If I won the lottery....

 It's all over the news: tonight's the drawing for a lotto prize of over one billion dollars!  Enough money to do, well, pretty much anything, right?


CNN made some useful suggestions

1. Buy a yacht, but be reasonable. Do not buy a 50-foot yacht which starts at around $145 million, not counting staff and docking, so let's buy a smaller boat and keep the cost around $15 million.
2. Summer in the South of France and eat out for every meal for a while. You can afford it.
3. Buy a Rolex.
4. Buy good jewelry.
5. Look expensive, not flashy. Don't turn into a "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member.
6. Get some work done. Lift your whole face up if you'd like. You have to look the part.
7. Go Hollywood with your teeth and pay cash.
8. Oh, have you quit your job yet? Do that.
9. Log into your bank account and look at the sum multiple times per day for fun.
10. Disappear. Poof never heard from again.
11. Go live on a farm in Ireland. (Just me?)
12. Buy a West Village home in New York City.
13. Buy young blood for the plasma and inject it to slow the aging process.
14. Adopt several animals. Buy them expensive clothes.
15. Purchase $300 face cream and use globs of it nightly. Hire someone to rub it in.
16. Hire a bodyguard. Make sure no one gets kidnapped.
17. Only fly private, but offset your carbon footprint.
18. Buy good art.
19. Buy a sports team if you're into that.
    20. Don't do it all in one day.
    21. Donate a substantial portion of your pile of money to worthy causes. Feel the joy of generosity.
    All very wise.  But mostly not what I would do.  What would YOU do?

    Uncle Sam and AlextheKay want to know!

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