Halloween

So what is everyone going to dress up as? Me? Nothing. In the past I have been the one who sews her whole “original” costume for the holiday.

It isn’t that Halloween is particularly near and dear to my heart. In fact, it really isn’t. However, my friends in grad school would always throw a huge party and just about everyone would dress up. It was sort of a friendly competition.

Now all of my friends have graduated and moved away and I have no party to go to. Not everyone is in the same boat as me. I have overheard people in the gym’s locker room talking about what they are going to be for this season. Now, mind you they are undergrads (so any chance at good taste is out the window), but apparently there are two things everyone wants/plans to go as… A hurricane victim or Britney Spears.

It gets better. I heard a group of four women planning to all go as Britney Spears. They are going together. They are each going to be a “different” Britney. How’s that for funny. The one who is being saddled with the “pregnant Britney” costume was lamenting that everyone else gets to be hot & sexy and she is just going to look fat. I had no pity for her. I thought about suggesting that she instead go as “new mom Britney” where the magic of an early twenty-something giving birth means she can snap back into her original self in a few short weeks of hard work. But I kept my mouth shut.

Since I have to live vicariously through others this holiday… what are you going to be? Something new and novel? Making a strong political statement? Or the easiest thing possible – recycling something from a past year already in your closet?

Happy Halloween! (yes, early, because Monday will be a PBU post)