2024 Life Logs, Day 319: Election Depression
Date: Friday, November 15, 2024
Weather: Partly Sunny; High Temp 54, Low 37 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
The generally accepted stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and eventually acceptance. Well, I am grieving over the results of the election, but I skipped the denial, the anger, and the bargaining and I will never reach a level of acceptance. I am just feeling depressed as each day the choices Donald Trump is making get more and more absurd. I know the cure is to do something, but right now I am just not sure what I can do. So, today I binged on chocolate and read. The reading won’t kill me, but the chocolate binging has to stop!
Otherwise, I did try leading a normal life. Shadow and I went for a long walkabout downtown, after which I spent a couple of hours answering emails, and then I went food shopping and checked out the new Aldi’s in town. There is a lot there for those of us who buy organic, but there is some organic produce and canned organic beans that are half the price of the ones where I shop. The one thing that really caught my eye was the organic blackberries that are also half the price of the ones I buy at Stop and Shop. Since I buy blackberries about twice a week, I will be returning to Aldi’s.
After lunch, Shadow and I played outside and then I went to pick Ollie up after school. It is when I came home from dropping off Ollie that I read a very long email from my daughter-in-law Jo’s mother who lives in England. She went into detail about how tumultuous our election results have been for the people of England. That’s when I got depressed and started binging on the chocolate and decided to read away the rest of the afternoon. Tomorrow, I have some cooking to do that will keep my mind off the election results. On Sunday, I will be having a Thanksgiving celebration with Heather and family. I will be in Puerto Rico and they will be the Netherlands for Thanksgiving, so this Sunday is our day of thanks and tomorrow will be a day of cooking and preparation.
