Remember how I let Captain Jelly Belly watch Star Wars a while back? I’ve created a monster.

Or is that a geek?

Since he watched the original movie (episode IV, to us geeks), it’s been all Star Wars, all the time around here. He plays with the few action figures I have for hours each day. When he’s not playing action figures, he’s wrapping a blanket around him like a cloak and pretending to be Luke Skywalker. Or, he’s putting on his new Halloween costume and making “choom choom wap wap” noises around the house with his light saber:

That’s my proudest moment as a parent, right there.

He’s been begging to watch the rest of the movies but Gal Smiley is really scared of all the monster types in the films, and also, I did not think he was ready for the death-of-parents that comes in most of the other movies. I’ve let him watch Episode I which, although a terrible, terrible movie, is at least kid-friendly for the most part. Now he likes to pretend to be Obiwan. Or Anakin. Or R2D2 (which makes it very hard to understand his lunch order).

It’s adorable, and I love it, but man, I may have set back his ability to get a date as a teenager by like, 10 years at least.

And remember when I asked if you keep your peanut butter in the fridge? I never used to keep the PB in the fridge — I hate cold, unspreadable PB. But when we moved to Sunbutter, I don’t know, something about the “naturalness” of it made me feel like it should be refrigerated, even though it didn’t say that anywhere on the container. So I ended up calling up the Sunbutter customer support line and asking them about it. I got this really nice lady and when I asked her if I needed to keep my Sunbutter in the fridge, she paused for a really, really long time — I actually thought we’d been disconnected. Then she finally said, “No, you don’t have to…but I do! I don’t know why I do, I just do.” Then she laughed.

So I started keeping the Sunbutter in the cupboard. But you know what? It turns out that it isn’t any more spreadable when warm than when cold, and when kept outside the fridge, the oil tends to separate out. So now the Sunbutter is back in the fridge. I can’t believe how much time I’ve spent worrying about this issue!

In other news, remember how I live in the most Conservative riding in Ontario? Yeah, the Conservative incumbent here took almost 58% of the vote last night. I don’t know why, but when I went and cast my vote I felt a surge of excitement, like I was Making! A! Difference! and Anything! Can! Happen! And yet, here we are with the same representative and the same parliament and the same issues. And the Green Party still did not win a seat, despite taking over 6% of the popular vote. Bleachy.

And in other news, in case you were worried about this, our ongoing ant problem appears to have reached an equilibrium. Every morning I’m killing two or three ants in our playroom but there never seems to be any more than that, and they don’t seem to have any ambitions beyond that room. I guess the few crumbs that make their way into that room — usually attached to Little Miss Sunshine’s bum, after she’s been eating in her booster seat — are enough to keep them fed. So for now we’re calling it a truce, and we’ll see what happens.

In TV land, I thought I’d try a quick update as to what I’m actually watching, compared to what I thought I’d be watching at the start of the TV season when I got all TV crazy. Here’s the list of shows I’m actually keeping up with: The Amazing Race, Heroes (although, I only really like the Nathan and Sylar storylines, so I’m only actually interested in about 25% of the show), How I Met Your Mother, Jon and Kate Plus Eight, House, Pushing Daisies (oh, how I love you!), Dirty Sexy Money, Grey’s Anatomy, 30 Rock (at least, I will be watching it when it finally premieres next week), and Life (my new favourite show — it’s fantastic! House lovers, watch it now!). As for 90210, it was supposed to be my “workout” show, but it turns out even the allure of Brenda and Kelly cannot get me to get on the elliptical machine. I’m officially calling it and I’m going to catch up on the old episodes now. Oh, and I’m also watching So You Think You Can Dance Canada (of course), but I don’t like to admit that in public. Sadly, almost all of my favourite dramas — Life, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, and even Heroes — are way down in the ratings and likely to be cancelled before Christmas. At least I’ll have my Veronica Mars DVDs to keep me warm.

Discuss: The hottest men on TV right now are Kutner on House (Kal Penn — although I have an obvious bias here, he looks like my husband), Charlie Crews on Life (Damian Lewis — I love the show for a reason, okay?), and Dr. Owen Hunt, the army medic, on Grey’s Anatomy (Kevin McKidd — he better be more than just a one-episode guest star!). Feel free to add your own list members.

One last update — TeethWatch 2008 — we have a second tooth! Two big teeth in the centre bottom of Little Miss Sunshine’s mouth. Raw carrots are not very far away, my darling!