So, remember how last Monday I was all aglow from a weekend of sports superiority? Yeah, well, oh, how the mighty have fallen! It started with West Virginia losing a ridiculously poorly played game against South Florida, then my son’s lacrosse team got their sticks handed to them by some very large boys from a county or two south of here (what do they feed them anyway?) - although he did score the only goal for his team, so one tiny beam of light in an otherwise painfully full contact kind of day - then My Football Boyfriend Ben and his Steelers literally threw away a game against the Cardinals. It’s a good thing Washington had a bye week, because with my luck, if they’d played, it wouldn’t have been pretty. Thank god I don’t gamble.

But, it’s a shiny new week and that means a shiny new SHaQ Attack contest! This week we’re going to play Pick The Top Chef. (Hey, it was that or make you hunt for some arcane piece of information on a book I wrote ten years ago that would have made you crazy.) I know some of you don’t watch, but it’s down to three, so you’ve got a 33.33333% chance! (Math! On Monday!) And if you want to catch up, they are marathoning the whole season all day Wednesday leading up to the finale. Bravo network. The home of Our Tim Gunn. Be there.

So…Dale? Casey? Or Hung? (And really, it’s a shame I can’t go with Option 3, as that seems the obvious choice for a romance writer….but, alas, there are times when being Hung is not a Good Thing.)

But I’m rooting for Casey first, partly because she’s earned it, partly because we babes have to stick together, and lastly because a women needs to win this at least once in a while! Dale gets my second choice vote. And Hung…doesn’t.

So, you have until Wednesday night at 10:00pm EST to send your vote in. If no one gets it right, everyone who votes gets a chance, to take one already! Send your votes to donna@donnakauffman.com with “What’s Cookin?” in the subject line. I’ll announce the winner Friday morning. Winning Blog Babe gets a signed book from my website bookshelf.

Happy Monday…and Good Luck!

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