(I'm told that I also had a habit of licking the knife, which then had to be taken away from me and replaced with a clean one before I put it back into the bowls of icing. I have no memory of this, but.. yeah.. I probably did that.)
Yesterday I discovered something obvious in retrospect: piping bags. Not just for cake decorating. I was able to crank out dozens and dozens of iced cookies that looked good, and I had fun doing it.
Too bad that I can only *eat* one or two a day of them now.