Well, Big Deal!

Planning what I'll do with my imaginary Powerball Jackpot is my favorite hobby. I like rhyming couplets, Severus Snape, sunny-side-up eggs, Orange Crush and Portlandia. I dislike hard butter and the lack of public transportation in the Midwest.

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Perhaps not the best idea, but...

I'm struck by the number of times I want to respond to work emails with "Word" just a one-word response. The punctuation depends on the situation, of course.

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That's the way it always worked in the family. Shannon the belly dancer always got everything.

Overheard at the office

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Derposaurus Chiropractor

This is the name of the dinosaur that my husband and step-daughter just imagined.

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The sun shines on every dog's butt sometime.

My husband

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We went to see the solstice sunset, but watched a storm roll into the Northland instead.

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"When Jurassic Park first came out I used to think about being a T. Rex and living in the park during the day and going out and smashing things at night. I was 19." Happy Father's Day to my favorite dinosaur enthusiast.

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Immigration

T: Don't you think European starlings have been here long enough that we could consider them native species. Me: You know what immigration laws are like in this country?

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Summer Has Officially Begun

My step-daughter's greatest accomplishments today so far are getting out of bed sometime between noon and one and singing a song to her guinea pig.

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Eighties Teen Movies

The 14-year-old just finished watching Adventures in Babysitting and just started watching Sixteen Candles. Not ten minutes in, she yells at me from the living room, "Did everybody cuss in the 80s?"

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Dream Journal

I dreamt I was working with the journalists who broke the Panama Papers story, but we were working competitively instead of collaboratively. One of my coworkers and Ronald Reagan were my journalist nemeses. We were at a fancy horse racing track that looked an awful lot like a slightly seedier version of the Top of the Falls restaurant at Niagara Falls State Park. We had to bid on pieces of information, like an auction. Before the auction started, Reagan kept bragging about how he broke the Ted Haggard scandal.

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Papa Pia's

My husband just made me pause the video I was watching to excitedly tell me about the new All-American Pizza at Papa Pia's. Papa Pia's is his fake pizza parlor. The only place it or his new All-American Pizza exists is in his mind.

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When Your Kid Is Going to a School with a Deceased Mob Boss's Name on the Wall

L: If Father Totten doesn't play that song at our [8th grade] graduation, I'm gonna whack him. T: Wow, you'll fit right in at your new high school. L: What?

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February 14, 2015: My Valentine's Day = careful grocery store planning to get as much as possible for less than $50.

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February 13, 2015: Happy Galentine's Day

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February 12, 2015: Big day, headline above the fold.

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February 11, 2015: Preventative measures.

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February 10, 2015: Rearview sunset.