Even though our numbers didn't come up on Saturday night, I can still imagine what life would have been like if we had won. Here are just a couple things that would have been different today if I had drawn the winning ticket:
- Someone else would have gotten up at 4:15AM with my new best friend Wally to let him out the front door. And, that someone else would have installed a doggy door first thing this morning after the sun came up so this new little ritual of his could come to a quick end.
- I would have just thrown my dirty running clothes away after their daily use instead of washing them out by hand in the bathroom sink. How much of a dent in that $590 million could a lifetime's supply of running clothes really make, anyway?
- I would have had my driver take me to work (yes, I'd still be going there) rather than wonder if the "Check Engine" light was going to come on again when I started my car up this morning.
- The phrase "That's too expensive" would not have immediately come to mind when Hannah showed me the vacation spot she's picked out for the post-Christmas trip we're trying to plan. In fact, that entire phrase would have been permanently erased from my mind.
- Rather than watch Robyn's 2010 Pitchfork Festival performance of "Fembot" yet again on YouTube (yes, I'm addicted), I would have just flown her over here from Sweden to dance around the back yard.