Although a night out with a group of friends can be fun, sometimes spending the night in is the most liberating and satisfying way to spend your Friday. So, as promised, how to spend a bomb night in:
1. Start the night off with a warm shower
Nothing feels better than a warm shower. This is especially true after a week of midterms and hair that has accumulated as much grease as a Happy Meal. Blast the music you can only blast when you’re home alone (I’m thinking Usher circa 2010) and make sure you lather up with coconut oil or lotion afterwards.
2. Put on your gross clothes
You know the ones: the sweatpants with the mustard stain, the t-shirt you haven’t washed in months from that concert you went to at age fourteen, your fluffy socks with the lint and hair stuck all over them. Put THOSE on. (No, pants are not optional, you disgusting beast.)
3. Get the food you usually eat drunk and eat it sober
Buy yourself three pieces of pizza. Get the eighteen rolls of sushi. DELIVERY POUTINE. Do it all. Your body can take it, trust me.
4. Find your nest
Be it your bed, your sofa, your roommate’s body, it doesn’t matter. Find a place you find comforting and stay there. While all of your super hot friends are cramming into a cab in tight jeans and crop tops in four degrees celsius weather, you’re going to be cozy as hell in a nest of cotton sheets. If that’s not the life, I don’t know what is.
5. PRO-TIP: Hot water bottle
All of the women in my family swear by hot water bottles. And, by default, I’ve accumulated many over the years. They’re incredible for cramps, sleeping, everthing. While you’re boiling water for tea, boil a little extra for your hot water bottle and keep it on your lap. It’s like having a baby animal to cuddle without the punch to your bank account.
6. Decaf tea and a chocolate bar.
There is this one gas station near my apartment that I only ever visit to purchase my Friday Night Mars Bar™. Literally the best thing in the world. Pair it with tea and you are golden.
7. Do The Thing
Flip through People magazine. Spend four hours on Tumblr. Creep you brother’s girlfriend’s older sister on Facebook. Masturbate. Try virtual bangs on. Kill a man. Plan your escape. No one will know.
8. Listen to some A+ tunes
Bon Iver’s latest album came out about a month ago. Another couple cool artists to check out include: Charlotte Cardin, James Blake, and Solange. Also, check out Savilla’s Autumn Playlist!
9. Stretch
Do yoga. Stretch. Touch your toes. I barely move Monday through Friday and I find stretching is a great way to slowly reawaken my body. Your body holds a lot of tension sitting in lectures and studying all the time so it feels super good to release some of that. Call it what you want, here are some great beginner’s stretches for releasing tension.
10. Bask in your queendom
This mattress? It is yours. This food? All yours. These walls? Yours, yours, yours. Look at what you’ve created for yourself. It’s not a lot, but it is all your own. Steep in that.
Have a great night in, you little burrito of warmth and tenderness.