I can't believe how perplexed I've been about this year's costume. I've had some respectable ideas in the past:2004 = Dorothy (with Theresa in Denver)
2005 = Skipped it for Dan's birthday
2006 = Gangsta Bitch Barbie and Catholic School Girl (2 different parties)
2007 = Tickled Pink
2008 = Skipped it with Paul in Ft. Lauderdale
Regan and I have been discussing my costume during my gym workouts ever since I found out my friends Kristina and Michael are throwing a Halloween party brought to you by the letter B. For you slow ones out there, that means my costume idea has to start with a B.
At first, I was going to go as Beyonce like in the "Single Ladies" video (song = annoying; video = mesmerizing). I even considered getting some backup dancers like the sketch from SNL.
Then I thought of Baby Fish Mouth. I love that movie, When Harry Met Sally, and everyone I'd mention this to would get it. But then I just wasn't sold on it myself and how I was going to pull it off.
Next - and this has been the winner for like the past 4 weeks - I decided to be Baby Got Back. I was going to put an LA Lakers logo on my cheek and get some pants and write OAKLAND on the ass and stuff my butt. Get it? "LA face with an Oakland booty."
And just this week I'd decided I'd go as Burnet Road and wear a shirt that looks like a road and glue pictures of the funky signs on the shirt to appear like you are driving down the road. I even printed out all the photos. But as the day draws closer, I am still undecided. I make decisions all day, so why is picking a freakin' costume so baffling?
I searched a Halloween store after work tonight for a Bad Cop costume. That seems to be what all the guys on Facebook are rooting for. But costumes out of a bag are cheap and they suck.
Tonight as I'd just crawled into bed, I started getting text messages from my cousin about Halloween costumes. Barbarella. Love it. OK. But we are 3 days from the party, and I just don't see that one coming together. But I was motivated enough to comb through the B section of the dictionary to find something. Here are some ideas:
- bookworm
- bag lady (just cover yourself with grocery bags)
- box of wine (rigged with the bladder of wine from a real box! you'll always have a drink with you)
- binary code - a shirt and maybe pants that is covered in 0s and 1s
- bar graph - make a sheet like a spreadsheet and put a bar graph on it that measures something funny
- butter
- bearded lady - dress really hot but wear a beard
- bedazzled - get a bedazzler and bedazzle an outfit
- behalf - put the letter B all down one half my body
- besides - get a shirt and put Bs all down the sides
- bubbly - put bubble like material on my clothes and bring bubbles to blow
- bubble wrap
- beige - wear all beige
- brownie - like from girl scouts
- bipolar - put a north pole sign on a hat on my head and south pole sign somewhere south
- bad breakup - not sure how to pull this off
- blonde bombshell
- bejesus - get a jesus outfit and put a big B on the front; maybe wear a belt with a bible on it (get it, bible belt?)
- Botticelli - like from Primavera
- belly laugh - get a shirt and write laugh all over the belly part
- black eyed pea - dress like a pea and do a fake black eye with makeup
- big dipper - get a black long sleeve shirt and glue on rhinestones to create the big dipper
- billboard - can say a clever slogan but would be hard to move around in all night
- braille - put a bunch of bumps on my shirt
- Brie
- blue ribbon
- blue blood - instead of covering myself in gory red blood, make up some blue colored blood
- box office - would have to make something using a cardboard box or something
- bridezilla
- butterfly
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