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There is a natural disaster headed your way. You get 4 standard sized canvas grocery totes to fill with valuables and provisions to bring with you to a safe place. What would you put into your 4 bags and why?
Submitted by dejablu503.
Yay my question, but to be fair I am posting my own 4 bags list, actually the first 2 of my bags are packed, I rotate the food one so the food is always fresh in it. I am a girl scout at heart, ask anyone, my daughter Karina thinks I am weird... maybe I am, but I am always prepared, it's why I continue to land on my feet. If you ever get stranded on a desert island you want to be with me.
Bag 1: 4 dried soup mixes, 4 foil packets of tuna, crackers, a jar of cheese whiz, beef jerky, a bag of nuts, sunflower seeds, corned beef, chicken, smoked oysters and beef stew- 1 can each. 2 packages of instant mashed potatoes, instant oatmeal, sea salt, pepper, a ranch salad spritzer, peanut butter, a baggy filled with powdered eggs, a small box of powdered milk, a bag of dehydrated watermelon and apples, a bag of dried cranberries and cherries, a bag of dried veggies, a bag of hard candies, peppermints and red licorice, 2 boxes worth of asst. trail mix bars, instant coffee, tea bags, tang, a bag of rice, cookies, a baggy filled with single serve condiments from Taco bell, and Burger King, 4 spoons, severel pieces of aluminum foil, a can opener, a bottle opener, 4 straws, a small pan, fire starters, matches and a stack of heat resistant cups.
Bag2: A completely stocked 1st aid kit, ace bandage, toothpaste and brush, Listerine, small bottle of white vinegar and one of canola oil, a thermometer, aspirin, antacid, decongestant, blood pressure cuff, two 12 inch sticks, a hand crank flashlight, candles, my solar charger, a towel, a washrag, 4 rags, roll your own tobacco, a flask of Vodka, deodorant, a razor, scissors, a good knife, a magnifying glass, a few nails in a plastic bottle, a small sewing kit, my art journal and colored pencils, a couple soda can cookers, a fireplace lighter, a bottle of heat for the cooker, a wire coat hanger, a rope, a small hammer, 4 quart sized ziplock bags.
Bag 3: A change of clothes, 2 changes of undies, 3 pairs of heavy socks, a hat, a brush, my wallet, my cell phone and charger, my camera, my keys, 3 pictures of each of my kids, one as a baby, one in grade school, one in HS, my HS graduation pic, the pimp doggie pic of Sheba, one pic of my mom and dad, my divorce papers, car title, insurance papers, address book and birth certificate, my laptop and USB drive, a can of mace, sunscreen, shampoo, bar of soap, 2 black garbage bags, my spare glasses.
Bag 4: My 3 favorite pieces of art rolled up, my sketch pad, 3 favorite paint brushes, 8 tubes of paint, my 2 favorite CDs my 6 favorite books, plus some fabric, beads and paint to play with if there is room. I could wear my afghan as a shawl over my coat. I'd put extra food out for the cats and I'd be good to go.... yes as much as I love them I would leave them unless I was told there were accommodations made for them on the other end, the last thing needed in a crisis is for everyone to land in the same confined area with all their pets in tow... it's all about being practical in regards to the big picture, and has nothing to do with a lack of loyalty. Hard times call for hard choices.
Show us the last thing you bought.
I am getting ready to do a brown paper bag wall treatment in my living room.... I only bought one tub of paste, budget restraints from working part time while we tried to get a handle on my pernicious anemia....but a tub is a start, hoping to get going on the walls as soon as my "stuggling to finish" sewing/quilting projects are done.
I don't care if you wear a flag on your lapel,( in fact I don't care if you have lapels at all). Nor do I care if your minister is a wack-job, if you are black, purple, or green, if you can play basketball or work a hoola hoop, or if you do what the morons at Fox refer to as "terrorist fist gabs" with your wife. I have to say I find it amusing Fox goes out of their way to say you are "trying" to seem viable. ( silently implying that a semi-senile, hundred year old pal of GW's is more viable somehow). Har-har. Bottom line is I and a lot of full brain functioning voters do not care about any of the media crap. What I DO care about is the fact you voted yea on FISA, and your announcement about planning to increase federal (aka taxpayer support) of religious non-profits (apparently to prove you are indeed spiritual). See there is this little thing called separation of church and state.... so you handing my money to any non-profit simply because they are religiously connected...bothers me. No accountability for results, putting religious groups above those without religious affiliation apparently even if the non-religious groups do more good things with their money... REALLY bothers me. (For a good example, look up Stan Brock and his outreach called Rural Area Medical and see what can be done by a non-profit with no religious connection claims and only $250K a year that they raised $5 at a time, sound familiar?). I would hope you already know you cannot buy your way into heaven Senator Obama. I admit that you might be able to buy your way into the Whitehouse, in fact lots of politicians before you have done so, problem is.... I suspect heaven has standards Washington has never heard of, and you might want to keep that in mind.
