If I Won the Lottery: Blogtober14

One of my favorite bloggers, Helene, is encouraging her readers to blog each day in October.  I've thought about doing this many times-mostly because I want to get in the habit of writing every day.  I might not have the best posts out there, but I'm going to try!
Today's post is about what I would do if I won the lottery.  I wrote about this a couple of years ago here actually.  Pretty much, my answers would be the same.  And while I would never turn down a multi million dollar winning lottery ticket-to be honest, my only desire is to win a half a million or so. 
Ideally, I would like to experience a windfall just large enough to pay off all debts, purchase my house outright and make some upgrades.  I would want to put money away for the girls college and take a few trips.  I would love to have just enough to be financially secure and know that should anything devastating happen, money will not be a source of stress.
Just like Helene, I also wouldn't want to tell anyone.  I am pretty sure people would guess but as long as Boyfriend and I continued to work-we could just pretend that we both got awesome promotions, right? :)
Like I mentioned in my previous post-I just have this gut feeling that I will win the lottery.  I hope it happens sometime soon, but if not that is ok.  It will just make me appreciate it more when I do.