Sports aren’t really my thing, to be honest. I do enjoy watching hockey. But I think it is because it is fast-paced. And a ‘little’ violent. I used to enjoy watching the Super Bowl commercials, but even those are getting a little trite, and you can probably watch them on YouTube. I will watch sports with others, but mostly, not my first choice. Though watching live is better than on TV, I think. Kitt ☺️
Spend it however I like. Buy whatever car I want. Buy whatever house and land I wanted. Basically, do what I want. Give some away. Help family and friends.
Reality of what I would do, which starts with putting a price tag on the lotto I won. Let’s say 5 million dollars. Yes I know there are normally more you hear about, but that is an easy number to work with for this prompt…
1. Take the payout.
2. Find a good and reputable accountant.
3. Take money out for taxes. Because the tax man will get his first and foremost.
4. Take my hubby and son where ever they wanted for dinner.
5. Fix my jeep.
6. Fix up my house.
7. Payback all the debt I can.
8. Hopefully put money into savings.
9. Help with school lunches for those who can’t afford or have outstanding balance if I can afford it.
We started with 5 million. After a good accountant, taking money out for taxes, I am lucky to have 1.5 million left. Sounds like a lot still. Admittedly, aking my hubby and son out for a meal wouldn’t even scratch the amount. Fixing my jeep and my home would bring me down a bit.paying off our debt would bring us down to at least 1 million, if not less. (A lot of student loans). Savings would be 3/4ths of what is left. Then, I would go to my local schools and pay off the school lunches of those who are behind or simply can’t afford it.
5 million is not a lot. Sounds like it, but it’s not. Kitt ☺️
But reality is, I love fiction, sci-fi, appoctoliptic, and what my hubby and sons call my porn. I read other types. But they are really my first pick. When I read, it’s for escape and relaxation. Yet, I understand others get the same pleasure through documentaries and facts. Some of those can be great reads. Right now, for me, though, give me a book about a shifter and love or a book about a zombie or other type of appocolips, and I am normally in heaven. Kitt ☺️
Those who have been reading my blog knew the answer. Lol
I love reading. I also love hiking, but it’s winter now, and there is a lot of snow and ice, and I am not in the best shape. Doing that activity right now would be asking to break something. So reading it is!!! Kitt ☺️
Here’s the problem with this one, I haven’t gone many places since we have been in Michigan. For a long time, my depression kept me down. Then, there is a lack of funds, then winter. It’s amazing how there can always be a reason, an excuse.
Part of the reason for this blog is to help me do more. Help me be more. Now, if my body works with me, that would be great. Kitt ☺️
I was wrong when I said stop barking. I think now, and yes, I know I just posted, that I wish my dog knew how much I wish I could understand them. Maybe there is a reason for the constant barking. If I understood her, I would know. Tank is 13 years old. She has always been this way, even as a pup. So there must be a good reason. Or she is simply trying to drive us all crazy. Either way, I wish I could understand her. Kitt ☺️
Tank, my dear sweet Tank…. she barks at people. She wants them to know her house is protected. I love that about her. Up until I tell her to stop. My wonderful perfect Tank will bark until they leave. My opinion is, if I tell her they are fine, she xan stop barking. Her opinion is, get out, and until you do, I am barking. Lol
My birth name came from a many times over great aunt. When my mom was 8 months pregnant, this aunt, at 96, thought she was finally dying. Well, that’s what she told my mom, at least. This aunt asked my mom to name me after her if it was a girl. After a spectacular guilt trip, my mom agreed. This aunt did not die at 96. She was in her 100s when she died. But I was still named after her. She got her way, as she normally did. Maybe that is why I can be so stubborn at times. Maybe I got more than just her name. Kitt ☺️
I know, shocking, right… I wish my job could be, just reading. Sure, I love reading fiction. But if it could be my full-time job, I would read everything. It would be the best job ever!!!!! Kitt ☺️
Communication is the beginning and the end to everything. This is even more true in leadership roles. Sadly, many companies do not understand or they don’t care about this. Kitt
Sauerkraut is something I would un-invent. Yes, I know it isn’t life changing or important to most. I also know many love it, including my hubby and mom. But, omg, just the slightest smell makes me gag. It is not allowed to be made in my house. And if my mom was going to make it when I moved out, she would warn me. My reaction to it was sonstrong as a kid. My mom stopped making it unless I was spending the weekend somewhere so the house could air out.
Now, for those who love it or even just like it, I am sorry I would un-invent it. But my reaction is just so bad, I can’t even. Just writing this almost made me gag at the memory of the smell.
Which is really odd, too. Why might you ask…. it’s because I love a lot of German good. And can I just point out I just looked up where it originated from because I remembered I heard it didn’t start in Germany. According to Google, it started in Central and Eastern Europe. Just found that interesting, so I am sharing.
That is what I would un-invent. Sorry to those who love it. You are welcome for those who are like me and hate it. 🙂 Kitt
It’s so cold right now in Michigan. My hubby knows that when I take a nap and wake up, I am normally freezing. Today, he had water boiling for hot chocolate. (He knows I can’t do a lot of caffeine, or my headaches get worse.)
