Lucky Dip
I wish. However, I do fantasize about what my steps would be if I were to win the lottery. It is fun to think about; you get in this dreamy-creamy state of being, because you fool yourself into making assumptions that money = everything is o.k. Kind of like dreaming of what it would be like if you were in a healthy and passionate relationship. I hear they exist. Never had one but, the search is fun as long as you keep moving.
My first call would be to a solicitor specializing in tax planning for high net worth individuals, the second call to Coutts to get a financial planner. My third call would be to my parents to tell them the mixed blessing that they have, in which I actually will not be moving back to the US for a very long while, but I can visit more frequently, to the extent that there will be a time limit owing to tax residency status concerns.
Then, I would divide up the ways in which I want to use my winnings. Category A is Humanitarian Theme. Category B is I heart Me.
Category A
Create a restaurant in London that has inventive organic food, excellent customer service, a small, intimate and cohesive ambiance and do not go for a Michelin star or pretend to by pricing it as such. I would ask my friend Emily to be head chef, provided her husband doesn't mind repatriating for a few years. Query, Category A or B?
Maybe not a Category A, but send a Mi Cocina restaurant from Dallas Texas over here. We need you!
Fund two trusts that will annually give to charities. One trust will give to animal charities (WWF, Battersea Dogs), the other to human charities (Cancer Research UK, Stop Obesity in America, etc.)
Give some money to all my relatives including my miserable grandmother, my only living grandparent which is ironic because she likes life the least of all of them. She was fabulously beautiful when young, but refused to grow old with grace. It is like she kicked and screamed and threw tantrums the whole time, trying to make others as miserable as she. Could anything make her feel better? I would find out what I could buy for her to make her remaining days happy. Go ahead and by the fridgerator full of box wine, cartons of smokes, and cat food for her Missy. But perhaps a really nice luxurious flat and a private nurse in the Caribbean for her? My sisters and I live in fear of becoming her.
To bring me down to earth and so that I don't become a constant sighting on OK or Hello, within a few months of setting all this up, I will take at least ½ year to work on a nature preserve and farm in South America. I speak some Spanish which is why I chose South America over Africa.
Category B
This first instance of B almost broaches Category A, but I would set my sisters and parents up with fat trust funds. I would then book a family holiday for all of us. Probably an equestrian Safari. Then (and probably after 9 months as i would need some downtime after a couple of weeks with the family before hanging out with them more...)I would book a girls holiday for the four of us (mom and sisters) in the South Pacific, at a luxurious resort and spa, where we could take cooking lessons, and art lessons, and yummy cultural things like that.
Pay of my enormous law school loans and outstanding university loans. It costs kidneys to get educated well in the US.
After I quit my job and when I come back from working in Costa Rica, I am going to buy property around the world, oversee my restaurant with Emily, and begin my business idea. Of course, to run these businesses, I will have to be uniformed in Chanel, Prada, YSL and Dolce & Gabanna suits. I wonder if I will do as well without the 'succeed or starve' motivation?
Purchase cottage outside Devon coastal village as discussed on previous post; write there when not managing businesses.
Have a decadent weekend long massive party at a xyzShire country house with massive garden; fly my sisters and (the few) friends from the US in for it.
I have not mentioned men. I don't think I need to put them on the agenda. I am sure by just taking care of me, they will involve themselves somewhere. But yes, I was/am having fantasy of hot matthew mcconeaghy looking guy being my lover whilst in Costa Rica. Phew , this was so much fun I am flushing. Back to work!
My first call would be to a solicitor specializing in tax planning for high net worth individuals, the second call to Coutts to get a financial planner. My third call would be to my parents to tell them the mixed blessing that they have, in which I actually will not be moving back to the US for a very long while, but I can visit more frequently, to the extent that there will be a time limit owing to tax residency status concerns.
Then, I would divide up the ways in which I want to use my winnings. Category A is Humanitarian Theme. Category B is I heart Me.
Category A
Create a restaurant in London that has inventive organic food, excellent customer service, a small, intimate and cohesive ambiance and do not go for a Michelin star or pretend to by pricing it as such. I would ask my friend Emily to be head chef, provided her husband doesn't mind repatriating for a few years. Query, Category A or B?
