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Halloween play-by-play
By Melissa | October 31, 2008
Greetings from Suburban Halloween Central!
We are currently surviving the onslaught of “Halloweeners” (as one of my coworkers was referring to them today) with beer and TV. We are watching “What Not To Wear” right now, and I gotta say it’s hitting WAY too close to home. The subject of this episode is a 30 year old grad student who wears jeans and t-shirts all time time. They keep saying things to her like “You’re going to have to spend more on clothes!” To which I yell at the TV: “But she’s a grad student! She has no money!” And then they’d say stuff like, “You’re going to get a Master’s wearing that?” Me: “BUT SHE LOOKS JUST FINE.” I’m taking it a little personally.
Halloweeners tally: one Boba Fett, one superman, a kid named Leo, a mom trick-or-treating for her baby in a stroller, and a freaking army of tiny princesses. And–unbelievably–no Sarah Palins. We had one girl with her enormous boobs hanging out. We weren’t sure if she was too old for trick-or-treating or too young to be wearing a sexy firewoman outfit. It was awkward.
THIS JUST IN: We just had the Best Costume of The Night: a kid dressed up as a 401k plan. No joke. This 10 year old girl had a big cardboard cutout, and her face was the 0 in 401k. She had little pie charts and everything. I’m not sure she knew what a 401k is, but it was still hilarious.
THIS ALSO JUST IN: We are almost out of candy.
Out of nowhere the other day, I had the urge to dress up Zoë for Halloween. I’m not That Girl, though (the one who dresses up her dog), so I suppressed the urge and went for a bandanna instead.
Shut UP, it’s totally cute. It only lasted about 10 minutes, though, before she started gnawing on it and I had to take it off.
Well now that we’re out of candy and “What Not To Wear” has totally destroyed my self esteem, I’m off to find a way to drown my sorrows. Maybe there will be a good zombie movie on. If so, will Zoë play dead through the whole movie? We’ll have to see.
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I miss “What Not To Wear.” But did Stacey and Clinton consider that she probably doesn’t ever go anywhere but the lab? And that she could spill some acid on her clothes at any minute? Or that open-toed shoes are a safety hazard? I bet the didn’t. Science is the last bastion of the unfashionable! Those two can back off!
Posted by: Emily on November 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 am