Ooooookay I’m a lazy bum!

In more ways than one it seems!  I’ve just finished the six month contract with my job and am officially unemployed again.  It means that I have more time to catch up on all the stuff I’ve been meaning to do but haven’t because I didn’t want to waste my free time with more work.  I don’t want to be unemployed for too long, I’m hoping they’ll decide to renew my contract for another six months or that another job will come along.  I don’t want to lose my motivation.

Where do I stand at the moment?  I’ve now paid off two credit cards, two overdrafts and one personal loan and my car loan will be paid off this September.  Yay!  It’s quite an achievement I’ve been told.  I took the slow route of getting myself out of trouble rather than taking the easy route (options like declaring bankrupsy).

I’m partly hoping that I don’t get a permanent job.  I’ll be happy if I just have temporary/contract work for the rest of the year as I’m planning on going to study a Commerce and Admin degree next year and I’ll be strongly tempted to put those plans on hold if I have a good permanent job.  I just wanna get outa mum and dad’s home and go back to living my own life.  The psychologist told mum and dad I was unlikely to ever be cured of my BIID and anything he does is just a stall…Mum still thinks I’m “working through it” and that I’ll not be using my wheelchair again.  I think Dad knows it, he stops Mum when she tries to open up the can of worms.

It’s so weird being awake at 1 am and not having to worry about getting up tomorrow.  I’ll be waking up at a decent time thursdayish, the first few days are my holiday.

Anyone wanna hire a data entry/office admin chick

What If?

What if you won $30,000,000?  I ask that exact amount (Kim teased me about that last night) because it’s somewhere near the maximum a single person is allowed to win in New Zealand.  Lotto winnings very rarely go higher than 30 mil and they’re generally shared amongst several winners.

Anyway…back to the subject at hand.  I was tapping numbers into the calculator on my cell phone last night in bed.  I worked out if I won $30,000,000 and put it all in a savings account that earned 4% (I’m being conservative here) interest per year I would still be struggling to find things to spend that money on.  I don’t think I’d go crazy with the money…but I do have a list.  It doesn’t necessarily have an order.

• Pay my parents mortgage – Why would I give my parents lots of money?  They have spent a lot of money on us kids to try and give us the best opportunities they could afford to give us and the house was neglected as a result.  It’s a perfectly fine house but it’s never been finished.  If I paid off my parents mortgage and gave them a little extra to finish it they would be all ready for retirement (they’re getting quite close to the age and Dad is adamant he’s retiring as soon as he can).  My Mum would quite happily live the rest of her life with a nice clean finished house decked in apricot, green and red (her favourite colours…I think…her favourites change a lot) and Dad would be free to tinker in his shed without Mum nagging him about unfinished work.  She would also be able to buy another rose bush.  Dad will only let her have one rose bush in a plant pot and he waterblasted her last one.  She was not happy with him.
• Pay off my remaining debts – Pretty self explanatory, this would include my student allowance.
• Buy a brand new Subaru Impreza WRX – The new hatchback model, it can’t be an STI because Subaru doesn’t offer an automatic gearbox for that and the car would be getting Menox hand controls installed.
• Donate money to NZ disabled sports – All our elite disabled sports people/teams  struggle to get any sponsorship to fund (necessary) overseas events, training and equipment and most disabled people in NZ live in poverty.  Even able bodied sports people struggle to get any funding.  Only our rugby teams treat sports as their job, our national netball team (world champions at some point) have to have full time jobs.
• Donate money to WildKat – Wildkat is an organisation that encourages people to get out there and live life rather than sit around waiting for a cure to their problems.  Besides that Kim is one of my best friends
• Move to a different country – I was thinking maybe move to Canada, buy a sharp stick and poke Kim during her training sessions to make sure she makes the most of the top racing wheelchair I’ll buy her
• Buy a Wheelchair for myself – It would either be a Better Made Wheels Titanium, Tilite ZRc, Lasher Sport BT-Mg Magnesium or a Top End Crossfire Titanium.  It would probably be blue with a Roho cushion and backrest…but that would depend on the advice/help I’d be getting from Chrissy and Kim.
• Study – I want to become a web developer
• Fund a study into the effects of elective surgery on BIID patients (yeah right I hear ya say).
• Buy a Tennis Wheelchair – I’ve always had an attraction to wheelchair tennis as long as I can remember.  I’d probably be crap at it but it won’t hurt to try.
• Build a new house – I would want a swimming pool, spa bath, tennis court and if Kim were nearby it would have a track for her to train on   The house would be fully accessible of course.

What would you do with $30,000,000?