Oooh, it’s tax day! You know what that means! WE have to pay taxes. Government people do not. That’s what they call “economic justice.”
Anyway, it’s sort of slow around here. I saw that WIGSF said some blogs he’s read are “painfully boring” and I know he’s talking about me, in a non-specific way. I appreciate the lack of finger-pointing, WIGSF, but I can take a hint. I’m boring. I know I’m boring. I have always been boring. But I am rarely, if ever, bored. I’ve had enough excitement in my life, thank you very much, and I’ve never found it to be a fun thing. Wait, I take that back. A few times the exciting things have been fun – meeting and marrying my Beloved, having my kids … but the rest of it, not so much. So many bad things have happened to me that boring feels pretty good and I kind of revel in it now. Sort of like no news is good news. The only excitement I want now is the winning lottery numbers. 
And just what would I do with that lottery money, you ask? Well I’ll tell you! Let’s pretend that I won – the total right now is just over $100M. Since we’re pretending, let’s just go with that $100M – it’s a nice round number – and not worry about the stupid tax thing. (It’s just legalized theft anyway, but that’s for another blog.)
Right off the top – 10% goes to charities. That leaves $90M.
I need a house and a couple of cars, so figure … $600K for all that. Plus furnishing and decorating, let’s call it an even $1M for a house, cars, and the accompanying junk. So … $89M left.
Half of the total into trust funds for the kids, that would be $50M, so there’s just $39M left over.
We should set aside some to live out the rest of our lives on, pay the bills – I dunno, what sounds good? I’m sure we could live on $250K a year, easy. How many years do I have left? Maybe 40 if I’m lucky? So that’s another $10M, now I’m left with $29M. Let me round that down to $25M to pay off some old debt and keep a couple of old promises made.
Wow, $25M … to play with and show some love. Only … I don’t have 25 friends. I have a few, but not 25.
Hmmm … who, reading this blog, loves me the most? 
I thought Americans have to pay taxes on lottery winnings. I read that somewhere. Or maybe I’m getting it confused with gameshow winnings. Oh well.
Oh no, it’s all taxed. Like I said, this was all for pretend, including the no tax part.
I wasn’t referring to you as boring though. More so your husband.
Yeah, I saw that!
hehehe
I think a better usage of the money would be to buy a home in the country, lots of space for the kids to run around and chase a dog or something. I dunno. What do kids in the country do anyway?
Build a big indoor swimming pool and fill it with 1 dollar bills, then go money swimming!
Screw the future, swim in the money! Scrooge McDuck was on to something except that swimming in coins is not possible. Too much weight. And that head first dive, just asking for a concussion.
Oooh, money swimming sounds awesome! And the home in the country is a given, with a huge yard for gardening, and dogs and cats, and kids.
MEEEEEEE!!!!!
I knew I could count on you! *HUGS!*
Shoo can’t buy my love! Eet ees not for sale!
Not even for say … if I paid for you to have maid service for life?
Speaking of tax day a friend of mine is going to a tea party in downtown Houston this afternoon, I’ll let you know how it goes. You know how we terrorist Texans are. LMAO
Oh I can’t wait to hear how it goes down there! Yep, all you TX terrorists, I wanna be one! I thought you might get a giggle out of that note! LOL