Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Three Days

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.

09 October 2008

Three Days

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

(And now everything will GO SLOW, so I will stop with the reno blog and give you more mess and mayhem.)

(P.S. - this picture shows pinkish cabinets. They are most definitely not pinkish. The colour higher in the room is closer to the real one.)

6 comments:

Allegro ma non troppo said...: That's fantastic! Isn't it amazing what working men can do? Yet I bet when those cabinet men go home, they sit on the couch and crush beer cans against their foreheads while their wifeys do everything.; 09 October, 2008 10:48
Heather said...: OOOOOOH! I have kitchen envy!!! That is looking gorgeous!!; 09 October, 2008 11:38
Jen said...: wow, I love it. that did happen so quickly.; 09 October, 2008 11:49
Tracy P. said...: Beautiful! Yea for you!!; 09 October, 2008 13:00
Anonymous said...: Oh wow that is an awesome new kitchen, lucky you!; 09 October, 2008 13:02
Swift Jan said...: The kitchen is looking pretty swish! Very nice!; 09 October, 2008 15:15

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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.

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They called me Katherine.

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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 ...

09 October 2008

Three Days

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