Route 66 Run - A Bit of a Disaster
This weekend I participated in a quarter marathon, which was part of the Route 66 Marathon here in Tulsa. It was about 6.5 miles and while I finished strong, well, it was kinda a disaster.
It was a cold Sunday morning. Jeremy was just coming to cheer me one and we did our usual run-day tradition of Panera for breakfast. I had him slowly drive to the drop point b/c I didn't want to stand out in the cold. I wanted to be dropped off 15 minutes before the gun, just enough time to stretch and not freeze while waiting.
Note to self - That is NOT enough time.
I didn't account for walking to the start area, finding a place to stretch, etc. I was in the middle of stretching and I hear the 5 minute warning and see people scurrying around. Crap! I wasn’t done and I kinda had to pee. I hurry up and get in the organized chaos of people surrounding the start line.
About .5 miles in, I had to pee. Bad sign. First mile marker and no bathroom. I saw a McDonalds ahead at about the 1.5 mile point and got excited. Until I got closer and realized it was closed because the run is surrounding it. Crapola.
I kept going and had just past mile 2 there were three porta-potties for runners. Relieved, I pulled off to the side and waited behind 3 other people. Someone came out right away and I thought, “Ok, this will go fast.” Then, I realized that like 5 other people are waiting in a very unorganized line all of a sudden. I saw a sneaky annoying man trying to make his way to a certain area to beat the line, but I stayed where I was because I knew the two I was in front of will open first - the people have been in there the longest! Then, the last potty's door opens and chubby man runs in. ERRRRRRR. I want to fight him. But, I wait and eventually get to go behind the slowest bathroom users ever.
Even though that was super annoying, I started feeling better because I could get in a flow now. Until mile 3.5. CRAP. I have to pee again!!!! We were on Riverside at this point and I knew there were some bathrooms ahead. But, when I got there they were locked. Awesome.
I was relieved to find some bathrooms at about mile 4.5. I had to wait in line again, but at least the annoying bathroom stealer wasn’t there.
When I started to run again, I noticed my IT band is tight. This is probably because it's cold, and I didn't allow enough time to stretch. (A little background - that was the injury I had when I couldn't run the full Chicago Marathon.) So, I pulled off to the side and did some basic leg stretches and started to run again.
It still hurt. Not bad, just tight. But, I knew if I didn't get it stretched out, it would become strained quickly. So I decide to look silly and lay down on the grass and do specific stretches for the IT Band. I wanted to avoid this because I've had to do it before and bystanders get nervous when a runner just lays down. And,t hey all ask if you are ok and it's embarrassing. But, who cares. I don't want an injury. So, I laid down, did my stretches and as I got up and felt something sticking me in the back. I put my hand behind me and get poked by a sticker. STICKERS. ALL. OVER. Are you freakin’ kidding me?? Evidently, I had laid in a stickers paradise and they were dry and hard and in just the perfect stage to make them the most painful and annoying.
So, I stood there all twisted around trying to see my back to pull out all the freakin' stickers.
After getting all the stickers off me, I started to run again. Now, if you have ever run in a race, you will understand this. If not, well, I'm just going to sound mean.
When you run in races, there are certain people that you see and think, "Wow, how are they running this race?" It's not that you are trying to be mean, it's just an honest shock to see some of the folks running in the races sometimes. Anyway, you usually see them at the beginning and then slowly towards the end you see less and less. To me, this is a good thing. It means you are beating some people which the competitive side of me likes. So - back to my story. When I finish pulling stickers outta my ass, I look around and well, I'm surrounded by those runners. Wow. I am NOT going to finish in this last bunch. So, I start running as fast as I can without overdoing it. I didn't know how much was left and didn't want to get burnt out, but I sure as hell was going to beat some of these folks.
I finished in 1:20. When I realized that, I was like wow, that's HORRIBLE. But if you take out 5 minutes for potty breaks, 5 minutes for stretching and 5 minutes for sticker patrol, you get 1:05.
So I would like to think I did the run in 1:05, which isn't great, but not as terrible as 1-freakin-20.
