Halloween
We weren't allowed to dress up for work. We have in the past, but October brought a string of robberies at banks in Milwaukee, one of them for which the robbers dressed up in Halloween costumes. After that, our regional president put the kabash on employees dressing up, as an effort to discourage our customers from coming in dressed up. Somehow this was to keep us safer. Eh.
So I only had to dress up for the party my boss threw after work. I didn't want to spend any money if I didn't have to (since most people would be drunk and not remember anyway). I threw around a couple of ideas like a Mummy (mommy/mummy!) or the pregnant Virgin Mary, but I finally decided on Mother Earth.
I wrapped a twin bedsheet around me like a toga and wore a crown of fall beads and leaves. Then, I cut up an inflatable globe so that it would fit over the baby bump and glued it on. If I had thought about it more beforehand, I probably would have done a bit more with it surrounding the fit and all that.
So I only had to dress up for the party my boss threw after work. I didn't want to spend any money if I didn't have to (since most people would be drunk and not remember anyway). I threw around a couple of ideas like a Mummy (mommy/mummy!) or the pregnant Virgin Mary, but I finally decided on Mother Earth.
I wrapped a twin bedsheet around me like a toga and wore a crown of fall beads and leaves. Then, I cut up an inflatable globe so that it would fit over the baby bump and glued it on. If I had thought about it more beforehand, I probably would have done a bit more with it surrounding the fit and all that.