I'm discouraged

Monday our house was broken into while we were at work. They took 4 laptops (1 was a broken one), our LCD TV, the xBox 360, Wii, PS2 and some other stuff.

I'm beyond pissed, but more than that I'm DEVASTATED. Not over the STUFF, but the things I can't get back. I had thousands of pictures saved on my laptop and nowhere else. I had pics still on my digital camera that they took. I can't get those back...and I'm in tears over it. They stole both safes...one had all of our documents, plus some sentimental jewelry :(

I'm getting really discouraged...nothing has been posted online to be sold, and I called a computer shop a few minutes ago to see if any of the computers had been brought in to have the password removed...the bitch was like 'you'll never get it back, and even if we've had a computer brought in, I don't have to tell you about it!' I hung up on her...she was ranting at me about how I need to just call the police and move on with my life.

I'm so frustrated and angry. I just want my computer back. And the safes with the stuff in it...that's all. If they were to walk to the door, drop it off, and keep everything else, I'd be all right. I can't reduplicate those pictures.

Right now we're sitting at about $8k in losses. The adjustor is supposed to come out today...I'm working on the full inventory list right now.

*sigh* This sucks :(:( What the hell did we do to deserve this? And why do people have no regard for other people? Why do they feel entitled to just TAKE something that doesn't belong to them? Stupid selfish punks.

:( *cry*

We are up 3 to 1...

After the sorry performance Tuesday, the Stars won tonight! We are up in the series, 3 games to 1 :) Joel Lundqvist, Stu Barnes, and Steve Ott all scored tonight for us. Marty took a hit from Teemu Selanne...it was ugly.

Anyway, that's about all there is to report on the hockey front.

Tuesday was my birthday. D brought home Chili's and an ice cream cake, and we watched the Stars game.

This is my first week back to work...it has been crazy. I'm glad to be back though, and everybody has told me they are glad I am back, too. I'm glad tomorrow is Friday, though.

We're up 2 games to none in the series!

We won Game Two 5 - 2!

Three STARS of the game:

#1 Brad Richards (STARS)

#2 Ryan Getzlaf (DUCKS)

#3 Mike Ribeiro (STARS)

Mike Modano had the game-winning goal. We're really hoping to go to a home game next week :)

Off to bed soon...Tonya is over and we have church in the morning.

Rest of the weekend plans...getting the bathroom painted! And finishing the pantry.

Final Score: Stars 4, Ducks 0!

Well we did it! I say we, like I helped them lol.

The whole team was just ON tonight. I like J.S. Giguere well enough, and the 4-0 win wasn't completely his fault. Anaheim was off tonight as a whole. So many penaltys! Their rink has some issues, too. Twice the game had to be stopped for some repair to be made to the glass. Time for a new rink? I think so.

The three stars of the game are:
#1 Mike Riberio (STARS)
#2 Brad May (DUCKS)
#3 Marty Turco (STARS)

*sigh* did I mention that I love hockey???

Off to bed...D will be home soon...he was helping K move all evening. Autumn is not asleep...she took a very long nap today (bad mommy), plus she is waiting on her daddy. Audrey is dozing...I'll have to feed her again and then hopefully she'll sleep until morning.

Settling in to watch the game...

I love hockey. I love playoff hockey. If I could make one lavish purchase (aside from the dream kitchen idea), I would buy season tickets. Every. year. In the Platinum section, thank you. I would go to away games. Let's face it, if I had the time, I'd probably stalk my favorite players, too.

The current score...1 to nothing, DALLAS. Yes, we just scored! Thank you, my dear Stephan Robidas!

Of course, my favorite goalie is in net...Marty!

Yes, I do *heart* my hockey.

WHY am I blogging at 4;45 am?

THIS is the reason. Just minutes ago all of that red was directly over us. Now it's heading to the east of us.

3:59 am -- Audrey cries. I get up to get a bottle. I sneak one Thin Mint cookie. Bad mommy.

4:03 am -- I go to the bathroom before feeding Audrey. I hear the tornado siren. I wake Dallas to confirm that this is what I'm hearing.

4:04 am -- we turn on the TV, see a tornado warning, and the worst of the storm is expected to hit us at 4:18 am. I grab Autumn from her room, and we lay the girls in our bed. Dallas opens the windows to try and alleviate some of the pressure, just in case it actually hits us. It's raining too hard, and he had to close them. We grab all our pillows and comforter and squeeze into the ONLY room in the house that has no windows (well, except for the pantry...and our closet. Why couldn't we just go in our closet? Hmm...anyway, I digress). The storm gets louder.

4:22 am -- D goes out to check on things...and declares it safe to leave the bathroom.

We get Autumn settled on the floor in our room, and D goes back to sleep. Audrey has just finished her bottle and is now laying on our bed kicking her legs. I am watching the storm tracker on TV.

Now that Audrey is fed...I'm going to try and get her back to sleep so I can go to sleep myself. *big yawn*

Did I get anything done today?

Today was such a lazy day. I don't feel like I got anything done at all!

The storm came through last night--it thundered so hard that my window rattled and I woke up! The next thing I know, Autumn is standing beside the bed with her blanket and pillow...she slept on the floor in our room for the rest of the night. Audrey slept until 7:30...it was SO nice. I wish she would do that every night.

Anyway, the rain made it feel so dreary today. I went to fill the deep fryer with oil and dropped the OPEN jug on the floor. I am still kicking myself for that.

I was bad mommy today. Audrey was sooo needy. She cried if she wasn't being held. I got so frustrated with her that finally I just left her in her chair while I did a load of dishes. I felt awful, but I knew she was dry and fed and just cranky.

Autumn had an attitude...I feel like such a failure with her sometimes. She just pushes my buttons so much! I don't know why I have such a short fuse with her...it's like my patience level is just so low that the tiniest thing gets to me after awhile. I need to find a way to deal and raise that patience level.

So did I get anything done today? a load of dishes. a load of clothes. I mopped the kitchen floor (after the oil incident). That made me feel like Good Mommy lol. Autumn sat on a stool and kept saying 'so clean Mommy! I so happy!'

I've got to do more tomorrow. I have a doctor's appointment in the morning, then I'm going to get some stuff done. I've got to. It's starting to drive me crazy that I've fallen behind again.

I'm out. Audrey needs another bottle soon, then I'm off to bed.

First blog here...

It's been awhile since I've blogged. I lost interest, or ran out of things to say...not sure which.

Today was so long, and it's not even over yet. Kristi (my sister, for you first time readers) came to get my van this morning. She's moving to a new apartment, which required use of a larger vehicle. She left her car with me, but since the inspection is out, I'd rather not risk driving it. I don't want to get pulled over.

So we haven't done anything today...Autumn has had an attitude most of the day. I managed to get the dishes done and a load of laundry...I gave up and ordered pizza not too long ago. I need to get better about making meals, but since Dallas isn't home and Autumn doesn't hardly eat anything (so damn picky!), I didn't want to go through the effort of making a meal. Bad mommy.

I go back to work next Monday. I've got so much I want to get done around here, yet here I sit at the computer. I'm about to go work on the kitchen and dining room. I figure if I just pick one (or two) rooms a day, I can get it all done. Hopefully.

That's it for now. I'll get more interesting, I promise. And I'll get photos up here soon, too.