You are, in fact, so dead to me that I will not even look up to see if your name is spelled Rachael or Rachel or some other less familiar version. Okay, that’s a lie, I wasn’t going to look it up, just to spite her, but the compulsive side of me could not possibly stand having a misspelling or grammatical error in my blog. Though now that I think of it, I’m not quite sure that my comma usage in the first sentence is correct, nor whether or not some of this rambling paragraph is a run-on sentence or something. And no, this is not an invitation to pore over this post looking for misspellings or grammatical errors. And in any case, it’s a good thing that I looked it up, because I was definitely going to go with Rachel.

Anyways, I’m sure most of you have heard of Rachael Ray – she’s quite famous. One of her more famous shows is called “$40 a day”, with the premise being that she goes out to various cities showing how you can eat all this good stuff for only $40 a day.

She first became dead to me when she continued buying various (non-food) things throughout her day and not counting them in her $40 total. For instance one episode she bought a book about something at some local bookstore and did not include it in her $40 to spend. Now, I understand the premise of the show, but still, this bothered me.

But that did not top the shenanigans that were pulled in the episode I saw yesterday. Oh no, not even close. Though to be technical, it was more Carolyn that was watching it – I was playing Civ and due to our immense Christmas tree being in the way, it has become harder to multi-task in that regard. Which is another reason why this bad boy is coming down Tuesday if not Monday afternoon, though that is worthy of being its own entire subject…

Anyway, she is in New York for this episode, and not only does she only eat 2 meals: “brunch” and dinner, in between those she goes ice skating in Central Park. So far, not that bad – you can go with 2 meals I guess. But then, she meets her (real-life) husband skating and he says something to the effect of “let me treat you to some hot cocoa.” And she gets hot cocoa for free, not counted in her $40 total. What the heck?! I can just see them planning this episode beforehand and they’re like “Hmmm New York is kind of expensive… how can we do this? I know, we’ll skip one meal and then have someone just buy her cocoa! Brilliant!”

Anyway, I do understand that this bothers me far more than it should, but at least I’m not the loser that is reading someone else’s blog about it 🙂 And plus, Giada De Laurenitis is hotter, and she doesn’t smoke either (I think)! 😀