I had to read it several times to get it

I don't win things. I just don't. I have never really had any luck good or bad. The last time I won anything was $50 off of a scratch lotto ticket my mom bought for my 18th birthday. Maybe that was in fact her luck, not mine that made me win 50 bucks.

When I was looking at the new Oscar museum website for possible job openings, I noticed a web banner advertisement about becoming a museum member with a possibility of winning tickets to the Oscars. I signed up and immediately emailed the immediate fam urging them to signup because maybe someone would win, not me of course.

I actually forgot that I signed up and when I did find out that I had indeed won, I couldn't be happy about it. I got the email while I waited to pick up my bag, after finding out my flight from Toronto to Ottawa was canceled.  We had just found out that we flew into a polar vortex. 

When I read the email later, the only light I had access to was my phone. The electricity went out in the place we were staying, the timed beeps of the "by the way, your smoke alarm is no longer connect to electrical!!!" made it hard to sleep. I re-read the email, but it sounded like it was just for me, 1 ticket. I thought, no way am I going by myself and I never thought about it again.

When I got back from the great farther north, I got a reminder to turn in all my forms, I didn't think to bother. I got a second reminder an hour later about getting in my forms for me and my guest.

Guest!!!!

The posts to come is my itinerary for perfect Hollywood weekend. Thankfully I had some very willing participants.