Online Sweepstakes are the new Hope

So, living in Utica and working my butt off just to put all my money on my loans and still have ridiculous bills to pay sort of gets you down after a while. Like, REALLY gets you down. So I've found a new way to have hope! It's sort of like playing the lottery, only it doesn't cost you anything except time! It's called...entering online sweepstakes!

I know what you're thinking - that is the dumbest thing ever. And, well, it basically is. But there's a glimmer of hope! There's a chance that somewhere, somehow, someone will just hand me $10,000 for being me so I can pay taxes on it and buy an iPhone and put the rest of the thousands on my loans to cut months off of my pay-back time! The way I look at it, it's not so bad because I do 5 daily entries every morning, and some one-time entries if I get bored during other times of the day, I spend maybe 15 minutes tops, and none of my hard-earned cash! Plus, I'm mostly not thinking about Jean Valjeaning my way into and out of major financial institutions, or hoping I have long-lost totally rich relatives who've been watching me secretly always and think I'm awesome who will die soon.

Please don't think this has affected my cynicism at all. I mean, the chances of me winning one of these things has got to be about the same as my chances of going to Heaven. OMG WAIT...

Hey God? You read my blog, right? Of course you do. I'm going to go ahead and assume that you're pretty much reading everything all the time, including all of my sweepstakes entries. (By the way, sorry about the copious swearing, but you know, shit happens.) I'm going to go ahead and ask that you give me a win on one of these things. I mean, I'm just saying that I would pay off my loans to give me and any future pork roasts I choose to pass through my vaginal tract a better life - and I'm not lying and saying I'm going to feed the starving children or whatever, because I totally wouldn't do that. I mean I'd probably give a tenth of it away because I'm trying to get on the proverbial ark here, but let's not push it. I'm being honest! I need a little help! The Quicken one I'm entering has a $1,000,000 grand prize, and I could sure use that! That'd pay off my loans entirely, and buy me an iPhone, and probably pay for laser hair removal AND lessons. And a new car. And apartments in DC! Come oooonnnnn here, give a girl some love - some celestial, cash-type love!

Or maybe I should just work this like The Secret and put it out there. Envision myself winning $1,000,000, and getting out of the 315 U-hole. I WILL win a million dollars, I WILL I WILL I WILL!!!

Here's the link to the About.com blog if you want to join my sweeping club!