I actually love my job(I’m a Baker),so I too would continue to work.But winning the lotto
Would definitely help will all life’s debts (especially gas! ). The rest probably towards helping out other,because let’s face it everyone of us need alittle help now and again.
I would probably pass out if I won. And then I would immediately sign up for the Aromatherapy course that I’m desperate to do, but just can’t afford at this point in time! 🙂
Great blog post. I love your random thoughts! If I won the Lotto, I would invest a big chunk of it, then I’d buy my dream house in the countryside and give some cash to my loved ones. I’d then take a year off and move to Tuscany to learn how to cook like an Italian.
You can still scare the kids…… Toilet roll tubes; cut out scary eyes and put a “glow stick” inside. We’re making them for where I work, and pumpkins just won’t work, and will be too expensive anyway, but we’ve tried this out and it’s going to work – and the kids who are coming can each take one home too!
I’m so happy for you that you enjoy your work now – if I won the Lotto I’d have to do something, but not where I work now – I guess I’d have to buy a ticket first though? 🙂 I’d open a book/craft shop with it’s own cafe – and people would be allowed to read while they were indulging in chocolate fudge cake and Hot chocolate with squirty cream on top! Hahaha.
Crown and pink sunglasses – sounds like my nutty house! lol
Jude.x
If I won, I’d quit my job and blog full time. You’re living my dream 😉
I’d quit my job and get right into my photography [which I don’t have time for because of work!] one of my closest friend’s daughters told me I should be a photographer on the weekend…oh the wisdom of an 8 year old!
Home sickness is so hard, Telle. Go with it. It’s okay to feel that way, it just means you’ll always have two homes.
And go the public speaking, go you! You have a lot to share! x
The first thing I would do is pay off my house and help out my bro to start his own cafe. Then I would definitely quit my job, write more, blog more and spend more time with my lovely daughter.
I have so many things swimming around in my head – too many things…it is why I don’t sleep at night!
I’m a stresser, too. Are you the oldest sibling? I ask because I think that it is our job as oldest, to stress. Today my mom told me that I worry too much. I told her it’s because she NEVER seems to worry about anything.
Yep, I’d keep working, because I LOVE my job as a Labor & Delivery RN. I’d pay off the home and bills, hire a gardener for my husband (so he could have his weekends to ride his Harley rather than work in our yard), put a hunk of a down payment on a house for my daughter and her family, buy my mom a beach house (how big was the Jackpot?), set up college funds for my grandboy and if there is any left over, set up college funds for my nieces and nephews, too.
Rolling thoughts….will I know when it’s the right time to move my mom into an assisted living facilty. She had a stroke a year ago and could no longer live on her own, although she thinks she can.
I don’t sleep much, or well, either. It’s the inability to turn my mind off….wish it had an On/Off switch.
im the eldest and a total stress head, 🙂
PS Can’t believe a pumpkin is $20 where you live! I paid $2.50 here in Washington State, USA.
I love reading your thoughts! 🙂
If I win tonight, first thing I’ll do is quit my job … second is pack up and travel the world!
*Get Skype to chat to your family – My Mum has just gotten it and the kids and I love, love, LOVE chatting to her on there. She is so into it now that she tries calling me on that before the phone haha
I know that homsick feeling, I’m here in Aus and all my family are in NZ. Its really hard, you miss out on so much (my niece just turned 7 and I’ve never been to any of her Birthdays, her sister is 9 months old and I havn’t met her yet). BUT it does make the times when you are togeather so much more special!
Oh and I saw pumpkins in the supermarket for $36 each on the weekend!!! It’s true you DO pay more for everything in Canberra!! :o)
Finish. The. Renovations. We might even fit them in under the three-year mark!
it is difficult to be away from your family. I am in Dubai with my husband the last 2 years.. our families back to Greece.. I have exactly the same feeling!!!
If I won lotto then i would definately quit my job and go back to Greece! I love the place!!! it is fantastic! I would work there (perhaps!!!!) 😉
I wouldn’t quit my job if I won lotto – I love what I do/my industry, though I am ready for a seachange. … That seachange would just happen a whole lot faster than currently planned!
Renovate our house here, move back to England then think about helping everyone else out.
