Paying Attention to the Little Things

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller

Morning!

:::waves::::

I mostly had a good night's sleep, last night and feel like a new person. Yay.

It's bitterly cold here. The temps are in the teens and below AND we have these incredible gale force winds that take your breath away. My outdoor thermometer reads ZERO right now.

Brrrrrrrrr....

I was spoiled by the warm temps last week, in the 30s and 40s. Now... YUCK.

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I posted on Healthful & Homemade this a.m. if you're interested!

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My SIL asked me what toilet paper I buy (yes, we have odd conversations in this family) and I told her. Then she said, "I think my TP company shortened the rolls."

And it made me think... so I just went in and checked, and I THINK SHE'S RIGHT. I can remember (okay, don't laugh too hard at this story) when I lived with my roomie, Suz. I'm an "over the roll" gal and she was an "under the roll" and we lived in this apt where you could NOT change out the roll until it was empty, because you couldn't fit your finger between the end of the roll and the tube to push it off, so had to tear off the cardboard. Therefore, whoever finished the roll got to put the new roll on the way THEY liked it.

Yes, it was quite a competition.. lol.

BUT yesterday I was thinking about the fact that the roll used to fit the entire length of the TP roll holder tube. Mine now? Easily more than an inch is open on either side.

This is like the tuna cans being 5.9 oz now instead of 6 oz. Or ice cream being just a few ounces less than a half gallon. Have you LOOKED?

::::grumble grumble::::

The companies aren't raising prices, they're decreasing the size of things -- just by a little, so we don't really notice. But that's incredibly deceptive, don't you think?

I wonder what else has been shaved down in size? Anyone?

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You Are Totally Funky

If you were a car, you'd be one of a kind. You'd be customized from bumper to bumper. When it comes to the road of life, you throw away the map. You're curious to see where fate will take you. You are the type most likely to get lost, but you never panic. Getting lost is how you learn about new things. You believe that being on the road is an adventure. You can wait to see what your destination will be.

The Old Car Test

LOL... totally true on the "getting lost" part! Much of the rest is pretty close, too. *G*

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TP or not TP?

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander

What is it about toilet paper that causes people to forget to put on a new roll when the previous roll is done? Does it have some weird kind of amnesia gene embedded in the paper? Perhaps it's only targeted toward people of the "XY" persuasion, because I find that men tend to thing toilet paper is an optional accessory.

I remember once, many (many, many) years ago, I was dating this guy -- Robert. I swung by his house once and had to use the bathroom and when I stepped inside, I notice an empty toilet paper holder. I looked under the sink. No TP. I opened the door and asked if they had some hidden away somewhere.

Robert looked about frantically and then tossed me a wash cloth.

Yes, that's correct, this bachelor household had NO TOILET PAPER in the entire place. And while I understand that most of the time, they don't need it... there are the occasions when they DO.

I think that may have marked the beginning of the end for our relationship.

When I was younger, we had a rule in our house that whoever used the last of the TP replaced the roll. Common sense, yes? Well, my step-father decided that ONE square of TP on the roll meant it wasn't empty and would regularly leave exactly that much instead of just putting on a new roll.

What on earth is ONE square of toilet paper good for?

I bring all this up because I had to potty in the middle of the night. Who turns on the light to do that? Not me... so, I did the deed, reached for the roll and hit cardboard.

Yep, that's right folks. Despite thirteen years of nagging my DH to put on a new TP roll if he used the last, it still hasn't soaked in. He's a smart guy, he can take apart computers and put them back together. Cars, too. And various other electronic and mechanical devices. He writes computer code. But he can't remember to change out the toilet paper rolls.

I really do think it's some kind of genetic anomaly.

You?

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