It must have felt amazing to go out and vote, just to do a new thing and see new people. I want to hear all about it.
Well OK!! I love to ramble on about things like that so here you go:
It was drizzling, and all the handicapped spots were taken so I parked down the street and we walked from there to the polling place. When we got there, the line for my precinct was really long and slow moving, so we were standing for quite a while. The gentleman in front of me kindly offered to let me go ahead of him, and so did the gentleman in front of him. Both were seniors like we are, and I thought they were very gallant to let me go ahead of them. I guess I must look more pitiful with my knee scar and walker, than I thought.
I really think my neighborhood is great and all the neighbors are so kind, and this is an illustration of that. Most of my neighbors are elderly and were brought up back in the days when manners and consideration of others had a high priority. I don't know all of them so it was fun chatting with everyone in line.
I voted for my favorite candidate for each of 15 positions, and then either yes or no on four amendments to the state constitution. After voting there were chairs right by my voting booth, luckily, so I was able to sit for a moment while waiting for my sweetie to vote. Then we hiked back to my SUV. Next we ran a couple of errands (at drive throughs), and ended up at our favorite restaurant for lunch. I ordered shrimp pasta alfredo, which is utterly divine and pretty high in calories as you might imagine, but after all that activity I didn't gain anything overnight from it.
Afterwards we came back home (sweetie lives next door to me), and I just iced and rested for the remainder of the day, and watched the election results come in on the television. I'll finish the bathroom cleaning later.
I am icing again this morning since I almost, but not quite, rejoined the ODIC yesterday. So, didn't sleep well at all due to very minor pain last night that interrupted my sleep each time I resumed joyfully flopping about. I am a light sleeper which I really think is a big disadvantage during TKR recovery.
BTW, on another topic, not having the toilet riser in place is no problem at all at the stage I am at! It is easy to stand with one hand on the sink counter and the other on the wall to steady myself. I should have put it away weeks ago, but just didn't know.
My sweetie is over-the-moon with how far my recovery has advanced this week. I probably mentioned that decades ago he was caregiver for two close family members with terminal illnesses. So this time, it's very emotionally healing for him to be able to see me actually improving day by day, week by week.