You promised me (and all of us) CHANGE and a new kind of politics. Since I changed myself from the Independent voter status I had held proudly since 1976 to a democrat to be able to vote for you in the primary, I'd like to see some of that change right now, how about delivering that and only that. Stop chasing the silly rumors, I know it is tempting to try to gain the respect of all the voters, but you cannot do that by playing basketball, wearing a lapel pin, throwing money at religious groups or chugging alcohol with factory workers. Just tell us who you are, what you stand for... tell us what you will try to do and be honest about what you will not even attempt to change. IOW, just can the media rhetoric and get real for even a minute. When it surfaces, just call bullshit what it is and move on... but move on being true to who you are, not to feed the media insanity. Even blue collar workers respect straight talk if there is NO doubt it is indeed straight talk, trust me.
Frankly, as it now stands, I just see a skinny guy from Chicago trying to be all things to all people and "acting" like what he "thinks" everyone wants him to be. In my book it makes you increasingly unbelievable and I have no idea who you really are. From where I sit you are starting to smell like just another guy willing to do or say whatever it takes to get elected, and that makes me more than a little sad. I reverted to an Independent voter status yesterday... now let's see you earn my vote. I have to say, the way things are going right now, I may just stay home in November because when I said I was tired of the same old, same old, I MEANT it.
I would be the first to admit I am NOT a carpenter.... but the cabinets are a mess, and if I am going to get my antique stove in here, things have to change, plus I need more counter top, the 10 inches I have to the right of the sink and the corner's worth I have to the left of the sink are not cutting it, cooking here is a maddening experience. I cannot find a cabinet at the recycling center to fit my space and none adaptable. SO, I think a simple solution is my best bet. I played with this at work Saturday night, I get my best ideas at 3am.
I am removing the double sink, and replacing it with a single basin. I am getting rid of the dishwasher, I just hate dishwashers, I mean you have to practically wash the dishes before inserting them, so it is a huge waste of electricity when I have a hand towel. This plan got me to thinking, How would I work what I have and within my own construction limits? Then it came to me, save the base cabinet, rip out the doors and shelves, and make slide under the counter trollies to hold stuff! Then all I have to do is build a box, put wheels on it and slide it into place under the counter! They would look like this:(side view of trolley shown at bottom)
To the right of the sink is a drooping "drawer" section needing a fix...I could replace the drawers that do not close right with boards attached to new drawer slides, with baskets on top of each board.... or boxes with wicker fronts so they look like baskets. I could keep silverware, and utensils in these. If I decide I do not have time to make the trollies, I bet if I go to a cabinet shop and say I need 6 rolling trollies made, for my workshop, out of cabinet grade plywood, they will cost a whole lot less than if I said I need kitchen cabinets built...... I could even trash the cabinet I have and just put in a top between the 2 walls, and built the section for the sink access.... I need to ponder this some more.
One more trip to the post office tomorrow and I do not have to go there again for awhile. It's been a long time getting things done, my energy level has been blah, even with double the B12 shots. I am tired of being tired.
Some of her art sorta reminds me of the art done by a favorite artist of mine, Julie Sisi. Not exactly mind you but sorta...
I am getting ready to do a print with my invite from Spoonflower.com, so far I have my tags designed for my art bags and they look like this:
REALLY sorry to see the vacation end. I have gotten some loose ends tied up while here, and some art done mostly painting, some on wood and some on fabric.... I got a sun plaque done I have been trying to find the time to finish. I also got all the faces for the art doll books done, some of them are seen here, the top ones are sun faces, the bottom ones are doll faces.. yes they are duplicates sorta, I try to make semi-copies for myself of the things I make to give away.... these are going into Dave's healing doll, with I can finish now that I have the shells and stones I needed to finish it.
I also got 4 new art bags started, 3 finished and I hope to finish the newer ones over the next couple of days. I tried to send a pic of them to my email but it is not coming through for some silly reason, so I will post them when I get them all done. The morning is beautiful..... the pacific is tormenting me with clear skies and beautiful sunrises because it knows I have to leave today... I've been trying to upload a pic for over 30 minutes and vox won't let it go so I'll have to add it later... gotta get the car loaded and have some coffee on the beach before we leave....
