How to Distract Yourself From the 2016 Election Nightmare

• Bury your head in the sand and start listening to Christmas music. 
• Get outside. Fresh air and perspective, just avoid looking at all those lawn signs. Because a lawn sign is a sure way to change someones vote….
• Cover your ears and loudly sing, “la,la,la” until your husband turns off CNN.
• Use your parental controls to block all channels except HGTV, Food Network and Disney Jr.
• Binge watch Grey’s Anatomy, Sex and the City or Nurse Jackie.
• Plan your Thanksgiving menu.
• Plan your Christmas fun, because regardless of who wins we are going to need some holiday cheer.
• Bake and bake some more. Baking is great stress relief, no one is going to argue about banana bread.
• Unplug everything. The lap top, the iPhone, the TV. Leave social media alone.
• Watch Disney movies because the outcome is almost always predictable. Good conquers evil, bad guys are thwarted and in the end everyone has a song to sing.
• Start your holiday shopping. Amazon is already offering Black Friday deals, imagine how amazing it would feel to be done your shopping before Thanksgiving.
• Sing Let It Go at the top of your lungs every time someone tries to engage you in Election talk.
• Google where you are moving to if your candidate doesn’t win, Aruba anyone?
• Eat all of your kids Halloween candy, it’s enough sugar to put you in a coma till election day.
• Drink, and then drink some more. Tis the season for pumpkin beers and winter ales and delicious red wines.
• Clean out your closet. Chances are you have been holding on to more than just opinions since the last election cycle.
• Get lost in a book. I recommend this one.
• Shake it Off. Taylor Swift is always the answer.
• Think of all the fun things we can argue about on Facebook in the future like the style of Starbucks holiday cups or if gingerbread or peppermint is the real flavor of the holiday season or outrage about shopping on Thanksgiving.
• Did I mention drink?

Unless a giant meteor hits the earth between now and Tuesday, chances are the election will come and go. And god willing we will all be able to put on our grown-up pants and move on. Because lord knows we need to. And please, get out on Tuesday and vote.