Yeah, we're lottery winners!

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Guess who suddenly got rich last weekend?

 Well, it wasn't me.  lol!

 But.....we did manage to win $272 in the Florida Lotto.  lol!

Not too bad for a $4 investment!  Of course, if we had matched one more number we would have won $20 thousand dollars.  We don't care!  We're not greedy!  We're excited about our $200 win.

OK, OCG is a little more excited than I am.  Or, he was until he went to the store on Tuesday to cash in the ticket so that we could spend the money on dinner and drinks.

He decided that he had to buy another ticket cause, you know, apparently, we're the luckiest people in the world right now and we're bound to win even more money if he buys another ticket.

 I didn't want to bust his bubble, he'll figure out on his own that we're not THAT lucky.  lol!

Anyway, he goes to the store and fills out the form to buy another ticket and proudly hands it to the cashier along with Saturday's winning ticket.  I think he thought he was going to impress the cashier with his big $200 win.  lol!

He was so disappointed!

Apparently, the girl looked at the old ticket like, "Why is this loser giving this ticket to me," and then just laid it on the counter and printed out the new ticket.  She then told him that he owed her $4.  lol!

He pointed to the winning ticket on the counter and asked if she could take the $4 out of that.  According to him, she rolled her eyes at him, picked up the ticket and said, "Do you want me to check this?"

He said yes, so she did and then without any reaction or any congratulations handed him the new ticket and $268 before turning her back on him and walking to the other end of the counter.

I told him not to worry about it cause she was just jealous.  lol!

Well, we had decided to treat our lottery winnings like found money. You know that you're supposed to just totally waste found money, right? 

We had every intention of doing that, but then we realized that even though the girl in the grocery store wasn't impressed, we are pretty lucky.  Instead of the large expensive dinner with way too many overpriced drinks and a yummy dessert, we ordered in pizza, drank beer that was already in the fridge and skipped dessert all together.  Then we donated the rest of the money to the Red Cross.

There are families in Oklahoma that aren't as lucky as we are.

Do you have any found money you can donate?

Petshop by The Kit Cart

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Here's another adorable kit from The Kit Cart.  This one is called Petshop and it's perfect for all those little critter photos you've got.

Petshop has over 100 elements, 22 papers and 2 alphas.  It's huge!

Here's a look at one of my layouts...

Fin-tastic by The Kit Cart

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Do you get the daily download fron Gotta Pixel?  Seriously, you can get some amazing FREE goodies so if you aren't getting them you really need to check it out!

Jamie of The Kit Cart gave away the cutest kit called Fin-tastic through the daily download and I really hope you didn't miss it!

I used Fintastic to scrap these pictures of my buddy Sebastian and his friend Emmi.  Emmi also has arthrogryposis and she is just as wonderful and amazing as Sebastian.

5-20-13

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5-19-13

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This Scrappers Got Talent contest at STS

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The sign ups have started at Stuff to Scrap!  Why not join in on the fun?

My first time...

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I know some of you read the title of this post and had your mind go right to the gutter!  Shame on you....and...call me later, we'll talk.  lol!

Right now, I'm talking about a totally different kind of first time. 

On Wednesday, for the very first time in my life I parallel parked my car.  That's right!  I am exactly one hundred, ninety eight thousand years old and I parallel parked for the first time ever. 

If you know anything Miami Beach, you're shaking your head in disbelief and wondering how I got to be one hundred, ninety eight thousand years old without ever parallel parking.  It's easy.....you drive around the block several times until you find a parking space or you find a place that has two parking spots open and slide into one from the other or you pay for a parking garage.

Well, on Wednesday, I was feeling brave....or stupid...or stupidly brave and decided to actually give parallel parking a chance.  It had nothing to do with the fact that the sooner I parked my car the sooner I could get to the cold beverage that was waiting for me.  It also had nothing to do with the fact that it was a pretty large parking space or the fact that there was no one around to point and laugh as I made my attempt.

OK, so it actually had everything to do with it being an oversized parking space and the fact that there was no one around to point and laugh!  lol!

I did it!  I did it on the first try!  I did it correctly!

I can't say that I'm eager to do it again, but I've done it once and I now have bragging rights!

The only bad part is that there was no one around to see me, so I have no witnesses and no one who knows me believes me.

You believe me though, right?