Mrs. Bush Contemplates Halloween Costumes

There are few things in life that I love more than dressing up. That could mean shaving my legs and putting on a pretty skirt OR putting on a wig and pretending to be someone else for the evening. As an adult, the occasion to dress as someone or something else really only comes one night a year. Of course I’m talking about Halloween.

I have not dressed up for Halloween for the past 4 years. It’s really a damn shame. So this year, since Halloween is on a Saturday (and since I’m now friends with some folks who relish dressing up and going out as much as I do) I am planning my Halloween costume!

I’ve been tossing a lot of ideas around in my brain.

Blonde Ambition Era Madonna

This is Madonna at her best. She was making some of her best songs and really just being a huge bitchy bitch and I love her for it. If you know me, you know I love waking up on Saturday and Sunday mornings and watching Truth or Dare as I putter around the house. Best movie ever.
The Problem: My hair isn’t platinum blonde anymore and finding a suitable costume would get pretty expensive. I also don’t want to walk around in public with my ass hanging out.

Marge Simpson

Like every American born in the 80’s I have grown up with The Simpson’s. I love this show because I’m smrt and because I love to laugh. (Misspelling was on purpose, if you don’t get the reference then you need to watch more Simpsons.)
The Problem: I would want to get the hair just right if I was going to be Marge. I found a sweet wig on eBay but it’s $40 and since we’re purchasing a house I don’t have that kind of scratch to throw around on a Halloween costume.

Cyndi Lauper

This one would be pretty easy. I could get the clothes from any Goodwill and I could color my hair using that colored hair spray that’s available around this time every year. It would be super recognizable and super fun to wear a big fluffy skirt.
The Problem: I don’t know Cyndi Lauper that well. I mean, I own her True Colors record and I enjoy it quite a bit, but I would feel like kind of a phony for dressing up like her when I don’t know her music that well. I also feel like this has been done to death.

OK, SO

Those are the ideas that I’m not going with – at least this year. They’ll all be reconsidered in the years to come, I’m sure. So now I’m stuck between 2 very different ideas and I need your help!

Suddenly Seeking Susan Era Madonna


I love this Madonna almost as much as I love Blond Ambition Madonna. She was making some great music; Like A Prayer and True Blue are really fucking good dance albums.
What Works: My hair color is right for this Madonna costume and much like the Cyndi Lauper idea, I could get most of the costume at any Goodwill. It’s not quite as recognizable as Cyndi – but pretty damn close; Especially since I’ll be at a karaoke bar on Halloween and once I bust out with “Holiday” people will get it.

Little Edie Beale



If you have not seen Grey Gardens then you need to rent it IMMEDIATELY. I’m not talking about the Drew Barrymore movie. I mean the original Grey Gardens documentary. It’s gold, I tells ya, GOLD! Edie is so fucking fascinating on screen and she’s so sad. She’s also incredibly spunky and extroverted in front of the cameras, so being her for the night would be a blast.
What works: This entire costume could be put together using things I already own, including a sweet broach I have that was my grandmothers. Then I could go around all night saying that what I was wearing is the best costume for the day. Then I’d laugh and laugh. Not everyone will get it, but I kind of don’t care. Dressing up as Edie would be a hoot and a half.

So please, dear friends (all 3 of you who read this) tell me what you think! Madonna or Little Edie? What shall it be?

Yo!

I have a big Halloween post marinating in my head, but I'm busy with my day job right now.

So, as promised, here's a video from Mikey's bday talent show:



Mike put this together himself. Pretty sweet, huh?

Bilton is the cutest

My First Husband

Hello Lover...

Ghostbusters came out in 1984 and Ghostbusters II came out in 1989. I was born in 1983. I'm not sure how old I was when I first saw Ghostbusters, but I was old enough to know what love was. Love was Dr. Peter Venkman. He was funny, he was cute, and he busted ghosts. Nuff said.

I had a Venkman action figure when I was little. When you pressed down his arms, his eyeballs popped out.

