Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Just pretending

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.

01 January 2012

Just pretending

I can't believe that so far this year, I have managed to blog every single day. Amazing, for me, but it will just be a little quote from Jessie.

Me, faffing around the kitchen trying to get many things for many people, making mistakes and admonishing self: No, don't put the hot kettle in the fridge, that's not where it goes!
Jessie: Mum! Are you just pretending to be an idiot?
Me: Ah yeah, that's it. Just pretending.

4 comments:

Emily Sue said...: Haha. See, I'm sure my cats think these things about me, but happily (for me) they are unable to articulate them.; 02 January, 2012 11:19
Swift Jan said...: Hehehehe I have a few times found fridge items in the cupboard and visa versa... I tells you that peanut butter in thr fridge is no good. No good at all!!; 02 January, 2012 18:45
Hippomanic Jen said...: I note that your blogging every day in 2012 hasn't been going as well as it started out?

Jessie is very funny.; 03 January, 2012 21:27
tinsenpup said...: Dammit! It's every parent's nightmare. She's on to you!; 10 January, 2012 23:23

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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.

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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 ...

01 January 2012

Just pretending

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