We voted in Another Open Diary refugee

Well, we voted… I nagged John into it! He’s not feeling well today and he didn’t want to but I pointed out that it would probably only take five minutes because we live in a relatively small town now and the line was hardly likely to be out the door at 3pm. I just had to show my new voter ID card with our proper address on it, and they didn’t ask John for anything additional, probably because I have an Australian accent and they wanted to make sure I was actually registered. Didn’t take long either - somebody lent me a pen so I could colour in my boxes while I was standing in line and not wait for a booth, so we both finished at the same time. Funny thing is, if medical marijuanna hadn’t been on the ballot, we wouldn’t have bothered to get up and go vote at all - both candidates for Florida state governor are equally as bad as each other and I didn’t really want to give EITHER of them my vote! But that’s a big problem with the US political system - less than 50% of the population gets off their rear end to have their say, so that leaves all the decision-making to the ones who actually care… in Australia, everyone votes and that’s it. If you don’t, you get a fine! (course, you could always turn in a blank ballot, or write ‘you’re all scum’ on it, but I don’t see the point. If you’re going to vote you should do it properly or you’re just wasting your time AND theirs.)

I achieved another thing today too - I had a doctors appointment this morning (he told me off about a bunch of stuff and fiddled with my meds - he wants me to try qvar(sp?) instead of my advair because I’m still getting allergic asthma and he doesn’t want me using my nebuliser so often if I can help it. I just hope the insurance company will pay for it. It’s a ‘newer’ drug but it’s much cheaper than the Advair, which will be good if it works…) and then I got my flu shot at Walgreens. I always get it in November because that’s when I had my first one… the shot itself took ten seconds, but I had to wait about ten MINUTES to get to the front of the line to do the paperwork, and since Walgreens was having ‘seniors day’ today I had to wait for them to finish explaining medicare to some old codger before I could get my shot.

Last updated November 04, 2014