A friend is having what could be major health issues and cannot afford to have things checked out properly due to lack of funds and health insurance…I’d pay for that first up.
I only have a little part time job so I’d keep it for a bit till I worked out what to do when I grew up.
Analysis Paralysis in my head today…therefore nothing has been achieved.
I often think about what I would do if I won lotto, although my number is $82M, I don’t know why. I would buy a block of apartments in each city and turn them into halfway houses for the homeless, to get whatever help thay need to get back on their feet. Then I would buy a some acreage on the NSW north coast and build lots of holiday homes on it, for my extended family to use, so we could all have christmas and easter togethor. I would gift alot to my relos and friends, and then I would take my hubs and children on a long, lovely holiday. You can see I’ve thought about it a lot 😉
If I won lotto I would buy rental properties and set myself up for life. Then I would help out my family with their needs. I would quit my job and start an animal shelter for those animals that are harder to adopt out, every animal deserves a forever home and I would love to change lives by giving them one!
Iwould help out family first. Pay off my mortgage, start my nutrition studies id love to do. I already only work part time so id keep my job:) Ummm set up my kids maybe go to the Theme Parks in Qld and visit my friend in Melb where i would set her up too as she really could do with some helpxx
oh and as for what is swirling in my head today, i hate that my illness has reared its ugly head and ive missed two days of work and i cant go to my Pump Class tonight. But it is nothing compared to what others have to live with and for that i am also gratefulx
I would get a house and help out the family/inlaws, quit my current job and make my hobby in to my job (that last one is going to happen no matter if i win lotto, just be faster if i did). And thats what pretty much is swirling around my head at the moment.
Ahhh the lotto question… I would help my friends and relatives first and then buy a house in the same suburb the kids school and pre-school are (cause we have such an awesome community there) and then I’d buy a holiday house big enough for our extended family to stay for Christmas and Easter (we all stay in a holiday house for Easter every year which is always a lot of fun).
And yes, I would still work because I love what I do and I’m at the beginning of my career (6 years in).
I have lots of thoughts about what direction my photography business is going to go. So exciting at the moment!
I live in Sweden but am American so I am with you on the homesickness and the best thing for it is to Skype, to see someone even if it is just on the computer screen is so much better then the phone and if you are in close time zones you can have a cuppa together and it really lifts the heart!
Now for if I won the lotto I would buy a home where my family is from and then where my husbands is so we could spend time with both of them!
I would walk out of this house with nothing but the clothes on my back, my kids and hubby and buy my dream house and deck it out with all new things. I am procrastinating de-cluttering this house and that would solve the problem!!!!!
Good job on the leap to do more public speaking. GO YOU!!!
Love your list of mind-swirling thoughts Chantelle.
And love your pumpkin too. Sorry it went mouldy. I don’t think Halloween was structured around our humid heat and pumpkin prices :))
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If I won $72 million I’d stop stressing about getting a job after being made redundant last week, unemployment sux…
If I won the lotto I would be beyond thrilled. I would buy a summer and a winter home, and a really nice RV. Help my kids and family.
Swirling in my head today……finish my tea, then vacuum, and get my blog posts done for tomorrow.
To keep your pumpkin lasting longer, rub all the cut edges liberally with vaseline. It keeps it moist, but blocks fungus growth. Or carve a foam one next year and keep it forever. Just remember to use electric light or a glowstick, not a candle!
I love what I do (hypnotherapy) so I’d not quit my job. I’d travel a lot more. I’d advertise a lot more. I’d pay off my student loans and go back for my doctorate. I’ve recently been getting used to the idea that I’ll never have my doctorate (which I’ve wanted always) because of my student loan debt.
If I had one wish (this might make a good blog post for you), I’d wipe out the computer banks at the student loan offices and make everyone accounts show “paid in full” without the ability to fix that error. I’d post that I’d done it and everyone who wishes to could send me $100 and I’d put it all to charity. I bet that’d make a huge difference for a lot of people, and a lot of charities!
I’ve read that putting some of those silica packets – the ones you might find in medicine bottles or vitamins – inside your carved pumpkin prevents mold and decay. They prevent the moisture buildup that leads to the spoilage. You should save those when you get them and try again next year!
