Friday, August 27, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Worst-Case Scenario?
We’ve done two interviews in recent weeks – one for our local paper and one for Minnesota Monthly. It has me thinking again about how surreal the past six months have been. Is it really possible for a house to blow up? How could that happen?
I used to have a couple of books from the “Worst-Case Scenario Survival” collection (Joshua Piven). First, there was the “Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Parenting,” which includes topics like how to deal with a screaming baby on an airplane, how to discipline an imaginary friend, and how to tell if your child was switched at birth. Later, I was given “The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook,” which includes instructions for how to fend off a shark, how to deal with an alligator near your golf ball, and at least 200 other crazy scenarios. Most of the scenarios are hilarious and many of them are marginally plausible, but I don’t think they had a scenario for what to do if your house blows up.
Someone close to me said shortly after the accident, “Jen, this is probably the worst thing that can happen to you next to somebody dying.” Unfortunately, several people in my life are currently dealing with the sudden loss of a loved one or the agony of chronic illnesses, and the emotional toll these experiences cause cannot be matched. It makes our experience seem exponentially easier on the heart. Our emotions are still high from the stress of it all, but we have to put it into perspective. Sadly, it could be worse.
On a lighter note, we took our local reporter out to the site to take some photos. While we were there, I found an odd little toy that must have surfaced when the dirt was filled in around the foundation – our Kevin Garnett Celebriduck. A give-away at a Timberwolves game circa 2003, I originally saved it thinking it might be worth a few bucks on eBay some day. That thought subsided when we needed bath toys for Annika, but now, I wonder what a Kevin Garnett rubber ducky that survived a house explosion might be worth!? Must have been made of gold!
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