One day, you’re sitting in a warm 70s in late October, the next you’re shivering as temperatures get to their seasonal 50s as the ghouls and goblins seek out for candy and treats.

I had a great Halloween week. Lots of cute costumes I saw at both the Trunk or Treat and Halloweentown events. Got to wear two of my Spider-Man dress shirts at two separate events, which is always fun. And got to eat multiple bowls of delicious soup at Southeast Linn Community Center to warm up during the Halloweentown event in downtown Lisbon after it started getting too dark for me to get any additional photos of trick or treaters or games in the downtown.

Had a chance to vote early at Cornell College on Wednesday, Oct. 30, which also eased my mind. Especially as it took upwards of an hour to complete, which said that there was solid turnout and workers were helping first time voters make their decisions.

I also completed my October horror movie marathon with roughly 77 new to me movies and roughly six movies that were on physical media I needed to rewatch and file. There was a lot of bouncing around from different genres this year for me, from the recent streaming options to some classics in the genre from directors like Dario Argento I hadn’t watched. That also included catching two of the recent horror movies I missed in theaters, MaXXXine and A Quiet Place: Day One. The latter was definitely worth the spin and a pretty interesting prequel.

And it became the season that I broke back out the Crock Pot to cook some meals again. I can’t tell you how exciting it is to walk into an apartment that smells like whatever you decided to start cooking in the morning at the end of a work day. As I texted my sister, however, that’s when the impatience of me sitting there smelling something like Italian dressing cooked chicken breasts, and not wanting to wait the seven or eight minutes to steam my vegetables to go with my main course. And it makes me want to start looking up some soup recipes for the rest of the season. After all, the days are only going to get colder.