Jayna and Shane: America’s favorite breakfast

For Halloween this year, I decided to go with friendly instead of my previous streak of scary costumes.

Bacon is my favorite food and I once declared that it would enhance any dish.  Only after long discussions and debates did my friends and I come to the conclusion that the only things bacon wouldn’t improve are ice cream and pie.  My life goal is to prove that statement wrong.  You might not want to come over for dessert for a while until this phase passes.

We had a fun time on Halloween with our snuggly bacon and eggs costumes (I made them out of fleece… dual purpose! It’s both a scarf AND a bacon costume!).  Brandon Klenk and Melissa Canaday threw a Halloween party, complete with pumpkin carving, bobbing for apples, caramel apples and mafia.  I’m not sure how mafia was halloween themed, but I guess there’s a lot of “dying” in that game, so it fit.

Since I work in the creative field, there is a lot of pressure when it comes to halloween costumes.  In the past, I had some pretty terrifying costumes.  And I defined the word “terrifying” as something/someone that has killed or harmed a lot of people.  I stood out a little from some of the other costumes I saw, like “sexy kitty!” and “sexy sailor!” and “sexy nerd!” and “sexy darth vader!”  To each his(her?) own.

I now present you the award winning homemade costumes of years past:

2005: Hurricane Katrina
1,836 confirmed dead, 705 missing.  Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty terrifying.
I sprayed people with my misting fan, gave out FEMA checks and won “most creative” costume.

2006: Ecoli-tainted Spinach
1 death and 98 hospitalizations.
I gave out ecoli stickers and took home the “people’s choice” award and $50.

2007: Traffic
OK, I gave up on the whole “natural disasters” thing and just went with a highway.  Although if you’ve ever been to Utah and seen how they drive out here (we call them “Utards”), you’d understand why my costume was actually quite scary.