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Just watched Ever After with mum. I've had it on DVD for a while but hadn't had a chance to watch it. I have to admit part of me was hoping it would end when she was sold as a slave to the creepy dude and the Prince married the girl from Spain. It's much more realistic.

Today someone won $40 million in the lotto and the winning ticket was bought from the newsagency across from my work. Usually I'm quite ambivalent towards lotteries and only buy the rare ticket for the major prizes, but it's something quite different when the ticket was sold twenty metres from where I am every day. Again, I'm not usually one of those people who contemplate what they'd do if they had buckets of money, I find it quite depressing. However, if I had won I would:

• Build or buy my mum a house in her suburb of choice
• Pay off my sister's mortgage
• Extend my travels but still stay mainly in hostels
• Buy a townhouse
• Finance an animal shelter that gives pets a comfortable home even if they can't be placed somewhere else
• Make donations to various environmental and conservational organisations as I believe people are forgetting these aspects for the showiness of climate change
• Send my dad to rehab and buy him a place somewhere and set up a fund for Jacob to go to private schools once he is old enough

Like I said, I find this pie-in-the-sky daydreaming infinitely depressing because unless I'm the next JK Rowling or something there's no chance I'd be able to do most of this stuff. Dad will die an alcoholic, Jacob will go to the same deliquent school as his siblings and become as hopeless as them, any donations to shelters or conservationists I make will be modest at best.