A Sports Widow Halloween
October 31, 2008 10:06 AM | 0 Comments
I've got to be honest. Halloween is not one of my favorite holidays and I rarely dress up for it. I just walk around the neighborhood with the kids looking like a disengaged bodyguard. But I always experience last-minute pressure to dress up, because in my heart of hearts, I'm fun-loving. I haven't completely lost touch with the child within. This is when I try to figure out a new twist on the three Cheeseheads I own.
Mind you, these are not just ANY Cheeseheads. These have been signed by none other than Ralph Bruno, founder of Foamation, Inc., which is based in my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This year, I fleetingly thought about recruiting a few other people to join me so we could form a cheese platter. I thought we could glue sticks with colored cellophane to the top to look like party toothpicks. Then I considered going as moldy cheese. All it would take is a little light green gauze over the top. But this was all too complicated.
Instead, I decided to push the easy button, to go as the Vampire’s Bride because our costume box had all of the necessary accoutrements and we still had some old make-up from last year. I wore this crazy, long Medusa-like wig, which my friend who was dressed as Mae West, sprayed with silver streaks. I then applied pale white make-up to my face, garish black eyeliner and browliner and blood-red lipstick. I wore a Morticia dress with sequence, black tights and a cape, and I was good to go in 15 minutes flat. One of my credentials as a Sports Widow is that I am incredibly klutzy and random problems occur because of this. This time the wig was the culprit. I hadn’t anchored it with bobbypins, so it was sliding around all night like continental drift. At one point, I walked under a low hanging branch and my wig got entangled. Anyway, it was gratifying wearing the costume and seeing the look on people’s faces when they realized my true identity.
From a Sports Widow perspective, the best costume I heard about was a teenager who wore Seattle sports paraphernalia from the Seattle Seahawks, now-defunct Seattle Sonics and Seattle Mariners teams and draped it with a ghostly gauze. He was The Ghost of Seattle Sports.Yes, Seattle is probably ranked The Most Livable City for Sports Widows. Another creative one was Dick Cheney, which was for mature audiences only. Let's just say there were chains around it.
Did you dress up for Halloween? For future reference, if you have any ideas about how to incorporate three Cheeseheads into a Halloween costume, I’ll be your friend 4-EVER.
The Sports Widow
(aka Nan Hall)
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