I think this counts as a well-deserved set of reasons for celebration. May the baking be as rewarding!

Thank you! I seem to be making an almond-marzipan cake on which I am going to put lingonberry jam; I need something to bring to dinner with friends tomorrow. I hope they like being experimented on.

(I have quinces in the fruit bowl. must. cook.)

(I glazed a duck with quince once. It is not the craziest thing I have ever made in an oven, but it was a lot of fun. Also, stupidly delicious.)

And thank you for spurring me to write "The Problem of Two Bodies". Silly crazy wonderful meme-things.

I'm delighted a poem came out of it! It's a good one.

I still owe you the actually cheerful corollary!

Watch me complain.