Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: A Very Good Sign

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.

13 October 2008

A Very Good Sign

I hadn't noticed until a few nights ago this mysterious single word in small letters at the lower edge of our new oven.

That's a pretty nifty feature. Anything to make me a more competent cook.

7 comments:

Swift Jan said...: Well, I'd say you are a very competent cook anyhow!

That's neat!; 13 October, 2008 11:47
Hippomanic Jen said...: How are you doing having an entirely shiny new oven, and not being able to use it yet?; 13 October, 2008 15:17
John Ross Barnes said...: greetings from Portland, Oregon, USA. found youthrough LIFE, THE UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING..FUN BLOG(S)(MARY'S AND YOURS). & Yes, wouldn't it be great if more appliances a/o technical equipment came WITH competence? What a truly nifty feature. Can i get that on my brain?; 13 October, 2008 20:18
tinsenpup said...: Cool! Did you have to do some special cooking test to get one of those or can anyone apply?; 13 October, 2008 22:42
Danyele Easterhaus said...: wow...i wonder if i had that on me somewhere if i would cook better...hmmm; 13 October, 2008 22:58
Jen said...: its nice to have such a helpful oven.; 14 October, 2008 01:11
stefanie said...: serendipity; 14 October, 2008 05:23

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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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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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13 October 2008

A Very Good Sign

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