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October 08, 2008
Helllllo Hallows
Matt asked me last night what I wanted to go as for Halloween. I sighed. It had been a long day, full of doubt, self-loathing and the Real Housewives of Atlanta, and I just couldn't summon the energy to think it through.
"I don't know," I said. (But my heart cried out, "Steve Perry!")
Matt, no stranger to my P/T ennui and F/T indecision, kept at it. After a perfunctory glance at my bosoms, he proposed Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, a look many have suggested - or downright accused me of (back in my new to New York/dramatic eyeshadow days) - and I countered, "If I'm going to do that, I might as well go as Morticia Addams. I mean, that's kind of my formal look anyway."
Matt was delighted. After all, it is he who hums the "du du duh dum" part of the Addams Family theme song* every time I bring up my family or some weird practice that we engage in and, as a group, think to be completely normal. Like, you know, living in a nursing home. Or celebrating Christmas on a different day...and at night. Or drinking coffee at 2 a.m. Totes norms.
Next step was deciding who Matt would go as. If we did that *couple thing* and went in a *couple costume,* he'd have to be an Addams man himself. Gomez? Nah...just not quite right. Fester? Better!
Way better! But then we realized he would need a monk's cowl. I jumped out of bed to try on the Dickensian black cape I got last year from my Mom for Christmas (du du duh dum...) but Matt deemed it too short for full Fester-tude. Better, probably, for its long-term sartorial possibilities.
HMMMMMM. We were stumped for seconds until, upon reflection, Matt exclaimed, "Pugsley!" And then - and only then, reader - we both collapsed in par·ox·ysm·s of wonderment and joy.
Oh It's just SO PERFECT. For those of you unlucky enough not to know us, I swear this is pretty much what we look like every day. For those of us who do know us, feel free to send congratulatory cards and bouquets honoring our wit, nay insouciance. It's incestual and it's kooky! Halloween has just taken a drastic turn for the better. And I can wear all my OWN clothes and even my OWN furs (yes, you read that right; they're all gifts from the aforementioned cape-aficionado mother and I plan on bartering them for canned corn and Dinty Moore very soon now), and don't even have to go to the Goodwill. Oh quiver.
*No, not the Hammer version.
Posted by Bree at October 8, 2008 12:02 PM
Comments
please send pic of Matt in ill-fitting Healthtex and you looking slightly eccentric.
Posted by: Cpt. Spicer at October 8, 2008 04:15 PM
Lol. I'm dying.
Posted by: Matt Neely at October 8, 2008 07:08 PM