I went with the Pei Wei Spicy Chicken...got fried rice with it. It was good.

I had a serious dilemma this morning. OK, let me walk you through all the thoughts that went through my head:


1. As I’m on my way to work, I’m already thinking about what kind of pop I want to drink this morning. Options are Pepsi, Coke, Mountain Dew, and possibly Dr. Pepper but it’s unlikely that the doctor will get chosen on any given day. I stopped to get gas on my way to work and there was a big Coca-Cola truck in the parking lot unloading stuff. Pretty much made my decision; I was going to go for a coke today.

2. Then I get to work, I walk in. Usually I would stop by the kitchen on the way to my desk and grab my desk candy for the day. Unfortunately, this is our first day back in the office in a while and so I was carrying Zehra (my senior)’s dell computer monitor which she likes to pack up into this box that is way too big and take with us wherever we go. (more like have ME take with us wherever we go) So I couldn’t really make any stops on the way to the desk cause the thing is decently heavy and I needed to put it down sometime sooner rather than later. So I went back to my desk, put my stuff down and gave Z her monitor. I got all settled into my desk, booted up my computer, all that jazz. Finally it was time to go back to the kitchen and grab some yummies (or tasties, whichever name you prefer). In my head, I knew exactly what I was going for. I was going to go get me a small pixie cup FULL of yellow and pink starbursts. I wanted them bad. And they were going to go great with my Coke (which was my next stop on the way back to my desk).

3. I walk into the kitchen and over to the counter with all the jars of candy. Our office stocks up on the following candies: Peanut M&M’s , original M&M’s, reese’s pieces, starburst, skittles, and then usually one other random finger candy. The starburst were behind the other candies so I really didn’t receive the horrible news until I was all the way over to the counter and was looking down. My world was immediately shattered. Instead of a jar full of delectable assorted starburst, this jar only had about 12 starburst in it. And they were ALL orange.

4. It was an intense feeling that I found inside of myself at this point. Like really? Somebody dropped the ball on keeping the candy stocked up. Cause here’s the deal, NOBODY likes those orange ones. People obviously love the pink and red ones the most as a GENERAL rule. Usually I am ok because even if people have picked out all the pink and red, my two favs are pink and yellow so there are still plenty of yellows left to keep my happy. But orange is last on everyone’s list. And even though I can’t really back this statement up, I think the only people that eat the orange ones are the people who go in and grab just an assorted handful to take with them. They then go back to their desk, eat all the pink, yellow, and red, and then they toss the orange ones in the trash. It’s just a hypothesis but I truly believe that the percentage of orange that eaten is roughly 6% and the percentage that get thrown away is about 91%. I’m not going to discuss what I think happens to the other 3%. It’s gross and you don’t want to hear about it.

5. So here I am, thoroughly disappointed about not having any starburst to grab. But I am forced to make a tough decision. See, usually I would rank these candies in the following order: 1. Starburst, 2. M&M’s original, 3. M&M’s with peanuts, 4. Skittles, and 5. Hell no I’m not eating Reese’s Pieces. So you would think that I would just go with the M&M’s because they’re a second-favorite and they’re also sitting right there…fully available. The problem is this: My mouth was fully ready for the fruitiness and loveliness of starburst and to put chocolate in there instead just didn’t sound right to my mouth at the time. So I was forced to jump down to the 4th favorite and go with skittles.

6. Skittles are fairly similar to starburst as far as flavor and such. Like they really aren’t that different except for shape and the little unnoticeable crust around skittles. But the main reason that starburst are 1st and that skittles are 4th is that skittles leave this kinda annoying sugar-coated feeling in your mouth. Starburst leave your mouth tasting like fruit and tasting awesome. Skittles make my teeth feel like they severely need to be brushed. (why don’t I just go ahead and brush them after the skittles? Well, the reasons are two-fold. A of all, I don’t carry a toothbrush with me at work, and B of all, I hate the taste of toothpaste more than I hate the feeling of sugar on my teeth)

7. So, in general, I can deal with that sugary feeling in my mouth. It’s not too big of a problem. The problem comes in when we go back to thought number 1. I have decided that I want a coke today. Now, if you know anything about coke, it’s that it is sweet and sugary and not only makes your teeth feel like they need to be brushed, but sometimes even makes them feel like you should make a trek to the dentist so he can polish them as well. So it took about 3 skittles for me to realize that combining the sugar-tooth of the skittles with the sugar-tooth of the coke was NOT going to work.

8. So I ended up getting water instead of pop for the day.

9. I feel like my day has suffered because of it.