Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: The Best Blog You Should Be Reading

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.

24 July 2008

The Best Blog You Should Be Reading

Crazy Sister, she who is funnier than me, skinnier than me, and who sight-reads music much better than me, has started a blog!

Her name? Crazy Sister.

Her family? As crazy as her.

Her blog? Graze If You Want To, But Don't Eat Dirt.

Her location? In Australia, the land of not-all-that-much blogging. In the country, the place where you can't always get your phone lines connected within a month, and you can't easily replace a dead computer mouse. She's overcome the odds to get her blog up and floating around!

Please head over and read about her castrated mouse. Leave comments, it will totally make her day! (Or freak her out!)

4 comments:

Jen said...: You are right, she is great.; 24 July, 2008 01:59
Anonymous said...: Yay for Roo. Jen.; 24 July, 2008 10:21
Aunt Julie said...: What a great blog name! I'm a goin' Down Under to see what all this is about! BTW, don't forget the Great Pop'rs Giveaway! The more you comment, the better chance you have of winning--Check it out!; 24 July, 2008 10:57
Swift Jan said...: :) tis grande!; 24 July, 2008 16:19

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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 ...

24 July 2008

The Best Blog You Should Be Reading

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