Mini-House
I dressed as Dr. House at work for Halloween.
Jeans and sneakers, of course, though I don’t own Nikes. My husband’s cane. Never got him the “flames” cane, but that doesn’t matter as the TV version got smashed at the end of last season anyway. I borrowed Logan’s blue (of course BLUE!) button down shirt and Bill’s Ramones T-shirt. I didn’t think that House would wear an Apologetix’s T! I didn’t do the limp because Randy’s cane is too high for me, but I tried to remember to favor the right leg when I was just standing around.
Got a hug from Renee just for the sheer admiration for the creativity of the costume!
Tony, Katie’s husband, was there that day to make up some time, and he was in business dress. So, Katie said he was dressed as an Administrative Assistant, he said he was carefully disguised as a responsible adult, and I told him he as Wilson. Tony shouldn’t be allowed to look that hot when all cleaned up and dressed nice.
Colleen wore scrubs, so Katie christened her “Cameron”. Colleen saw me hook the cane on the file drawer I had open looking for a file, and declared THAT was COOL. Or some such wording.
I just did what I’ve watched my husband do for ten years. I used Randy’s cane that has hook at the top, so I did the hook on the crook of the arm all day. Only forgot to carry it in the last half hour of work, when most people were gone anyway.
Dropped the cane at least a dozen times trying to twirl it. Didn’t think about finding an appropriately sized ball to lacrosse around until too late.
Too polite to do the nasty sarcastic comments, so just stuck with my normal sarcastic comments. I did say some of my sarcastic comments out loud for once, though. Tried to say a couple of sexually inappropriate comments to my sole male co-worker buddy and friend, with limited success. Meaning, I don’t think I registered on his sexually inappropriate comments scale.
I put up a quote on the scrolling marque screen saver:
“If you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this: this is Vicodin. It's mine. You can't have any.”
I took my prescription bottles and relabeled them: Gregory House: Viocodin. I don’t like to keep old prescription bottles around, so I had to use my three current bottles and take out the my mediation, so my meds are in little plastic bags in my bathroom. I’d put them back but I’m almost to the refill anyway.
I put Tic Tacs in the bottles and carried one in my shirt pocket and put two at my desk. I popped “Viocodin” as “needed” when I was with other people. I did offer Tic Tacs to others, even though House would not have. (Viocodin OR Tic Tacs)
I printed out a simple sign for the top part of my cube:
GREGORY HOUSE, M.D.
DEPARTMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC MEDICINE
Some people didn’t catch it at first, but when asked I would hold up the cane and say, “House!”. Got many laughs. Still, some unenlightened people didn’t get it at all. Their loss. It’s not like I don’t have a picture of Hugh on a bike on my cube wall and I had Hugh on my computer’s wallpaper that day. (I change out my wallpaper regularly. It’s usually Hugh, David Tennant, the other British TV love Doctor, or other.)
Any day I can wear jeans to work is a good day. And it was even more fun to be mini-House!