Welcome back to Finish The Sentence Friday (FTSF). We give you a sentence and you finish it (however long or short you'd like). Write a post and link it up, or if you don't blog, feel free to finish the sentence in the comments for everyone to see.
Before I get to the sentence, let me recap my blogging week for you:
Oh No He Di’int Gimme That Gift
Caption That! (Round 20)
This Thing Is Worse Than The Flu
I get so frustrated when…I wake up in the middle of the night to tinkle and when I’m done I realize there’s only a naked cardboard tube left on the holder. I reach around and grab a new roll and, while still in the dark, I try to find the beginning of the roll without leaving dozens of toilet paper shreds all over the floor. I don’t want to turn on the light because then I’ll fully wake up, but I’m so frustrated with the uncooperative toilet paper that I’m wide awake anyway and so I turn on the stinking light to find the glued together parts.
Before I get to the sentence, let me recap my blogging week for you:
Oh No He Di’int Gimme That Gift
Caption That! (Round 20)
This Thing Is Worse Than The Flu
Okay, on to this week's sentence:
I get so frustrated when…I wake up in the middle of the night to tinkle and when I’m done I realize there’s only a naked cardboard tube left on the holder. I reach around and grab a new roll and, while still in the dark, I try to find the beginning of the roll without leaving dozens of toilet paper shreds all over the floor. I don’t want to turn on the light because then I’ll fully wake up, but I’m so frustrated with the uncooperative toilet paper that I’m wide awake anyway and so I turn on the stinking light to find the glued together parts.
I finish, go back to bed and spend the next two hours awake
thinking about my blog stats or some other life-or-death issue.
I wrote a whole post on my pet peeves here. It’s funny if
you like whining. It’s my fourth most popular post. People love whining.
I also get frustrated when I spend all Sunday afternoon
clipping, printing and organizing coupons and then get to the store and realize
I left the coupon envelope at home…along with my eight canvas shopping bags.
Or when I’m at church and my earplugs don’t fully block out
the loud music and all I can picture is being completely deaf by 42.
Or when I can’t get my iTunes to sync with my iCloud so I
can get the music on my iPhone, iMac, iPad and whatever other iDevice I have
laying around my house.
Or when I can’t find one of my argyle socks to wear with my
argyle sweater. That one makes me cry.
Or when I apply my family stick figure stickers to the back
of my Hummer and they’re not evenly spaced, or worse, crooked. What
is more frustrating than that!!??!!!
Okay, those last two aren’t real. I don’t own anything
argyle, a Hummer, nor any stick figure stickers. Yet.
But then I think about other frustrating things like child
abuse, sex-trafficking, and people dying of AIDS and if I consider those
frustrating things for longer than the time I spend fretting over why the tweet
I thought was so funny didn’t get retweeted, then it sometimes helps to put my frustrations
into perspective.
Sometimes.
What frustrates you? Tell me in the comments or link up your post.
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The toilet paper during the night being empty is definitely frustrating and can't even fight with logic like that, lol!! ;)
ReplyDeleteMine's pretty easy. People in general irritate me most of the time. I made a horrible preacher since I don't like most people.
ReplyDeleteI linked up this time before your linkup was over. I didn't write about how much I dislike people, but I did cover one specific thing they do.
Lord woman if I thought about all those things at the end I would lose tons of weight because I would literally not be able to swallow for a long time.
ReplyDeleteYou guys totally need a Hummer!
ReplyDeleteI don't have any iDevices to sync together, so I don't feel your pain there...but I think I can almost imagine it.
Here's a solution to your toilet paper issue: get a thingy of wet-wipes and have them on the back of your toilet. Tell you kids they cannot use them unless they pooped, used two "pieces" of toilet paper and poop is still coming off when they wipe. That way, you'll always have something to wipe with. You could also use the nearest hand towel and just wash it the next day (don't worry, I haven't actually done that, but have wanted to on many occasions).
Hmmm...that's a good idea! Earplugs for church (or any other place with loud noise for that matter). I've never thought of that before. Will get some for the next concert we go to, lol.
ReplyDeleteHi there, I'm amazed! Where do you get all these ideas from? These Blogs Posts I'm reading are a very new experience for me! And I'm sure learning a lot about posting! Enjoyed this read, so thanks! See you!
