Funny Image

Picture this:

A short 94-year-old lady wearing a long-sleeved, teal nightgown with small embroidered roses at the collar...her teeth are soaking in a cup on the kitchen counter...she's got a large can of Raid in one hand, and a big, nasty cockroach trying his best to get away before death showers down on him in the form of a smelly mist.

She chased the roach across the kitchen, folks! Right into the corner where he shriveled up and died!

I sat at the table laughing to myself at the image unfolding before my eyes...I hope I have as much gusto as she does at 94! Heck, I hope I have that much gusto at 70!

I've got the kids today! :)

I've got my niece and nephew today--I'm watching them and having some fun with my photo booth application! The images have been altered...I know you can probably see that, but just in case, I wanted to let you know!


His head isn't really that small in real life.


Isn't she cute? Her eyes are huge and blue and my teeth look like they belong to a horse! Oh well.

Fan Death

I had an interesting conversation this week with my co-worker. She informed me of a very dangerous appliance used in many people's homes: the electric fan. I pulled some funny, yet widely believed, information from Wikipedia.com and fandeath.net:

From Wikipedia:

Fan death is a South Korean urban legend, which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. This belief also extends to air conditioners in the car. Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.

From fandeath.net:

The only country to believe in fan death is South Korea. If you ask any Korean about fan death, they will almost certainly vehemently argue that it is indeed true. It seems Koreans of all ages, professions (including doctors) and education backgrounds believe it.

Koreans use the media as proof. Newspapers and TV continually attribute deaths to fans.

If you approach a Korean about this issue, their first instinct is to defend their culture to foreigners even though they may not agree with the belief themselves. I will commend anyone on his/her effort to convince a Korean that fan death may not be true, but I think it would be a very difficult task. Even if they did believe you, I still secretly believe they would turn off the fan, or make sure the window or door was open, when they went to bed.