Happy Holiday and an Angry New Year!

This year, being the efficient and generous soul that I am, I will celebrate the Winter-Holiday-of-Your-Choice and New Years both at once by giving you the gift of resolution.  Each day (or those days I remember to), up until New Years, I will offer you a new resolution. 

Resolution #1 - Rock the Roll
Sometimes, despite your best efforts to avoid it, you are the person who uses the last square of toilet paper. It happens to the best of us.   Now I know that usually you would undertake the following steps:

• Use tissues.  When tissues are gone -
• Use wipes, despite how old any wipes found in this baby-free household must be.  When wipes are all gone -
• Avoid toilet paperless bathroom at all costs, until the roll has been replaced.  If this means using only the bathroom at school or at the Starbucks two blocks away, so be it

This year will be different.  This year you pledge to do the following when you find yourself carefully peeling off that very last square:

• Select a roll from one of the 30 or so rolls under the sink (stacked in a not-at-all-OCD FIFO order)
• Remove the empty toilet paper tube from the dispenser
• Hand tube to the dog (she is right at hand to simplify this task for you)
• Place the new roll in the dispenser

Stand back and admire your work.  If you feel you have come up short, rest assured that within a day or so you will be given another opportunity to practice this new skill, unless you have already perfected your never-use-the-last-square avoidance maneuvers.