Ryker's Blog

I Hosted a Party and Am Very Happy About It

I did the thing! Perhaps the goal I was most excited to actually pull off, I finally hosted a get-together at my apartment, and it was so fun! Ended up having 9 people over, so 10 including me, absolutely smashing the original goal. I think it's significantly lowered the mental barrier towards doing things like this in the future, which was the real hope with this as a goal. Should be doing this more often going forward!

Some thoughts for others who were/are hesitating about doing something like this

If you're anything like I was and very scared to try this for a reason you can't place, honestly try just picking a date, polling some friends for interest, and if you get a critical mass of like 4 people then make actual invitations and send them around (or don't! can also just send texts).

Great, now you have a date and presumably a place (your home), and importantly some amount of external accountability (if you haven't gathered I benefit from this x3). Turns out you don't need too much more. I ordered pizza from a local place and grabbed some snacks/alcohol from the local grocery store. I ended up spending $200 after getting way too much of everything, but you can definitely get away with less (and many people are down to bring snacks/drinks of their own).

I found you don't even need to have anything in particular to do. I had some board games and a switch in case people wanted to play something, but we ended up just sitting around and talking the whole time, which was also great. Would strongly recommend getting some floor cushions—floor time is good for the soul, especially with alcohol. Otherwise picked a few chill albums and played them on a bluetooth speaker, which also helps. It was mostly the albums I mentioned on the previous post, so you should go read that one. :P

Also I didn't take any pictures because I'm a fool, but you should.

Wrapping up

But yeah, great times all around! The rest of the weekend was also very fun, with two friends staying over after the party, a nice morning and brunch, and then the NYC pride parade on Sunday.

That's all from me for now! Until next time ^^