Halloween Stuff

BOO!
I thought I would take this time to give you a brief history of my Halloween costumes over the past 22 years, at least the ones that I can remember. When I was a wee tot, I was usually some form of a power ranger. That almost goes without saying, but I might as well. I was a huge fan and they always had new costumes so each year I could be a different ranger, or even the same one in a different seasons costume.
When I was old enough to think power rangers weren't cool anymore (or at least say the weren't cool, cuz lets face it, they are still awesome) I wanted to be Dracula. I had my dad put the face makeup on me... bad idea. I'm not sure why a Dracula costume came with purple makeup, but my dad used it liberally. One lady asked if I was a zombie, I was furious. Haha I love that I still remember that probably 15 years later.
I took a hiatus from Halloween for a few years in the later part of elementary school. This was because my parents would buy me a bunch of candy instead of a costume if I so chose. I should have been a business major because even then I knew I could get more and better candy by cutting out the middle man. That might be where my love of Sam's Club began.
Once in Junior High I was a banana. It was really just my dads yellow water suit with a brown hat and a sticker taped to it, but thats when I decided that I would make my own costumes from then on out.
Since college, my costumes have been a team effort between my girlfriend and I. As freshmen, we were John McCain and Sarah Palin as the leaders of the free world. I told everyone we saw that night that this was the scariest costume we could come up with. And that's when things became political. Ha I'm sure all of our friends think we're pretentious jerks, but its been a fun few years.
We went last year as a bird and a fish covered in oil; it was right after the BP spill and it gave us an excuse to rant to drunk people about the horrors associated with weak environmental policy and why regulation is a good thing. Did I mention that we might be a bit pretentious?
We went out on Saturday as tree huggers. She was a hippie and I was a tree (we hug alot.) The best part of the costume was that we have made so many tie die shirts over the past few months that she didn't have to buy anything for her costume except a vest. Nerd.