nothing rhymes with orange

today i had the most delicious orange. i'm sure it was the yummiest orange in the world to ever grow on an orange tree. i cannot speak for oranges that may have grown somewhere else, for example in outer space, in a test tube, or incognito.

but this orange. oooh, this orange. it was a tasty, juicy ball of fabul-orange-ocity. i am going to strive for the rest of my life to invent a time machine to take me back to this afternoon, just so i can eat that orange again. it was that good.

another fun thing today was the supply cupboard at work. i lost my last pen to a pen-nabbing co-worker, so i headed down to the most exciting space in the office. the supply cupboard. i opened it up to take two more pens, and gasped at the wonder that is fresh, overstocked office supplies. stacks and stacks of post-it notes, a rainbow of highlighters, pots of whiteout, boxes of pens! oh, the humanity! there is nothing i love more than going down to that lovely cupboard and staring at everything there is to choose from. perhaps tomorrow i shall 'misplace' my paper clips and head down for another sneek peek.

and finally, i have been dying to respond to one thing in particular. have you seen the trailer yet for aquamarine? well, it asks, "what would it be like to be best friends with a mermaid?". and, i must reply. here is a list of things i would do if i was best friends with a mermaid:

- start a mermaid activist/awareness group. surely, mermaids have rights in society, just like everyone else. first on the agenda would be to get mermaids accepted as normal individuals, and to have the 'no shoes' rule at restaurants and shops changed to exempt mermaids.
-get my mermaid best friend to introduce me to sebastien, so we can sing 'under the sea'.
-go to hawaii, where my mermaid best friend and i would swim - or mostly, where my mermaid best friend would pull me around while i relaxed and lay on a nice mat on the ocean.
-charge $25 bucks a pop to let people take pictures with my mermaid best friend...and use the proceeds to donate to charity. and by charity, i mean the 'buy amanda some shoes fund'