Halloween

It's Halloween morning and my beasties are staring at me, reminding me to post a greeting to you all before I return to the couch.

I'm officially taking today off, lounging around in my "devil made me do it" pajama pants for as long as I can. I promise to have pictures of the Halloween tree and the rest of the decor up soon.

To my seasonal visitors, I hope you'll come visit me again next year. To my regulars, I look forward to swapping Halloween pictures and stories with you in the coming days.

I was recently given a generous offer by someone: decorate a store for Halloween (using my private collection of decorations) and they will sell my items for two weeks.

I've never decorated a store, so I had to come up with some logical guidelines pretty quick for myself:

• Keep everything up and out of the way
• Don't detract from the products or block them
• Items must be fairly small (shelves were 1 foot deep)
• Set up and take down must be easy (and not messy especially since it's during store hours)
• Choose items that match the style of the store and are LESS likely to offend

That last point was even more important when I found out they were going to be inspected by a bigwig in the company in the next week. While the employees were excited for some bloody severed heads and cocoon victims, I didn't think the manager of the store (or the big suits coming to inspect the store) would be so keen.

This morning I remembered I should post a link to my Halloween playlist on blip.fm. I've been adding tunes to the list for months. Just keep it open in a tab in your browser to listen to the collection while you surf the net or work within earshot of the computer.

It's a lot of rockabilly-style tunes with some classics mixed in. Hopefully I've unearthed a number of songs that are new for your listening pleasure.

While I was looking for an image to go along with this post, I came across this record of the Monster Cereal gang. Thought I would post that as well for your amusement.