Hiiii! I’m actually updating this blog?? What has happened to me lol. As the months years have gone by, more and more of my focus has become Instagram and this blog got put on the back burner. Do I think that this will ever become what it used to be? No. But that’s not a bad thing. I’ve changed a lot since I started back in 2019 and I’m proud of that. I do want to start coming back on here and having a space separate from IG that’s less limited. So with that being said, here’s some random chaotic November updates:
General Life Updates:
I got a new job back in October, so November was a lot of settling into that. I’m very happy to now work from home with this new change. I never realized before how hard it was on me and my family when I worked at B&N. I would work 7+ days in a row on a regular basis with shifts ranging from 9-5 to 1-9:30 depending on the day. It was slowly taking a toll on my mental and emotional health in ways that I’m discovering more and more each day.
Since this new job change, I’ve gotten to visit with friends and family that I had not gotten to spend quality time with in months. Thanksgiving definitely helped even more as my family was largely in one place. One day we all sat and played Mario Kart, Trivial Pursuit, and Uno together for like four hours and that was amazing. I’m looking forward to December which will have my birthday and Christmas, so I’ll get to have even more family time.
SEs + Book Boxes:
Lord November was ROUGH on the bank account. I feel like all these boxes were like “We have to rush to fit all these sales in before December when everyone’s money is being spent on the holidays.” LMAO. I will be doing my November Live Haul very soon where I’m sure I’ll talk about how crazy this month was even more.
Movies + Books + YouTube:
I’m pretty proud of myself. I read 7 books in November and, though I’m not a big movie watcher, I did watch a certain movie a lot lol.
As far as the books I read go, I started the month out with some contemporary books Midnight Blue and The Bombshell Effect. Both were solid around 3-4 star reads. I was honestly happy with that as I had fallen out of love with contemporary for a while. Then I read one of my most anticipated reads of the year POA and it DID NOT disappoint. This book was everything I had hoped it would be and more! I then moved back to my comfort zone (aka monster romances lol) and read the first two books in the Myths and Monsters series by Beatrix Hollow. I enjoyed the first one for the most part as she had a unique mix of monsters for the harem. The second book fell off for me a bit though and I ended up DNFing. I finished the month off with Helfyre + Honey by Mariel Pomeroy (who is honestly just the sweetest person). She was even kind enough to send me a signed copy of Heffy!! Helfyre has been on my TBR for soooo long and I was so happy to finally read it! And man do I love Arioch and his group so much!!
Okay if you haven’t seen my stories, you might not have seen my obsession with The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes… Well I’ve seen it three times (I’m actually going to go see it for a fourth time today) and I’ve been listening to “The Old Therebefore” and “The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird” on repeat for days. While I think the movie slightly drags in Part III, I still believe it is far and away my favorite movie in the franchise. Like come on, do you expect me not to love Coriolanus in his morally grey villain arc era?? 🥵 Tom Blyth utterly captivated me from his first moments on screen!
YouTube wise, I spent the early part of the month watching AstralSpiff play through a lot of his FNAF runs and fangames. I love finding new FNAF Youtuber content and his cat Loaf is adorable. I love it whenever she appears in a video! The last week or so has seen me watch basically all of MajinPhil’s Ocarina of Time x Majora’s Mask randomizers. I’ve been missing a lot of OG Zelda game content with so much this year going to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. And I LOVE me some randomizers! If you know anyone who does them on YouTube, please give me recs!
Teasing Things Because I Can…
I have some new things and ideas coming in 2024. Some of which sprout up daily lol. I will definitely continue to post on IG and TikTok, but I want to expand in other ways too. This blog being one of those and (you heard it here first folks) a newsletter too. I am constantly looking for new ways to expand the info I can provide and the means for that and I feel like these two would be great additions. I’m honestly super excited about both and to see what 2024 will bring!
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