the market together with my husband. He was asking me what I want for my birthday but I said none. I was really confused on what I wanted. But thank God it's my birthday so he was very patient with me doing the rounds in the market. He would come and carry what I had already bought and take it to the car.
Afterwards, we went to the gasoline station. Then I saw a milktea shop.
Aha!
Now I know what I want. I bought myself a large-sized milktea and a revel cake.
Sipping on the milktea somehow changed my mood. Guess I needed sugar to kickstart my day. I gulped the milktea and saved the revel cake for coffee.
This is the chocolate revel cake with melted mallows.
They also have the white chocolate revel cake.
I will try it next time.
Later in the afternoon, I prepared a simple viand for dinner: Igado.
Igado.
This is a popular Ilokano dish using pork meat,
pork liver, carrots, green peas and bell pepper.
In my version, I added potatoes.
I'm not a cook but I thank my husband for he appreciates my cooking.
Maybe, he loves me that much that he says it's good even when I think it isn't. Ayie!💗
Or maybe, he's just hungry. Haha, tsk!🙈
The next day is a workday.
It has been an office tradition to always celebrate our birthdays in the office too.
And I'm very lucky with my workmates because they are very helpful in the preparation of the food.
The boys grilled the pork and made the chicken soup while the girls helped me in cooking the Seafood Cajun Mix. They prefer cooking our food to save on money rather than buying cooked meals.
One of my workmates even brought her homemade cake for me. Gosh. I'm so lucky.
This is the cake my workmate brought to the office.
Incidentally, her husband's birthday is a day ahead mine
so when she baked for her husband,
she baked an extra for me.
Ain't she sweet? That's my ate!
After all the cooking, we all enjoyed the food we prepared. Unli-food. Good food, good mood.
We spent the rest of the afternoon with a full tummy and contented. Burp!
📌Hi! I'm Cate. And this blog is how I celebrated my birthday.
As I'm writing this blog, in the back of my mind, I can see my workmates laughing as we joke about almost everything;
I read back to the birthday messages I received from my family and how I wish we could all have a get together; and
I see my son giggling while happily playing with my husband.
There is nothing really special in my birthday celebration but these people make it so special and make my life worth living.
I couldn't ask for anything more.
Being with them makes me feel blessed and contented.
Adulting really hits hard. But it's how life goes.
I think we go through struggles and challenges to make us realize what really matters most.
As they say, you experience the bad so that you learn to appreciate the good.
Life has been awesome. It's not always bad. There are always the good times. But either way, these has molded me to what I am now. And I vow to always be the best version of me,
to never count the years,
to save more memories
and to live this life well.
YOLO. You Only Live Once.
Live it to the fullest.
Cheers to my fellow birthday celebrants!
More birthdays to celebrate!🎉