If I won the lottery, I would pay off all my parents’ debts, then mine, then I’d try and find that perfect house for me and not care if it needs a little work. Then I’d probably save whatever was left and use it as a safety net for whatever I needed in life. To help me live just a little more comfortably than I would normally. I imagine I’d still work, at least part-time, to keep me in society, doing something, prevent me from being the hermit I could so easily become. 🙂
The thing that keeps swirling about in my head is your comment from last week – 8 spiders eaten in my sleep!!! Aaaahhh!!!
I have way too many thoughts going around in my head to even think about writing them down.
If I won the lottery, I think the first thing I’d do would buy some pretty clothing and shoes, and then buy my brother a house. Give money to my parents, and sister. Then probably try and organise a holiday for myself.
I think you are amazing and I love the things swirling about in your head … because you remind me of me! If I hear sirens I text my kids to see if they’re okay! I worry about everything and stress way too much. So much in fact that I was just diagnosed with Stress Related Coronary Artery Spasms. Ha! Healthy heart, totally clear arteries but the pain of a heart attack when I stress. But that’s good news.
If I won a bazillion dollars I would continue to blog but only as a journal. We would buy at least 50 acres in the middle of no where on a lake with hundreds of pine trees. And there we would be. No neighbors. No barking dogs. No cars with radios so loud it rattles my windows. 🙂
Winning lotto would make life just that much easier; I would pay off my mortgage and student loans, buy my mom a car, and buy our family’s summer cottage, to be able to renovate it properly and make sure the property stays in our family. I would travel a lot with my husband, and we would probably buy a slightly bigger place to live, so my husband could have an office that turns into a photo studio easily. I would quit my job and focus more in my photography and crafting. My current job pays the bills, but it’s not my dream job… At some point, I would probably open a crafting store with a cafe in-store.. oh the dreams!! 🙂
There’s a lot going on in my head at the moment, so much in fact that I’m just waiting for the weekend to come so I can relax a bit and focus on the fun stuff ahead..
great to read a bit more about you and your family – and I reckon stress and Motherhood go hand in hand some days!
I actually love my job(I’m a Baker),so I too would continue to work.But winning the lotto
Would definitely help will all life’s debts (especially gas! ). The rest probably towards helping out other,because let’s face it everyone of us need alittle help now and again.
I would probably pass out if I won. And then I would immediately sign up for the Aromatherapy course that I’m desperate to do, but just can’t afford at this point in time! 🙂
Great blog post. I love your random thoughts! If I won the Lotto, I would invest a big chunk of it, then I’d buy my dream house in the countryside and give some cash to my loved ones. I’d then take a year off and move to Tuscany to learn how to cook like an Italian.
You can still scare the kids…… Toilet roll tubes; cut out scary eyes and put a “glow stick” inside. We’re making them for where I work, and pumpkins just won’t work, and will be too expensive anyway, but we’ve tried this out and it’s going to work – and the kids who are coming can each take one home too!
I’m so happy for you that you enjoy your work now – if I won the Lotto I’d have to do something, but not where I work now – I guess I’d have to buy a ticket first though? 🙂 I’d open a book/craft shop with it’s own cafe – and people would be allowed to read while they were indulging in chocolate fudge cake and Hot chocolate with squirty cream on top! Hahaha.
Crown and pink sunglasses – sounds like my nutty house! lol
Jude.x
If I won, I’d quit my job and blog full time. You’re living my dream 😉
I’d quit my job and get right into my photography [which I don’t have time for because of work!] one of my closest friend’s daughters told me I should be a photographer on the weekend…oh the wisdom of an 8 year old!
Home sickness is so hard, Telle. Go with it. It’s okay to feel that way, it just means you’ll always have two homes.
And go the public speaking, go you! You have a lot to share! x
The first thing I would do is pay off my house and help out my bro to start his own cafe. Then I would definitely quit my job, write more, blog more and spend more time with my lovely daughter.
I have so many things swimming around in my head – too many things…it is why I don’t sleep at night!
I’m a stresser, too. Are you the oldest sibling? I ask because I think that it is our job as oldest, to stress. Today my mom told me that I worry too much. I told her it’s because she NEVER seems to worry about anything.
