Halloween Costumes

Since high school, I have been a fan of joint costumes where you go as a theme with someone else. Maybe it's because I was always too afraid to do something on my own, but over the years, I've had quite a bit of fun with it.

It started in High School when Rosemary and I came up with ideas two years in a row. Our first year, we were Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer. Though we don't have pictures from this year, I believe we managed to find hats with propellors in them. Our senior year, we went to school dressed as nerds in pleated mini skirts, knee highs, pocket protectors, and broken glasses. Unfortunately our peers just thought it was another day in school. I don't think they could tell that we were dressed up.

In college, my friend and I decided to dress up as the doublemint twins. As you can see, the costumes were not elaborate. The signs on our backs were really the key feature. And even though looked we looked nothing alike, people mistook us for eachother all night. I had a great time talking to drunk guys who thought I was her.


Skip to Denver, and my first foray out to Halloween parties was the year Holly and I searched all day looking for something we could be. Then we found cheap silver dresses at Fashion Bug and the Femmbot costume was born. A few blond wigs, pink feather boas and machine gun boobies later we had our outfits. We were a hit....with men. Though guys couldn't looks us in the face all night. Instead they blatantly stared at our chests that had dark green happy birthday balloons spilling out of them. Humph, men!

Skip to a couple of years later and of course who can forget the famous Plug and Socket?

I suppose now that we've had our fun, it will be all about the kids. I better start working on a costume for Baby G now.

Pregnant Halloween Costumes

I love Halloween. I love getting dressed up, going somewhere and pretending to be something I am not. You may think that I am too old to dress up, but when am I ever going to be 8 months pregnant again for Halloween?

I did some research online looking for other couples's clever pregnant costume ideas. There was the standard, paint your belly something ie. a goldfish bowl, pumpkin etc, and then there were the risque costumes, such as a catholic school girl, cheerleader, or nun. We decided on trailer trash with role reversal. I was the couch potato, beer/baby gut guy, and DG was the gossipy out-of-work gal, or Girlene as everyone at the party called him. She's a man Baby! And we didn't even have to buy anything. Score!


Stopping at a liquor store on our way to the party, the check out guy at the counter called DG "One Ugly Bitch", which was what was going through my head as I watched him scuffle in wearing the poop slippers. Personally, I think I look like my brother. This is ok to say as he recently told me I looked fat, and then in response to the picture of me all gussied up last week-end, he emailed me that I looked like the Joker's whore of a girlfriend. I have a BIG smile, I can't help it. So all dressed up with facial hair and a beer can, naturally I look in the mirror and see him. *kisses mike*

And yes, that stain on my wife beater (which belonged to my late grandfather btw), was a natural occurence of eating dinner on the couch. No earlier than an hour before, my father had told me to spill food down my front to be authentic. I laughed and told him that this would probably occur naturally. I still cursed a bit at my plight when it did happen though.

Perhaps one of my favorite parts of Halloween is dragging out my costume bins every year and trying things on. Here is one of the reject costumes that did not make it. I love having fun things on hand. If you ever need to be a clown, witch, 50's housewife, 60's peace freak, 70's disco queen, femmbot, church lady, 80's Paula Abdul dancer, high school drop out, football player, graduate, or street walker, have I got some clothes for you. For all of this years pics, check out DGs flickr account here.