The funniest thing about cooking shows - they open the fridge to put something in - and there are empty sheves in the fridge. too funny. They miss the whole balaceing act and shoving things around that is a part of cooking.

You're not watching "Good Eats"! The last ep I caught had him trying to put a pan of truffle filling into the fridge to cool, and he ended up setting it on top of some other things and muttered, "I'll get around to clearing this out...someday."

Is there a ginormous pink one??

I slept in because I found a position in which my shoulder didn't hurt. I stayed there until my back started to ache. As soon as I got up the shoulder hurt again. hrmph.

I think BONES has improved a lot, but mainly due to the core cast and not necessarily the A-stories.

I'm enjoying Bones quite a bit. The supporting characters are great fun and there is always some bit of dialogue that surprises and amuses me. But I started watching that show for Hart Hanson, not DB.

HIMYM is cute, but I'm not a big sitcom fan and the 1/2 hour format complicates my taping schedule too much, so I dropped it a while ago.

Oy. I really should've done my taxes before now.

I just tried really hard not to laugh at a neighbor. It mostly worked.

The weather here is gorgeous, and we've been getting random sprinkles as small stormclouds blow over. So of course, everyone is doing the reasonable thing and washing their cars. Er, anyway, so this one neighbor is a lanky middle aged black guy. He's dressed in some sort of skintight lycra longsleeved, capri-length athletic getup in black. With those awful baggy basketball shorts, in shiny black. Also sporting a black sweatband. He looks kinda funny dressed that way. And he's just bopping away dorkily to the music pouring not-too-loudly from his truck as he cleans. He just looks so cheerful and bouncy and really silly. I keep taking peeks because he makes me laugh, not so much with mocking as the apparent joy he's goofily displaying.

So, Paris in June is officially off the table. I'll be paying rent instead. Which means not getting evicted, so yay, but... Europe is going to have to wait for another year.

Well, that's no fun, Emily.

I know! Sad, but all too true.

Well then, that settles it. I won't go to Paris this June, either. And in solidarity, I will pay my mortgage.

Damn the man.

ION

Chris is now making up new letters, and new numbers. He's bored with the standard ones.

I won't go to Paris this June, either. And in solidarity, I will pay my mortgage.

Curses! Life is so unfair. If only we didn't have to, you know, PAY for things. Bastards. I feel certain that it's a plot. An international... bastards plot.

Yet another food item we won't be seeing on $40 A Day any time soon -- the world's most expensive cheese on toast:

Master chef and author Tom Bridge has reinvented the ubiquitous snack by including £600-a-lb white Umbrian truffles and £250-a-lb matsutake Chinese mushrooms in a version created for National Cheese on Toast Day. This momentous occasion occurs on the 27th April.

Tom Bridge opted for Warburtons Toastie bread and Lancashire cheese to complete the world's most expensive snack. A version will be auctioned on eBay with the highest bidder winning a personal home visit from the chef who will cook the dish for them.

How much do I love that there's a National Cheese on Toast Day? And how much MORE do I love that it occurs during International Grilled Cheese Sandwich month? Soooooooooo much.