I have been travelling quite a bit so haven’t been able to get to PLC. I also haven’t been paying much attention to the lottery results. After all, why should I? I’m not going to win anything, so why bother. But I do have this project to finish, and I am home so today I…
Lotteryist Week 41
My great-grandmother loved to embroider. She was always doing a piece of needlework. She finished her last piece, a cut-work tablecloth, when she was 89 years old. My mom said she had no memory of her grandmother not having needlework close to hand. Mom remembered her grandmother always started each piece with great excitement. She…
Lotteryist Week 40
I cashed in my winning lottery ticket. I am $8.00 richer. The ticket was from a drawing eight weeks ago. That I hadn’t checked my numbers in eight weeks without a doubt says something about my lack of confidence in winning. Also, I had no idea how the cashing in process worked. It also says…
Lotteryist Week 39
Hey! Guess what?! I won! Okay, before we go nuts with excitement, I must say I won $8.00. The overall odds of winning are 1:26 and this is Week 39. But still, I won something, and I am $8.00 richer than I was before. So what am I going to do with my winnings? All…
Lotteryist Week 38
Same clerk two weeks in a row. How many times had that happened? I could count on one hand. And she remembered me! How cool is that! Told her I was giving her another chance because all her “positive thoughts”, as she had put it, hadn’t worked last week. She laughed that she would try…
Lotteryist Week 37
Somebody somewhere won BIG BIG BIG – one winning ticket won over 400 million dollars. Ok, it’s official – I’m pouting. Yes indeed. I am crossing my arms over my chest and saying “Humph!” Why them and not me? The age old questions – don’t I deserve to win? Of course I do. Just as,…
Lotteryist Week 36
This week I was the instrument of two learning experiences. A new clerk at PLC. Nothing new in that. One thing I have learned is stop-and-robs have a huge turnover of clerks. This lady was excited because my ticket was the first powerball ticket with “extra” as she called it that she had sold. She…
Lotteryist Week 35
I can think of nothing to say. I have seventeen blogs left to write in this project and my mind is blank. This is not good. This week I can remember nothing about the clerk I bought my losing-again ticket from. Nothing about the day, the other people, what was happening, nothing made any impression…
Lotteryist Week 34
To use an old-fashioned expression, I have come into some money. It’s not a huge amount of money. It certainly isn’t a BIG WIN. It isn’t a lottery win at all. It isn’t enough to change my life. But it is more than a nickel and it is totally unencumbered. I can do anything I…
Lotteryist Week 33
For one reason or another it has been a few weeks since I last visited my PLC. I am surprised at how bereft I am feeling. I miss seeing the familiar clerks. I miss meeting the new clerks. I miss seeing the cast of characters that Saturday afternoons bring to the little Stop-and Rob. Unless…