Tuesday (Election Day!) Randoms

[candreco]

I've been up since 4:40 so I could drop DD off at our polling place, where she's volunteering as an election page today. I've already worked out, showered/gotten dressed for a big meeting this afternoon, and voted. I still have a full workday ahead of me split between WFH and going in for that meeting- today is going to feel like three days packed into one. Definitely going to be too tired to stay up late for election results, which I guess is a good thing?

DD gave me my instructions when I picked up my ballot this morning, definitely teared up a little. I used to take her with me to vote and tell her what I was doing, and now she's giving me directions. ::sniff sniff::

[gummybear]

I already voted but as soon as I get the kids off to school I’m going to walk the dog through the woods to check out our voting precinct.. I’m so nervous. I was feeling so optimistic but now I am back to feeling an impending sense of doom.

[deadwing]

I got to my polling place about 20 minutes before it opened. I got in and out quickly. I've voted by mail the last few elections, so this was the first time I've been to this location - it was tiny! My last polling location was huge. I glad I got it done early - it's going to back up quickly.

[fernweh]

I’m incredibly jealous of my dogs right now. It’s just another day to them, no election anxiety. Also no matter what happens today they will wake up tomorrow with their lives completely unchanged. Lucky little shits.

[pandorica]

DD1 has the day off, so we're spending 4 hours in the car to do a day trip to Legoland. I'm hoping this prevents me from spending the entire day anxiously staring at my phone...

[circa1978]

Perimenopause does not blend well with elections.

[deadwing]

Nov 5, 2024 7:37:20 GMT -5 fernweh said:

I’m incredibly jealous of my dogs right now. It’s just another day to them, no election anxiety. Also no matter what happens today they will wake up tomorrow with their lives completely unchanged. Lucky little shits.

I feel this. My older dog was so wierd on our morning walk and I truly believe it's because she knew I was off. I feel less full of existential dread after voting, but it's going to creep back up.

[scm1011]

The kids' school is my polling location so they're off today. I'm excited to bring them to vote with me later, but for now I'm attempting to WFH while on anxiety level red.

[ssmjlm]

We’re driving back from Charleston. It was a fantastic weekend away as a family. I hope the school district keeps this up in non-election years.

We both voted early, so at least that’s done.

I put in a grocery pick up order that I will grab after dropping E at dance tonight.

[expectantsteelerfan]

Wow candreco, that's a busy morning, but also awesome! Dh took the day off today so he could be sure to vote, and the kids are off because schools are polling places. We asked our kids (teens) if they wanted to come with us when we vote and then go out to brunch, and they were like nah, we'd rather stay in PJs and play video games.

Yesterday I had the thought that 'oh, they're just going to replace the incessant political ads on TV with holiday ads, that's almost as bad at this point' because I'm not in the holiday mood yet. But having the news on this morning has me feeling differently...I'm so anxious that I don't care if all the show is holiday stuff 24/7, it's better than the political stuff.

[blondemoment123]

School is closed today so I took the day off. My workplace is a polling center and it's going to be a complete shit show with parking and such.

Oh. It's also my 13th anniversary. FB memories are a mindfuck of when things were ok. Sigh.

[mommyatty]

I have to travel for work today. I had resigned myself to not knowing who won until December, but then I read yesterday on 538 that we are one normal polling error away from a landslide one way or another. Or not. So I’m back to being a ball of nerves.

My cat had 3 teeth pulled yesterday including both upper canines. They gave him an opioid shot that lasts three days. He’s high, you guys. So high. We keep finding him playing in his water fountain, and last night he was playing in his tunnel, which he hasn’t done in years. Or maybe he’s just feeling good because his abscessed tooth is out. His teeth always looked good until his last checkup but when they got him under, they said one tooth was really gross and two others needed to come out (one was broken). My poor boy.

[maudefindlay]

I'm hoping my state surprises me and we get our first female governor, along with first Madame President! I have some hope as many farmers are mad about something the R candidate supports, just hope they don't vote Ind instead.

DS1 and DD are at school. DS2 is home going on day 3 of a horrible cough that Robitussin isn't helping. Maybe time to bring him in to the doctor.

Meeting someone from the electric company at our new build in a bit then I have my dental cleaning appt.

DH is in Mexico this week. We both voted early, I hope nothing wild happens that prevents him coming home Friday night.

[CurlyQ284]

My stepdaughters moved to their own apartments since the last election, and now that they aren't living with me, they seem meh about the election. I think they won't vote, which KILLS me. Last time SD2 was having panic attacks about Trump winning and she wasn't old enough to vote yet. SD1 wrote "this is what a feminist looks like" on her graduation cap. I think SD2 is just worn out, she's going to paramedic school and working 12 hours shifts as an EMT. But I'm sad about SD1, and can't think of what the problem is there.

I texted both of them their polling places and hours, a link where they can view their sample ballot, and offered to go with them if they're nervous about not knowing what to do. I hope they vote 😭. We are in Michigan FFS!

ETA: SD2 is voting! Gonna stop by around 6 to vote (she thought she changed to her new address about 10 min away but she didn't so shes still registered in our precinct)

[meanie]

We had a 7AM meeting with DD's teachers so we were all up and dressed very early this morning, then H and I voted - I feel so productive lol

DD got her period again (1st one was 2 weeks ago and it lasted a full week). Poor kid, I was hoping she would fare better than I did in that department.

