Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: "O"

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.

04 December 2008

"O"

There's a meme floating around right now which asks bloggers to list their ten top favourite things that start with a particular letter. Jen at Buried With Children inspired me with her wonderful list of things that start with "S" so I asked her to give me a letter and I'd try.

She asked the handsome Hayden to assign me a letter. Hayden chose "O".

So now I'm in real trouble. Thanks Hayden. A vowel.

Where to start? Obviously, the first thing was to google "things that begin with o".

This was hopeless. Most of the hits were for other bloggers who attempted this meme, and here are some of the uninspiring things thay have listed:

Osama bin Laden, Oprah, Obama, Opossum, Outhouse, Old School Friends, Ostrich, October, Offers of Marriage, Onyx, and Oil paintings.

Ya what?

I'm struggling with "O".

7 comments:

Femina said...: I'd probably start them all with "O gosh, I really like chocolate" (actually I like orange flavoured chocolate) and "O dear me, I particularly like wearing my pyjamas until midday".

So what I'm saying is, I'm a cheat. But a creative one.; 04 December, 2008 21:17
Jen said...: I am sorry that you are struggling. You could just skip 'O' and I could ask him for something else. Yes?; 05 December, 2008 00:26
GreenJello said...: Ok, I'll take a stab at it.

My 10 top favorite things that start with "O"...

Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms
Orgasms; 05 December, 2008 00:53
Swift Jan said...: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa Funny!! ^; 05 December, 2008 07:29
Nauntie Lush said...: Ovulation
Ostrich
Olive Oil
Octopus
Onion
Orangatangs
Osslots
Outside Voice
Overcoat
Occular Occlusion; 05 December, 2008 11:33
Givinya De Elba said...: Ha, GreenJello! When Hayden gave me "O", that was the FIRST thing that came to mind!

Mrs Tantrum, am I supposed to LIKE everything on the list? Cos I have no idea what I'd write about overcoats, for a start ...; 05 December, 2008 12:07
Joy said...: Ok. It took me a week. But I thought of odiferous. I figured you could come up with some story that includes the word odiferous.
I also thought of ovulate, but I see that has already been suggested. Just don't be doing the ovulating thing when Mr. de Elba is in the kitchen (see previous post); 09 December, 2008 13:53

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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.

My sweet niece ...

04 December 2008

"O"

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