All I could do was laugh after the race. What a disaster! I can’t wait for the next one because there’s no way it could be worse than this one!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Random
So, since I stayed up until 11:30 last night watching election coverage, I'm exhausted today. I am not one of those people that can go on little sleep. I just cannot. I wish I was. Anyway, through a long train of thought, thinking about that lead to the fact that now that I am 29, the blog title will no longer be usable after 10/7/09. WHAT will I call this thing!?!?
Hope you all are having a good election-hangover day!
A couple of good post-election quotes:
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." ~ Edward R. Murrow
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." ~ Ralph W. Sockman
So, since I stayed up until 11:30 last night watching election coverage, I'm exhausted today. I am not one of those people that can go on little sleep. I just cannot. I wish I was. Anyway, through a long train of thought, thinking about that lead to the fact that now that I am 29, the blog title will no longer be usable after 10/7/09. WHAT will I call this thing!?!?
Hope you all are having a good election-hangover day!
A couple of good post-election quotes:
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." ~ Edward R. Murrow
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." ~ Ralph W. Sockman
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
When Jeremy and I find a new hobby, we really get into it. It's actually probably quite annoying for those around us. We just love trying new things and we are both competitive so we want to go all out when we find something we like.
The latest addiction is mountain biking. Or, just biking in general. We did a ton of it on our trip to North Carolina earlier this year and have been researching bikes to purchase since. We finally got our new bikes and were so excited to take them out on our first ride over the weekend. We hit the trails at Keystone Lake. We did little research, and found out that there were easy trails and where to park. Seemed like we knew what we needed to know. Right?
Wrong. ALWAYS research the details of the trail before you go. Because, if you don't, you can take a wrong turn on a poorly marked trail and end up on an expert/advanced trail which means as a beginner it's impossible to do. Therefore, you will actually be walking your bike for about 30 - 40 minutes instead of riding it because the trail is so rocky you can't imagine how anyone can ride a bike on it.
Lesson learned. It was still a fun, disasterous adventure.
Monday, November 03, 2008
A Bit Political
With the election tomorrow, and my OCD tendencies, I am GLUED to the latest news, stories, speeches, polls and anything else surrounding the election. I had on various news channels covering the election pretty much all weekend. I'm excited for the change that is about to come, one way or the other. Because, let's all face it, I think both sides mostly agree that 2000 - 2008 haven't been the best 8 years of America.
The few democrat readers will likely love the excerpt below. It really touched me. I find it hard sometimes to put my thoughts into words. It's hard for me to wrap my thoughts - maybe because my mind is always going - into intelligent words that make sense. Words that get my point across in a gentle, but firm fashion. Throughout this election, people ask me, "What was it that made you go from liking Obama, to actually sticking a sign in your yard and becoming a solid supporter?" Because, although I am a democrat, I don't dismiss solely based on partisan ideas.
I like John McCain, I always have. I think he's a moderate Republican and I actually agree with him on several fiscal issues. For me, this election hasn't been about the disliking of a candidate (like before) but more about seeing that one candidate has more potential to turn this country around.
So, back to the question - What was the turning point? Why the deep belief in Obama? I kept trying to explain the importance of foreign policy. In my opinion, foreign policy is the future backbone of our nation and in the last eight years, it has been demolished. I've tried to go into more detail, and I fumble my words and of course don't sound like I know what I'm talking about. Which, very well could be. But, in a plagiarized version, this is why I feel the way I do:
"This is the depth of the predicament the United States is in. The Islamist threat remains; but the Constitution is in deep disrepair, the military stretched to breaking point, the national debt doubled, and America's reputation in terrible shape. More important, the president and vice-president deeply damaged the reliability and integrity of America's intelligence services, creating a self-perpetuating loop of phony intelligence procured by torture which then justified more torture which led to worse intelligence. It will be decades before we learn the full extent of the damage done to this country's ability to find out what the enemy is really up to, how much risk these sadists and goons have subjected us to, how much damage to this country they may have facilitated by filling intelligence with the garbage always created by torture. We do know that their policy has led to just one successful prosecution - and that many guilty figures will escape justice because torture has tainted the legal process beyond repair.
The truth is: we are in a war for the future of human civilization. We are fighting for a world in which destructive technology need not collide with fierce religious fundamentalism to annihilate us all; for a world in which dialogue across cultures and religions and regions (even within America) is essential if we are to survive. We need to win the argument in the developing world; we need to reach out and persuade the Muslim middle - especially the next generation in Iran and Iraq and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Turkey and Western Europe - about the virtues of democracy and constitutionalism. We cannot do that if we trash our own values ourselves. It is self-defeating. We cannot be a beacon to the world until we have reformed ourselves.
