Toilet Paper, And Please Overnight It, Thanks.

Is it pathetic that I just ordered a 12 pack of toilet paper on amazon.com? It's only Monday of this week and already it feels like the to do list is piling up. My husband informed me that we might need toilet paper. *Might* because usually he tells me we need something - "We need mayonnaise," and generally that is because he hasn't "really" looked for the thing he is telling me we need. Everyone knows that most of the time if you move a few items in the fridge, like say the gallon container of milk, you will find what you are looking for. Also, anything he ever seems to need or think we are out of is generally found in close proximity to the ketchup. So tonight, as I double checked is toilet paper request, I find that he is correct. We do need toilet paper. There is none in the storage closet, and alas, there is none next to the ketchup.

This is significant to me on many levels. To my husband, it is significant on only one level: He is right. For me, I am the person that comes home from Target or the grocery store with 100 items more than I went for because I had a coupon and these 100 items, unbeknownst to me prior to arriving to the store, were actually on sale while I was there. I cannot resist the temptation to get a good deal and stock up ahead of time. I've never been sorry that I've had 68 rolls of paper towels in my itty bitty storage closet on Capitol Hill. In fact, I've usually been more amazed at how quickly these mundane items get depleted. Once I was actually sure that the nanny MUST be taking some of these items for her own house. Thus, for me to not have at least one pack of toilet paper in the entire house, and for me to not know this ahead of time, well folks, it's just simply amazing.

So, until the order from amazon.com shows up on my door step tomorrow, we'll all be using baby wipes. That is, unless I am almost out of those too.


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Location:Capitol Hill, Washington, DC