Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: So far I have blogged ...

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.

03 February 2011

So far I have blogged ...

... every single day this month! This is a record! And it's all thanks to youtube.

That's cheating, isn't it?

Yasi has done its worst. So far there are no reports of loss of life or serious injuries, but the damage is extensive. As always, updates can be found on ABC News and The Courier Mail.

Yes, things are quite extreme in Australia right now! It is normal for us to experience bushfires, floods and tropical cyclones at this time of year, but the weather patterns this year have been quite extreme. I only know one family living in Far North Queensland, so as I traipse through my pleasant sunny days in the south-east corner, I think of them and wait for an email to say they are okay. I don't expect to hear from them for a while though - communications are quite extensively damaged up north.

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tinsenpup said...: As a self-declared expert on sporadic blogging, I say that's totally not cheating. Revel in your blogging mastery!

And I hate to say it in the face of all that damage and devastation, but Yasi really could have been so much worse, couldn't it?; 03 February, 2011 21:09
Givinya De Elba said...: Oh goodness yes, I was hoping that everyone would be safe and so far we haven't heard of any injuries or deaths.; 03 February, 2011 21:12
Tracy P. said...: Wow, that seems like a miraculous outcome.

Every day this month! Way to go! ;-) Will come back and watch after kids get on the bus.; 03 February, 2011 23:37

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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.

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03 February 2011

So far I have blogged ...

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