A Different Kind of Exercise

I'm on the winning side of fighting off a cold. I woke up in the middle of the night on Wednesday night/Thursday morning and I felt awful! My head was pounding, my throat felt drier than the Sahara desert and my nose...oh my poor poor nose!

Rather than lay in bed and toss and turn and keep Ken awake, I got up, started using Zicam, sipping honey lemon tea and taking Advil.

Being sick tends to bring out the drama queen in me. Maybe because three years in a row I ended up SO sick, I had to miss work for six weeks. The past few years I've been healthy and I'm hoping to continue the healthy streak this year but the memory of the body aches, uncontrolled coughing and ruptured ear drums lingers and pushes me to quick action when I start to feel sick. 

So in true drama queen style, I convinced myself that I had to go early vote on Thursday morning because I could be SO sick by next Tuesday I'd miss the election. I had watched the news and saw that in some areas people had to wait in line 2 hours to early vote. Surly this wouldn't be the case here. So I called my sister at 7:45am knowing she would have left work by then and would be on her way home and I told her WE MUST EARLY VOTE TODAY!!! She tried to talk me into early voting with her on Tuesday but I told her that I want wanted to wait to the "real election day" to vote, I wanted to walk up that hill to the voting station and cast my vote!  So she waited too. 

The closest early voting station was our local library o off we went to vote and there was ZERO WAIT!! We were in and out of there in under 10 minutes.

I'm happy to say that my cold is 90% gone this morning. I'm still taking the necessary precautions and sipping Tropicana light and healthy orange juice, which is totally yummy by the way, and getting lots of rest.

So now my message to you for today and the next four days!!! Be sure to VOTE!!

Early voting is available in many states through Saturday. 

Poles are open from 7am to 7pm on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. 

This is the kind of exercise 

you can't afford to miss!

Celebrate freedom 

Exercise your right to vote!

Happy Halloween everyone!