Published on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by Katherine How do you describe Kyle in only a few words?  I don’t think you do.  To my right at work are Larry and Kyle, respectively.  Larry is the straight man while Kyle is the comic relief.  Basically, Kyle is the Chris Farley to Larry’s David spade, only take off the pounds and make him a 21 year old baseball coach who plays hardware technician during the day. (Heâ€...

Published on Thursday, April 23, 2009 by Katherine I am enjoying participating in Problogger.Net's 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge.  Today's "assignment" (it's like I'm in school again!) is to write a "list post."  Since I've been ruminating about the fact that I am getting crazy old at 43, I thought I would look back at my childhood and remember days gone by.    You know you were born in the...

Published on Sunday, April 12, 2009 by Katherine Happy and Blessed Easter to All!  Every year, the Easter Bunny hides Easter Eggs throughout the beach house, and hides Easter Baskets for the kids as well.  The children get up way too early and hunt for their chocolate treasures. This year was a bit different.  We attended Easter Mass last night from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.  It is a long Mass, but beautiful. The lig...

Published on Saturday, April 4, 2009 by Katherine If you know me well, you know I love Japanese food, Japanese products, and even more - poorly translated Japanese (and Chinese) signs and instructions.  I don't have any good-bad sign pictures today, but I do have a special video treat for the very very brave. My boys discovered this video on YouTube.  When they showed it to me, I practically had tears rolling do...

Published on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by Katherine It's April Fool's Day... the perfect time for some great bad jokes! Help me to make the day a little brighter for everyone by leaving a comment with your favorite (or maybe not so favorite) joke! OK, I will start off with the following: What do you call a cow with no legs? GROUND BEEF! I know I know... groannnnn.  That's the whole point!  So come o...

Published on Friday, March 13, 2009 by Katherine This is the most amazing thing.  If you stop to watch any video today, let it be this.   A few nights ago, ABC aired a story about dolphins blowing bubbles to entertain themselves.  But it is so much more than that.  These bubbles are toys, and the dolphins have specific games and goals for these bubbles.  You can watch the ABC video about dolphins blowing...

Published on Thursday, February 12, 2009 by Katherine [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="269" caption="Mooove Over, I Gotta Go!"][/caption] You just can't make this stuff up.  A new drink is in the works in India. The good news?  It contains no toxins, will be tasty, and won't even taste like urine!  You guessed it.  Well, maybe not.  The new soft drink is made out of cow urine.  And healthful herbs, of ...

Published on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 by Katherine I promised more pictures of the International Market, so here is the first.  Walking into a place like this makes you realize how little we know about the many fruits and vegetables that are grown around the world.  Take a peek at the banana flowers in the picture.  These were bigger than my hand and very fat.  I looked up banana flower preparation on the int...

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...