To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, January 15, 2010

I dreamed a dream...

Ever since I was in the 8th grade I dreamed of REALLY playing the stock market, not just faking it for a school project.

And, even when I was a 14-year-old twerp, I knew exactly which stock I would purchase first...

Drum Roll Please....

Coca-cola!

Are any of you surprised?!? Here's to making back some of the bazillions of dollars I have surely given to The Coca-Cola company over the past few decades, ever since I could wrap my hands around a diet coke can... well, practically.

Today is a BIG day. I feel like a grown-up! And, I am marking something else off the bucket list!

I now play the stock market! So what if I have no idea what I am doing. I haven't had much of a clue my entire life. And, I seem to have gotten by just fine! Ignorance is bliss... so they say. My life has been extremely blissful, as you can imagine.

And, well... while in the past few years I have invested exactly $0 in the casinos in Vegas, somehow, with the help of my prettiest smile (and maybe my legs), I have walked out with $2,400. Thank you kindly dirty old men!

Let's hope the NYSE likes my prettiest smile!

2 comments:

Amanda said...

Love it. You need to elaborate on the Vegas story. Inquiring minds want to know...

Anonymous said...

Ali? What's a stock market?