Tender Love and Care

Good morning dreamers, all I needed to give my body was a little tender love and care. I'm 99% better. A runny nose and the slightest sore throat, but everything else is fine now. Also IT'S SEPTEMBER. SCHOOL SEASON. AHH.

: ) So I woke up and signed onto my aim this morning just to notice an interesting story on the front page of the AOL website. A few years ago a young woman by the name of Callie Rogers won $3 million in a British lotto. She blew most of her money on shopping and drugs. She was only 16 at the time she won; she is now 22 and has two children of her own. She says that she’s broke now even though she still has about $32,000 left.

Now honey, I have ALL kinds of critism(sp? LOL, critism on the spelling of my word critism.) for you. First things first, when you win that money there are a couple things that need to cross your mind. Mostly about the future: Do I plan on having children in the future? Do I plan on buying a house and getting married? Those two questions ALONE will cost A LOT of money. Weddings are generally expensive, and kids are a lifetime of fortune. Now it’s never too early in your life to think about marriage and kids. Heck, we’re still in kindergarten when we start playing house and decide on who is going to be the mommy, and the daddy. Another question that should cross your mind is a career in the future. What are tuition costs for school, how much for transportation, books, residence, etc. Eventually the money is going to run out and she would have to work like everybody else.

Personally if I had won that amount of money I would automatically divide it by half and give it to charity. I know that I don’t have what it takes to handle such a large sum of money because money does lead to greed no matter who you are in the world. To be even more honest, I’m kind of bad with money. My mom is the money guru out of all of my relatives; whiz with numbers. I would go to her first and pay her to be my accountant; I think that would be fair. I would set aside money for my father as well. He’s kind of bankrupt, so I’d help him get out of half his debt. Why not all you ask, simply because people need motivation, not a solution. If I just gave him all the money he’d go bankrupt again.

If anyone reads my blog I would love to hear what you would do if you won the lottery or maybe just to comment on what I am saying about Callie Rogers.

I went on an excursion to downtown Toronto the other day. I was on Spadina in Chinatown and I got off onto this strange little street with my friend. I can’t remember the name of the street. They had the cutest little festival going on! A bubble machine was going, people were dancing in the streets and a live band was playing. It was so cool to see a real cello up close (those really big violins). Anywho, we stopped into this cute little store and I found an awesome Bob Marley tee and Che Guevara bag that I wish I picked up!! Now wouldn’t those look good walking down the street? Lol

Shoutout for the day?

This one goes to my good long time middle school friend Thusha. I love reading her blog and keeping up with her. She has a lot of interesting tid-bits now and again. So if you had time to stop and read this you can read hers too. ..Trust me, her stories are shorter. http://thushaa.tumblr.com/