halloween party :D

hey guiuysss sorry I've been dead. I've been so insanely busy like nothing before (actually many times before I'm just being hyperbolic). BUT on the bright side 4/7 of my college applications have been submitted! The other three are due in November/December and everything but a portfolio has been completed so there's that.

OKAY. Now onto the namesake of this blog. I hosted a Halloween party last night and let me just outline the hell of a time I had. My friends and I (a band) have been prepping to play live for literally over a month, this entire party has been in preparation for WEEKS. So I was reasonably super hype. 

I spent all of Friday afternoon and evening preparing the yard and cleaning my house, just basically cleaning up all my dog's excrement (ew) and making the yard look nice. I raked all the dead grass from it, made little haybales, I felt like a farmer. I also scrubbed the concrete around the hot tub to make it look nice and presentable but everybody forgot to bring a swimsuit despite my reminder that I have a hot tub but whatever it's okay I'm not bitter at all.....

Aaaanyway I was totally knocked out but I still went to another one of my friends's showcase through her lessons studio. This little boy absolutely SHREDDED to an Iron Maiden song it was literally iconic. I didn't think it was possible to shred timidly. But, the next day I was supposed to volunteer at a festival in town but I was still super tired so I feigned illness and just continued on with my cleaning/setting up.

We had shirley temples. Thats not crucial to the story but we got grenadine so I could have those at the party and I'm sipping one now lmao. 

First my bandmates shows up and we set up outside on this makeshift stage my dad made for one of my sister's parties literally YEARS ago but we're a musical theater family so it's been used at pretty much EVERY party since. We practice our two songs and try to get used to the fact that we're performing outdoors and cannot hear each other for shit but it's okay we still managed and then two of my guests showed up. 

My bandmates and I decided to do skeleton face paint like mcr did for the black parade tour that one time for the first tour? Yk the one. If you don't look it up trust. So we all gathered in my bathroom around a mirror like genuinely about 5 teenagers in a bathroom made for one person. Don't let the 5 people number fool you it's a one person bathroom. It was just funny, I have a photo of one of my friends sitting on the toilet cover eating cheese balls (btw all photos will b on my profile)

We did the skeleton makeup to recreate stupid photos, that was a lot of fun. People kept having fun with the microphones and instruments we had on the stage lol. Then one of my friends pulled up in an inflatable chipmunk costume that never once was fully inflated the whole night. It was genuinely impressive that he kept it on too, it'd annoy me to hell and back (I was dressed as spiderman by the way.. in case u wanted to know).

Two of my friends dressed as Clawdeen (which was super cute btw, she made ears with her hair and it was adorable) and Draculaura pulled up and we had dinner. My dad made chili and my mom made baked potatoes and I'm glad that it was a hit because I was so worried people would be like ew chili why is this your meal of choice at a party

    Note: The answer is it WASNT my meal of choice, my dad was making chili whether I wanted it or not LMAO

But yeah so now shit hit the fan! How fun. The party had been going for a couple hours now and we needed to let my dogs free so they could use the bathroom and eat their own dinners. My larger dog, Layla, got spooked by my Mom when she came into the room to get them and didn't notice that my little dog, Parker, was cuddled in next to her and Parker got injured. Mouth to face type shit. SHES OKAY BTW IM STARTING THE STORY WITH SAYING SHE IS PERFECTLY OKAY SHES LAYING ON MY BED SLEEPING AS WE SPEAK. 

(trigger warning for mentions of blood by the way, unsure if I should mention that rq, just skip to the next paragraph if you don't want to read it) I hear my mom yell for me and I come upstairs to see our entire hallway COVERED in droplets of blood all dripping from my dog's head so I was freaked the hell out. Parker on the other hand just wanted to run downstairs to eat her dinner and was NOT happy with me holding a towel to her head in excessive amounts of pressure. She had to stay still and she is very much NOT a dog to stay still. My hands looked like I had murdered someone and her blood was ALL over my jeans. She kept shaking her head because it was uncomfortable and it just. Blood got on my face. We got her into the bathroom, my mom called the vet to see if anyone would take her but since the bleeding had stopped being too much to be worried about, we didn't need to take her to the doggy ER. She had scratches on her face and the back of her neck, but all the bleeding was coming from a notch on the very end of her ear so once we realized she wasn't in mortal danger we sort of were just like shit now what. We got her outside, I made everyone in the party be like silent so she wouldn't get spooked (which looked insane because again, crazy man covered in blood) but she ate dinner and used the bathroom and then fell asleep on the couch.

So yeah! TLDR: Doggy got hurt, but she's okay it was in the MIDDLE OF THE PARTY THOUGH SO THAT WAS FUN. My cousin and her girlfriend pulled up at this time, my cousin was dressed in a neon orange Lorax costume and I was not mentally prepared for that. Everyone went outside and then my band finally did our two songs (IMNOK I promise and Teenagers btw) and opened the floor for karaoke. Then I sat on the edge of the stage and sang Bohemian Rhapsody with like six other people. I think I was coming down from an adrenaline high so I felt a teensy weensy bit fuzzy in the head. 

One of my friends dressed as Misa Amane showed up at some point in that haze. But I sat down and chatted with my cousin's girlfriend and came back into reality. It was getting cold so I started up a bonfire and we had smores and it was great. Loved it. 10/10 no notes. Four of my friends disappeared for like half an hour and I didn't notice that they were in my driveway until they screamed and I thought they were being axe murdered but nope thats just them. 
my neighbors love me btw

OKAY last event of the night. My best friend's shift finally ended so she pulled up and we hung out inside for a bit but by the end of the night, my cousin and her girlfriend had headed home and people were packing up, four of us ended up on one of my hammocks. 
We were dying laughing because I had to be draped across the three of them and it felt like weird human jenga. 

Then my best friend pulled out her phone and started letting tiktok decide audios for us and we laughed too hard and heard a snap then we all simultaneously fell onto the ground with a WHUMP. Before and after photos also on my profile. 

Anyway I had an amazing time doggy emergency aside, I'm really glad I hosted. It was really stressful for me to set up so I had even considered cancelling, but I'm glad I didn't.