Published on Friday, February 6, 2009 by Katherine If you have an Asian market near you, I highly recommend you visit it with a little money in your pocket... and with an open mind.  Yesterday my mother and I went to a new "Fresh Market - International Grocery" that recently opened just a few miles away.  When I walked through the doors, I heard the angels singing.  Never in my life have I seen such an amazing sel...

Published on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 by Katherine I am a computer tech for a local hospital.  Yesterday I had a ticket for a computer in the ENT department.  It happened to be in their reading room.  On the wall was an X-Ray viewer with an X-Ray lit up.  This image was actually put on "authentic X-Ray film."  It was an unexpected moment that made me laugh out loud.  I must work for a very important hospital - a...

Published on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 by Katherine Remember the picture of my son who fell asleep with his hand in the Doritos bag?  Apparently, this kid can fall asleep just about anywhere.  When his body deems it time, he will plain fall out.  This is him at 5:00 p.m. on Christmas day.  We had just arrived at Grandma’s, when he made a failed attempt at getting to the couch before falling a...

Published on Friday, August 15, 2008 by Katherine Can you help to name these shrimp-like creatures?  While we were at Little Island in Sandbridge, located in Virginia Beach, we found these tiny little creatures holding on to the seaweed that was connected to a pier piling under the water. Then we saw they were also out of the water, crawling on the actual piling.  They were longer than shrimp - half like shrimp, ha...

Published on Monday, March 3, 2008 by Katherine   Another fabulous sign from my favorite Chinese food restaurant.  Pictured is the view from the the ordering window.  As you look up, you will see a box stategicaly placed over the cooler, stating, "Keep Forks On Floor."  What?!? Obviously, this is a message about fork lifts... but what makes it so funny is that the restaurant owners thought it would be...

Published on Thursday, January 31, 2008 by Katherine Our family enjoys giving unusual presents – particularly if they come with translated Japanese (or Chinese) instructions. One year we received a toy that had instructions poorly translated from Japanese to English.  Our favorite line was, “Battery Into It.”  From then on, any wonderful gem of a translation we find is now called a “Battery Into It.” Yeste...