Election Day happiness

Got 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 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.

The day after

Woke up this morning at 7-something, was awake for awhile, then went back to sleep until mashfanficchick woke my up around 10:00.

I got dressed, since I hadn't planned on spending the night I had no clean clothes so I didn't bother showering or anything. I just put my clothes from the day before back on.

Then we went to a bagel place for breakfast. I celebrated by getting a garlic bagel with lox and cream cheese rather than lox spread, and coffee and orange juice.

After we ate ze walked with me to the bus stop and I took the bus home. Got here and took my med, then fed hungry pets, then set up the computer and checked some stuff, then went to the bedroom and played solitaire til I fell asleep, and took a nap.

Slept a couple of hours, and then got up feeling more awake. Watched the 7th episode of The Diplomat (I guess I only watched two last time, not three like I thought) on Netflix. Finally at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. WE talked til 8:00 when I got off and went to my gaming group. We're still playing Monster of the Week.

We played til 10:00 as usual, then ended. It was a lot of fun, we're still investigating rather than fighting anything. I fed the pets again, dinner this time, and made my own dinner. And then I started here.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The election results in general.

3. Naps.

4. My gaming group.

5. The pain I've been having in my hip is much less.

6. Bed soon.