oh excited for lisa's new kitchen. I really hope to redo one of my closets over the summer, but I need to get rid of more stuff first.

My project this week is to move some clothing and bedding storage to under my bed and find somewhere else for the boxes and rebounder that are there currently. It will free up some of that closet space mentioned above, and also apparently be more Fung Shei - y

Lots of ~~~~ma for Dana!

MSNBC's TV Show Yearbook Honors - current N.A. tv so spoilery for non-NAFDA folks.

oh excited for lisa's new kitchen.

I need to post my pictures soon! And my vacation pictures.

there are a million.

I are a zombie.

This is one of the most awesome and freaky cars ever made: [link]

That is FUCKED UP!!

Dude. It...it *blinked*!

You is a rockin' zombie.

For a minute there, I thought you wrote "I ate a zombie," and I was wondering how does brain-fed zombie taste?

For a minute there, I thought you wrote "I ate a zombie," and I was wondering how does brain-fed zombie taste?

Like undead chicken.

whoa. Of course, if anyone ever hit you, you'd be toast, but the idea is cool. and you wouldn't want to take it out in high winds.

Pickiness, actually, is genetic! Or at least partially.

But for parents who worry that their children will never eat anything but chocolate milk, Gummi vitamins and the occasional grape, a new study offers some relief. Researchers examined the eating habits of 5,390 pairs of twins between 8 and 11 years old and found children’s aversions to trying new foods are mostly inherited.

The message to parents: It’s not your cooking, it’s your genes.

The study, led by Dr. Lucy Cooke of the department of epidemiology and public health at University College London, was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in August. Dr. Cooke and others in the field believe it is the first to use a standard scale to investigate the contribution of genetics and environment to childhood neophobia.

According to the report, 78 percent is genetic and the other 22 percent environmental.

Most children eat a wide variety of foods until they are around 2, when they suddenly stop. The phase can last until the child is 4 or 5. It’s an evolutionary response, researchers believe. Toddlers’ taste buds shut down at about the time they start walking, giving them more control over what they eat. “If we just went running out of the cave as little cave babies and stuck anything in our mouths, that would have been potentially very dangerous,” Dr. Cooke said.

A natural skepticism of new foods is a healthy part of a child’s development, said Ellyn Satter, a child nutrition expert whose books, including “Child of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense” (Bull Publishing, 2000), have developed a cult following among parents of picky eaters.