Ill-Prepared

So is it a bad thing if I came away from tonight's preparedness enrichment meeting and all I can think is, "Boy! I am not prepared!" Some of these ladies were so on the ball. 72-hour kits, 3-month supply, 1-year supply! I mean come on! I have already burned through half of the food storage my in-laws gave us for Christmas this year. Now I'm feeling a little guilty. I just don't know where to start. I got the food portion of my 72-hour kits today and I'm actually feelin' pretty good about that. I've got the pamphlets and the printouts on how to get going, why can't I do it? Any tips?

Blog Jar: Tell a courtship story about you and your spouse.
Hmm... okay. A little known fact about Ryan and I is that we met on the Internet. I know, I know. I'm cringing putting this out there for the world to read. The funny thing is that it was 10 years ago when the Internet really wasn't what it was today. I don't even think there was such a thing as Internet dating. But it is what it is. So... I had just graduated from high school and I had a boyfriend at the time that I really wasn't loving so much. I thought maybe I was done with him, but we had been dating for 2 years and he was talking about marriage and that was scary, but breaking up would be a big change and I was only 18 and really dumb. My parents did not love this boyfriend either. In fact, they had a very strict curfew in place with him. I had to be home by 10:00 every night. This left me with a lot of free time on my hands, so I surfed the Internet. (I think that was when chat rooms were a huge thing and not nearly as scary as they are now) Anyway... one night I got this random IM from some crazy guy I had never met. I believe his opening line was, "My friend and I rented Jumping Jack Flash, do you want to come over and watch it?" Stellar! We chatted for a while and he had me rolling. I remember even calling my sister Lauri into the room so she could join in on the fun. A few days later when I signed online again, he IM'd me again and was as funny as ever. We chatted online for a few weeks and then moved onto phone calls. At some point during all of this I told my boyfriend that I definitely needed to date other people if I was going to even consider thinking of marriage. His response to that was, "If you go out with some guy, we're through." My thoughts were, "OK... kinda sad, but bye." And off I went on a date with Ryan. He wooed me, charmed me, smoothed out some of my rough edges, and well... the rest is history.