Ten on Tuesday

10 Things I'd Save in a Fire*

1. my MacBook Pro (which contains all my photos from the last coupla years, all my music, all my work stuff, etc., plus ... it's a computer!)
2. a bag in which I'd stuff the half-dozen or so albums of baby photos of Steph and Pete and the envelopes of loose baby photos of Julie (yes, I know, I've got to albumize them all one of these days...)
3. my car keys
4. my wallet (so as not to have to deal with replacing my license, credit cards, etc.)
5. if it was the middle of the night, my glasses and/or contacts, so I could see something for the next few days until I could get them replaced
6. again, if it was the middle of the night, Julie's glasses for the same reason
7. the kids' "bed guys," so they'd have something comforting wherever we ended up sleeping
8. a change of clothes for everyone
9. my recipe file
10. kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but my box of earrings

*I'm assuming that the whole family (including Biggest and Gracie) had already gotten out safely, so these are really just things. I'm also assuming that I'm not risking my life by gathering these things, because obviously I'd leave it all without a glance back. Well, maybe not the MacBook.

Comments

[Going Like Sixty]

"albumize?" Heh.
Off topic a little because this deals with another cats-ass-trophy...
We live in tornado country, so we have a "tornado basket" (laundry basket) where we can throw all that stuff along with the standard emergency stuff and haul it to our safe place.

[amy]

funny you should post this...my SIL and i were talking over the weekend; her parents live in Sun Valley and had to be evacuated because of the fires...which started a conversation about what we would take if it happened to us.

fyi, her mom's friend owns an art gallary downtown and said they've been working round the clock to fly out, on private jets, all the artwork from the house's of the rich and famous...rembrants, monets, etc...wrap, crate and load onto the G7s that pepper the Sun Valley airport...i guess they really are different from you and me!