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No longer on the river and, again, an empty nester. Back to living on Fleming Island and making some more friends!

Saturday, January 31, 2015

I'm a winner!

One of Justin's favorite things to do is speculate on what he'd do if he won the lottery. He's been doing this since he was a kid. One of his plans was to buy a pipe organ for our humble church. Our friend, then pastor, Pete, told him he'd also have to hire an organist! Can't really have one without the other. Another idea he had, once older, was to put a security system and central air/heating in his cousin's home because her husband worked nights and he feared for the safety of my niece and her boys. Always thinkin'...

Now it's my turn to play the 'what if I win the lottery?' game. Justin and I each got a ticket last week when the prize was up to $186,000,000.  We knew we didn't win the Powerball when the prize went up to over $200 million but yesterday he scanned my ticket to see if I won anything. It turned out I did!!  I won---$4!!!  I speculated I could get almost two 12-packs of Diet Coke with the winnings, or turn it around and reinvest it this week for the drawing tonight. Instead of just one ticket like last week's drawing, this time I'll have two, purchased with my winnings from last week. How exciting!

Already I am making plans for the work I will do in my condo, renovations and redecorating, including, gulp, replumbing the place. Yikes! I could do all this with some abandon due to the huge amount of the prize but can't overdo it and affect the valuation for the rest of the building. Like Justin has told me in the past, no matter how much money he could win, he still couldn't get me any more parking for my building. That is a problem here---the lack of additional parking spaces for guests, and I do enjoy entertaining. Unless he'd build a parking garage....hmmm?