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Apparently when you tell five people to come over and get ready for Halloween together, what you actually get is a living room that looks like Party City exploded. Jake’s been working on his pirate voice for twenty minutes. Carmen keeps adjusting her Wonder Woman tiara. Sarah’s vampire fangs are making her lisp, which is honestly perfect.

Assembly required

Michelle brought enough black eyeliner to paint a small building, and Alex is convinced his cape makes him fly faster when he runs to the kitchen for snacks. I’m just here trying to keep my cat whiskers from smudging while refereeing costume crises.

Ready or not, here we come.

We’re supposed to meet up with the downtown crowd at eight, but at this rate we’ll be lucky to make it out the door by nine. Nobody seems to mind though. Sometimes the getting ready is better than the actual party.