Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Signs that your life might be ever-so-slightly sucky

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.

29 November 2010

Signs that your life might be ever-so-slightly sucky

My Mum came over briefly today and greeted me with what was a very insightful question.

"So - have you done anything exciting today?" she asked in a voice dripping with thrilled anticipation. "... Any washing?"

I realised that Mum was absolutely right. Like a sister-in-arms, she was standing with me in this life that has come down to this: either I have no excitement in my life, or I do washing.

The saddest part of it was that today, I didn't even get around to doing any washing.

6 comments:

Long dark hair, blue eyes said...: my Dad always asks "What did you achieve today?" - no pressure!; 29 November, 2010 21:59
Tracy P. said...: She obviously didn't read your last post! Hello! ;-); 30 November, 2010 05:19
Givinya De Elba said...: Ah, the worm farm is old news. Just getting around to blogging it! I need now frontiers to forge, new adventures to have, new washing to do. Please understand I'm not trashing what Mum said - I thought it was so very very sadly TRUE! And it did give me a huge laugh. (At myself.); 30 November, 2010 09:04
MUM said...: I'm coming to your house to wash, hang, fold, and iron. No, I'll come and take you to a coffee shop - someone else will do the washing.; 30 November, 2010 13:55
Givinya De Elba said...: YAY! I love my Mummy!; 30 November, 2010 16:20
Allegro ma non troppo said...: Maybe we could swap houses one day, and do each others' washing?

They say a change is as good as a holiday.; 01 December, 2010 16:00

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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.

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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.

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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.

My sweet niece ...

29 November 2010

Signs that your life might be ever-so-slightly sucky

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