He had my hot chocolate cup down (because yes, I have a specific cup for that) and the hot chocolate out plus my favorite spoon.
It’s a really small simple thing, but he did it for me. He didn’t lecture me about the caffeine or the marshmallows I used. He just got it ready so I could make it. To me, that is love. It’s such a small thing, but within that small thing, there was so much love by getting my favorite things for it ready, too. Kitt ☺️
My brain rarely feels like it turns off. It is even worse when I try to go to sleep. It’s like I lay down, tired as all get out, yet all of a sudden, my brain is all questions and thoughts. It can be so annoying. I feel if I could reduce to clutter of thoughts, then life would be easier. Kitt
I love all alanimals. Even the ones that scare the begesuses out of me like spiders. I still can find their beauty and usefulness. I just don’t want them near me. Lol kitt 😃
I used to be a truck driver and drove all over the contiential US. And yet, they aren’t near the most memorable trips with my mom and brother from Kissimmee to Key West. On the turnpike, there were the best rest stops. They were like little strip malls with great shops and awesome places to eat. Yet, they didn’t cost an arm and a leg.
My mom used to make it a fun drive for us. She would have activities and games and snacks and just fun in general.
I highly believe in the road trip. I am kind of sad I haven’t taken more. Kitt ☺️
I guess I answered this last year, too. But what makes it even funnier,besides them doing the same prompts….
My answer was the same. Lol
Every morning, I have a bagel with cream cheese and a cup of orange juice. Okay, maybe not every morning, but 99 percent of the time. I try really hard not to run out.
How about you? Do you have something you eat almost daily? Kitt ☺️
I am a great hugger. So my business would just be giving people hugs to feel better. Just hugs, nothing unsorted. Clean, sweet, comforting hugs. Kitt ☺️
I have had this bear since I was 3, maybe 4. I used to think he was so huge, but them I grew up. I still love him to this day. Though now, instead of sitting on a chair, he is in a bag until I can afford to get him fixed. Mr. Bear was the love of my life when I was a child. Now, he is a love in my life from the past. Kitt ☺️
Being alive a long time is not the same as living a long time. I have been alive for 49 years, and I stopped living for probably 8 of those years. I was functioning and doing things, but it felt as if it was on autopilot.
Yet, I can watch videos of my friends’ kids who are living their best life, even if they are less than 5. They have lived a long life already and lived it well.
I am going to live into my hundreds. So, a long life I will have. Living, though, that is what I am trying to do now. That is what part of this blogging journey is. Remembering to live and to help myself improve to live a better life. Duration of life is not a quantifier for living a long life. It’s just time spent. I want to live a life. Kitt ☺️
Seriously, when I read the prompt, that was the first thing to come to mind. I have no clue why. Lol
Now, for those that must make me feel old, that is (mostly) the beginning to Ice, Ice, Baby, by Vanilla Ice.
But then I thought about it. When you take out the fact that it’s the beginning of a song, it is quite good. We should stop talking more. We should collaborate with each other on life, love, and happiness. We should listen more to each other.
Because of that, I am sticking with… Stop Collaberate and Listen. Let the silly comments comense. Kitt ☺️
I continplate the past. I remember it. It can bring anything from smiles to tears to anger at times. But I use it as a learning tool, or at least try to.
I relish and fear the future. I make plans for the worst to the best. But I know, even with plans. The future is not written. I look forward to it and dread it at times.
But the present…. aaahhh that is something I think about a lot. I am trying to be here more for this time. I want to be a more active participant than I have been. So when the future is now, I will be able to enjoy it.
On a side note. The future is never now. Hence why it is called the future. But hopefully, you understand what I mean. Kitt ☺️
Okay that isn’t true but it sounds so awesome doesn’t it!!!
In truth, the greatest gift I ever got were my 2 sons. I was told after 4 miscarriages the odds of me carrying a child past 6 weeks were basically zero to none. And though I almost died with both of them, they are and will always be completely worth it. I love my little (so not little anymore) parasites. My mom really hated when I called them that while I was pregnant. LOL Kitt 😆
Total I have attended 4. So, it’s not too bad. I thought it was more. As for which one, that part I feel may land in the too much personal info to give freely to the internet. It’s not hard to find out. But I would like someone to work at least a second before they try to take over my little life. Lol 😆 🤣
When I was a child, I loved to play all kinds of things with everyone.
As a teen, we are taught to put childish things away yet called children.
In my early 20’s I was married to my ex-husband and worked a lot. We would play card games at best.
Forget my 30’s, I played all the time with my kids.
Now in my 40’s with my youngest being 18, playtime means something ever different.
Now, playtime is more a fun term my husband and I use for our time. *Hint hints nudge nudge… you get what I am saying…*
Now, if you are asking, do I still play games like a kid, kind of. I joke around, still love card and board games, and now I play games on apps. Am I as free when I play, probably not. Between life and age, freedom isn’t the same as when I was a child. But I do try to still be fun-loving. Kitt ☺️
Looking at my kids during Christmas and every second of every day makes me feel nostalgic.
Hearing a song, many smells, a random thought, and even a touch of something…. all of those and so much more make me feel nostalgic.
