Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: And this might also clear up the mystery of the "Curfew Panda."

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.

27 December 2010

And this might also clear up the mystery of the "Curfew Panda."

Buzz: Hey Dad, you know, Ethan had a fight with a Ninja Cat!
Mr de E: A what? A Ninja Cat? In real life or in his imagination?
Buzz: In real life! It's true! He said he got into a fight with a Ninja Cat!
Mr de E: I'm not sure they exist.
Buzz: They do! It's true! Ethan told me! He really got into a fight with a Ninja Cat!

(pause)

Buzz: Um, actually ... I think it was a ginger cat. Yeah.

6 comments:

veiledturnip said...: So cute!; 28 December, 2010 08:46
Andi said...: Kids are so funny!; 28 December, 2010 09:59
Allegro ma non troppo said...: Love it!

But sadly, still trying to figure out the title. Don't tell me, I'll get it soon!

Bear of Little Brain here.; 28 December, 2010 10:01
Givinya De Elba said...: Kung-Fu Panda, sweetness.; 28 December, 2010 10:43
Unknown said...: A ginger cat sounds so boring now. I'd take a Ninja cat any day.; 28 December, 2010 12:48
Emily Sue said...: Ah... Kung-Fu Panda. I was just about to comment that I didn't get it, but happily Crazy Sister beat me to it.; 28 December, 2010 17:46

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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 ...

27 December 2010

And this might also clear up the mystery of the "Curfew Panda."

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