Yep, I’d keep working, because I LOVE my job as a Labor & Delivery RN. I’d pay off the home and bills, hire a gardener for my husband (so he could have his weekends to ride his Harley rather than work in our yard), put a hunk of a down payment on a house for my daughter and her family, buy my mom a beach house (how big was the Jackpot?), set up college funds for my grandboy and if there is any left over, set up college funds for my nieces and nephews, too.
Rolling thoughts….will I know when it’s the right time to move my mom into an assisted living facilty. She had a stroke a year ago and could no longer live on her own, although she thinks she can.
I don’t sleep much, or well, either. It’s the inability to turn my mind off….wish it had an On/Off switch.
im the eldest and a total stress head, 🙂
PS Can’t believe a pumpkin is $20 where you live! I paid $2.50 here in Washington State, USA.
I love reading your thoughts! 🙂
If I win tonight, first thing I’ll do is quit my job … second is pack up and travel the world!
*Get Skype to chat to your family – My Mum has just gotten it and the kids and I love, love, LOVE chatting to her on there. She is so into it now that she tries calling me on that before the phone haha
I know that homsick feeling, I’m here in Aus and all my family are in NZ. Its really hard, you miss out on so much (my niece just turned 7 and I’ve never been to any of her Birthdays, her sister is 9 months old and I havn’t met her yet). BUT it does make the times when you are togeather so much more special!
Oh and I saw pumpkins in the supermarket for $36 each on the weekend!!! It’s true you DO pay more for everything in Canberra!! :o)
Finish. The. Renovations. We might even fit them in under the three-year mark!
it is difficult to be away from your family. I am in Dubai with my husband the last 2 years.. our families back to Greece.. I have exactly the same feeling!!!
If I won lotto then i would definately quit my job and go back to Greece! I love the place!!! it is fantastic! I would work there (perhaps!!!!) 😉
I wouldn’t quit my job if I won lotto – I love what I do/my industry, though I am ready for a seachange. … That seachange would just happen a whole lot faster than currently planned!
Renovate our house here, move back to England then think about helping everyone else out.
A friend is having what could be major health issues and cannot afford to have things checked out properly due to lack of funds and health insurance…I’d pay for that first up.
I only have a little part time job so I’d keep it for a bit till I worked out what to do when I grew up.
Analysis Paralysis in my head today…therefore nothing has been achieved.
I often think about what I would do if I won lotto, although my number is $82M, I don’t know why. I would buy a block of apartments in each city and turn them into halfway houses for the homeless, to get whatever help thay need to get back on their feet. Then I would buy a some acreage on the NSW north coast and build lots of holiday homes on it, for my extended family to use, so we could all have christmas and easter togethor. I would gift alot to my relos and friends, and then I would take my hubs and children on a long, lovely holiday. You can see I’ve thought about it a lot 😉
If I won lotto I would buy rental properties and set myself up for life. Then I would help out my family with their needs. I would quit my job and start an animal shelter for those animals that are harder to adopt out, every animal deserves a forever home and I would love to change lives by giving them one!
Iwould help out family first. Pay off my mortgage, start my nutrition studies id love to do. I already only work part time so id keep my job:) Ummm set up my kids maybe go to the Theme Parks in Qld and visit my friend in Melb where i would set her up too as she really could do with some helpxx
oh and as for what is swirling in my head today, i hate that my illness has reared its ugly head and ive missed two days of work and i cant go to my Pump Class tonight. But it is nothing compared to what others have to live with and for that i am also gratefulx
I would get a house and help out the family/inlaws, quit my current job and make my hobby in to my job (that last one is going to happen no matter if i win lotto, just be faster if i did). And thats what pretty much is swirling around my head at the moment.
Ahhh the lotto question… I would help my friends and relatives first and then buy a house in the same suburb the kids school and pre-school are (cause we have such an awesome community there) and then I’d buy a holiday house big enough for our extended family to stay for Christmas and Easter (we all stay in a holiday house for Easter every year which is always a lot of fun).
And yes, I would still work because I love what I do and I’m at the beginning of my career (6 years in).
I have lots of thoughts about what direction my photography business is going to go. So exciting at the moment!
