Everyone, thanks for showing that you care about the wellbeing of a random person you've never met (me). It makes me feel less alone, restores my faith in humanity, and shows a lot about your character!

I ended up doing option 1 AND 2. I know someone in the band and met up with his wife. It was a little awkward because we have nothing in common lol, but I guess it was still nice. I spent more time dancing around in different areas by myself anyway - the band is a large group of people, so they use multiple stages and have some members wander through the audience. So basically I had more fun moving around to see everything, and it wouldn't have mattered whether I had met up with somebody or not anyway.

The concert ended early enough for me to go to the party too, and I found out another friend was also going. She had my back and helped me avoid the toxic friend. I hope that doesn't sound awful. I tried for a long time to make that friendship work by being open and honest about what bothered me, and it never made a difference.

Anyway, I ended up having a good Halloween and hope you all did too! I worry about so many things that end up not happening, like this weekend sucking for example. I wish I could stop, but it's tough to change thought processes that are so ingrained, as I'm sure many of you know.