A Tardy Halloween Post

I apologize again for my tardiness. Happy (week and a bit after) Halloween! The past two Halloweens have been a total bust for me, so this year I really had to step it up. Last year I was in Australia waiting tables at the infamous Bondi Tucker, and I think the year before I had an exam…needless to say they both were boring.

I always put the pressure on myself to come up with a great costume. I think costumes out of a bag are completely unoriginal and lame. My best costume to date was in 2005 when KP, the twins and I were The Facebook. Yes, THE is suppose to be in front of Facebook because 2005 was when you still had to type in www.thefacebook.com. I believe it was right after Halloween that year that the picture feature became available. (Thank you Mark Zuckerberg for not having that available my freshman year!) This was by far the best costume to date. I thought of the idea the day of and it ended up taking us about 7 hours to complete the look.

This year when I was scouring the world wide web for costume inspiration, a friend directed me to American Apparel’s website where they were holding a costume contest. Well, we all know I love a good competition, so I went ahead and entered my Facebook costume. My costume came out with a score of 2.53 out of 4. Not too bad if you ask me, right? It was viewed 6463 times and overall ranked 277/1313. I was proud. Thanks to all of you who voted (and yes I know I am a HUGE dork for entering this)!

Another favorite costume was from 2006 when a group of us dressed as our guy friends. This costume was another success. BTW if you haven’t noticed I judge my success on the creativity scale. Clearly neither of these costumes fit into the sexy Halloween costume category. Maybe it was a little weird that ten cute girls dressed up as nine guys and a golden retriever... but whatever, we all had fun.

This year I decided to be a cast member from my favorite tv show True Blood. I was Sookie (pronounced Ssssoooooookie). It was very fitting actually since last year I was a waitress on Halloween and this year I just dressed up as one. I have to thank Sheriff Jenny and my cousin Stef for helping me with the fake blood and scar. My costume was very well received and great because I was comfortable. I wore Toms and used my apron as my purse. A little tip for people who use the glue on scars next year, take it off after a few cocktails because it isn’t pretty in the am.

The brainstorming has begun for Halloween 2010.

:) Mel