i am not prepared

isn't this a cute photo? that's our best good friend pete (who, along with uncle geoff are t2's godfathers) and tayloe strolling the babe in venice. maybe i meant to type strolling for babes. if only i hadn't been tagging along. and if only, um, they didn't look kinda gay.
anyway, we had good times with pete who was here for a few days this week. the most fun thing about having a baby i've found is sharing him with the people we love.
a brief word on the name game: we're just calling him tay or tayloe. it just seems to fit for now. also, i've banned formula from our house unless it's an extreme and dire emergency (such as i'm dead), but more on that some other day.
i was in whole foods on thursday and i heard a little boy talking to his mother about expiration dates on power bars. she was scrounging around trying to find the ones that would last the longest. i thought that was kinda psycho, but then i heard her explain to her boy that she was buying them to go into a earthquake preparedness box for their family.
earthquake preparedness box. hm.
then, later that day i was at a friend's house and as she was giving me a tour of the room she just decorated for her 10-month old, she noted that she didn't hang anything over or near the child's bed because of earthqakes.
someone's trying to tell me something.
of course, i'm generally not prepared for anything. it's kind of my m.o. i worry about stuff only when doom seems imminent. it's sunny and beautiful everyday in los angeles, so i don't especially feel as though the end is nigh.
but la county isn't exactly a low-risk zone. so i gotta read up. the weird and scary thing about an earthquake is that it just hits without warning - middle of the day, middle of the night, while you're on the freeway or on a bridge or taking a walk or on the toilet. there's just no telling. they're evil that way.
my mission this weekend (or early next week) is to get us stocked. water, dry goods, flashlights and batteries and trashbags and dog food and probably (definately) a big bottle of whiskey and maybe (absolutely) some smokes and some sleeping pills.
for the first time in my life, i'm going to try to be ready for something. maybe this will 100 percent guarantee that an earthquake won't happen as long as we're here.