This is just a random post.

Isabelle stole my ice cream and ate it all up.

I love Alice’s purses! I shouldn’t look at them. Whenever I do I want another one.

And silly Isabelle. It’s been hot here these past few days, around 100. Good thing we have air conditioning because Isabelle found this coat and insisted on wearing it around the house with the hood up. She actually got mad when we tried to take it off, silly girl!

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I know my old Blogger feed works but I don’t know how or why and more importantly I don’t know if it will always keep updating. I just did a test and tried to subscribe to my blog using Bloglines. My Blogger feed doesn’t even show up! So, if you are on my old feed:
http://kukyideas.com/journal/?feed=atom

I think it’s best to update it to my current feed:
http://kukyideas.com/journal/feed.

And of course I don’t like having picture-less posts so I had to draw something.

Update: Trying a new feed.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/kukyideas

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My sister told us about the Renaissance Festival going on at Golden Gate park this past weekend. She said we should go and I could make a Renaissance costume for Isabelle to wear. I misheard her. I thought she said a robot costume. That would have been so funny, Isabelle dressed as a little robot at the Renaissance Festival. Then when she’d be walking around I’d be thinking, EX-TER-MI-NATE!!

But we didn’t end up going. $15 a person?!? Umm no! Instead we went to the beach. Free and relaxing. We drove past Pacifica along Devil’s Slide until we saw a beach that wasn’t too crowded. We pulled over and had to run across the freeway and go down down down all these steps to get to the beach. Isabelle had so much fun. Alan dug a big hole and Isabelle climbed in and out and in and out. I walked through the cold waves and we sat building things which Isabelle happily smashed to bits. She didn’t want to leave. We all had so much fun, didn’t even notice the nude people. I told Alan we should go every weekend forgetting that the weather won’t always cooperate. But maybe next time we’ll go to the beach Olinda lives by. No running across a freeway, tromping down a whole mess of stairs, and oh yeah…maybe no naked people.

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Last night I discovered that my move from Blogger to Wordpress wasn’t as smooth as I thought. I was so surprised. I had no clue I had broken links. And all because of “the”s and “a”s and I don’t know what else in my link titles. I wish I had figured that out when I changed over because I had a little freak out moment trying to fix things and deleting ALL my posts and comments then reimporting them and AAHHH!

Anyone notice anything weird or broken links? I think I’ve updated all my static non-Wordpress files.

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Last month we were in the bookstore and I was flipping through Bend the Rules Sewing. I decided to order it from Amazon to save money. Well you know I HAD to take advantage of the free shipping so I ordered Sew What! Skirts too. At the time, I was pretty excited because I was eager to sew some skirts for myself. Well it’s been over five weeks and the books FINALLY arrived today.

I didn’t notice when I was ordering but the skirt book wasn’t in stock for 4-6 weeks. And when I got the email saying when it was going to arrive I didn’t want to cancel it because I was saving money. So every time I thought about the books I’d kick myself thinking about how I could drive 10 minutes away to buy them. Now so much time has gone by that I have other projects that need fixing first before I start something new.


Not as if I could get much sewing done anyways. Drawing, yes. On the computer, yes. Reading, yes. But sewing. No. Too much concentration required. I don’t want to stop every few minutes. And why would I be stopping so frequently? Why Isabelle of course. She is being a regular little monkey. She’s getting into everything. She figured out how to get into the playpen by herself. One day she was playing near it and I had my back turned. When I turned back around she was inside. I was so surprised. But I figured she was nice and safe once inside so no worries. I turned away and next thing you know she got out by herself!

Ok she’s not a magic flying baby. It was by the couch and she was lowering herself in and pulling herself out by grabbing onto the arm of the couch. She’s gotten quite adept at using things to help her get up higher. I think the scariest was when she climbed on top of the ottoman that was sitting on top of her toybox. I worry she might fall on her head. And of course I can’t be sewing if I need to make sure she doesn’t break her little head open.

Posted in: Books yum BOOKS, Family
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Jools has given me the Nice Matters award. I’ve never seen this before so I looked it up trying to find where it started. Turns out it was started by Bella Enchated. And in her words: This award will be awarded to those that are just nice people , good blog friends and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration! Those that care about others that are there to lend support or those that are just a positive influence in our blogging world!

So I in turn would like to give the Nice Matters award to some ladies who took the time out of their day to email me when I was feeling a little down and needing a break. I’m supposed to choose 7 but more than 7 wrote me so I am naming them all. Alice, Sarabeth, Karol, Michelle, Siew (didn’t send along a link), Judy, Sandra, Stefanie, Lisa S. and last but not least Jools. For yes Jools not only gave me the award but she was one of the kind ladies who emailed me so she deserves to be mentioned three times in this post. Thank you all for your supportive emails, they really lifted me up!

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This is for my records. Not that you’d be interested in my unwelcome visitor who hasn’t made an appearance in about two years and eight months. I knew it was coming. My sister warned me of the sign.

Well on the good side, now we can have another baby.

Oh and thank you everyone on Isabelle’s lack of talking. It’s very reassuring to read all your comments! She does have an appointment coming up soon and we’ll talk to the doctor about it.

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