My second Halloween party of the year was this Friday. It was planned and arranged by me (with seriously helpful assistance from my boyfriend) and it was held at the office, will all my co-workers.
As a true Halloween geek, I started purchasing decorations and other Halloween items in August. I was aided by a colleague in purchasing the beverages and my boyfriend helped me out with buying and cooking the food. That took…a little longer than we thought.
Thursday and Friday went like this;
6 pm – I meet up with my boyfriend at the local supermarket and we buy all the food and drag it back to our place to immediately start cooking.
7 pm to 12 pm – we are cooking and baking like crazy.
12.30 pm – we finally hit the sack.
8 am – we get up and keep cooking.
11 am – we take a cab to the office (since we have SO much stuff, it would be impossible to make it there using any public means of transportation).
1 pm – after lunch I mix actual work with preparing for the party (setting tables, hanging up last minute decorations and so on).
4 pm – the carbon dioxide ice (you know, ice that “smokes”) arrives and we start the last preparations, such as plating the food, pouring the welcome drinks and so on.
5 pm – people start showing up (some are still hiding in their rooms, being very secretive about what they will appear in/as).
6 pm – we start eating. Some of the stuff being served is zombie brain pannacotta, slimy green shots, witch’s fingers, mummy pizzas and veggie mummy hotdogs. The favorite of the evening became my boyfriend’s awesome Halloween cookies.
7 pm to 11 pm – I give the guys a Halloween quiz, show them my pre-recorded Halloween video (showing photos of last year and having me read a scary story that I wrote myself), declare this year’s Best Costume winner (which was me – yay!) and after that, those of us that are still left just let it all go. Dancing, singing, drawing childish stuff on the whiteboard and so on.
11 pm – me and my boyfriend head out to the Halloween party at our favorite alternative club Tech Noir. We have some problems locating their new facilities but finally make it there.
2.30 am – we take a cab home.
Me in my price winning Edward Scissorhands outfit
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