Stephen Colbert and Bears

If you are not familiar with the Colbert Report on Comedy Central this might not make much sense to you. Suffice it to say Stephen Colbert (this guy) hates bears.

Releasing a bear. What could go wrong?

So far, so good.

Uh, where's he going?

Down Booboo, Down! Oh, $*&!

Well, at least he didn't get my picinic basket (or my leg).

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Check back soon for another installment on Stephen Colbert's favorite nemesis, Bears!

Subject for the day: Bears

Possible captions for this picture:

Who has the right of way?

Opposition in all things

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Any other ideas?

Hooray Jordan

My blog buddy Jordan (the Goddess of Sewing) has just announced that she is expecting a baby! Hooray for her and congratulations!

In her honor I am going to steal a couple of quotes from her blog.

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You only need two tools in life - WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.

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Some people are like slinkys. Not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs!

Sunday Thought

I've been saving this one. I love this picture as well as the thought. It reminds me of my family. -Della

Product Complaint; I paid a dollar for this?

Let me start by saying I am not planning on making product complaints a regular blog topic. I really don't like to complain, and I don't think I do it much, (maybe I do, you'd have to ask those around me), but once in a while something bears complaining about.

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So today I took CJ and Mark to McDonalds for lunch. Recognizing that my first mistake was going to McDonalds, I should have expected to be disappointed.

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Having eaten at McDonalds before, and having seen Supersize Me, I knew better than to order from 98% of the menu, knowing that not only would anything I ordered be bad for me, it would probably also taste bad.

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So after ordering happy meals for the boys I thought I would be safe with a fruit and yogurt parfait, apple dippers and a drink.

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My first disappointment came when I went to fill my soda. This particular McDonalds had a neat function on the soda machine that allowed customers to add cherry or vanilla flavoring, even sugar free cherry flavoring, to their drinks. This was a cool bonus to me as I particularly like cherry flavored sodas, especially cherry flavored diet sodas. So I was naturally disappointed to see that they had removed the extra flavor feature. Disappointment #1.

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When I sat down with the food (at a table in the play area which was actually clean), I looked for my apple dippers, only to find that while they had given me the little bag of apples -which have been chemically treated not to turn brown- they had not given me the caramel dip to dip them in. Thus I had apples, but not apple dippers.

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Of course I thought to go to the counter to ask for caramel dip, but the line was so long my apples probably would have turned brown in spite of the chemicals if I had chosen to wait that long to get to the counter. Disappointment #2.

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So I turned to my fruit and yogurt parfait, hoping at least one piece of my meal would meet my expectations. I had to search the tray for a minute before I found it. You see, last time I ordered a fruit and yogurt parfait it was more than 2 1/2 inches tall. I know it's "snack size", but even Calista Flockheart eats bigger snacks than this.

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And I recognize that a dollar doesn't buy what it used to, but I guess this is the first time I have seen a literal example of this.

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So I took a picture of it next to a dollar bill and a chicken nugget to give a size comparison of how small it actually was. (I promise I did not doctor the picture). Alas, disappointment #3.

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So the kids had fun in the playland (they'll probably get sick from all the germs, or maybe increase their immune systems from being exposed to it all) while I did Sudoku and my stomach growled.

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Now that I'm home I think I'll make myself a taco salad.

My name

I went to photobucket.com (thanks Christi and by extension Melissa) and searched images of my name.

These are some of the things I found:

I had always thought my name was kind of rare, but apparently (from what I found on photobucket) there are a lot of people, dogs, horses, a snake and at least one drag queen named Della. BTW, if you are familiar with World of Warcraft you will notice that the bottom picture is from World of Warcraft, so even characters on the game have my name.

If you are interested I will tell you that my character names on WoW are Stellarina and Orainia.