I will give you an overview of my Halloween this year and then explain my Christmas obsession.

This may be overdue but I feel like it needs to be posted either way. My best friend Mayra came to visit me and stayed Friday and Saturday night. This was crazy because who knew parking would be so expensive–it usually is free on weekends. We paid close to $30 for parking–which is ridiculous on a college student budget. So, we tried our best to not be on campus to reduce parking costs. We woke up Saturday morning at 6–why?!?!?!?!?!–well, I should say Mayra woke up at that time. I bummed it out until we got back to my room to change. As you can see below, I looked presentable to the population of Durham. We went to Home Goods, Sally’s beauty shop(store?), Plato’s Closet, –not that we had any money to spend since it was going towards parking– and talked about apartment and other grown people things regarding next years plans. Here is us at Home Goods–scratch that, this was forever 21, located in South point Mall in Durham, NC at around 9 in the morning. 9 in the morning!!!

This is turning into me rambling…so I’ll get to the point.

We went to Franklin Street, a UNC Halloween tradition. A bunch of schools come to experience it with us and personally, I had friends from all over come to my home to celebrate with me, it was great. I definitely say try it. I just want to give y’all some helpful tips on costumes, y’know, just for future reference.

Don’t EVER apply lipstick on your waterline. I was the Mad Hatter for Halloween and I was trying to go for the crazed, tired look. I put red lipstick  on my waterline and winged it out. Literally, it hurt so much! It burned to put on, to take off. Not to mention the stain it left on for three days after that made me look extremely tired. But, for my first time doing Halloween, or dressing up for Halloween I’d count it as a win.

This was after Franklin because I didn’t think to take pictures before hand. Yay me! You can kind of see the red around my eyes and my lipstick was worn off because Insomnia Cookies–which has the best sugar cookie in the world–was giving away free cookies if you dressed up.

Here I am in a blurry picture. Tip: Never as a random drunk man to take a picture for you, it will turn out like this. Haha. Overall,it was a great experience and really fun, so I will probably go to it every year, well while I’m here, of course.

What is this I say about Christmas?

As soon as Halloween was over a BUNCH of people started listening to Christmas music, including me. I am a Christmas Maniac, meaning I watched Elf before Halloween instead of watching Twitches or Halloween town. I recommend the Michael Bubble album, it is my favorite of all time along with some specific Spanish songs I grew up listening to. I also love my family traditions for Christmas. I think my next post will be a gift guide, since I struggle with that as well. I also like to get a head start on things.

Now there will be some of you that are like “Thanksgiving hasn’t even passed.” And to the I respond “There isn’t any catchy Thanksgiving music.” 😀 This may be an abrupt way to end things but I have to head to Anthropology. Wish me luck because has proved to be my most difficult and trying class.

As always…

Just remember: Be strong, Stay safe and First do no harm.