Things that cross a SurvivalMom’s mind

Sometimes, late at night, I can be found lying in my bed, staring at the ceiling, and wondering what the future holds.  It’s not a peachy-keen future, although I’d dearly love to be wrong in that assessment.  In no particular order, here is what crosses my mind in those dark, late hours.

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1. How will I get my gray roots touched up if we barely have money to survive? 
2. Should I stock up on Nice’n Easy Natural Dark Golden Brown, shade 120A?
3. Will my kids be able to go to college?  Will there even be colleges when they’re ready?
4. Will I end up looking like those desperate, haggard women in the photos of the Great Depression?
5. What if I saw a mushroom cloud right now, what would I do?  Granted, it would be hard to actually see a mushroom cloud from my bedroom at two in the morning, but who said my thoughts at that late hour were rational.
6. What would it be like to live in Canada?  Forever?
7. I really should get to the gym more often.  If I ever have to make a break for it, if I ever had to run from terrorists, I’m not sure how long my legs would hold out.
8. How long can a family live in a foreclosed house before the bank or the cops show up?
9. If I move up to a .40 caliber for my concealed carry, how on earth am I going to conceal it when I’m wearing a tank top in the summer?
10. Is all this a bad dream?  Will it be like one of those Star Trek episodes where all hope seems to be lost, and then  you realize it was just a pesky temporal loop?
11. Is Gerald Celente a prophet or a little off his rocker?
12. I wish I had never read Patriots.
13. My kids don’t know it, but their future isn’t as bright as mine was at their age.  (It’s right about here that I cry a little.)
14. What if all that dehydrated food I bought at COSTCO tastes like crap, and we’re stuck with it?
15. I really should learn how to start a fire with a flint.  I’m just worried that my hair or fake nails will catch on fire and that I’ll look like an idiot when the fire department shows up.
16. We probably should go camping more often so we’ll learn some practical survival skills, but then again, we have all those timeshare weeks we have to use up…
17. Will Social Security even exist by the time I reach retirement age?
18. What if life gets so bad and so hopeless that I lose my faith in God?
19. Please, God, don’t let things ever get so bad that we have to use “reusable toilet paper.”
20. Okay, if I look out the window tomorrow and see a group of armed bad guys heading toward our house, what do I do?  (Paranoid Dad says, “Shoot the closest one first.”) 
21. I should have taken a Tylenol PM.

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