ReplyDeletelol, I hate those stick figures. I thought they were cute the first time I saw one on a friend's return-address labels. but now I hate them. they are everywhere!
ReplyDeleteI have a serious fear of running out of toilet paper for the very reason you described. I keep (no exaggerating here) no less than 20 rolls of toilet paper in the house at all times. I buy the HUGE pack at Sam's club just to soothe my need.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Love your blog, following from Ultimate Blog Challenge! Happy Friday!
ReplyDeleteI also get frustrated when I try to comment on a blog an Captcha stops me. I can NOT decipher those blurry letters to save my life! I have to hit the little circle-arrow button at LEAST 5 times to get letters than I can actually read.
ReplyDeleteKate you crack me up--we just banned plastic grocery bags in our county and so if you forget your canvas bags, the paper ones are 10 cents each
ReplyDeleteThere are so many pet peeves that we all have, many of which you've done a great job of describing! I get particularly ticked off at the person in the checkout line that could have the entire check filled out except for the amount, but waits until they get the total to even ask for a pen! ARRRGGH! Or how gas stations expect you to know (down to the penny) how much a fill up is going to be when you're paying with cash ... in advance! Yet, among all the peeves, I believe losing friends and followers, without knowing why or how you offended them, has to be the worst. There's always that feeling of, "What could I have done?" that lingers on and on. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI finally put a toilet paper holder close to the toilet so that I wouldn't get stuck with (you know) all the way to the hall closet. Now that's frustrating. I consider myself to be very iGeek. But nothing can make me have a hot flash faster than not being able to figure something on an iDevice.
ReplyDeletebeautifully said, Katherine.
ReplyDeleteOur frustrations tend to be so darn small when we hear of calamites around us...just read about meteorite hitting russia...oh boy!
I've basically given up on coupons, seeing as how it drove me nuts every time I left them at home or in the car with the reusable bags.
ReplyDeleteThe only stick figure family I have seen that I actually found interesting was on the back of a minivan. It was the "Ass" family, and the family members' names were Wise, Smart, Dumb, Lazy, and Kiss.
Thanks for hosting!
I get irritated easily too. I think I have sensory processing disorder b/c there are some things people do that I just cannot stand.
ReplyDeleteWe have the wet wipes too. But I don't want to waste them.
ReplyDeleteA must-have! I wore them to the last concert I went to. Felt like a senior citizen, but I could hear afterwards!
ReplyDeleteThat's how I was too. I thought they were cute and I was like - oh, I want those. Then I saw them everywhere on big, expensive SUVs and changed my mind.
ReplyDeleteI didn't link up this week (too many frustrations to choose from I guess) but your post was great and hilarious, as usual. You almost had me on the Hummer...I was thinking, "no way, SHE has a hummer? Guess I don't really know my online friends like I thought I did." :)
ReplyDeleteI do the exact same thing. I just keep hitting that little circle until something shows up that I can see.
ReplyDeleteThen I would REALLY be frustrated.
ReplyDeleteLOL! That's funny. I could never picture me with a Hummer. I'm a slob. I don't think slobs are allowed to have Hummers.
ReplyDeleteYou so had me going with the argyle socks. I was thinking "huh. Not what I'd have thought about Kate." Funny! And I usually bring the coupons into the store and then forget about them. Sigh. Great post! Hopefully I will think of something to write about for this one before it's too late (working all day totally interferes with blogging - boo).
ReplyDeleteLOL! That's a great list. :) I think I need to stop drinking anything about two hours before bed because I HATE getting up to pee in the middle of the night and all that it could involve. It often alerts my cats that I am awake and then they follow me and have to reposition themselves on the bed, or a kid wakes up or the dog barks and then that is the end of my sleeping. :)
ReplyDeleteAs I was writing too, funny how the little things in life can really nettle us!! Funny but true!!!
ReplyDeleteLove that you did more than one thing that frustrates you! That ecard is the best, and I admit you had me going for a second with the Hummer. I thought, Really? That doesn't sound like Kate... I better get moving on reading the FTSF posts now that I'm back...
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