Halloween prep

First off... I have been invited to a HALLOWEEN HOLY GHOST WEENIE ROAST AND MARSHMALLOW TOAST.

Blink.

Blink, blink.

Followed shortly, I assume, by my ritual dismemberment and burning at the stake.

Srsly. The lady who is working as a temp in our office invited me to her church Halloween social. I might skip it, or I might show up just to blow her mind. Morgan would have fun doing the trick-or-treat thing.

Still to do:

• Buy 4 punkins. 2 large (Nanette and me), 1 medium (Morgan) and 1 small (Isis the cat).
• Get Morgan's costume.
• Carve said pumpkins. We always have AWESOME jack o'lanterns (should that be jack-o'lanterns, or jacks-o'lantern, or maybe jacks-o'lanterns? Carved punkins w/ lights in 'em, anyway)
• Decide if I am going to wear a costume (1 year Nanette and I went to a gay bar for Halloween; she was dressed as a priest and I was a nun. She kept getting shamelessly hit on by a muscle-daddy dressed as Satan. I started to worry when she seemed to like it. Imagine the horror if a man of the cloth was involved in a sex scandal. Oh, wait.)
• Plan what kind of candy to buy (only the kinds I like, since we have like NO trick-or-treaters, so I get to eat the leftovers)
• Make a Halloween mix CD. I was thinking what songs to put on it, and it kept turning into an Oingo Boingo greatest hits mix.
• The other thing I traditionally do this time of year is load up my CD changer w/ the Christmas discs. It makes Nanette crazy wild, but we have over 100 Christmas CDs, so in order to get to listen to them, I have to start early. Except last year, I never unloaded the Xmas CDs in January, so no need to reload. Just add the couple of new discs I got since Yule 06.
• Start planning feasty Thanksgiving goodness. A holiday devoted to nothing but gorging myself with turkey and dressing and mashed potatoes and gravy, with the occasional green bean casserole (vile, but I love it) and cranberry sauce whatzit and some pie? I wish it lasted a week! (What do you crazy Aussies do in lieu of a holiday devoted to the slaughter of millions of innocent turkeys?)

Speaking of Xmas, night before last, absolutely à propos of nothing, my daughter pipes up with "I like Christmas!"

Mmmm... Okay. Let's get through Halloween first, okay? This being said, the other day at Costco, we were regaled by their aisles of holiday tackiness. Santa save me from white plastic Xmas trees with decorations that put on a light show and play 40! DIFFERENT! CAROLS! I love Christmas music, but laws, spare me the tacky.