In this war, we are also fighting for an America that does not lose its soul in fighting our enemy. Just because we are fighting evil does not mean we cannot ourselves succumb to it. That is what my Christian faith teaches me - that no nation has a monopoly on virtue, and that every generation has to earn its own integrity. I fear and believe we have given away far too much - and that, while this loss is permanent, it can nonetheless be mitigated by a new start, a new direction, a new statement that the America the world once knew and loved is back.
It will not be easy. The world will soon remember why it resents America as well as loves it. But until this unlikely fellow with the funny ears and strange name and exotic biography emerged on the scene, I had begun to wonder if it was possible at all. I had almost given up hope, and he helped restore it. That is what is stirring out there; and although you are welcome to mock me for it, I remain unashamed. As someone once said, in the unlikely story of America, there is never anything false about hope. Obama, moreover, seems to bring out the best in people, and the calmest, and the sanest. He seems to me to have a blend of Midwestern good sense, an intuitive understanding of the developing world that is as much our future now as theirs', an analyst's mind and a poet's tongue. He is human. He is flawed. He will make mistakes. His passivity and ambiguity are sometimes weaknesses as well as strengths.
But there is something about his rise that is also supremely American, a reminder of why so many of us love this country so passionately and are filled with such grief at what has been done to it and in its name. I endorse Barack Obama because I will not give up on America, because I believe in America, and in her constitution and decency and character and strength."
~ Andrew Sullivan
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/barack-obama-fo.html
With the election tomorrow, and my OCD tendencies, I am GLUED to the latest news, stories, speeches, polls and anything else surrounding the election. I had on various news channels covering the election pretty much all weekend. I'm excited for the change that is about to come, one way or the other. Because, let's all face it, I think both sides mostly agree that 2000 - 2008 haven't been the best 8 years of America.
The few democrat readers will likely love the excerpt below. It really touched me. I find it hard sometimes to put my thoughts into words. It's hard for me to wrap my thoughts - maybe because my mind is always going - into intelligent words that make sense. Words that get my point across in a gentle, but firm fashion. Throughout this election, people ask me, "What was it that made you go from liking Obama, to actually sticking a sign in your yard and becoming a solid supporter?" Because, although I am a democrat, I don't dismiss solely based on partisan ideas.
I like John McCain, I always have. I think he's a moderate Republican and I actually agree with him on several fiscal issues. For me, this election hasn't been about the disliking of a candidate (like before) but more about seeing that one candidate has more potential to turn this country around.
So, back to the question - What was the turning point? Why the deep belief in Obama? I kept trying to explain the importance of foreign policy. In my opinion, foreign policy is the future backbone of our nation and in the last eight years, it has been demolished. I've tried to go into more detail, and I fumble my words and of course don't sound like I know what I'm talking about. Which, very well could be. But, in a plagiarized version, this is why I feel the way I do:
"This is the depth of the predicament the United States is in. The Islamist threat remains; but the Constitution is in deep disrepair, the military stretched to breaking point, the national debt doubled, and America's reputation in terrible shape. More important, the president and vice-president deeply damaged the reliability and integrity of America's intelligence services, creating a self-perpetuating loop of phony intelligence procured by torture which then justified more torture which led to worse intelligence. It will be decades before we learn the full extent of the damage done to this country's ability to find out what the enemy is really up to, how much risk these sadists and goons have subjected us to, how much damage to this country they may have facilitated by filling intelligence with the garbage always created by torture. We do know that their policy has led to just one successful prosecution - and that many guilty figures will escape justice because torture has tainted the legal process beyond repair.
The truth is: we are in a war for the future of human civilization. We are fighting for a world in which destructive technology need not collide with fierce religious fundamentalism to annihilate us all; for a world in which dialogue across cultures and religions and regions (even within America) is essential if we are to survive. We need to win the argument in the developing world; we need to reach out and persuade the Muslim middle - especially the next generation in Iran and Iraq and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Turkey and Western Europe - about the virtues of democracy and constitutionalism. We cannot do that if we trash our own values ourselves. It is self-defeating. We cannot be a beacon to the world until we have reformed ourselves.
