My father is an amazing guy. He has stories from his life that belong in a book or in a movie. Growing up he would tell me these fantastic stories and the best part was in these stories my dad was the hero; he was the main character.

As a young man my dad escaped from China. He actually made multiple attempts of which the adventures included trying to escape from attack dogs, swimming miles, hiking through mountains, and being smuggled into Hong Kong masquerading as a fare collector.

Jumping ahead in the story of his life, after I was born my parents were given the opportunity to come to America. They packed up just a few precious things, left everything else behind, and within three days were on a plane to America. Two weeks later my sister was born, the first American citizen in our family.

That’s a peek into my dad’s life.

I love you daddy!

My sister, Helen is so creative. She made me a doll. A pregnant doll. A doll of ME!! IT’S ME!! A PREGNANT ME! It’s sooo cute. She just surprised me with it on Saturday. She just felt like making it and did! She made the doll out of terry cloth and the hair is yarn. She ran out of brown yarn so added the yellow yarn and when my mom saw it she said hey that’s like Kuky’s hair, all crazy. I love the doll. It’s toooo cute. It has a little flower belt and cute wrap with an underwrap.

It’s anatomically correct meaning it has boobs with nipples and there’s a baby in there with an umbilical cord. The baby was attached to the cord but Marwan pulled too hard and disconnected it. But that’s fine with me since in imaginary doll world the baby needs to be disconnected to drink milk from the boobs.

I told her that she should make customized ones for sale for moms to be like me. I love everything she makes. I will have to post some pictures of some of her other creations another time.

Alan thinks the doll is sort of disturbing. I think it’s the whole baby stuck up in the doll thing that disturbs him but I love it. Helen figured I would like it. She knows my tastes. There are more pictures here but ummm like I said boobs with nipples so if you don’t want to see that don’t look at the last picture.

I’ve been in a baking mood. Usually it’s about 5 am in the morning after not sleeping all night (remember we’re nightowls). And the other day I was watching Groundhog Day and Phil was eating doughnuts in the movie so I wanted doughnuts (I usually am in the mood for whatever food I see on TV. Did I ever mention that?).

So I found a recipe for Best Ever Baked Doughnuts and made myself some. They don’t look like doughnuts. They look like cupcakes. And of course they would look like cupcakes because I used my cupcake tin. The directions call for a muffin tin. Is that the same as a cupcake tin?

Well anyhoo they were yummy. Much better when they were warm right out of the oven. They’re cold now but they’ll do for my see something on TV and I want craving.

I’m a lurker on Fruitychick’s blog. I cried when I read her post about Gwen in September and cried again today remembering her loss. I don’t think I ever contacted her back in September to say how sorry I was. I was still caught up in my own loss I guess. So today I was actually going to come out of lurking to tell her this but couldn’t seem to comment. So I’ll say it here. It’s nice to see she’s back and my thoughts are with her. I’m glad she’s back.

Back in April an old friend from when I was a little girl found me through my blog. We’ve been keeping in touch through email since then. Well today I just found out she has a blog of her own, Monte Kitty! That’s so cool. Now I can see what crafty things she’s up with! Hi Monte Kitty!

It’s so funny…when I was reading through her blog I came across this entry about hearing a noise in the middle of the night. That totally reminds me of me!

I sure have been posting a lot today. I think it’s because I’m feeling exceptionally good today compared to the past week. I know I haven’t mentioned it but who wants to read sheesh I feel like crap today for a week?

Well anyhoo to the reason of this post. I have been using Bloglines for a while, from the end of January to be exact. I’ve been subscribing and subscribing to different blogs but have never updated my favorites list here on my blog. It wasn’t until today that I finally figured out I could link to my subscriptions. I don’t know why it took me so long. It was sooo simple. You would have thought I would have figured it out back in January. Duh! And wow seeing that list…I sure read a lot of blogs. Good thing for bloglines. I can’t believe I used to actually bookmark blogs I wanted to read then tediously open each one only to be disappointed when they hadn’t updated.

I haven’t been knitting the petal baby hat for several days. I left it in my purse and forgot about it, like I did with the baby blanket. I should never leave my projects in there. I completely forget about them. It’s like the purse eats them up. I realized the hat was in there today and started knitting it again.