Winning the lottery

My husband lives with me.  He sees me every day.  Still, when he sits down in front of his computer in the evening, he says things like, "You haven't posted in your journal lately."  Or, "You're kind of slackin' with your journal, huh?"  OK, fine!  No, honestly, I need to be more prompt with my nonsense so here goes, in money-green text.

Tonight, I bought a Powerball ticket.  I also bought 2 scratcher tickets, one for me and one for Kevin.  I won $2, Kevin won nothing.  I bought 2 chances on our Powerball ticket for tonights drawing.  Why do I buy these things?  It's a losing proposition.  The chances are better that I'll get struck by lightning while playing golf...and I don't PLAY golf!  The reason I buy them is to dream.  We have the money spent.

Let's say I win $50,000,000.  That's fifty million dollars.  I like seeing it in numbers and words.  Let's say half goes to taxes.  Now we're down to $25,000,000.  Ahhhh, poor us.  Only $25,000,000.  heh heh

First, we pay my parents out of debt.  Then we give them $2,000,000.  Then we pay Kevin's mom out of debt.  Then we give her $2,000,000.  My brother and Kevin's sister each get $2,000,000 to pay off debts and play with the rest.  It wouldn't be hard to spend another $1,000,000 helping out friends...you know, $1,000 here, $10,000 there.

Now, let's get to us.  We would have a nice new home built.  6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.  Not obnoxiously huge, just big enough to be very comfortable.  We would have new cars for all 4 of the driving members of our family, and an account to put back money for the girls to have new cars when they are of age.

The kids would have a college fund, ready to go.  The rest would be spent on selfish desires, as well as charity.  It would be there to sustain us, although we would still work.  No, I don't mean we would work our current jobs (yeahright!) I mean we would have to do something to occupy our time, and money would probably come from that.

All of this would be paid for by a trust.  No way am I paying taxes on it, just to have my family pay taxes on their portion.  A trust would be set up with the money, and the trust would pay for everything listed above.

Yeah, that's how I'll spend the money.  Oh, and, I will go to work tomorow if I win.  I won't quit my job until they hand me the big cardboard check.  Don't want to find out it was an error just minutes after quitting a great job.  If I don't post tomorrow, it's because we won, and we're busy with lawyers and such.  *sigh*  That makes me happy.

That's why I buy lottery tickets.