i have been sick was off this site for four days. i didn't read any journal entries as their were too many would have never caught up. i did read the messages and the hugs. thanks for the messages and the hugs. one of my friends wrote about a friend of hers that was killed in and accident she heard from his wife. we all need to keep beckey his wife in are prayers she is going to keep nick site up so she can read his hugs before she closes down his site. i hope she decideds to stay on his site she good take a user name nickswife. today is my sobriety birthday i have been sober know for seventeen years. i him looking forward to my aa meeting tomorrow to announce that i have been sober for seventeen years. god has been so good to me keeping me sober so long even thou i haven't been getting to aa mettings like i want to i him going to go tomorrow. i slept until 2pm today i have been sleeping alot yesterday i slept all day i him trying to get rid of this cold its a little better today. i haven't been coughing as must today and my nose isn't running as much as it had been. i next week hope i him felling better so i can start swimming again at the gym and using the hot tube,steam room,and sauna. i got my driver license renew so don't have to worry about that until 2013. my brother who in the service was hit from behind by a drunk driver he has brain damage they thought if he lived he would be a living vegtable. he is better than that thank god but he is forgetful. he always calls me on the 31 th of january to wish me a happy birthday he thinks that is my birthday. i tell him its the 23rd but every year he calls on the 31th. he asked me who i was going to vote for i told him i already voted that we went first and i voted for hillary. my brother said we need change and he lives in new jersey and has never voted in his life got register so he could vote for hillary clinton. my parents that live in south dakota is going to vote for hillary my dad was going to vote for brauch obauma but mom won him over to hillary side. i him proud of my middle brother voting for the first time at the age of 56 going on 57. my baby brother is a republican is wife a democrat he is going to change is party registration so he can vote for hillary. its amazing it has never happen before that my whole family supports the same canadite for president. we all fell like its time for a woman preisdent many man have mess up this country especially this president that she can't do any worse than he has done. its time for a woman president and a african american vice president. i want hillary if she wins the nomination like i hope she does picks brauch obauma to be her running mate.