Maybe not a Category A, but send a Mi Cocina restaurant from Dallas Texas over here. We need you!
Fund two trusts that will annually give to charities. One trust will give to animal charities (WWF, Battersea Dogs), the other to human charities (Cancer Research UK, Stop Obesity in America, etc.)
Give some money to all my relatives including my miserable grandmother, my only living grandparent which is ironic because she likes life the least of all of them. She was fabulously beautiful when young, but refused to grow old with grace. It is like she kicked and screamed and threw tantrums the whole time, trying to make others as miserable as she. Could anything make her feel better? I would find out what I could buy for her to make her remaining days happy. Go ahead and by the fridgerator full of box wine, cartons of smokes, and cat food for her Missy. But perhaps a really nice luxurious flat and a private nurse in the Caribbean for her? My sisters and I live in fear of becoming her.
To bring me down to earth and so that I don't become a constant sighting on OK or Hello, within a few months of setting all this up, I will take at least ½ year to work on a nature preserve and farm in South America. I speak some Spanish which is why I chose South America over Africa.
Category B
This first instance of B almost broaches Category A, but I would set my sisters and parents up with fat trust funds. I would then book a family holiday for all of us. Probably an equestrian Safari. Then (and probably after 9 months as i would need some downtime after a couple of weeks with the family before hanging out with them more...)I would book a girls holiday for the four of us (mom and sisters) in the South Pacific, at a luxurious resort and spa, where we could take cooking lessons, and art lessons, and yummy cultural things like that.
Pay of my enormous law school loans and outstanding university loans. It costs kidneys to get educated well in the US.
After I quit my job and when I come back from working in Costa Rica, I am going to buy property around the world, oversee my restaurant with Emily, and begin my business idea. Of course, to run these businesses, I will have to be uniformed in Chanel, Prada, YSL and Dolce & Gabanna suits. I wonder if I will do as well without the 'succeed or starve' motivation?
Purchase cottage outside Devon coastal village as discussed on previous post; write there when not managing businesses.
Have a decadent weekend long massive party at a xyzShire country house with massive garden; fly my sisters and (the few) friends from the US in for it.
I have not mentioned men. I don't think I need to put them on the agenda. I am sure by just taking care of me, they will involve themselves somewhere. But yes, I was/am having fantasy of hot matthew mcconeaghy looking guy being my lover whilst in Costa Rica. Phew , this was so much fun I am flushing. Back to work!
posted by miss goLondon at 4:09 PM
7 Comments:
Miss GoLondon, this is the best blog ever written. You are glamorous, sophisticated, intelligent -- the perfect woman. I would very much like to offer you my hand in...
Oops, just read the post again. You're just "imagining" winning the lottery. Sorry. Forget everything I wrote before.
Your idea on what to do with winnings is so full of responsibility. If someone where to ask me what I would do with the lotto money, my fantasy answer would be something rather silly.
Really, you should play the lotto. Once a month, at least!
Oh my, the date stamp on this makes it look like I was awake at a decent hour in the morning. As though I were respectable. Not so, it is 2:30am here. Can't have anyone think I was respectable.
H - an interesting fantasy. Do you think your romantic ideal(s) put so much pressure on the actual and non-lottery non-Costa Rica bound boyfriend potential that prospective suitors would be better off investing in some interesting shoes and a cup of tea than looking to stir your emotions?
secret monk, you need to out yourself... using my initial, you clearly know me. you seem to be implying that my expectations are the biggest impediment to forming a relationship with a guy. am i infering correctly? and why do you think this? rather than leading questions, a conversation with advice would be helpful.
Summer, i will start playing the lottery. Neilochka, you will hear from me if i win. you don't mind sharing cabana boy duty do you?
Keep buying those lotto tickets Miss GL!! If I can move to the bloody Upper East Side for my husband's job then he can move across the pond for me to run the kitchen in your fab restaurant. We will bring the London culinary scene to its knees - HA!!
will do Emilia, each week. ciao bella, i miss you.
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