Remember I told you that I had to vote at 7:30 a.m. yesterday? And when I actually went to the polls, I stood at the little booth thing and had my winter coat on and was being blasted with hot air, and I was thinking I needed to get out of there before I got sick.

Then I saw the ballot and realized I didn’t know how to vote. It was not the chad-potential poker that I’m used to, nor was it the paper ballot that I’ve also done in the past. Instead it was this huge paper thing and I had to fill in the middle of the correct arrow.

I had researched the candidates and the issues. I had even looked up my particular ballot on Michigan.gov to make sure there would be no surprises in the voting booth, yet I was still surprised because of the stupid optiscan ballots.

And it wasn’t until 6 hours later as I was leaving Kirtland and saw a yard sign supporting a proposal that I realized my ballot didn’t have any proposal issues on it. That’s when I realized I never turned over that huge oversized ballot. Whoops.

And, I might add that the secrecy sleeve designed to hide your votes didn’t cover my entire ballot, revealing some of my votes. So what’s up with that?

I voted on most of it.

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Brittany is divorcing Kevin and its all over the news this morning. So what does my husband ask me? "If we get divorced do you think it’ll be on the news?"

Probably not, but it might make a blog.