How could I forget
Mood: Chuckling
Listening to: More silence
Thursday, 11.11pm
OMG (oh my god) how could I have forgotten to mention the news of the century?
Thinks, now how shall I slip this in casually? Impossible. Just out with it.
Those readers who are Kiwi will probably have heard about the record breaking Lotto win a couple of weeks back. The biggest prize ever won in NZ it was, eighteen million dollars. Well........guess what? It wasn't me. But it was my cousin!!!!! Tickle me arse wiv a fevva I'm still getting over that one. Her mum and my mum were sisters. We had no idea until watching the news one night and heard the interview that Paul Holmes did with the winner - it sounded like cousin Helen. Then bugger me the name came across and it WAS cousin Helen! My dinner nearly fell to the floor, I was speechless, making wild arm movements to Brent who was a bit slow on the uptake. How exciting is that?? And, apart from the normal things (house, car, boat) that any big winner would buy, the biggest excitement for her is that her daughters-in-law and daughter will never ever have to put their kids in daycare and go out and work as she did (she was a single mum with 6 kids at one stage).
And her Prada shoes gave her blisters.
Wow. Amazing. Yep I know money isn't everything, but it is pretty impressive. She deserves to enjoy it - what goes round seems to have come round after all (lots of history which I ain't going to share) which is nice to know, and I know that she'll do lots and lots of good with it.
So there - I bask in reflected dazzle. Mind blowing stuff.
Jaybee
