As karmic retribution for having an otherwise dreadful work week, Sarah got an Army Achievement Medal on Thursday (for those of you not familiar with Army medals, that's basically one notch above a little pat on the head), and came in second place in the "chilled dough creations" category of a cookie baking contest on Saturday. It was kind of a neat idea: entries had to have 26 cookies, two for judging and two dozen for the USO to box up and send to Iraq and Afghanistan. We'd love to share the winning recipe, but we don't know which of the three entries placed. It's either something from verybestbaking.com, or "Cinnamon Stars," which is just premade sugar cookie dough plus some red-hots beaten to death with a hammer. It ain't art.