Too Lucky to Be True2024/02/11

Let me show you how lucky I have been in these two months! If you are the jealous type, you might want to skip this post altogether. If I were you, I definitely would. 

Since the beginning of 2024, I have been unexpectedly fortunate with prizes and awards.
 
First, I won a 2000-yen Amazon gift card in a small translation competition. 

And then, without my knowledge, I won a 10000-yen shopping voucher in a lottery organized by a local drugstore.
The lottery was quite exclusive: only those who received a New Year's card from the store AND brought it into the store AND bought  something within a certain period. So the odds were much higher than any other lottery anyone could enter.

As a glass-half-empty kind of person, I began to worry that I had used up this year's luck in these pleasantly surprising events.  And what about this year's tax return?