Powerball and Pay It Forward

....it is $192 million you know!  Did you ever wonder what you would do if you won the PowerBall or some other crazy amount of money in a game of chance???  Jason and I talk about this every time the jackpot gets high...it's the only time we play...when the odds are totally out of your favor for winning because every hillbilly and their mother is playing.  Jason will promptly quit his job and move to a deserted island while I continue to work...on my terms of course.  I will promptly join him when I am in need of a break from continuing to save the world and paying it forward.  He says I can fly down in the jet we own.   Oh, if life were only so easy!  Perhaps I could blog every 40 hours until my 40th birthday if I had more time and wasn't working.  For now, I will cram the beginning of what seems like the last 40 weeks into a update post as I feel like I need to get caught up.  I'm still blazing the way to 40....

For what it's worth, a Wednesday birthday is kinda sucky...you can't party like it's the weekend and no one really knows how to put together a Wednesday birthday celebration.  However, I had the most fabulous 37th birthday!!  Had dinner with the hubster and ended the night just perfectly....I made him sing Happy Birthday to me so that I could blow out the birthday candles!

                   

                                                  This is Happy with the Birthday cupcake!



I totally have to pick up where I left off with my 40X40 birthday "pay it forward."  As you  may recall, one of the 40X40 birthday activities is to pay if forward with $40 on my birthday.  Must harder than I planned.  You will never believe this ridiculous story. Nothing happened on my birthday to inspire the give, despite my best efforts.  So, it's towards the end of my birthday week and I still haven't quite captured the moment to pay it forward. Enter my brother Mark and sister-in-law Stephanie and a request to go to our local ice cream shop, Carmen & David's.  Now, Carmen & David's is a local ice creamery that makes homemade ice cream that is to die for.  My personal favorite is Peanut Butter Oreo followed by the Fluffernutter ice cream sundae which tastes exactly as it sounds.  So we get there and the line is out the door as usual and they close to closing time.  While standing in line, I decide that it is the perfect time for my pay it forward.  There's a few folks behind us, totally cute little old couple, a cute younger couple, and one or two families.  Perfect.  Let's make it happen.   Screeching halt!!!!!!!  Ding Dong Teenager Alert.  Sweet Lord, what is happening to this world?  Let me introduce you to my conversation as I approach the cash register with my ice cream....

Me: 
Hi!  I would like to pay for my ice cream and $40 worth of ice cream for the people behind me.  Can you help me do this as part of my own "pay it forward" good deed?

Ditsy Register Girl:
Um, what does pay it forward mean?  I don't understand what you want to do.

Me:  I have $40 here (insert form of payment) and would like you to apply it to the cost of the ice cream for the rest of the people behind me.  Pay it forward...it means I do something nice for someone, like pay for their ice cream, and then they get inspired to do something similar for other people.

Ditsy Register Girl:
Um, I've never heard of that.  I'm pretty sure we can't let you pay for someone else. What would I tell them?

**insert annoyance on my end as this is beginning to be the most frustrating conversation about paying for other people's ice cream and the line is backing up and defeating the purpose of doing something nice for someone else**

Me:  Can you just write all of the ice cream prices down and keep track of everyone until the end of the line now that you've closed the door and then I will pay the tab at the end?  (because at this point I will pay more than $40 just to make this happen!)

Ditsy Register Girl has now called over Ditsy Register Girl 2 for assistance....OF WHICH SHE PROVIDES NONE!!!!   So, I told her to just ring up mine and then also paid for Mark & Stephanie. Epic fail on the pay it forward at Carmen & David's.  The three of us proceeded to enjoy our ice cream and quietly contemplate what just occurred because none of us could believe it. 


Did I ever get to pay it forward????  I did.  It was so much less dramatic and exactly as it was supposed to be.  I'm sure the family of three was blessed!  Sorry you don't get the details...a girl should never give and tell!  Can't wait for next year!