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Avocados, mean trainers and other things I'd blow my Mega Millions on
Published: 3/30/2012 7:30 AM
Last Modified: 3/29/2012 5:47 PM

With the Mega Millions jackpot at more than $500 million, Illinois picked the right week to become the first state in the nation to sell lottery tickets online, and other states are watching closely to see how it plays out. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

What would you do with $540 million?

Ever since the Mega Millions jackpot hit that mark, I've been fantasizing about what I'd do with that kinda money.

Granted, it's not like the winner(s) will get that entire sum, right? So let's say half of it goes to the government or Satan or whatever -- that's still more than $200 million. It probably won't come as a shock that one of my only two Cs in college was in math -- algebra, specifically. I would've had an A- or B+ had I not made a 21 on the final. Oopsie.

Anyhoo, I've been fantasizing since Thursday morning what I'd do with $200 million. First, I'd give half to my parents. The remaining half, I'd split again, with $50 million going into a trust. The remaining $50 million would be split one more time, with $25 million being earmarked for various charities and the remaining quarter million being spent on significantly less noble things, such as trips abroad and a parrot that extols my virtues every morning.

You can do a lot of damage with $25 million, right? Obviously, I'd probably quit my job, but I'd still wanna write -- and I'd do that at least six months out of the year. The other six months, I'd spend with family and/or friends vacationing. First on my list: Italy. I want to see Venice before it sinks into the sea. I also want to have pasta for breakfast, lunch and dinner for three weeks straight (i.e., in a row).

After that, I'd hire a wicked personal trainer named Ford or something similarly tough and vehicular-sounding, who'd not only whip me into shape but threaten me out of bed each morning with current photos of myself and phrases such as "look like this the rest of your life" and "never make it to 40 -- at least not happily."

I'd pay off my house, of course, then sell it and move to a loft or apartment downtown. I'd work out with Ford five days a week, rest on the sixth and pig out on the seventh, frequently having shipped-in caviar scooped into avocados with creme fraiche while my feet soaked in hot champagne or something else ridiculously excessive and pointless. No, I'd stick with Epsom because the other's just a tragic waste.

OK, that's my fantasy. What's yours? What would YOU blow your lottery winnings on?

Peace, love and creme fraiche ... XOXO

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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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