[icedcoffee]

I already voted, but my kids school has some kids having a baked sale during voting so I might take my little guy to buy some baked goods and have a place to wear my sticker today. LOL

[wanderingback]

Last night went to a friend’s apartment that has regular gatherings for moms. I didn’t get home until 1:30 am! I had to give a zoom talk to med students till 9 and then rushed over there, thankfully it’s only a block away. Was a nice distraction for the night. I wore won of my abortion tshirts and am so glad I don’t have to worry about making new mom friends that have different social and politic views than me.

[abs]

Super rainy morning so far so I've done nothing but drink coffee. Glad I did early voting!

Yesterday I was so nervous my stomach hurt all day. Today I feel numb.

[starburst604]

Nov 5, 2024 8:15:58 GMT -5 blondemoment123 said:

School is closed today so I took the day off. My workplace is a polling center and it's going to be a complete shit show with parking and such.

Oh. It's also my 13th anniversary. FB memories are a mindfuck of when things were ok. Sigh.

I purposely avoided my FB memories when our 11th anniversary passed a couple of weeks ago. School is also closed for us for polling and now I have to both WFH and keep DD from being "booooored". I wish I just had a day off to do absolutely nothing all day! I had my ballot mailed to me and dropped it in the ballot box, but I wish I had remembered that DD had the day off and I'd have brought her with me to vote.

[lavenderblue]

To the man in front of me in line at the polls this morning who blamed Kamala for the laws against wearing anything that supported either candidate - I proudly canceled out your vote.

[shauni27]

fortunately (??) I am crazy busy at work today so that should help distract me until this evening.

[beerlover]

I have to attend a virtual symposium all day. Who the F scheduled this on Election Day?

Thankfully, I can listen in my Airpods and bounce around the house doing other things, b/c I'm anxious AF and can't just sit here. I'll walk over to vote at lunchtime.

[jinkies]

I am in a rabbit hole of videos of the last finishers of the NYC marathon, and I'm crying at every one of them.

Somehow the 11 hour finishers are more inspiring to me than the winners. Also the crowds who stay out with glow sticks to cheer them on are good people.

[fluffycookie]

DS is off today because the school is the town polling location. I totally forgot until he asked last night to go out with friends and I said it's a school night and he reminded me. He is still asleep. I told him he needs to clean his room and go thru his drawers today so we can donate his clothes that are too small.

[NewGirlNic]

Nov 5, 2024 9:22:43 GMT -5 jinkies said:

I am in a rabbit hole of videos of the last finishers of the NYC marathon, and I'm crying at every one of them.

Somehow the 11 hour finishers are more inspiring to me than the winners. Also the crowds who stay out with glow sticks to cheer them on are good people.

Yes, that older gentleman who was the final finisher? OMG, I was tearing up too. 

[starburst604]

Nov 5, 2024 9:22:43 GMT -5 jinkies said:

I am in a rabbit hole of videos of the last finishers of the NYC marathon, and I'm crying at every one of them.

Somehow the 11 hour finishers are more inspiring to me than the winners. Also the crowds who stay out with glow sticks to cheer them on are good people.

After I finished the Boston Marathon and was leaving a restaurant, it was getting dark and they were removing the guardrails but runners were still trickling in. I stood there and cheered them on until I was hoarse. I was so emotional!

[NewGirlNic]

H and I are going to vote here in a bit. Our polling place is just around the corner, so we'll take a walk with the dog. DS is off, so he's coming too so he can wait outside with the pup while we go in to vote. I'm hoping the line isn't too long since our polling place was also an early voting center. I'm kicking myself that we didn't get our shit together last week and go... 

ETA: No line! We were in and out in 5 minutes. Now if we could just fast forward to whenever we find out the results? 

[texasharleygirl]

I took one of my meds yesterday that are like HUGE and I didn't drink enough water with it. It got "stuck" and caused major heartburn and then it caused me to vomit, which is never fun. This morning, I woke up with 2 black eyes.... Good thing I work from home.

[bex1973]

I voted absentee so no lines for me today. We've voted absentee for years because H used to work a 24 hour shift on Tuesdays so that's what we did and have just stuck with it. I much prefer to be able to take as much time as I want with my ballot and research options without feeling the pressure of other folks waiting. We dropped them in the ballot box the other day because I feel better doing that option. I totally trust our postal worker - he's actually our neighbor LOL - so I'm not worried about it being messed with, I just like it being in my control the whole way through I guess.

It was so nice out last night, I went for a walk in the evening and even though it was already dark the temp was perfect.

I've been journaling the past 5ish months as I've been going through some stuff but I'm starting to feel like I just keep repeating myself so I don't know if it's the best activity right now because it almost makes me feel stuck... Maybe I need to take a break from it.

[followyourarrow]

The classmates in my class are making me crazy. They're complaining that there aren't enough instructions, there are plenty of instructions, they just aren't reading them. They complain that the work is repetitive, welcome to life and work. They complain that it takes too long, welcome to grad school, we're expected to do 8-12 hours of homework a week. They are trying to form a group to go to the dean about this, good luck I guess.