Hmmm. $300 million?
1. Pay off my parents debt and set them up with a better retirement fund. Buy them an RV and new cars.
2. Pay off my brothers' debt and set up college funds for his 3 kids.
3. Pay off my house and debt, and set up college fund for Sami to attend any college she wants and can get into.
4. Hire someone to do the day-to-day gruntwork on Gotmead so I can concentrate on the Big Picture.
5. Put Gotmead on the biggest, baddest dedicated server at the biggest, baddest hosting company on the planet, with multiple cascading backups and mirrors so it *never* goes down again.
6. Hire the best Joomla programmer and the best SMF programmer in the world to customize Gotmead into the Jewel of the Mead World.
7. Find the perfect patch of land, probably somewhere in the North Carolina mountains. Big enough for my hubby to hunt, with just enough cleared for the house, barns guest house and a reasonable yard for entertaining.
7. Take the design of my Spanish Hacienda U-shaped house and turn it into a classical roman atrium home, complete with bathing pools (in all temperatures), sauna, central courtyard with fountains and pools, restful views, many bedrooms for guests, indoor and outdoor kitchen (with all the toys), huge wine cellar, meadery, etc. (Of course, with a clear, retractable cover for the atrium for when the weather gets wintery).
8. A huge, fully equipped, state of the art barn for my daughters' horses, stocked with Swedish Warmbloods and Fresians. With, of course, a small carriage house for her to live in whenever she's home, or when she later brings her family and/or friends home.
9. Mm. A little BMW convertible and a new Toyota SUV. And a honking big truck for my hubby, and a nice pickup for my daughter, with a horse trailer with living quarters.
10. A vacation home in Vancouver. (and the place to flee to when things go to Hell here).
11. *Real* fencing, not that web stuff I use now.
12. My own plane and landing strip.
13. A *really nice* RV with *all* the toys, tricked out with everything we need to travel around the continent whenever we like, for as long as we like.
I'll let y'all start the meaderies, just make sure I get at least one bottle of everything....*somebody* has to do the reviews....LOL
Vicky - getting really sleepy now, just gonna put up the chat room
1. Pay off my parents debt and set them up with a better retirement fund. Buy them an RV and new cars.
2. Pay off my brothers' debt and set up college funds for his 3 kids.
3. Pay off my house and debt, and set up college fund for Sami to attend any college she wants and can get into.
4. Hire someone to do the day-to-day gruntwork on Gotmead so I can concentrate on the Big Picture.
5. Put Gotmead on the biggest, baddest dedicated server at the biggest, baddest hosting company on the planet, with multiple cascading backups and mirrors so it *never* goes down again.
6. Hire the best Joomla programmer and the best SMF programmer in the world to customize Gotmead into the Jewel of the Mead World.
7. Find the perfect patch of land, probably somewhere in the North Carolina mountains. Big enough for my hubby to hunt, with just enough cleared for the house, barns guest house and a reasonable yard for entertaining.
7. Take the design of my Spanish Hacienda U-shaped house and turn it into a classical roman atrium home, complete with bathing pools (in all temperatures), sauna, central courtyard with fountains and pools, restful views, many bedrooms for guests, indoor and outdoor kitchen (with all the toys), huge wine cellar, meadery, etc. (Of course, with a clear, retractable cover for the atrium for when the weather gets wintery).
8. A huge, fully equipped, state of the art barn for my daughters' horses, stocked with Swedish Warmbloods and Fresians. With, of course, a small carriage house for her to live in whenever she's home, or when she later brings her family and/or friends home.
9. Mm. A little BMW convertible and a new Toyota SUV. And a honking big truck for my hubby, and a nice pickup for my daughter, with a horse trailer with living quarters.
10. A vacation home in Vancouver. (and the place to flee to when things go to Hell here).
11. *Real* fencing, not that web stuff I use now.
12. My own plane and landing strip.
13. A *really nice* RV with *all* the toys, tricked out with everything we need to travel around the continent whenever we like, for as long as we like.
I'll let y'all start the meaderies, just make sure I get at least one bottle of everything....*somebody* has to do the reviews....LOL
Vicky - getting really sleepy now, just gonna put up the chat room
;D 
