We're into the swing of the new school year by now where the mornings are cold the afternoons are scorching. Every night consists of at least an hour work load of homework and even if it doesn't, you should probably be studying!
As I've been adjusting into the new school year I've been bombarded with work. I seem to only be searching for time to not think and when I have to (all the time) but I can't help but feel over whelmed. Just recently I was laying in bed just about to drift off to sleep and rest all of the troubles that the day had brought when my mental calendar turned into an alarm clock with the day OCTOBER 8TH flashing across my brain. October 8th is the homecoming dance, yes in theory it sounds fun. A night to dress up with friends, go out to eat, and dance the night away, but wrong-o! Homecoming means a dress, a hair appointment, pictures, make-up, nails, fining a date whose willing to pay for dinner, and it's senior year so there is homecoming court! It means lost of money and you want to look pretty and be asked the right way, and if something doesn't go right, it's the end of the world. Girls in school everywhere worry over what Pinterest quote their boyfriends will used to ask them to attend the dance with them and more importantly what their caption will be when they post the cute pic to Instagram. Guys get anxious over who to ask, it's probably what they've been thinking about since the first day of school. They don't stop talking about it. They want to know: What does your dress looks like? who's your date? What is he going to wear? Where are you eating? Have you made reservations? What are you doing afterwards? There is a lot of commotion for one night.
Normally I'm not like this, but homecoming is at the very beginning of October this year which means I can't procrastinate like I normally do. I would freak out about a date, but I normally have a willing friend to take the place of prince charming on my fairy tale night. Also, if the situation calls for it, I wouldn't mind going stag.
What I am worried about is a dress. The dress is the biggest of all nightmares for a girl like me because, to those of you who don't know, I have a twin, which means the price of homecoming is doubled for my mom, so when girls go and spend almost $500 dollars on a dress I want to throw up because that would be doubled in my world. When it comes to dress shopping we get a little creative. Normally most girls refuse to go any where other than a high end boutique or bridal store, yet my mom introduced my sister and I into a nice little secret weapon called Macy's. We find cute dresses for really cute prices and no one ever has the same one! But here's the catch this year, Macy's hoped off the cute train and migrated into the land of cheap looking lace mixed with sparkles. It wasn't flattering. I also have trouble finding appropriate dresses because I have the body of a 12 year old and anything other than a halter top makes me want to curl in a ball and cry. As the dresses got better looking with higher neck lines the prices were running through the roof. So much so that I refused to even try them on because I knew I wasn't going to make my mom pay that much.
I'm hoping the the internet will do me good and grant me with a dress I've been dreaming of and I hope that other girls don't have to worry as much as I do about the price and the look of their dress, even though I know that they do, but overall I wish we didn't put such a hype on homecoming. I wish that we could just make it a fun night of dancing and friends and not worry over who takes who and who had my dress because that only causes unwanted drama. There is so much potential for us to have fun on a night like homecoming, yet we tend to destroy it because we expect the world to work in our favor (which it never does). I hope I get to enjoy my night and update you all on the fun festivities.
