i've made enough friends

today's a prolific moment. er, day.

my sister bought me these gorgeous wooden salad bowls for my birthday recently, and you have to "oil" them with mineral oil to keep the wood good and sealed from "baceria" [surely, that fatal lives-in-wooden-salad-bowl-strain], bad smells and other all-around nasties. but get this. on the back of the bottle of mineral oil, it says verbatim:

You should oil new woodenware once a day for a week before using it. Once used it should be oiled once a week for a month and once a month for a year or whenever the wood seems dry.

no wonder we're prescribed so much prozac and xanax.

ps. i totally rented tampopo
pss. that sickness that everyone has? yeah, i'm getting it too.