Edit: 3 of the pics finally uploaded:
We are on a short vacation in Lincoln City Oregon.. Getting here was not uneventful, I got into a rumble with Budget Car Rental over their new policies so we wound up renting a car for the trip from Enterprise instead. I have been a Budget customer for years, I have used their trucks for every move I have done myself, so I was dismayed to discover they now require a credit check at the very moment you rent your vehicle. Knowing my run in with the IRS back in feb placed a blotch on my report I tried to find out in advance if it was going to stop me from renting a car, and they refused to do the credit check prior to opening the rental contract. I didn't want to find out on the day we were to leave that I could not rent a car so I went shopping, and found a better rate, a lower debit card hold amount, a free pickup and I got straight answers through Enterprise Car Rentals.
Our space ship for the trip:
We had dinner out last night at a very nice Mexican restaurant, we gathered sea shells, and driftwood this morning, hit the Outlet Mall this afternoon, and will do some tourist shopping at the beach shops tomorrow. We plan to go see Wall-E tomorrow night at a vintage theater here. So far the fog is staying off shore, so we should be able to see the city fireworks display from out the living room windows in the condo we rented. It is great to get away from Portland!
I am very disappointed in Senator Obama, and I don't want to be. I wanted to believe him capable of being our great hope for change but he is acting more and more like a hundred years of lying politicians before him. Dammit all to hell.
He supports expanding federal funding of religiously based non profits ( what in the hell happened to separation of church and state???)
Obama now supports the FISA legislation that would grant immunity to telecommunications companies for Illegal wiretaps
Who knows what else he is gonna change his mind about? He promised to be real and I'm not seeing it.
The experts (whoever they are) now claim he is doing this to prove he is a man of deep faith, that he is a man who loves this country even though he didn't wear a flag lapel pin or something equally insane. I want to hurl... it's like being served a political latte with religious cream added and being forced to drink it against my will. I like my coffee and my politics neat, nothing added. I want to taste them both for what they are. I am tired of all this say anything to get elected crap. Senator Obama pull on your big boy pants, tell me who you are and why you won't disappoint me or I am staying home on election day. If you can't pull it together, figure out what you really stand for, claim it and stick to it, I have to assume that what we are in for is just another year of picking between the same old crap and some dressed up crap... and me...well, I'm over 50 and it's safe to assume I've had enough crap.
It took me until 5am to fall sleep, I woke cranky. Not sure yet if I am going to the storage locker this morning or tonight, probably tonight, haven't stepped outside yet but it is not currently as hot inside as it was yesterday at 10am. I'll make the decision on this by 11. Thankfully we are cooling off tomorrow a tad.
Ramie sent this software link to me in an email, it looks rather fun. If you draw at all it might interest you. If you love music you might also like it. It's a program called HighC, it allows you to draw music. I haven't played with it yet but I have downloaded it... I wonder what my suns will sound like.....
My brother is getting legally married to the love of his life on Tuesday, July 1 at 10 a.m.
I have to say that they are without a doubt the happiest, most devoted couple I know. They met in college in the 70s and have been loyal and dedicated to each other through sickness and health ever since. Greg is much better at the compromises needed to make a relationship last and get stronger than I have ever been. In fact I am pretty damn lousy at it. Theirs is a marriage that is long over due, in fact it is 30 years late. I can't be there in person, but I will be there in spirit. They have been one soul for over 30 years, an unbreakable spirit, without a single exception. To some people a marriage is just a piece of paper, to them it is so much more, it is a documentation of what they are to each other, a legal public acknowledgment that the past 30 years earned them rights other people take for granted. OMG, I guess this means their dogs will no longer be illegitimate. :)
There are people in my life, people who I care about who will never understand my joy for them, people who think the fact they are gay is wrong. In reality gay is what and who they are, ( not some separate issue, not some flaw to be corrected). I love both Greg and Dave, as they are... a loving couple who gives of themselves to others in need and to each other, always. I could not be prouder of them or happier for them.
That said, I need iced coffee.....
Anyone who thinks temps at 104 in the shade is seriously not a terrorist attack is certainly no Oregonian.
Good gawd, who ordered this crap?!? I was as tired of the cold extended winter as anyone this year, but this is not what I wished for.... and to ride it out in a 1979 single wide trailer with broken A/C... OMG.... just picture a tin can laying in the desert, say...death valley...for days.... it is now 303 am and outside it is 83, inside it is 90... I sure wish it held heat like this during the winter I can tell ya.
I cannot sleep, it's too hot.... if I had enough ice cubes to fill the tub I would nekkid and cuddling with ice cubes right now. I do not do heat well.
I did sew a bit today, the outcome of my efforts the last week will be posted on Monday.
I need chocolate...and iced coffee..... here amuse yourself with being amazed by the art of this cool gourd sculptor
