How many of what to eat per year:

It may sound persnickety, but it's for your own good, or so says The Onion.

Staying healthy and sane mean

Apparently not keeping on top of this. I took pictures of the cupcakes I made a week ago with the awesome sprinkles from Rachel and my first stab at homemade icing (wow!). That will come. For now I'm working on staying on top of my readings and fighting off an on-again off-again cold with copious amounts of vitamin C: OJ, effervescent C tablet, Emergen-C, vitamin C-laced cough drops...

Here's something beautiful: from the BBC News, landscapes done entirely out of food.

Nina, I'm still knitting!

But slowly. I had great intentions of finishing the project on my trip to visit the family for the holidays but got nowhere. Half of this was knit watching the World Junior's gold medal hockey game just this past Saturday. I need to finish it and two more for my brother's godfather's children before I see them next! It could be any week now.