For being myself a creative type, I’m still always amazed at some of the ideas people come up with for Halloween costumes. This Wired reader’s costume gallery has some nicely original stuff: the iPod silhouette girl, the Facebook guy…these are excellent costumes, until you’re falling down drunk at 2AM of course.
Halloween was never one of my particularly favorite holidays, I can’t even recall a single costume worn as a child. In my legal-to-drink years my only concession to costumery was to paint my face dead white and create a two bloody-looking holes on my neck…Vampire Victim, of course. That allowed me to dress normally (read: lots of cleavage) yet still participate, even if only in token fashion.
Now that I have kids, the emphasis is all on them of course. (Though a few years ago we all dressed as pirates, even me who stayed home to pass out treats. And Husband definitely enjoyed the ruffled shirt removal later. 😀 Oops, TMI.) This year the Girlchild is a ninja and the Boychild is a classic Bela Lugosi-type vampire, though he informed me this morning that he did not have that freaky feeling in his stomach this year, which I think means this should definitely be his last year begging for handouts trick-or-treating.
This year we’ll be trick-or-treating in our own neighborhood since Nana moved away, which means near-teenagers without costumes expecting to be given candy, and carloads of kids being driven over from nearby neighborhoods. I expect to swear off the entire thing FOREVER by about 9:47PM EST tonight.
Oh look, ponkins!