Election Day happiness
Nov. 5th, 2025 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_chipmunkGot up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee. Showered and dressed, and headed out to vote.
The polling place was not packed but there was a steady flow of people. I got my I Voted sticker, filled out my ballot, and voted.
Then I packed up my computer and my Courage to Change book, andheaded off tomashfanficchick. It was a lovely day for a change, so I took the bus.
We met at Starbucks, where I ordered a pumpkin spice latte. Then we we went to Key Food and got ready made pasta, and went back to zer place and had lunch, which in my case was Dinty Moore beef stew over pasta.
Then we hung out and basically chatted and played on our phones, until 7:00 when I hooked up the computer and Teamed the FWiB. We talked til 8:00 when I had my Al-anon meeting by Zoom, which this week did not f-up like it did last week.
The meeting was very good, though M wasn't there. I hope she's OK.
Then we ordered dinner, burrito bowls. And at 9:00 we turned on NY1 for the local election returns.
And as you probably know already, Zohran Mamdani won! In an election that had the largest mayoral vote turnout in the city since 1969 I think they said, over 2,000,000 people. Mamdani won by slightly more than 50%. Yay!
We sat and watched the speeches, and I Facebooked Herschel to congratulate him on the VA governor win. And he answered me and we had a brief conversation which was nice.
The Kid called, and I put her on speaker and she put me on speaker so we had a four way conversation with Matt too.
And by the time that was over it was so late it looks like I'm just going to spend the night here even though I didn't bring clothes or meds.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Mamdani won!
3. My meetings and the people there.
4. The right to vote.
5. The Kid.
6. Herschel.
The polling place was not packed but there was a steady flow of people. I got my I Voted sticker, filled out my ballot, and voted.
Then I packed up my computer and my Courage to Change book, andheaded off to
mashfanficchick. It was a lovely day for a change, so I took the bus.We met at Starbucks, where I ordered a pumpkin spice latte. Then we we went to Key Food and got ready made pasta, and went back to zer place and had lunch, which in my case was Dinty Moore beef stew over pasta.
Then we hung out and basically chatted and played on our phones, until 7:00 when I hooked up the computer and Teamed the FWiB. We talked til 8:00 when I had my Al-anon meeting by Zoom, which this week did not f-up like it did last week.
The meeting was very good, though M wasn't there. I hope she's OK.
Then we ordered dinner, burrito bowls. And at 9:00 we turned on NY1 for the local election returns.
And as you probably know already, Zohran Mamdani won! In an election that had the largest mayoral vote turnout in the city since 1969 I think they said, over 2,000,000 people. Mamdani won by slightly more than 50%. Yay!
We sat and watched the speeches, and I Facebooked Herschel to congratulate him on the VA governor win. And he answered me and we had a brief conversation which was nice.
The Kid called, and I put her on speaker and she put me on speaker so we had a four way conversation with Matt too.
And by the time that was over it was so late it looks like I'm just going to spend the night here even though I didn't bring clothes or meds.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Mamdani won!
3. My meetings and the people there.
4. The right to vote.
5. The Kid.
6. Herschel.
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