Hello friends, and welcome, or welcome back, to the blog!
Gnight, November
Come in from the cold
We’re making hot cocoa
with WHOLE milk: we’re bold.
CHILL, November. CHILL.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda
Friends, how are you? I hope you’re enjoying the Fall season, with cooler temps, hot beverages, and tasty treats.
Take advantage of some Fall mysteries with a good book; even though it’s chilly, stay hydrated and get plenty of rest.
It’s November 🦃.
I’m finally getting caught up on all my regular posts this fall. My 31 Days of Halloween series always puts me a little behind on everything else happening here on the blog. As much as I love the season, keeping up with it all can be a challenge. So, without further ado, let’s get into everything that happened on the blog in October!
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Here’s what I enjoyed on and offline.
📰 Articles and stories I enjoyed in October!
✚ Instead Of Main Character Energy, Here’s How To Be The Author Of Your Life
Several years ago, the term “Main Character Energy” had a major moment online.
✚ How To Brainstorm Better
While some advice feels obvious, I think we can all use these reminders for whenever we reach that “point of no return” — when we simply just have no more bandwidth for creative solutions. And this isn’t just for work; these ideas can help you rejuvenate a relationship, make a house feel more like home, or finally land on a direction for your next creative project.
✚ What Are Angel Numbers Trying To Tell You?
An angel number is a repetitive or predictable sequence or pattern of numbers, like 1111, 777, 5656, or 321. The numbers might show up in banal places, like price tags, phone numbers, clocks, or license plates. But in numerology, the belief in a divine or mystical correlation between numbers and events, these angel numbers are seen as signs from the universe (or whatever higher power you vibe with).
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN ✚ Planning
✚ To post every day in October is no small feat, and it takes months of planning. I started planning in July…YES JULY. But for 2026, I wanted to get more creative. That is how I came up with the titles Maniac Matriarchs Week, The Witching Hour Week, and Black Horror Rising. The planning went a bit like this:
- July 👉🏽 plan the themed weeks
- July 👉🏽 draft the template for each post
- July 👉🏽 final decision on post themes
- July 👉🏽 design in Canva and create each header
- August 👉🏽 research the movies
- August 👉🏽 pick movies for each theme
- August 👉🏽 design the movie poster reel in Canva
- August 👉🏽 organize the posting schedule
- August 👉🏽 create some new Halloween disclaimers and signatures
- September 👉🏽 start drafting week 1
- September 👉🏽 schedule week 1 draft week 2
- September 👉🏽 continue to draft the weeks
- September 👉🏽 create the weekly quizzes and update the games page on the blog
- September 👉🏽 continue to draft and schedule the daily posts
- October (1st week) 👉🏽 draft and schedule the final week of the 31 days of Halloween
And that’s it!
Yes, it’s A LOT, but I wouldn’t keep doing it if I didn’t love it, and I enjoy the Halloween season. It’s been a pleasure, and I’ll keep driving this thang until the wheels fall off. (LOL) Below are links to each day, plus a movie calendar of everything featured.
🥖 Blog Roll ➯ OCTOBER 🥖
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📼MOVIE LINKS📼
We definitely got a few movies this month; some that are actually on this calendar made the roster, and everything I hadn’t seen when I created and posted this I can now add to my “seen it” list.
Hokum, 2026
Obsession, 2025
Vampires vs. The Bronx, 2020 (Day 26: Black Horror Rising)
Slice, 2018 (Day 27: Black Horror Rising)
Unfriended: Dark Web, 2018
His House, 2020 (Day 25: Black Horror Rising)
Pearl, 2022 (Day 3: Maniac Matriarch)
Backrooms, 2026
Exit 8, 2025
📚 Let’s recap some bookish things from October!
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📖 🎧Books Read and Reviewed in September |
🎧 💾 ARC Downloads & Purchases (ARC) Tell Me Everything, Sara Shephard |
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Friends, that wraps up last month’s blog happenings and the 31 Days of Halloween. Next up: Thanksgiving (Friendsgiving) planning and prep.
I’m back to my Fall (Harvest) decor for holidays until December 1st, when it’s all about Christmas. Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you soon. — Duces 🤎 ∞—Into the future we go…
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