Monday morning. Post-Halloween.

What a bummer.

We took down the Halloween window display last night. The window looks so bare. It will be the weekend before I get the new windows up. The goal is Thursday, however, since my town is having an "open house" night Thursday. Since I'm off the beaten path, we get ignored in those promotions. But I want the store to look good for people driving by.

My Halloween window was awesome. I think my Christmas window will be okay. I'll be looking at it for two months, so... but I'm not falling in love with it like I want to.

I think one of my new hires isn't working out. She works with me on Thursday, so we'll see if it's getting better. If not, ithink it might be time for me to move on. I don't have time for dead wood at Christmas time.

My to-do list has suddenly gotten very long. I need to be super-organized this week. See if that can happen. It will start by not sleeping until 6:30. I need to use the time change to my advantage,