In this war, we are also fighting for an America that does not lose its soul in fighting our enemy. Just because we are fighting evil does not mean we cannot ourselves succumb to it. That is what my Christian faith teaches me - that no nation has a monopoly on virtue, and that every generation has to earn its own integrity. I fear and believe we have given away far too much - and that, while this loss is permanent, it can nonetheless be mitigated by a new start, a new direction, a new statement that the America the world once knew and loved is back.
It will not be easy. The world will soon remember why it resents America as well as loves it. But until this unlikely fellow with the funny ears and strange name and exotic biography emerged on the scene, I had begun to wonder if it was possible at all. I had almost given up hope, and he helped restore it. That is what is stirring out there; and although you are welcome to mock me for it, I remain unashamed. As someone once said, in the unlikely story of America, there is never anything false about hope. Obama, moreover, seems to bring out the best in people, and the calmest, and the sanest. He seems to me to have a blend of Midwestern good sense, an intuitive understanding of the developing world that is as much our future now as theirs', an analyst's mind and a poet's tongue. He is human. He is flawed. He will make mistakes. His passivity and ambiguity are sometimes weaknesses as well as strengths.
But there is something about his rise that is also supremely American, a reminder of why so many of us love this country so passionately and are filled with such grief at what has been done to it and in its name. I endorse Barack Obama because I will not give up on America, because I believe in America, and in her constitution and decency and character and strength."
~ Andrew Sullivan
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/barack-obama-fo.html
Thursday, October 30, 2008
No Throwing Tomato(e)s Please
I can't ever remember if there is or isn't an 'e'. So I left it optional.
Today, I'm headed to Stillwater to speak to 100ish students about my job as a meeting planner. I was getting really nervous until I went over my presentation and talked myself into thinking about it as fun. I mean, I'm lucky to get to talk to these students about a career that I love. I am excited to be at a point where a professor actually finds me knowledgable enough to give information to his students. It'll be fine.
Right?
Right?
I think I'm a little insecure - is it obvious?
I can't ever remember if there is or isn't an 'e'. So I left it optional.
Today, I'm headed to Stillwater to speak to 100ish students about my job as a meeting planner. I was getting really nervous until I went over my presentation and talked myself into thinking about it as fun. I mean, I'm lucky to get to talk to these students about a career that I love. I am excited to be at a point where a professor actually finds me knowledgable enough to give information to his students. It'll be fine.
Right?
Right?
I think I'm a little insecure - is it obvious?
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Playing Catch-Up
Here are some things that have gone on while on the blogging hiatus, as well as things coming up. Basically, an update life in general.
- Jeremy and I fell in love with mountain biking and just purchased new mountain bikes on Saturday. We are hittin' the trails this weekend and can't wait!
- The OSU Cowboys are in the Top 10. SWEET!
- Jeremy got a full time job - THAT HE LOVES! Yay!! So happy for him.
- A new season of How I Met Your Mother, The Office and The Amazing Race started. These are my favorite shows on earth. Lost comes back in January to complete the top shows.
- I had my 29th b'day. Crazy - My last year in my 20's. Weird, weird, and more weird.
- I got to go birthday shopping - I could shop all day everyday for the rest of my life. That should tell you how much I loved that day!
- I ran in the Tulsa Run 5k, and cheered for Kerrie and Jeremy in the 15k. I love the Tulsa Run. Yesterday I signed up for the Route 66 quarter marathon in Tulsa on Nov. 16. It's about 6.5 miles.
- I get to go see Carrie Underwood at the BOK center tomorrow night and eat sweet potato fries at McNellies. Double fun.
- Jeremy turns 30 next week. And, is going to Vegas with me (I'm going for work) the day after his birthday. Vegas is only his favorite place in the U.S. so he is super excited.
- I booked a surprise trip for Jeremy to our favorite resort in Playa for his 30th birthday. I kept the secret about 3 days, and then had to spill the beans. He's so excited and so am I.
- I'm speaking to 100 students at OSU on Thursday about my career. Nerves!!
- I got accepted to sit for my CMP certification (Certified Meeting Professional) This has been in the making for about 5 years, and you have to apply and meet certain credentials and then they ALLOW you to study and take a really hard test. How nice of them. I'm really excited though.
