Anyway, I’m not here to hurl all my problems on you–my therapist frowned upon that. There’s a lot that goes into Halloween that never actually happens, and that’s frankly way too much work for an try at record-breaking Instagram likes on a night “youre supposed to” won’t recollect anyway. Thankfully, I’m here to let you down easy and tell you what to really expect come your boyfriend’s sister’s grand big’s ogre bash, and why I guess Halloween is more overrated vacation( sorry, Satan, but I’m going to hell anyway ). But if you’re one of those morons who lives and exhales Halloween because you hate yourself so much that you have to be someone else to feel good, you can go shave your back now drown in your own bowl of Mini-Twix.
Actual convo we’ll have if you disagree with me 😀 TAG 8 TT
Fall Weather
EXPECTATION : You’re already planning your pumpkin patch-inspired Instagram complete with that autumn sweater from Nordstrom’s annual marketing( BACK IN FUCKING JULY) that you’ve been harboring for like, seven years now. Once September hits, you’re about to rip the tags off your new leather boots, so you can eagerly mask your post-summer bloat in the cutest cozy fall garb, because you know what they say: boyfriends come and go, but leggings are forever.
REALITY: Don’t even get me started. Actually, never mind–I’ve already been triggered. I despise our garbage chairman for many reasons, but largely because he’s apparently unaware of this thing called Global Warming that’s causing me to freeze my ass off, and then sweat my dick off all in the short sum of hour it takes me to get to the bar after work on a Friday. Nothing savor as good as baggy clothes build us feel, but no amount of likes on a autumn OOTD pic is worth the buckets of boob sweat generated by this incessant heat stroke.
Halloween Decorations
EXPECTATION : This is likely to be the year you ultimately give in and line your mantle with those vexing sticky web that literally cling to everything you own. You’re so ready to go full Grandma Cromwell and deck the halls with boughs of horror–oh, and HELLO, stupidly over-priced adorbs accent pillows!
REALITY: You know when you take your headphones out of your container after only putting them in 30 seconds ago and they’re in just as big of a clusterfuck as your life is? After “re going through” the entire suitcase of web, congrats–you’ve successfully covered about three square feet of wall space in what looks like a heap of unrolled cotton balls. Stick a skull head on your table, and leave the decorating to your mothers from now on.
Pumpkin Carving
EXPECTATION: Get my friends together to do dumb activities no one cares about, like engraving pumpkins, as an excuse to get shitfaced on a Wednesday is the one LinkedIn skill I pride myself in being endorsed on. The excitement of chugging pumpkin brew and watching throwbacks like while competing to see who can engrave the best pumpkin without anyone asking “Wait, what is that? ” is thrilling.
REALITY : Don’t get me wrong: pumpkin carving is the best–besides the portion where you actually have to carve the pumpkin. It’s like painting a room: the movies make it definitely sounds like it’s as exhilarating as sending a hoe-ish text at 2am, but in reality, it’s so much more than that. Three minutes into regretting trying to carve a Cheshire Cat, you’ll stimulate the slightest wrong cut, merely to knock a whole row of teeth out and fuck up the entire thing. Not only will you be stuck cleaning pumpkin gunk off the table, but your jack-o-lantern will probably look like it simply went on a 3-month alcohol bender and woke up with a half-opened eye and four teeth missing. Whatever, that’s why the demon fabricated alcohol.
Buying Candy
EXPECTATION: You hit up the Halloween aisle for the best and most frowned-upon candy and in the process, you even selflessly think to suitcase some up for your besties!
Side note: when tf did tiny bags of candy become so expensive? Tbh, my friends aren’t that great.
REALITY : It apparently didn’t occur to you that you either live on the 27 th floor of a city complex or a tiny dorm room, and that the only children you’ll probably consider all day are the ones garmented in fugly’ 90 s getup in the Dannon Yogurt commercial. You’ve gotta get rid of the candy somehow, so you decide to take one for the team and experiment with the Wonka Nerds and craft your own witches brew of flavored hangover vodka, but like, it could be worse … Also, you’re welcome for that million-dollar idea.
Making Your Costume
EXPECTATION: The absolute best part of Halloween is crafting up the most original, not-too-slutty-but-pretty-fucking-slutty costume. For once, you got ahead of the game and began the planning process even before October came around. And to top it all off, you procured the perfect YouTube makeup tutorial you’re about to watch like, 12 times in order to get the perfect sexy zombie bride face. No really, this is about to be some next-level shit.
REALITY : Spoiler alert: It’s October 30 th. You’ve attained nothing but an overloaded Amazon shopping cart filled with items the hell is 100% guaranteed to overdraft your checking account. Your party is tomorrow night, so you should probably just try Sears. Lol JK, I’m your friend, remember? You knew this would happen again, so you should really just order the best effing garb you’ve ever worn from our Betches store( yeah it’s a plug, fucking prosecute me) to save yourself period, money, and a year’s worth of embarrassment when you think about depicting up in last year’s bumble bee leotard.
The Halloween Party
EXPECTATION: The night has finally arrived. You and your friends are planning on get inappropriately drunk before arriving to the party–for precautionary intents, of course. You’ll be sipping on whatever the fuck is in that witches brew concoction, while yelling “OMG that’s so good! ” to your friend’s unoriginal Khaleesi/ possibly-also-Elsa-from-getup. You managed to get that one Instagram you’re about to fully dissect and edit when you’re alone later on, so yeah, life is good.
REALITY : You show up only to lay eyes half the party wearing your typical run-of-the-mill fuckboy Halloween staple: A white tee with some sort of dumb fucking saying like “Error 404: Costume Not Found” sharpied on it. Nobody told you that a “horror” theme was actually because of your ears bleeding from hearing “Monster Mash” play on recur 87 hours. Oh, and that witches brew? I’d steer clear unless you’re into the various kinds of thing that is chugging the leftover middle cup ingredients from King’s Cup. But it’s ok because if all else fails, there’s always some Freeform marathon to binge while also bingeing Snickers and tequila.
Happy haunting, witches.
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