Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Things that go "To Infinity And Beyond" in the night

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.

23 May 2009

Things that go "To Infinity And Beyond" in the night

Wow. You, my readers, are awesome. Thankyou for your comments on my last post. I really appreciate your thoughts. It's all the same stuff that I tell other people, it's great to be reminded of it myself. Thankyou from the bottom of my heart.

And now my thought for the day.

It's a bit weird to have a small child who occasionally sleeps with a Buzz Lightyear toy. Recently, I was woken at 2am by Tim the Toolman Taylor saying, "Our mission is to rescue our Little Green Friend!"

That's all I've got for today. Thanks for reading.

3 comments:

Allegro ma non troppo said...: We had a demented, scary loud noise in our hallway late one night that turned out to be a doll that says "Ma-ma" that had got wet.

We thought it was a dying bird or something.

Electronic toys, hey? Sheesh.; 23 May, 2009 17:23
stefanie said...: I can relate!

My mom gave Mo a talking Big Bird from Sesame Street. It was nearly as big as she was. One night, we were watching tv, and went upstairs to investigate all the talking. It was Big Bird, repeating and repeating: Wiggle your belly. Wiggle your belly. Wiggle your belly....as she peacefully slept.

Thanks for the memory.; 23 May, 2009 23:03
Unknown said...: Gert had a a sesame street toy that would start playing in the night... it was an alphabet thing.... so you heard elmo going A - aaaa in the middle of the night.; 24 May, 2009 01:05

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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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23 May 2009

Things that go "To Infinity And Beyond" in the night

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