I live in Sweden but am American so I am with you on the homesickness and the best thing for it is to Skype, to see someone even if it is just on the computer screen is so much better then the phone and if you are in close time zones you can have a cuppa together and it really lifts the heart!
Now for if I won the lotto I would buy a home where my family is from and then where my husbands is so we could spend time with both of them!
I would walk out of this house with nothing but the clothes on my back, my kids and hubby and buy my dream house and deck it out with all new things. I am procrastinating de-cluttering this house and that would solve the problem!!!!!
Good job on the leap to do more public speaking. GO YOU!!!
Love your list of mind-swirling thoughts Chantelle.
And love your pumpkin too. Sorry it went mouldy. I don’t think Halloween was structured around our humid heat and pumpkin prices :))
xhttp://blog.scissorspaperrockdesigns.com.au/
If I won $72 million I’d stop stressing about getting a job after being made redundant last week, unemployment sux…
If I won the lotto I would be beyond thrilled. I would buy a summer and a winter home, and a really nice RV. Help my kids and family.
Swirling in my head today……finish my tea, then vacuum, and get my blog posts done for tomorrow.
To keep your pumpkin lasting longer, rub all the cut edges liberally with vaseline. It keeps it moist, but blocks fungus growth. Or carve a foam one next year and keep it forever. Just remember to use electric light or a glowstick, not a candle!
I love what I do (hypnotherapy) so I’d not quit my job. I’d travel a lot more. I’d advertise a lot more. I’d pay off my student loans and go back for my doctorate. I’ve recently been getting used to the idea that I’ll never have my doctorate (which I’ve wanted always) because of my student loan debt.
If I had one wish (this might make a good blog post for you), I’d wipe out the computer banks at the student loan offices and make everyone accounts show “paid in full” without the ability to fix that error. I’d post that I’d done it and everyone who wishes to could send me $100 and I’d put it all to charity. I bet that’d make a huge difference for a lot of people, and a lot of charities!
I’ve read that putting some of those silica packets – the ones you might find in medicine bottles or vitamins – inside your carved pumpkin prevents mold and decay. They prevent the moisture buildup that leads to the spoilage. You should save those when you get them and try again next year!
If I won the lottery, I would pay off all my parents’ debts, then mine, then I’d try and find that perfect house for me and not care if it needs a little work. Then I’d probably save whatever was left and use it as a safety net for whatever I needed in life. To help me live just a little more comfortably than I would normally. I imagine I’d still work, at least part-time, to keep me in society, doing something, prevent me from being the hermit I could so easily become. 🙂
The thing that keeps swirling about in my head is your comment from last week – 8 spiders eaten in my sleep!!! Aaaahhh!!!
I have way too many thoughts going around in my head to even think about writing them down.
If I won the lottery, I think the first thing I’d do would buy some pretty clothing and shoes, and then buy my brother a house. Give money to my parents, and sister. Then probably try and organise a holiday for myself.
I think you are amazing and I love the things swirling about in your head … because you remind me of me! If I hear sirens I text my kids to see if they’re okay! I worry about everything and stress way too much. So much in fact that I was just diagnosed with Stress Related Coronary Artery Spasms. Ha! Healthy heart, totally clear arteries but the pain of a heart attack when I stress. But that’s good news.
If I won a bazillion dollars I would continue to blog but only as a journal. We would buy at least 50 acres in the middle of no where on a lake with hundreds of pine trees. And there we would be. No neighbors. No barking dogs. No cars with radios so loud it rattles my windows. 🙂
Winning lotto would make life just that much easier; I would pay off my mortgage and student loans, buy my mom a car, and buy our family’s summer cottage, to be able to renovate it properly and make sure the property stays in our family. I would travel a lot with my husband, and we would probably buy a slightly bigger place to live, so my husband could have an office that turns into a photo studio easily. I would quit my job and focus more in my photography and crafting. My current job pays the bills, but it’s not my dream job… At some point, I would probably open a crafting store with a cafe in-store.. oh the dreams!! 🙂
There’s a lot going on in my head at the moment, so much in fact that I’m just waiting for the weekend to come so I can relax a bit and focus on the fun stuff ahead..
great to read a bit more about you and your family – and I reckon stress and Motherhood go hand in hand some days!