I was so infatuated with Venkman that I used to make out with my action figure. Or whatever "making out" means to a 5 year old. The only problem was, he was so small that it was basically just me sucking on the tiny action figure's head...that sounds really really dirty. I was 5. Get your mind outta the gutter.

Once I figured out that Venkman was an actual guy named Bill Murray, that's been it for me. I had this doll that was basically a wooden dowel with a round wooden ball glued on the top. A face was painted on the ball. I think maybe my grandma made it for me. I named the doll "Bill" and had my mom perform a marriage ceremony between Bill and I in our living room during one of the commercial breaks for Magnum P.I. It was magical.

As I got older and was exposed to more of Bill Murray's work, I became more and more twitterpated. He is so dreamy, I can barely stand it. We've been watching the early seasons of SNL that he's in and It's all I can do not not jump off the couch and lick the TV screen.

Still, my husband makes me laugh harder than anyone ever has and ever could. He's my own Peter Venkman action doll, but life sized. He's my own Bill Murray, but you know, much younger and better looking. It's pretty awesome.

Also, he may not bust ghosts - but he can bust out a dope rhyme.



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Do it to it!

oh the shame!

i hate doing laundry.

let me qualify that statement.

1. i hate spending all day sunday doing laundry in the craptacular half-sized washer and dryer that came with this crap apartment that we live in. i would venture a guess that i would hate laundry anywhere, and have, but i really hate it here.
2. i am anal. i admit it and have learned to embrace it. but that means that i can't just wash the clothes, hastily fold or hang them and then throw them in drawers. i fold them all perfectly and then rearrange the drawers if needed so that they all fit perfectly.
3. i have to iron all of my husband's work clothes because he's too cheap for the dry cleaner and he has to dress up with a shirt and tie every day. AND he feeds me a load of crap about how i "do it way better than" he does and he "can't do it as fast as" me. it's bull, but i let it slide due to #2 on this list.
4. it takes ALL DAY.

so yesterday while trying to rush through the laundry, i grabbed the husband's cargo shorts off of the bedroom floor and after i rotated that load into the dryer i noticed a loud clunk-clunk-clunking.

you guessed it, i washed not only his wallet, but also his cell phone. best day ever? methinks the world had a better day in store for me...

today we were running late for work and the car wouldn't start!

Aces! the upside of that is i had to take a surprise vacation day! and with my day off, i am starting a quilt.

the crotches in three pairs of my jeans gave out on me recently and i have decided to do a quilt. i'm also using some super cute green linen-like fabric. this will be my second quilt, but my first that doesn't look really ugly and ridiculous.

wish me luck!

I think It's Safe To Say...

...that if any of the four of us ever happen upon Paul Rudd in the future, I should be the one who gets to sleep with him. I don't have that "husband" thing to worry about.

Booyah.

i'm an old married lady...

as i contemplate wifedom adventures...

my wifedom is not new. rather it is almost 5 years old! kindergarten here we come! (there is, no doubt, a great analogy to be made there, but i choose to explore other things.)

before i got married, but was engaged, a lot of older, divorced or unhappily married women would make subtle or not so subtle snide comments about my impending nuptials. they would say things like, "good luck" in response to my declaring that i was getting married or "are you sure you want to do that?"

i would always feel the need to respond with glowing tributes to my beloved, i would go to great lengths to illustrate all of his wonderful qualities in order to convince them that i was making the right decision and that i knew for a fact that i was not destined for the kind of regret and disillusionment that they had experienced.

Ah, time, the great teacher. if i had it to do over again, i would tell those bitter old broads to shove it up their fat bitchy asses. because guess what? I'M STILL HAPPILY MARRIED!! the husband that i chose is a fucking gem. i have never met anyone that i want to spend every single day with, let alone every single day for the last 7 years.

i knew it then and i still know it... i was right and they were totally wrong.

as a side note... i am actually not wearing white tights in my wedding picture - i'm just really that pale - i call it clear.