Though the past us so much of everything, it is a happiness, a learning tool, an OH Eem Gee moment, it isn’t the end all be all.
Look to the past and smile, even at the bad because it all made you or is making you who you xan be. Enjoy the present. It is always fleeting. As for the future… well, that isn’t written. For me, it is a plan for the worst, but live for the best. Having a plan doesn’t take away for looking forward. It just helps in preparing you.
I have had bad relationships, don’t misunderstand. My ex-husband was mentally abusive and attempted physical once, but luckily, I was able to nip that on the bud. (I know not all are that lucky, and that is sad, and I am sorry.) But even that relationship had positives in it. I knew what I never wanted again. Plus, it brought me to my current life. Am I always happy with relationships? Not even close. But I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I have what I have because of these relationships. I am thankful for what I have, so to me, all relationships are positive in some aspects. Kitt ☺️
Okay, needless to say, I’m not a big sports person. I am sure that will shock no one. I enjoy them if they are on, but I rarely seek them out.
So my choice is one for me to make a sport. Lol Read competitively. Colors would be up to each person. We don’t want to stifle a team members comfort, even by color. The mascot would be a book, yes again, shocking, I know…
That Chair right there, that is my spot. I read and right from there. I will even put a table in front of it to do clay work at times. It’s so comfy. Kitt
I have had two jeeps. I have loved them both. They take a good deal of a workout before they get cranky. I have had a 1993 and now u have a 2005. I do not have a want for a new one, though.
The last time I drove a new model a couple of years ago, there was no shifter. Just this nob, you spun to what you wanted. That was creepy, and I did not like it. Plus, there was no key. Like just this little black box that I could start it from whether I was in it or not. Scary…
But the older jeeps, yes, please. I know they are going to get harder and harder to find. That is why I get mine fixed and try to take care of her. Because yes, everyone, Fred is a strong female jeep.
On another note, I also love 90% of cars and trucks from the 70s and older. They are just beautiful and fascinating to me.
But my 2 jeeps, I have loved them so much. Kitt ☺️
At one time, I would have said my mom. But if you read my blog, you know I have come to some truths and understandings revolving around her. She is a wonderful woman in general. But you should never put someone on a pedestal you don’t truly know.
Now I will say my family. I do a lot for them. At one point, I did everything for them. If I thought it would make them happy, it got done to the best of my ability.
But I am also going to say myself. I am learning that what I believe, see, want, and understand are worth more for myself than others. We may look at what others do and say and so much more. But the influence itself, that has to come from us. Kitt ☺️
My mom didn’t know she was pregnant with me for 7 months. I was a hard, to a very quick delivery. They thought I was very sick, but ended up to be just a blood platelet count difference. That’s what I know about the year I was born. Kitt ♥️
There are times I am spot on with people. Other times, I want there to be good so bad that I overlook all the warning signs. But I believe that is true of everyone. Kitt ☺️
You would be wrong. I was going to say reading… though I am happy to read, it isn’t what makes me most happy. I was going to say crafting. Though I love creating, it isn’t what makes me most happy. Then I was going to say family. And yes, they make me unbelievably happy, to the point that I am sad to think of life without them. They, too, do not make me most happy.
So the question remains, what makes me most happy. I have to say, after thinking about all this, the only thing that can make me most happy is me. I have to be happy with myself to be happy with others.
When I am in a bad mood, nothing I love doing will bring me joy. It becomes a hindrance of sorts. But when I am happy with me, everything can bring me joy. Kitt ☺️
I write this blog for fun. But if we are talking beyond the blog, then last nights family Christmas shopping was lots of fun. Plus, we went out to dinner and had an awesome server. Kitt ☺️
My husband has given me 2 wonderful boys. That alone makes him the best man.
He is also the same man who can drive me crazy at times. So it’s all relative in the end. Plus, he can really rock my world still, so it’s a total bonus there. Kitt ☺️
Honestly, a year ago, most things were different in my life, and yet the same. A year isn’t a lot of time, yet it can be so long as well. Am I in a better or worse place than I thought I would be a year ago, no. I am just in a different place than I thought. And though I might have hoped for different things a year ago, with the way I believe, I am where I am supposed to be. That is not always an easy thing to accept. Kitt ☺️ ☺️
While at work, no matter how mad, aggravated, irritated, or whatever, keep your mouth shut about it at work. Especially if it is about work. Because the brown noses and gossipers will distort what you say. That is my most recent lesson. Kitt ☺️
I don’t want to limit myself. I have been to a lot of places in the continental US thanks to truck driving. But there are so many more places. There is beauty everywhere, and I want to see it. Now I just need to not be lazy and do it. Lol kitt
Whether it is school, work, parenting, or anything else, the answer is basically the same. I was nervous, scared, excited, wondrous, happy, and so much more.
School was the Magic of newness.
Work was the nervousness of newness.
Parenting…. ahhh to hold my son for the first time…. now that was all and more.
But the base emotions were the same. The difference was the amount of each emotion. Kitt ☺️
I have, during school. The performing wasn’t too bad. But the speech… please never again. And honestly, the performing, I am good to never do that again, too. Thank you very much! Kitt ☺️