Halloween

This weekend, Murray and I attended a Halloween party. It's been years since I've dressed up for Halloween. Of course we wanted to do a couples costume, because what's the point of being married if not to be able to wear couples costumes? But we couldn't figure out what famous pregnant couple to dress up as. Joseph and Mary? The idea of putting a towel on my head (default for any biblical person) didn't really appeal to me.

So we decided to go as a concept. We started thinking of different Beatles songs, and Murray finally came up with the idea of going as Hello and Goodbye. To execute this idea, we figured that I would have to be Hello whichever way you looked at me, and Murray would have to be Goodbye whichever way you looked at him. So he wore a mask of the back of his head over his face, and I wore a mask of my face on the back of my head. We didn't win any prizes. (Which is okay because the prizes were all food I couldn't eat.)

(Murray kindof looks maybe like a chainsaw killer...)

(We didn't intend for my costume to be freaky, but it kindof ended up being just a little bit freaky. One of the party guests said he kept having the feeling that someone was looking at him, and when he looked up, he'd see my backwards head staring at him.)

Next year, I would really love to go as RGB and CMYK, but I'm afraid that while people we work with would (might) get it, those who we socialize with generally wouldn't. I still think we'll do it because it'll be a super idea. Except what would we dress baby as? I suppose we could always dress him in white with "FFFFFF" written across his shirt... (Cue laughter from the two of you who actually get that.)

11 comments:

Hannah said...

ha! You do look a little freaky.

Can't wait to see your costumes next year. :)

erin said...

Ha ha. HTML color code is awesome.

MTDA said...

Father McKinnley, Elenor Rigby, and Maxwell with his little silver hammers.

Unknown said...

I assume you've seen this shirt from Threadless, right, Cicada?

And you can count me among those who got the color hex code joke.

Carina said...

Well, I thought it was ffffffunny.

Debbie Barr said...

Oh man. I'm so lame. I got the "FFFFFF" reference. Not that you're lame. Just me.

Nice costumes, though. :)

Christina said...

So proud that I got the joke.

annie (the annilygreen one) said...

even if no one gets slightly jargony constumes, it's totally worth it. at least you'll know how awesome it is!

Emily said...

I'm also proud to have gotten the joke. :)

Anonymous said...

Your Halloween costumes are fantastic. Happy Halloween.

Aoi Sakura said...

XD I was just laughing and laughing, so I guess I get it. Does that make me lame, too? :)