Maybe you should send them some fanmail or something with that note.
I just recently started using the pizza cutter for more stuff, I hadn't thought of it until a couple months ago.
Kate drives me nuts, but I love her at the same time. It would be so hard to handle that situation without being a little extreme. I'm definitely not a germophobe though... I feel sorry for her when I see her freaking out about that because there's only so much you can do and at some point you have to let go. If I see my kids do something really germy and it's too late to do anything about it, I try to think about all the more horrific germy things they've done while I wasn't looking.
It helps put things in perspective. I wish I could keep my house as clean as hers and I only have two kids. I could probably use some lessons from her. My husband is a lot like hers though and I can totally see why she acts the way she does with him.