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Jinxed.

Over the past few months we have been hit with good luck and bad luck and luck that we haven't figured out yet. Lately, Josh and I have been buying powerball lottery tickets, watching the 11:00pm news on Wednesday and Sunday nights, moaning some comments out of disappointment when our numbers don't match, and then getting up the next morning and checking the gigantic billboard on the way to work to see if anyone else was more lucky than we were. As luck would have it, no one has been too lucky in a long time, and the jackpot has reached a whopping 240 million dollars! So with great excitement, Josh and I bought our tickets on Moday for Wednesday night's big drawing. We were both extremely hopeful and kept having ridiculous conversations about what we would do with the money when we won, who we would call first, etc.
Tuesday morning came around, the day before the big drawing and life was going on as it usually would. I got up and took a shower, picked out some boring scrubs to wear to work, drove to work listening to the Q-morning Crew on 94.7, called in to play "Battle of the Sexes", and WON AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right, I am a two time champ, this time winning a 4 pack of tickets to a Carolina Hurricane's game! I called Josh and told him the news. He was excited, but sounded a little disappointed as well. I asked him what was wrong. He simply explained that while he was excited about the game, he's pretty much decided we have no chance to win the lottery now. Apparently our odds of winning decreased after I won the game show because it was completely unlikely that we would win two things in one week. I jinxed us. I had never even thought about it.

Not a single number of ours matched in last night's drawing. Some lady in Missouri is enjoying 200+ million dollars today. I wonder if she would want to go to a hockey game. I've got some tickets I might sell to her, for a price.