Holy Jackpot!

Driving into work this morning I noticed that the Powerball sign said the jackpot is up to $116 million so you know I began dreaming in my head what I would do with that money. I got to work, started up my computer, checked voicemail and emails. I was even a good girl and checked my work flow for the day and then popped over to 7-11 and bought a soda, banana and a powerball ticket. Just one. I know just one but hey it only takes one.

Then I went onto the website to see if I could borrow a picture for my blog post (sadly no) and it said the estimated jackpot is $116 million and the pay out would be $67.5 million. WOW - Uncle Sam has already calculated how much they would get. . .  but still I could use $67.5 million to "play" with.

How would you spend your $67.5 million? I have already started planning out how I would. Here's what I would do:

$100,000 would go to bills (i.e. paying off cars, credit card bills, student loans, misc)
$150,000 would go to Smiley's college fund (I looked it up the cost today for a 4 year school and for tuition, housing, food and books, along with other "fees" it would be around $77,000 for an in-state college and $129,000 for an out of state college). HOLY CRAP!
$200,000 for a trust fund for Smiley
$500,000 would go to my dream house (to have it built and to pay for it in full)
$300,000 to decorate and furnish my dream house (may have to raise this depending on what I want) 
$500,000 for paying off family bills (yep I didn't forget about them and this is just the start)
$1,000,000 for travel money (its a start)
$1,000,000 for my personal assistant/nanny (would need to juggle being Smiley's nanny and my assistant so He/She would need to be paid well don't you think - there will be travel involved

I know there are other expenses but that is a nice "start" don't you think of how I would spend my money. . .  a girl can dream can't she?!

Holy Heat!

Holy Heat! 

I am not a fan of July in Virigina, especially when the forecast is the main topic of conversation on the news.

Today's forecast, brought to you by The Weather Channel for Dumfries, VA is as follows:

At 9 am it will be 80^°F and mostly sunny - it will feel like 84°and the humidity levels are at 80%.

At noon it will be 88^°F and mostly cloudy (no chance of meatballs) - it will feel like 96°.

At 5 pm it will be 92^°F and partly cloudy (no chance of meatballs) - it will feel like 100°.

I hate humidity - I feel like I'm melting.