ECKLEBURG
2004-10-31 - 12:12 p.m.
Hi all,
Life still staying relatively good. My boss at work, who I really like, gave her two weeks notice last week. So I have been work-bummed as I face the inevitable changes and uncertainty that her departure will bring.
Grumblecake and I had all these great Halloween plans planned, but ended up canceling them due to an Eckleburg wardrobe malfunction. Our original plan was to go as Julia Child (Grumblecake) and an oven (Eckleberg). This was a genius idea if I may say so myself, and we were both excited by it and have been going around our house practicing our best Julia accents (which I highly recommend Halloween or not . . . ). The problem was that two out of the three things we wanted to do were go to swing dances, which are not as fun if one of you is in a big oven costume that limits your dancing.
Next compromise was Julia Child, and her utensil drawer, which was basically G the same as before and me with a whole bunch of utensils attached all over myself. But we scrapped this on the feeling that nobody would get the utensil drawer thing.
So final costume idea, along a completely different vein, was Snow White (G) and the Evil Queen (E). The came from our desire to just go to the costume store and buy costumes and be done with it. That, coupled with my neuroses about doing anything 100% normal and boring. Unfortunately, once we got the Evil Queen costume home, the Evil Queen costume made me look rather fat, and whereas dresses that accentuate ones the wearers boobs are usually a good thing, this is very, very not true in my case. So this left G in her costume and me costumeless.
I do have to say that on Friday night, when Grumble was dressed as Snow White and we were at the mall looking for a new costume for me, the little kids LOVED LOVED LOVED Grumblecake/Snow White. Best line of the night, from a 4-year-old girl in Payless: “Mommy, why is Snow White buying shoes?”
