Well fuck
Long and short of it: My house was broken into today.
Josh found the door kicked in when he got home from work. No one was hurt. All the critters are accounted for. They didn't destroy things. The police said that its pretty common for thieves to just ransack a place, up to and including harming the pets and that didn't happen here. They just got in, took what they wanted and left. On the grand scale of things, it's not that bad as robberies go.
On the down side, my house was broken into today.
I keep wondering if they'll come back for the stuff they couldn't carry out on the first run.
They took off with most of the small portable electronics; the playstation, the laptop, BlueRay player, all the BlueRay disks, the digital camera. They left the TV, the big server in the office and all the normal DVDs. The electron stuff is all replaceable.
On the non-replaceable list is an antique gold & diamond necklace that my Mennonite grandmother gave me that's been in our family for generations. Also the opal necklace and earrings Josh gave me a few years back and the pearls my other grandmother gave me when I graduated college. They took my jewelry box and ransacked all the "stuff" boxes in my bedroom, taking anything even vaguely sparkly. A lot of "worthless" jewelry and stuff that was near and dear to me is gone now. I know they'll just throw it out because its not "good" stuff and that makes me incredibly sad.
Oh, and the thing that brought it all home for me? When I realized that the DVD player contained a disk from my big boxed set of Buffy. So now I have an incomplete Buffy collection. What the hell do you do with a 7 season set that's missing one disk?
Josh found the door kicked in when he got home from work. No one was hurt. All the critters are accounted for. They didn't destroy things. The police said that its pretty common for thieves to just ransack a place, up to and including harming the pets and that didn't happen here. They just got in, took what they wanted and left. On the grand scale of things, it's not that bad as robberies go.
On the down side, my house was broken into today.
I keep wondering if they'll come back for the stuff they couldn't carry out on the first run.
They took off with most of the small portable electronics; the playstation, the laptop, BlueRay player, all the BlueRay disks, the digital camera. They left the TV, the big server in the office and all the normal DVDs. The electron stuff is all replaceable.
On the non-replaceable list is an antique gold & diamond necklace that my Mennonite grandmother gave me that's been in our family for generations. Also the opal necklace and earrings Josh gave me a few years back and the pearls my other grandmother gave me when I graduated college. They took my jewelry box and ransacked all the "stuff" boxes in my bedroom, taking anything even vaguely sparkly. A lot of "worthless" jewelry and stuff that was near and dear to me is gone now. I know they'll just throw it out because its not "good" stuff and that makes me incredibly sad.
Oh, and the thing that brought it all home for me? When I realized that the DVD player contained a disk from my big boxed set of Buffy. So now I have an incomplete Buffy collection. What the hell do you do with a 7 season set that's missing one disk?