Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: I Has NEW!

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.

19 March 2009

I Has NEW!

12 Megapixels! Twelve blessed megapixels! In a tiny ultra-compact piece of something better than before! I can take pictures of my kids being gorgeous! I can take videos of my kids saying amazing stuff!

10 comments:

Hippomanic Jen said...: Wooo Hooo!!!; 19 March, 2009 21:36
Jen said...: Spectacular! What beautiful children you have.; 20 March, 2009 03:02
GreenJello said...: Ooh... new camera. Love it when that happens. :)

Cute pics!; 20 March, 2009 05:12
CynthiaK said...: Well, they keep getting cuter and cuter with each new camera you get! Congrats on the new equipment! Can you take a belly shot with it? We seem to be missing one of the de Elbas here...; 20 March, 2009 05:13
Alison said...: Yay! That's awesome!; 20 March, 2009 06:49
Joy said...: New cameras are the best. I know you'll love it.
Thank you for voting for me. I'm still pretty behind in the count, hopefully I can find some more votes somewhere.
♥
Joy; 20 March, 2009 08:27
Tracy P. said...: Well now, THAT'S a great way to take some sunshine with you right there!; 20 March, 2009 14:09
Sassy Britches said...: Yay! No more poxy cell phone camera!; 20 March, 2009 15:04
Swift Jan said...: HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!! And what gorgeous children you have!; 20 March, 2009 16:39
stefanie said...: Yay! Enjoy! Crop to your heart's content! One of my cameras is 8 mp and I can crop a lot out of the pics and still get a decent print. 12 is amazing.

Your babies are so beautiful!; 23 March, 2009 12:22

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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 ...

19 March 2009

I Has NEW!

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