By Jason
This post is a bit late, since Halloween was more than a week ago, but we’ve been busy what with all the pre-election poll watching and post-election celebrating. Halloween is usually a big holiday for Ann and I, since we almost always have a big party at our house with lots of friends. This year we are thousands of miles from most of our friends. We still have a house, but it’s filled with tenants and missing two porches.*
We were kind of sad and missing everyone, but luckily Google had a big Halloween party so we were still able to dress up and have a good time. Ann’s pregnancy narrowed the choices for costumes this year, as did the fact that I would be going to work in my costume. So we wanted to be funny and tasteless without rising to the level of termination for offensive behavior.
I was pregnant and Ann was my beer-bellied husband. We decided to white-trash it up as much as possible. Luckily there’s a Wal-Mart nearby. No offense, Ryan G. Anyway, if you’re in the market for mu-mus, I highly recommend their selection. It’s hard to see in the photo but Ann’s wearing both a shirt and flannel with the arms cut off, to better expose her tattooed guns.
Here are some of my co-workers, Sandy as a cereal killer, Charlene as Juno, Koklynn as a ghost, and Merry as a cowboy.
Nelson and Henry both came as bees. There were tons of dogs dressed as bees this year – I wish I was in the dog-sized-bee-costume business. It seems cute but the idea of a bee the size of a dog is sort of terrifying.
Sophia was Domo-kun, and Wysz was Beah (which will make more sense in the next photo).
Wysz and Beah dressed up as each other. You can read the harrowing tale of Wysz’s costume here.
Here’s Ann with Mike, who had an awesome Powdered Toast Man costume.
Tiffany came as a holiday fail. If you’re one of my less internet-culture-immersed readers, check out this article about the liguistic uses of the word fail.
Indranil and Rowyn as Dracula and Alice respectively. Rowyn’s blog is appropriately named Down the Rabbit Hole.
All of the Sesame Street characters at the party congregated together.
Above you see Ann with Prince. This may have been the highlight of the party for Ann, even though it’s obviously not the real Prince, not matter how much she wanted to believe.
Finally, this is Sandy and Matt. Matt’s already moderately-to-highly famous on the Internet, but his Rick Astley costume got him to the front page of Digg. Click here to see Matt’s impression of Rick.
That’s about it. Stay tuned for baby news, this kid is going to be born any minute.
* If you’re missing the reference to the porches, they were destroyed in a collision with a garbage truck. Since moving to California we’ve had 7 months without a tenant, $18K for a new roof and other repairs, and now the porches have been smashed. So the Morrison real estate empire isn’t exactly profitable at this point. If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to hold on to it for a few more years until the market is back up and we can sell it for somewhere near what we bought it for. Then we’ll have almost enough for a down payment on a mobile home in Mountain View.