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<\/a>Karen Salkin’s Halloween nails. The designs on her pointers and ring fingers are her faves. Photo by Mr. X.<\/p><\/div>\n
I had already colored my hair a sort-of dark orange, (by accident, actually\u2014I thought the picture on the box matched my own auburn<\/em> tresses,) so I\u2019ve kept it like that.<\/p>\n Then I changed the background and cards of my on-line Solitaire game, (which I play only on my iPad to fall asleep at night and then to wake-up my brain up in the morning,) into the Halloween designs. The deck is so cute, on both the faces and the backs, that I really get a kick out of them. (They\u2019re so<\/em> cute, in fact, that I just may keep using them for a couple of more weeks until I switch-up to the Xmas ones!)<\/p>\n Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I\u2019ve also been collecting trick-or-treat candy from all the generous places I\u2019ve visited throughout the month, (why does a doctor visit have to be just scary, and not in a good way?,) and gathered it all in fun little plastic pumpkins for my sugarholic bae.<\/p>\n And I\u2019ve accepted as many fun holiday-centric invitations as I could, even while watching baseball\u2019s many postseason games.<\/p>\n In the entertainment category, I began that early, as well, right at the beginning of the month, when a friend and I saw the spookiest musical ever, Little Shop of Horrors<\/em>, in Thousand Oaks. (In case you missed my review earlier this month, here\u2019s the link: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/theatre-little-shop-of-horrors-3<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The one entertainment I wish I hadn\u2019t<\/em> missed is Blood\/Love<\/em>, a new rock musical performed at what sounds like a fun pop-up club in Hollywood. As Mr. X always says about me, I was overbooked this month. But we all still have this whole final weekend to see it! (Info here: www.bloodlove.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Even for this time of year, I cannot force myself to watch horror films, but Mr. X and I have<\/em> spent more hours than I care to admit watching Dish\u2019s \u201cdishscapes\u201d of their \u201cHaunted Mansion\u201d and \u201cFear Farm\u201d tableaus, which both feature subtle little scary bits throughout. The farm one even features a barn with a setting like that funny-but-scary Geico commercial with the stupid kids hiding behind the hanging chainsaws in it. I love that! (As a matter of fact, I just published an entire column on just that one ad! if you missed it earlier this week, here\u2019s the link: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/television-the-best-commercial-on-tv-ever<\/a>.)<\/p>\n One of the Halloween Dishscapes. Doesn’t that barn look like the one in the Geico commercial? Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n While far from a horror<\/em> film, we also re-watched The Sixth Sense<\/em>, which is<\/em> sort-of scary.<\/p>\n And we spent a late afternoon driving around to see decorated Halloween houses. The ones in the east part of the Valley are particularly fabulous! If you\u2019re looking to see some spooky decorations, I suggest you head in that direction. Or, if you can brave massive crowds, maybe take in the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval, (their spelling, not mine,) on Santa Monica Blvd. tonight; Mr. X and I came upon all the over-the-top decorations there earlier this week, and they definitely brought a smile to our faces.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>