New~

Ahhh...... today is a new day. And after yesterday, I was bound and determined it was going to be one hell of a great day. No matter what I had to do to make it so! I knew it the minute I was up and around, my day was going to be phenomenal. I've had, "the feeling," since midnight, when I woke up on the couch, with the dog on my legs. My Dad gets these feelings too. He says it is an itch.

The morning got better when Tommy came home. It is always better when he comes home.... and we are all alone. The feeling was even stronger by 0900 hours. I didn't mention it to him, but he has seen me get these feelings before.

We were in Vegas.

We won thousands.

If I didn't have kids, I would have been on a plane to Vegas within the hour. I used to do that, back in the day. Hop a plane to Vegas, stay the weekend, play, win, shop, play.... win even more, come home with income for a month.... or five and clothes you see people on red carpets wearing. It was a fun life, for a bit. I couldn't hit the airport today. Ok, let's be honest, I have to plan a trip like that, months in advance now-a-days, so, of course, I can't just go and be as irresponsible as I daydream about being, some afternoons.

Ahhh, let's face it, daydreaming was still not going to render my unscratched itch calmed.....

So, I hit the grocery store, like any normal Mom would, right?

Not quite as fun for a girl like me, but I was without crumb-snatchers and in my own little,"happy place." The grocery store, certainly not a place to throw dice, but they had lottery tickets, just the same.

The itch was unnerving now.

I have a knack for knowing when luck is on my side. Playing lottery numbers didn't seem like something that would quell this feeling. No Powerball Lottery or Pick was gonna fix me. I don't normally do scratchers but I was almost being dragged to them.

Dang, where is a private jet when you need one?

I don't even know anything about scratcher tickets. I don't think I haver ever bought one, ever. Something about my $20.00 bill made me choose a certain ticket. I know, I would think I am crazy too, if I didn't always know what was going to happen. "You gotta run with the feeling when you get it," my Daddy always told me. My Daddy also will take the blame or the credit for teaching me all about gambling, "feelings" ..... depending on how my, "feelings," turn out!

Suffice to say, my feelings have never, ever, in my entire life, been, "off," when it comes to gambling. I have never lost, when all was said and done. EVER! Today was no different. I won $320.00! I couldn't wait to get to grocery shopping, now that it wasn't going to cost me a dime!" And let me tell you, I had serious shopping to do today!!!!

The feeling is still there, and actually, it is even stronger than this morning. Unfortunately I had things I needed to put into the freezer, OR, I just might have called in sick to Mommy hood, for the rest of the day, and hit the Southwest Airlines counter, at Sky Harbor!

HAPPY WEDNESDAY TO ME!