If I Had A Million Dollars

Hiya! How is ya? Today we is gonna ignore grammar rules, 'cause itz fun to talk like hillbillyz.

OK, never mind, that got old real fast. We're going to talk opposite of hillbilly talk: we're going to talk like millionaires!

I know that in general it's not good for the soul to set your sights beyond your means, but sometimes it is fun to dream, isn't it? Have you ever thought of how you would spend a million dollars?

This is what prompts this conversation:

The hubs and the two teenage boys saw that the local dealership has one of these and they stopped to drool all over it, so much so that they never made it to their destination that day. What was their destination? Oh, just skiing on what may have been the last day of the year for good snow. Yes, they were that smitten by this new VW. And of course, all I have heard since is, "Please, can we buy it?"

My answer: "Yes, as soon as I have a million dollars."

So, if I had a million dollars, I would buy them a new car. And since they are getting a new car, I should get a new car too.

And since we'll have two new cars, we're going to need a garage to park them in, which means I'll need a new house.

However, the pool might need to be indoors since we only have about 3 days of hot weather each year. Musts for new house: enough room for kids to do cartwheels, closets galore, and no missing pieces of trim.

If I'm gonna going to (look at my hillbilly habits trying to sneak back in here! The shame!) have a nice new dream house, I'm going to need to have my driveway paved as well. And that means we can have a basketball court. Yay!

And then I'm going to need something for that Jeep to pull. Something like this:

Plus, I'll need a couple of these to go with it:

With all these new toys and the shiny new house, it will be hard to leave home, but I'll still want to take the kids to Disneyland and then go to Germany with the hubs this fall for our anniversary.

I'm sure by now most of my million will be gone, but I do hope to tuck away some bucks for schooling for the kids (and myself, as I seems to not learnd nough the first time round) and money for private lessons so they can become accomplished adults.

AND, I would also like to buy a national marketing campaign for my books so I could see my fan base become greater than 10.

Oh, and WORLD PEACE. I would like to buy some of that too.

So what would you do with a million dollars? Invest? Travel? Spend it selfishly, a la me? Let's beat the dullness of March (another unremarkable month) and dream a little, shall we?

Daydream Believer

Welcome back! I missed you guys. And welcome 2012. It's so nice to meet you, even though you will be the last year we ever know (or so they say).

Did y'all enjoy your holidays? I came up with a new word to describe my holidays. LAZETASTIC! One week, I was so extremely busy that I didn't even have time to comb my hair, and the very next week, I had days we didn't even have to leave the house, hence, I again didn't comb my hair. It was fantastic to be so lazy.

Here's what my hair looked like by the end of the holidays:
 

Anyone know of a good conditioner?

Are you guys excited for a new year? I am, because this is what is going to happen in 2012:
 
1. The Killers are going to release a new album. And it's going to rock. (No actual release date or word if they are actually recording, but I'm counting on them to give me music to write to. Come on Brandon, don't disappoint me!)

2. The Wilder Times series is going to make it on the Amazon Best Sellers list. How is this going to happen? Because of you, my friends! All my awesome friends will tell all their awesome friends to read my (awesome) books, and they tell their awesome friends, who tell their awesome friends ... and you get the picture. So thanks for helping me sell thousands of copies. You guys are great! (Hey, who all got e-readers for Christmas? I'm loving mine!)

 

 3. Also,  another writing-related prediction, I will publish two more books this year. ( But I have to write them first. Holy ambitious!)

(You know that's not my writing, because I would never use such a cliche. Nor would I use anything but a mechanical pencil. Or a computer.)

 4. I'm going to go on a vacation. A real vacation, where I actually leave the house (I'm fully aware that I'll have to comb my hair). Somewhere warm and sunny.

 

I may even take the family along. And if that's the case, this would be the picture I need to use:

(I can buy mouse ears and cover my hair if we go there, so it's a win win for everyone.) 

Of course, #4 is contingent upon #2 (not that #2, gross! The #2 on this list). But hey, no pressure. Don't feel like you have to go out and buy 10 copies of my books and hand them out on the street corner. I'll survive if I can't go on a vacation, especially since this is our last year on earth. 

#5. This guy is going to win the election.

So what are your predictions for 2012? And it's okay to be overly optimistic (#2 again), because what's the point in being awake if you can't daydream?