Yesterday Bossy surprised her father at work… and then surprised him by taking this photo with her cell phone camera. Bossy’s dad refers to Bossy’s style of ambush picture-taking as being on the prowl.

But it did take place on Oscar Sunday! And sister mercy you would not believe the number of celebrities in attendance. Shall we?

Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy about someone in your life who is a lookalike for someone else?

And be sure to check back later today for the doppelgangliest of comments on the web!

If you missed last week’s Ten-Word Challenge, click here to read about all of the television shows out there worthy of your obsession.

Maybe it’s just Bossy, but shouldn’t the Department of Public Health building look like something that won’t give you a disease if you entered it?

philadelphia pennsylvania, march 2010

This favorite thing is not the note Bossy has in her hand, which Bossy wrote the other night for her friend Phil’s father, who is currently hospitalized. And this favorite thing is not Bossy’s mascara, which clearly can’t stop itself from smudging if you paid it.

Nope. This favorite thing is about Bossy’s new leopard tank top. It’s an Undercover Yummie Tank. Yummie Tummie is shapewear that doesn’t sacrifice looks or comfort — and Bossy has written before about how she enjoys wearing these undergarments for days on end and then on stage without overgarments.

This particular tank top, though, is intended to wear as clothing. And Bossy intends to give it hell this summer.

Update: Bossy’s friends at Yummie Tummie want to offer Bossy’s readers 10% off your order until March 15th. Just enter the following code when checking out: YUMBOSSY10

These feet, belonging to Bossy’s sweet daughter, poking out from under the dressing room door. Reminds Bossy of these feet poking out from under the dressing room door. You should follow that link, by the way, it’s good for a good Monday morning cry.

On Sunday nights, Bossy has been going to see her brother play guitar in a city bar. Do those of you not from the area know that Philly has sequential numbered streets in a grid formation, but no 14th Street? That would be Broad Street, now called Avenue of the Arts unless you are in Bossy’s family, and then it will remain Broad Street.

Don’t get Bossy wrong, she’s never been a big fan of Food Network’s host of 30 Minute Meals, Rachael Ray, who talks to the food she’s preparing as if she is a teamster and the ingredients are fellow iron workers, sitting on adjacent barstools.

But at least she used to be a perky jovial thing. But then she wrote a few cookbooks and inherited a few other shows to host. And now? Well, now… shall we?

On today’s episode, Rachael Ray revamps an old classic, Grilled Chicken Caesar. She begins by filling a pasta pot with water, grabbing a plastic cutting board, and collecting a few ingredients from the refrigerator:

Rachael Ray begins the cooking process by toasting some pistachios. She explains that she keeps her nuts in the freezer because they contain a lot of oil which can spoil — except Rachael Ray, who’s had a family of muskrats nesting in her vocal cords for the past year, explains it like this, “Psssss oil hhhhhh spoil psssss freezer.”

Next Rachael Ray prepares garlic for browning.

As Rachael Ray peels the skin from the garlic, she spins a sweet yarn about why she chose to prepare Grilled Chicken Caesar in the first place:

Next Rachael Ray prepares to pound her chicken on the aptly named chicken board meat board:

And then we go to commercial break, which features the non-Grilled-Chicken-Caesar-100-calorie-Fruit Crisps:

When we return from the break, Mary Sunshine is pulverizing her pistachios and grabbing some arugala from the fridge and then — “Oh you know what?” says Rachael Ray. “I’m going to need to turn my stove on.” As Bossy marveled at her culinary prowess, Rachael Ray tossed the arugula in the food processor along with the nuts, some lemon juice, and olive oil for a new spin on pesto.

See how Bossy did that? Created a food processor pun right here in the middle of this post? Sister Mercy, Friday, just in time.

Next she slathers the pesto all over her breasts, and Bossy is sorry but are we still talking about Grilled Chicken Caesar?

Then Rachael Ray drops some anchovies into her heated Eee Vee Ooo Ooo:

Rachael Ray then suggests we take another commercial break while she babysits the anchovies:

Then chicken sautéing garlic browning spaghetti boiling escarole tossing Bossy lost interest in the show.

Bossy’s daughter the actress. Because she really is the consummate professional, staying up until all hours due to her performance schedule and then rising early for school. She will finish out her run in Bye Bye Birdie this weekend.

Bossy couldn’t post yesterday, or do much else, because her computer was all wonked-out, and noooooo it has nothing to do with how cluttered Bossy’s desktop is, so quit asking.

Whenever Bossy goes to her mom’s house — for instance to watch this latest obsession oh Bossy’s gah — Bossy becomes mesmerized by the little accidental vignettes everywhere.

Bossy thinks accidental vignettes are a sign of grace, not that accidental, and bespeak true artistry.