Today we got the first fragments of the “Non-Salvageable” List. The salvage company is scrambling to get our list to us by Friday, and I asked them to email me with parts as it was done.
The first email came through with the contents of two boxes of books. It was strange to think that we no longer have these books. They were really random, books that I know were all over the house, not just in one room. It was a small sample of how widespread the damage was.
The second email contained more books and a couple of boxes worth of random items. One of them was the pineapple clock from the kitchen wall downstairs. It surprised me to see an item from downstairs on the list. It’s not like I loved the pineapple clock. It was on my list of things to replace, actually. But it was mine, it was something I looked at every single day, and it was downstairs where I thought very few things would be destroyed.
It made me cry.
I miss my pineapple clock.
I just got back from Target. I had a whole list of things I was going to buy for the house. I walked through and looked at each one. The bench, the sheets, the pajamas, the picture frames, the mirrors, the CLOCKS. I just couldn’t bring myself to buy any of it. (Except the bandaids for Paisley.) I just wanted to go home to my OWN home.
Soon, soon…
The rest of the list will be in our hands by Friday – Or so they say. Then we will finally know the real extent of the damage. Just a couple more days.