Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: I has shiny polished floor!

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.

07 October 2008

I has shiny polished floor!

And not much else yet.

This may be the first time since I moved in that my kitchen hasn't had mess in it

I keep looking at the plans of the new kitchen, and where most people would say, "That'll be great," or "there will be so much extra storage space," I find myself saying, "Wow I could make some really big messes in there

I don't think that's the normal thing to say.

5 comments:

Tracy P. said...: The messes will look much fancier now. :-); 07 October, 2008 23:03
Adelaine said...: The floor is beautiful!!!

lol - i think that way too :) I'm thinking about all that space in the mancave and wondering exactly how long it will take the little tikes to toy it up. :); 08 October, 2008 05:31
Swift Jan said...: WOW! Is that really your house? Or are you tricking us?; 08 October, 2008 07:43
Jen said...: beautiful floor. I love the color.; 08 October, 2008 09:52
Hippomanic Jen said...: Who would have thought that those old boards would have come up so well. That floor looks better than ours! (Of course it does, it's shiny and new, ours is scratched)

You dream of your big messes. Make them spectacular!; 08 October, 2008 17:48

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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.

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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.

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07 October 2008

I has shiny polished floor!

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