- I got a B in accounting, my second class in my graduate studies. This is HUGE considering I am not really good at accounting. I'm taking marketing now which should be a breeze since I almost had a minor in it in college b/c of all the classes I took.
- Jeremy and I are excited to have a busy and relaxing holiday season ahead of us. We are going to LV and Mexico in November, but will be back in time for Thanksgiving and will just be sticking around town for the long weekend. In December we will go to Chicago for his grandmother's 90th birthday party and to Phoenix to see his mom. Again, we'll be back in time for Christmas to spend some quality time together. I love being in your own house over holidays.
That's all for now. I hope all my gazillion readers are doing well and will start checking my blog again since I'm actually blogging again. Happy Tuesday.
PS - One week until I become fully nerdy and am glued to the TV watching election results. So fun!! Yay!!
Here are some things that have gone on while on the blogging hiatus, as well as things coming up. Basically, an update life in general.
- Jeremy and I fell in love with mountain biking and just purchased new mountain bikes on Saturday. We are hittin' the trails this weekend and can't wait!
- The OSU Cowboys are in the Top 10. SWEET!
- Jeremy got a full time job - THAT HE LOVES! Yay!! So happy for him.
- A new season of How I Met Your Mother, The Office and The Amazing Race started. These are my favorite shows on earth. Lost comes back in January to complete the top shows.
- I had my 29th b'day. Crazy - My last year in my 20's. Weird, weird, and more weird.
- I got to go birthday shopping - I could shop all day everyday for the rest of my life. That should tell you how much I loved that day!
- I ran in the Tulsa Run 5k, and cheered for Kerrie and Jeremy in the 15k. I love the Tulsa Run. Yesterday I signed up for the Route 66 quarter marathon in Tulsa on Nov. 16. It's about 6.5 miles.
- I get to go see Carrie Underwood at the BOK center tomorrow night and eat sweet potato fries at McNellies. Double fun.
- Jeremy turns 30 next week. And, is going to Vegas with me (I'm going for work) the day after his birthday. Vegas is only his favorite place in the U.S. so he is super excited.
- I booked a surprise trip for Jeremy to our favorite resort in Playa for his 30th birthday. I kept the secret about 3 days, and then had to spill the beans. He's so excited and so am I.
- I'm speaking to 100 students at OSU on Thursday about my career. Nerves!!
- I got accepted to sit for my CMP certification (Certified Meeting Professional) This has been in the making for about 5 years, and you have to apply and meet certain credentials and then they ALLOW you to study and take a really hard test. How nice of them. I'm really excited though.
- I got a B in accounting, my second class in my graduate studies. This is HUGE considering I am not really good at accounting. I'm taking marketing now which should be a breeze since I almost had a minor in it in college b/c of all the classes I took.
- Jeremy and I are excited to have a busy and relaxing holiday season ahead of us. We are going to LV and Mexico in November, but will be back in time for Thanksgiving and will just be sticking around town for the long weekend. In December we will go to Chicago for his grandmother's 90th birthday party and to Phoenix to see his mom. Again, we'll be back in time for Christmas to spend some quality time together. I love being in your own house over holidays.
That's all for now. I hope all my gazillion readers are doing well and will start checking my blog again since I'm actually blogging again. Happy Tuesday.
PS - One week until I become fully nerdy and am glued to the TV watching election results. So fun!! Yay!!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Vote
It's that time that comes every four years when we all get to vote for the leader of the free world. Hmmm - no pressure America.
I'm relatively new on the political landscape and consider myself informed, yet far from well-versed. I think as I get older and life happens, I start to see the importance of the ability to pick our leaders. When I see things happening within my own family that are a direct result of policy-makers it clicks that, hey, this politics thing is kinda important.
I hope that anyone who reads this blog (that might be close to zero since I've been MIA for a while!) is going to cast a vote on Nov. 4.
I know the arguments: My vote doesn't really count, what does one vote mater, I'm just not that into politics, blah blah blah. But, let me point some things out:
1 - I'm a democrat. In Oklahoma. AND I STILL VOTE. Why? Because the fact that I can live peacefully and happily in a state where the majority of people don't agree with my views on politics is a direct result of freedom and the fundamental belief in peace.
