Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Friday Fill-Ins on Saturday

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.

07 November 2009

Friday Fill-Ins on Saturday

Alison does these cool Friday Fill-Ins. I thought I'd have a go (irrespective of the fact that it's currently 5pm Saturday.)

1. Plans and schedules give me something the "hang my hat on" - I need them so I have somewhere from which to be flexible.

2. I'm happy when Things are asleep.

3. The last thing I drank was a hot chocolate.

4. One of the most valuable things in my life is the love of my children. They are always there for me.

5. I like roast pumpkin on my pizza.

6. Dear November, please please please don't be as frightening and lonely as you were last year. My heart just can't take much more.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to using my reading time to go out and buy a last-minute gift for a 5 year old's birthday party, tomorrow my plans include flying solo with three small children at the same birthday party and Sunday, I want to be cherished, thanked and honoured in some small way!

Heh. We'll see.

6 comments:

Lauren said...: If it makes you feel better, it's just barely past Friday here. :) And I like the idea! Very neat.

Have a great weekend!; 07 November, 2009 18:32
Swift Jan said...: I hope you get to be cherished, thanked and honoured tomorrow :); 07 November, 2009 19:55
Sassy Britches said...: This is a fun idea...I'm going to give it a whirl even though it's Saturday night here!

I hope you had fun at the party, and I'm hoping that pretty soon you'll be indulging in all that cherishing.; 08 November, 2009 12:27
Tracy P. said...: Wow, has it been a year already?! Then yes, November, by all means do behave yourself!! I'm so glad you have come out on this side of the current, Kate. Whew! May the blessings continue to flow. :-); 08 November, 2009 14:05
Allegro ma non troppo said...: "The love of my children who are always there ON me" is probably what I would have written. Pulling my hair - with love.; 08 November, 2009 18:13
Givinya De Elba said...: Following me around the house - with love. Watching me in the toilet - with love. Sitting on me while I am breastfeeding - with love. Joining me in the shower - with love.; 08 November, 2009 20:34

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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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07 November 2009

Friday Fill-Ins on Saturday

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