Friday, October 28, 2011

All Hallows Eve

I am so excited.

Tonight, I am going to our grad student Halloween party. Not only is this a fun excuse to hang out with my school friends, but the theme this year is phenomenal. We are having a "throw back to your childhood" party. Needless to say, I have been pumped for quite some time.

However, there is also a lot of pressure associated with any sort of costumed event. Maybe others don't feel that way, but I really like to take full advantage of these type of situations. If I could dress up everyday in costume for my life, I would enjoy that. However, my students already think I am over caffeinated and spastic. I am not sure we want to include a crazy wardrobe and props to that. Unless, of course, it is a fanny pack. But that is an other story, entirely.

It was a lot of fun remembering all those toys and television shows the defined much of my childhood. Are You Afraid of the Dark, Salute Your Shorts, Boy Meets World, Designing Women, The Golden Girls  (I hung out with my grandma a lot, okay?), ribbon dancers, skip-its, Power Rangers, Clarissa Explains it All, and the list goes on and on.

While it was quite enjoyable to ponder the joys of my youth, many of the ideas I came up with presented several problems. First, some of them only required some 90s clothes and a Canadian accent.







Unfortunately, I do not look enough like any of those characters for people to understand who I am without wearing a lame name tag.

The other problem is that some of my ideas required a little too much effort in the costume department....




Just when I had settled for dressing in some sort of ballet outfit and making my own ribbon dancer, it hit me. I knew exactly who I was going to be. Though this person was not my favorite of the group, she epitomized a long forgotten portion of my childhood years.





That's right. Kerri Strug. Only I will wear pants. If only Little Clinton were here to be my Bela Karolyi... 







My other thought was to find a Kippy Strug from the SNL skit...

Here is the link to refresh your memory... http://www.hulu.com/watch/ad/66968

Needless to say, I am very excited for tonight. I love reliving my childhood. I am going to be one of those creepy, stuck in the past moms, I know. I'm okay with it. 



( Clink on this if you are interested in what these retired olympic gymnasts are up these days... http://usagym.org/pages/features/110301_96team/ )



What costume would you sport if you were going to a throw back to your childhood party?