Dialogue is one of my strong points in writing, but in real life I often sputter over my words.  When trying to talk smack to my husband, he'll say, "Should we go instant message each other so you can come up with some decent retorts?"  Daniel is great at real life dialogue, and that's probably why I excel at writing it, but every now and then I can be funny, too.  Here's a couple of our conversations from this morning that I got a kick out of:

Dan is excited about getting HDTV today.  "Even Sponge Bob will be in high definition!"

He's going to have to try another way to get me excited.  "I don't care about either Sponge Bob or HD," I say.

Dan gasps.  "Please rephrase your comment so it doesn't break my heart."

I rephrase.  "I hate them."

Then we were talking about a meeting that we have to attend on Monday and who we should hire to babysit the kids.  This gets me much more excited than HDTV.

"We can make it a date!" I suggest, thinking we can add dinner and a movie to our evening.

Dan gives me a blank stare.

"Remember those things?" I tease.

Yes, it all sounds silly now that I write it, but I enjoy silly.  ;-p  You'll see when my books come out.