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To everyone who offered sympathy and open ended help, thank you. I am repeatedly awestruck at the number of totally awesome people who are my friends. You guys keep my faith in the human race from totally going ka-splat.

Also up there on the "keeping my faith in humanity" meter is the owner of Coopers Jewelry down in the Worburn Mall. Most of my "good" jewelry came from there over the years because Josh liked the location and the service staff. The owner spent almost an hour with me last night, printing out price paid and current value receipts for all the various pieces that were stolen. She even made copies of pages from the store's catalog so I could give the police an actuate picture of what was missing. She went above and beyond the call of customer service and she has my loyalty as a customer forever.

Other than dealing with the paperwork of being a robbery victim, life goes on. I'm trying to force myself to stop jumping every time I hear something outside. I feel distinctly vulnerable in my home now and I DON'T like it. We're getting ADT monitoring turned back on and I'm forcing myself to learn how to use the system. The cats HATE the alarm but hopefully I'll figure it out before one of them has a heart attack. I'm seriously considering getting a big dog to snuggle up/hide behind. The cats' will love that, I'm sure. I'll get over it and eventually it'll seem normal to have to type in a code every time we open a door.

My MIT class had its final today. Three hours of "let's see if you remember THIS" not-goodness. In preparation, I drugged myself silly with cold medicine last night in the hopes of actually getting some sleep before the test. It worked and I don't feel nearly as beaten by the final as I did the mid-term. Of course, that could just mean that my understanding of the test was so bad that I don't know how bad it was.

Tonight, wrapping presents and maybe going to see a movie. I haven't done that in a long time and now I have a good excuse to pay theater prices. It's not like I can watch movies at home at the moment.

Well fuck

Dec. 15th, 2009 10:49 pm
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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?

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