big money!
so i've only got anohter 23 hours or so to tell this story until it is rendered completely null and void and i got out of bed so i suppose i might as well do so now.
so i know that i should buy a place when i move here to start working. only i have no idea how to buy a place. so i keep bothering people about it. and i was reading an article in the washingtonian the other day. and then, i flipped to the pages right after the article. where houseing prices were listed. and b/c the article and the beautiful pictures of homes in dupont, i realized that i had to own a home. i couldn't deal with a condo! so then i looked at the price.
at which point i realized i would win the lottery. not that i would have to win the lottery, but that i WOULD win the lottery. i suppose it may have happened in the opposite direction, but what you have to understand aobut me is that i very rarely buy lottery tickets. and when i do, i am FIRMLY convinced that i WILL win the lottery. i think i have bought 3 in the past. which i know b/c the last time i bought a lottery ticket, i was FIRMLY convinced that the "third time's a charm." which is part of why i don't know exactly what to make of this time. actually, the whole thing is a bit disheartening when you realize that i have probably never even matched a single number on a ticket. but dana and i went out an bought them yesterday, in the hopes that we wouldn't have to worry about being lawyers and so now i have to wait til tomorrow to see if it si true.
also, i have struck deal with god about the lottery. only i'm not exactly sure what the deal is. so at first i figured that i just needed a couple of million. but when we bought the tix, they were at $86 million. so i'll have some left over. i figured i would strike a deal with god and then i would be more likely to win. so i started by telliung him that i would give the rest to charity. but then i realized that the home in dupont would need repairs. and i started wondering how much i was allowed to put aside for that. but then you start to think about all the other things you could do. like pay the land taxes on the ranch for the next 50 years so that your dad would never have to sell the ranch. which he wants to do and you don't b/c you have no appreciation for the cost of these things. and then i started to wonder lump sum v. yearly b/c i was thinking that maybe it would really be wiser for me to just do the whole investment thing and then, when i died, they could make a trust or something. only i have no idea how that all works. so then i figured that when i win, my first call will be to my dad to explain these things. but then i have to worry about keeping the fact that i won from my mom, who will think that it should all go to god.
do you see how difficult it is to be me?
anyways. it will be less difficult when i am a millionaire in 23 hours. maybe. hopefully. desperatey hopfully. oh, and i decided that people could live there for dirt cheap. so you want me to win too. cross your fingers!
so i know that i should buy a place when i move here to start working. only i have no idea how to buy a place. so i keep bothering people about it. and i was reading an article in the washingtonian the other day. and then, i flipped to the pages right after the article. where houseing prices were listed. and b/c the article and the beautiful pictures of homes in dupont, i realized that i had to own a home. i couldn't deal with a condo! so then i looked at the price.
at which point i realized i would win the lottery. not that i would have to win the lottery, but that i WOULD win the lottery. i suppose it may have happened in the opposite direction, but what you have to understand aobut me is that i very rarely buy lottery tickets. and when i do, i am FIRMLY convinced that i WILL win the lottery. i think i have bought 3 in the past. which i know b/c the last time i bought a lottery ticket, i was FIRMLY convinced that the "third time's a charm." which is part of why i don't know exactly what to make of this time. actually, the whole thing is a bit disheartening when you realize that i have probably never even matched a single number on a ticket. but dana and i went out an bought them yesterday, in the hopes that we wouldn't have to worry about being lawyers and so now i have to wait til tomorrow to see if it si true.
also, i have struck deal with god about the lottery. only i'm not exactly sure what the deal is. so at first i figured that i just needed a couple of million. but when we bought the tix, they were at $86 million. so i'll have some left over. i figured i would strike a deal with god and then i would be more likely to win. so i started by telliung him that i would give the rest to charity. but then i realized that the home in dupont would need repairs. and i started wondering how much i was allowed to put aside for that. but then you start to think about all the other things you could do. like pay the land taxes on the ranch for the next 50 years so that your dad would never have to sell the ranch. which he wants to do and you don't b/c you have no appreciation for the cost of these things. and then i started to wonder lump sum v. yearly b/c i was thinking that maybe it would really be wiser for me to just do the whole investment thing and then, when i died, they could make a trust or something. only i have no idea how that all works. so then i figured that when i win, my first call will be to my dad to explain these things. but then i have to worry about keeping the fact that i won from my mom, who will think that it should all go to god.
do you see how difficult it is to be me?
anyways. it will be less difficult when i am a millionaire in 23 hours. maybe. hopefully. desperatey hopfully. oh, and i decided that people could live there for dirt cheap. so you want me to win too. cross your fingers!
posted by laura at 12:57 AM
1 Comments:
Can you buy me a little condo in Philly (they are cheap here) if you win? We don't have a big lottery here right now.
But I too play the lottery every time it gets big and I am convinced I will win, and I plan out how to spend my money.
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