merry xmas, y'all!!! it's been a good holiday weeekend so far; spent time with grandparents of both flavors yesterday and got to see my cousin sheila, whom i haven't seen in probably ten years or more. and i got to meet her husband and 3 kids. and they're all just really friendly nice people - i'm going back to hartford area on saturday for a party type deal at their place. two times in hartford area in a week. unheard of. but even more unheard of....

who would've guessed that the last post on here, the one about teaching myself the joys of knitting, would've been my last post as a poor woman?

for those of you not in the wisconsin lottery powerball loop, the jackpot was 130 million yesterday.

and. i. won.

seriously.

i already put in my letter of resignation at work and i'm looking into buying two houses side by side in old towne orange for my sister and i. my mom's new house will probably be somewhere near huntington beach/westminster, since she's more into living there. maybe it'll be one of those million dollar homes near the beach, who knows. i'm also divying up some of the cash into a couple of savings accounts for my little sisters so i can hold up my end of the if-i-win-the-lottery-i'm-payin-for-your-college bargain.

the only thing left to do is call the lottery offices tomorrow when the lazy bastards aren't taking days off for christmas and tell them i don't want the yearly payouts, please just send me my four dollar check minus all applicable taxes.

the rest of the day could never ever hope to top that, but it was still good. talked to my family a lot on the phone, to the point where i just wanted to hang up and shut up for a while. you heard it here first, folks, i just wanted to shut up. saw a christmas story for the first time on tnt and gave it no more than a meh rating, worked on getting through the knitting book some more.

today i was going to go see big fish, but in true wisconsin fashion it's not playing anywhere near here. not even in madison or milwaukee. maybe i'll just wave my winning lottery ticket in the box office kid's face and he'll just find a way to make it happen? who knows, right? things are different when you're rich!