2 - You're right. Technically, your one vote doesn't count in the way you might want it to. No, it doesn't show up on those little streaming numbers at the bottom of the screen on election night because the electoral college. Sucky, I know.
But, let's break this down. If, say an large group of Oklahoma Democrats or California Republicans said screw it - I'm going to vote even though I'm in the minority and I know who will win my state and I know that my vote won't really count - but I'm going to vote anyway. If everyone did that, it could CHANGE THE ELECTORAL VOTES. This in turn could change the outcome of an election. Therefore, your vote does count, so I’ve just disproved that reason.
3 - Iraq (former), China, Iran...and every other non-democracy. Cry me a river about how the voting system is all jacked up and you don't really pay attention to politics, blah blah blah. For some reason, I think that if that ability was stripped away, you might be pissed. You might be pissed if you could no longer vote and someone who has completely different views from you was put in charge and you were forced to live by their rules. Just look at the passion of peope who haven't had this right ever, and then, they have it. If anything, vote because you CAN... and appreciate it.
4 - Lastly, I'm going to say something contradictory. DON'T VOTE without knowing WHY you are voting for someone. Your opinion is worth knowing and you owe it to yourself to form your own ideas about life. Not those of your friends, spouse, parents, colleagues, community, church, and any other influence in your life. Just try it. Just this once. Go online and see where each candidate stands on each issue. What will probably happen is that you will go down the list and you will agree more with the party you are already affiliated with, but at least you will know inside that you are voting that way because YOU feel they are better equip to lead our nation.
Seriously, if you don't know why you are voting for someone other than what party they belong to, DON'T VOTE.
Otherwise, VOTE.
P.S. – I’m back blog…
It's that time that comes every four years when we all get to vote for the leader of the free world. Hmmm - no pressure America.
I'm relatively new on the political landscape and consider myself informed, yet far from well-versed. I think as I get older and life happens, I start to see the importance of the ability to pick our leaders. When I see things happening within my own family that are a direct result of policy-makers it clicks that, hey, this politics thing is kinda important.
I hope that anyone who reads this blog (that might be close to zero since I've been MIA for a while!) is going to cast a vote on Nov. 4.
I know the arguments: My vote doesn't really count, what does one vote mater, I'm just not that into politics, blah blah blah. But, let me point some things out:
1 - I'm a democrat. In Oklahoma. AND I STILL VOTE. Why? Because the fact that I can live peacefully and happily in a state where the majority of people don't agree with my views on politics is a direct result of freedom and the fundamental belief in peace.
2 - You're right. Technically, your one vote doesn't count in the way you might want it to. No, it doesn't show up on those little streaming numbers at the bottom of the screen on election night because the electoral college. Sucky, I know.
But, let's break this down. If, say an large group of Oklahoma Democrats or California Republicans said screw it - I'm going to vote even though I'm in the minority and I know who will win my state and I know that my vote won't really count - but I'm going to vote anyway. If everyone did that, it could CHANGE THE ELECTORAL VOTES. This in turn could change the outcome of an election. Therefore, your vote does count, so I’ve just disproved that reason.
3 - Iraq (former), China, Iran...and every other non-democracy. Cry me a river about how the voting system is all jacked up and you don't really pay attention to politics, blah blah blah. For some reason, I think that if that ability was stripped away, you might be pissed. You might be pissed if you could no longer vote and someone who has completely different views from you was put in charge and you were forced to live by their rules. Just look at the passion of peope who haven't had this right ever, and then, they have it. If anything, vote because you CAN... and appreciate it.
4 - Lastly, I'm going to say something contradictory. DON'T VOTE without knowing WHY you are voting for someone. Your opinion is worth knowing and you owe it to yourself to form your own ideas about life. Not those of your friends, spouse, parents, colleagues, community, church, and any other influence in your life. Just try it. Just this once. Go online and see where each candidate stands on each issue. What will probably happen is that you will go down the list and you will agree more with the party you are already affiliated with, but at least you will know inside that you are voting that way because YOU feel they are better equip to lead our nation.
Seriously, if you don't know why you are voting for someone other than what party they belong to, DON'T VOTE.
Otherwise, VOTE.
P.S. – I’m back blog…
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