Lottery winnings

So either my blog ate all my auto-posts set up for this week or I just dreamed that I did them.  Either is possible, to be honest.

Sorry to all the DC bloggers for missing happy hour again – something important came up last minute, unfortunately.  I guess that’s life!

I wish I could remember what my posts for the week were about.  The fact that I can’t remember makes me think that maybe I did make up the fact that I wrote them and scheduled them to post.  Anything is possible.  Plus, right now, all I can focus on is that there are about 6 hours left between me and the weekend.  I am ready.

This morning, a coworker and I were talking about the guy from Missouri who won the lottery recently and just seemed so humble about it.  He didn’t seem to have any grand plans for the money – getting his teeth fixed (if you didn’t see the pictures, he was missing some front teeth), taking his kids and his girlfriend’s kids to Disney World, paying his bills.  I hope this guy gets some good financial advisors in his life and doesn’t end up like so many lottery winners – broke.  When you have money like that, suddenly you have a whole lot of friends you never knew you had.  Family too. 

We were talking about what we would do with the money if we won.  Number one, I would quit my job.  Good bye, work.  I’d probably get either a part-time job doing something I loved or just be a professional volunteer, because I don’t know what I would do with my time otherwise.  I would buy a reasonably sized home, nothing too extravagant.  Maybe a vacation home somewhere too.  I think the big splurge would probably be flying first class all the time.  But I probably wouldn’t do a ton of traveling, maybe one nice trip a year. 

It’s kind of fun to dream.  I never buy lotto tickets, so it’s not as if these dreams will ever come true, but the fantasy is fun.