Please Bring Back My Sun

I hate changing the clocks back. Hate it. It's only been a couple of days, and I'm already suffering. I can't deal with it being dark this early. It makes me feel all mopey and tired and just plain bleh.

That doesn't help motivate me to write. As you can see by my widget, I am not exactly burning up the word count. Could they have picked a worse month to have NaNoWriMo? They should hold it in March or April, when there is more sunlight.

The Fruit Loop's school has gone nut free. I get it. I really do. Nut allergies are nothing to mess around with. But finding something to send in his lunch (that he will actually eat) is going to be the death of me. I had been sending raw nuts (almonds, pecans, walnuts), a granola bar or cereal bar, and crackers of some type (goldfish, Wheat Thins) in his lunch every day. That seemed to be at least mostly healthy, and enough to tide him over until he gets home.

Oh yes, that looks SO much more
delicious and healthy than
what I've been sending for lunch.

He won't eat lunch meat of any type. In fact, he won't eat sandwiches at all unless they are peanut butter and honey, and he only wants those once a month or so. He won't eat the cafeteria food.

One of the kids in his class brings lunchables, and he asked me this week if I would get some for him. I told him that I would get one for him to try over the weekend to see if he liked it. He won't. He would probably eat the cheese and crackers out of it, but that would be it. Oh and whatever kind of cookie or candy bar comes in it. And if he ate cheese every day, school lunches would cease to be problem because he'd be home sick all the time!

Any ideas? You know, aside from cooking lunch for him at home and driving it up to the school every day. That's not happening.

C'mon Cool Weather

Well, it's "fall" here in South Texas. Of course, you can't tell by the weather. The high temperature yesterday was 87! It should be about the same today. I will be SO happy when the weather cools off and stays that way for more than just a day or two.

My mother, however, will not be happy. Not at all. Below 75 and she's wearing a windbreaker. Below 70 and she's in her parka, looking as if she's about to cross the Arctic tundra. She would prefer to live in place where the temperature never gets below 80 degrees.

Halloween might be over everywhere else, but not in my house. I figure I've got about another week and half before I can put away the costumes and decorations without The Fruit Loop getting totally bent out of shape about it. That's not even counting the container full of costumes and play clothes that he keeps out all year round. That kid loves to dress up. He's even been campaigning to have Summerween next year.

This year he decided to be a vampire ninja. I don't know why. Maybe he got the idea from the ninja vampires on Phineas & Ferb. That was fine with me since it meant that I didn't have to make or buy a new costume this year. If there is one thing I have, it's ninja costumes! The Alien wanted to be a ninja almost every year when he was a kid.

Speaking of The Alien, he didn't dress up as anything this year. Not on Halloween anyway. I think he might have been wearing a "costume" when he went to a party on Saturday night, but it's hard to tell. After all, last year he dressed as an obscure video game character. I get dressing like that if you're going to go hang out in a nerdist colony, but otherwise, you just spend the entire evening explaining your costume.

Pictured: Cthulhu
Not Pictured: Davy
Jones, Squidward

An online friend of mine had that problem this year when he went to a party in his Cthulhu ski mask. Cthulhu isn't even an obscure character, but he still had to spend the evening explaining that he was not Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean, nor was he Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants. I still snicker when I think about it.

The Box o' Lanterns turned out to be a big hit. We went to a trunk-r-treat at my grandparents' church and set the boxes all around the car. I had more than one Star Wars geek conversation because of them.

And, now it's time for me to stop writing here and get back to writing for NaNoWriMo. I've put the little widget thing up at the top left of my page, so everyone can see what my current level of fail is.

UPDATE: The Alien just came downstairs (after reading this post) and informed me that he was, in fact, wearing a costume on Halloween night. He was dressed as yet another obscure video game character, Travis Touchdown. {eye roll} You see what I have to deal with here??