Once again, I present thorough documentation of the greatest Halloween weekend of my life.

I sketched the UFO costume idea while I was at work. It's a pretty awesome drawing because I got paid to do it.The amoeba-looking thing on the right is the overheard view. You know, because I care how people in news choppers may view the costume.

Materials needed: Foamboard, Posterboard, Cardboard, Man-I'm-Bored.

My first costume expense: $1.99 plastic popcorn bowl with the bottom (your top) cut out.

I added a basement to the hat with cardboard tube attachments. It may look like nothing to you, but to me it's magic.

Next, I positioned posterboard around the gaps between the two layers and cut off the excess.

Hi, I'm a grown man. Nice to meet you.

It's funny that no matter how many costumes I make, they always end with metallic spray paint. Maybe next year I should try dressing as flora or fauna.

Yet another ho-hum expense: $5.00 of felt (including a yard of black not pictured).

I'm quite proud of the felt flames that I made. I based their look on flames shown in cartoons, in that the colors in the center are brighter and lighter.

I also purchased battery-powered string lights and placed them into pre-cut holes from the inside of the costume. I'm not going to lie. I kind of felt like I cheated by using electricity.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to drink beverages in the csotume while at a party. Patti, however, figured this out in advance, thus preventing me from drinking only my tears. Her solution was quite genius. I attached a three foot rubber hose to the inside of the costume near my mouth area. Then I was free to place the other end of the tube in the beverage that I would be holding and suck!

Unidentified Flying Awesome.