Hello. On Saturday, November 1st, I went to Marianna's house for a Holla-At-Yo-Ween party. A brief explanation: I don't celebrate Halloween, so my friends and I created our own little holiday that has similar attributes, but not the same thing. It was essentially a costume party in November. All of the Nerd Herd was there, which was fabulous. Some of Marianna's younger brother's friends were there as well. They were 5th graders. And... yeah, their presence added just as much fun as you think it would for a group of 16-17 year olds.
What was everyone dressed up as?
Bailey was the Governor from the Walking Dead, Vicki was Pikachu, Marianna was... something Homestuck related, Rosa was a human TARDIS, and Amy was... Roxy from Homestuck I think? I went dressed as Vicki. I curled my hair and everything. I called myself 'Vicki 2.0' and joked that I was 'the upgraded version of Vicki'. Everyone was astounded by the likeness of my outfit. Like, I legit was dressed just as Vicki would.
As you can see, I am wearing a similar outfit to one she has worn before, and we already have pretty similar glasses. And then a thing not depicted is how she likes to wear beanies. Like, in our True American video, she wears a beanie. I also spent an insane amount of time trying to get outrageous curls. The curler I used was too thick to achieve her tight curls, and yeah, naturally strait asian hair and curls don't tend to last very long. More on that later. One last thing I wanna point out, which, again, isn't shown, is that I have my sleeves rolled up to my elbows. I recall a conversation she and I had about sleeves, and she explained how she just cannot have sleeve down to her wrists. It either has to be rolled up to her elbows, or be able to cover her hands. Otherwise, she is an unhappy duckling.
Okay, enough about my Vicki outfit.
At the partay, Vicki and Bailey were already there. Marianna had us do this thing where we had to guess the amount of candy corn in a vase. When guessing, I felt up the vase and just let my hand write whatever three numbers it felt. It wrote 249.
The four of us talked for a bit when Bailey suggested going on an adventure. She proposed that we walk to her house, which is a lot of blocks away from Marianna's house, and get her Just Dance game for us to play. It was slightly drizzling outside, but we went anyway. I was worried about my hair, and how I didn't want to lose my curls so soon, so I attempted to preserve it by tucking it into my hat.
It was a long, cold walk. Shoes got soaked. Bailey didn't have a jacket. She was freezing and we were, for the most part, not having a fun time. Bailey was really regretting suggesting this adventure.
While walking, we came across... a goose? Duck? I don't know what that creature was, but it was angry and scary. Luckily, it was behind a fence. There was also an orange kitty with a stubby tail. Bailey pet it, and Marianna carried it. TBH that probably wasn't a good idea. Diseases and stuff, you know? Whatever.
After maybe 15 minutes of walking we finally make it to Bailey's house. We warmed up there briefly. I got to see Bailey's amazing room.
When Bailey got the game, we headed back out into the cold outside world. They way back was more enjoyable. We were more excited now that we had a game to look forward to playing. Bailey joked "Imagine we get back, and it turns out the game doesn't work?" HAHA. (That actually ended up happening. But that's OK).
We filmed some fun things. Vicki was ahead of Bailey, Marianna and I, and so we filmed her while 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' played in the background. Hilarious.
We get back to the house, and Amy and Rosa arrive. Then we get Just Dance started.
Bailey wanted to record us playing the game for our Shows Before Bros channel. Technical difficulties arose... we ended up just watching a prerecorded game we found on Youtube, and followed that. It was very fun. Bailey's still has to edit the video, so I cannot share it with you.
The 5th graders were astounded at the fact that we had a youtube channel. This girl dressed as bacon (Rosa and I called her Bacon throughout the party) and this boy dressed as a vampire were extremely excited about it. It was kinda annoying. No- it was annoying. But no matter. I had fun playing.
During the game, Marianna announced the winner of the candy corn guessing thing. It turned out that I WON! In the vase was 250 candy corns, I put down 249! I was one off! WOW! I won the entire vase of candy corn. I probably won't ever eat it all.
After playing Just Dance, we recorded another video, based on puns. We had the little kids sit out and leave us alone. They still interrupted and bothered us anyway. That video is up now, though! HERE IT IS.
You can see my curls have died a significant amount. That hair tucking thing didn't work all too well. I'd say that those curls survived a good half hour, to be honest.
After that recording session, I had to go home.
And that was the Holla-At-Yo-Ween party. It was fun!
Thanks for reading.
-Jess
