Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: An on and on and on ...

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

12 April 2008

An on and on and on ...

More bed bugs. Sixth pest treatment. Liquid chemical on carpet (again) and gas throughout house. Had to vacate today. Washing didn't get done. Massive backlog. Kids still lovely but with crazy behaviour. Currently waking an hour before dawn. Dog still stupid. Blood pressure medication no match for pile of stressors higher than pile of washing to be folded. Too tired and depressed to say much more.

3 comments:

Nauntie Lush said...: OH NO!!! I can't believe that they are not DEAD. Maybe they are ones that survived a nuclear bomb or something? Or are they a SUPER BEDBUG created from too many antibiotics?

If I was closer I would fold the laundry for you and swear at the bedbugs. I am sure that my American accent would scare them to death.; 13 April, 2008 01:24
Givinya De Elba said...: Oh sweetie, thankyou! Yesterday we had the sixth treatment (with the gas and everything) and last night I was bitten and I think Sonny Ma-Jiminy was too. We found two live ones on the walls this morning. I'm getting really worried. But as I say, I'm hanging on to life BY MY TEETH, so I'm good until my teeth fall out - maybe another 30 or 40 years in me!

Sorry I keep blogging about this - it must be awful for you logging on for a dose of funny and instead getting me moaning about bed bugs.; 13 April, 2008 07:43
Swift Jan said...: ((HUGS)) ((HUGS)) ((HUGS)) ((HUGS))

This totally sux!!!! Poo to bed bugs!; 14 April, 2008 13:34

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This is the story of me, Givinya de Elba, and my adventures with Mr de Elba, my children Buzz, Jessie, and Woody and our dog, Bullseye. We have plenty of good times, some weird times and a huge dose of drama.

Some of my posts are sad, lots are funny and sometimes I subject you to my pondering. We have our celebrations, when I write a decent poem I share it with you and when I'm held hostage, I do the occasional meme.

Other people who are special to me feature here too, some of them being my Dad, my Mum, my Crazy Sister (her blog), my Wee Brother and my good friend Hippomanic Jen (her blog).

I am a part-time speech pathologist, and try to cook, keep a garden alive and take photos that don’t make us look like we are pharmaceutically affected or dangerously homicidal.

I often suffer from Mumfail but I keep hanging on to the One who picks me up when I fall. If you email me, I’ll answer.

And if all that is too much, just read my “Best Of."

No, they didn't.

They called me Katherine.

I go by Kate.

I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

My sweet niece ...

12 April 2008

An on and on and on ...

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