Alexis Rodrigo, Freelance Writer

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Increasing Productivity with “Getting Things Done” and “Zen to Done”
With my home businesses taking off, I found myself pulling out my favorite productivity and organization resources: David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” (aka GTD) and Leo Babauta’s “Zen to Done”.
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Every two weeks, I cook chicken adobo, because everybody in the family likes it, including Anton.

Here’s the recipe I use:
chicken, cut into pieces (I like to use boneless, skinless thighs because the chickens in Canada are very fat!)
equal amounts of soy sauce (reduced sodium) and vinegar
about 3 bay leaves
2 garlic cloves, smashed
3-5 black pepper cloves
2 [...]

We made like tourists last Sunday and went sight-seeing downtown. Our destination: the Art Gallery of Windsor.
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Today’s blog is a photo album I posted in my other site.
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Isay and Paula must be bored. Today they baked chocolate chip cookies, all by themselves. They measured and mixed and scooped. The only thing I did was to take the trays out of the oven. The results?
Delicious!
Anton must have eaten a dozen of them. I was so busy all afternoon that I couldn’t keep my [...]

The other day I mentioned that I would write about how the lack of a bicycle in my childhood has affected me, and here it is.
I can’t remember how old I was, but I had gotten my Dad to agree to buy me a bike. I was so excited, because I would have been the [...]

At long last, our boxes from the Philippines finally arrived. Bobby went to the customs office at noon to clear them. We were worried because I had forgotten to include our books in the items we declared as “to follow” when we arrived. Turns out, the customs officer didn’t even look at Bobby’s permanent residence [...]

For the first time in my life, I have a bike! My parents never wanted me to bike or skate or skateboard, and they never bought any of us a bike. So now that we don’t have a car yet, we bought everybody bikes. Mine and Paula’s are brand new, but bought on clearance, of [...]

We got the kids up this morning to go to my all-time favorite store, Michaels. They were having a crafting demonstration and the kids only had to pay $5 for the materials. Anton and Isay were to young and too old, respectively, so they went to Best Buy with Bobby while Paula and I attended [...]

Bobby picked these up from the Oriental Store and requested them for breakfast this morning. No, it’s not a hidden mickey — it’s siopao! Asado, to be exact.

And today I finally mustered enough courage to make pizza dough from scratch. Well, I was sort of forced to do it because I couldn’t find frozen pizza [...]