Dealing with my house being robbed

~pippi18848 Aug 31, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

So, last week, Friday night sometime, somebody broke into my house while we were all sleeping. They stole my 360, kinect bar, my games, my laptop, and my wallet. The police have managed to find the electronics, but until they catch the guy who stole them, we can't get any of it back from evidence. They know who did it but unfortunately they can't find him. And it's driving me nuts because the 360 was my kids' system for their netflix shows and things. But they couldn't find my wallet so whoever took it probably still has it, or they chucked it.

Thankfully I was able to buy a new laptop up at the school store with my financial aid this week so it's not like I'm without a computer for my homework and such. But it's just the fact that the 360 is stuck in evidence for gosh knows when. And it's like, how do I explain that to a two year old who wants to watch his Blue's Clues, or Fresh Beat Band or something? He has no idea what is going on. All that he can comprehend is that mommy is being a meanie because she won't play his shows.

And I'm still freaking out about it. Because it's like, what if I had gotten up earlier? What if I had my normal 3:45am shift instead of 6am? So there's a good chance I would have walked in on him in the middle of stealing stuff. What if he had been armed? What if my kids had woken up? Would he have harmed them? Or just have ignored them and went about his way? And I have hundreds of what if scenarios and it just freaks me out.

This week is the first week of classes for me as well, so I've been highly distracted. Been nodding off in a couple of classes because I haven't been sleeping well since last week. And this whole thing is just disrupting all my work I did mentally and preparing to get myself more organized for school so I do better this semester, and that's not the way I wanted to start off the semester. I've already skipped three different classes this week. And just, this isn't how I wanted to start this semester, but I'm just to freaked out by what happened last week, and knowing that this person is still on the loose and just yeah.

Why can't this just be a nightmare and I wake up and none of it happened? Just something needs to go right for a change. But how can I get myself back on track with school, and stop focusing on what happened last week, and all the what if's?

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~Glori305 Aug 31, 2012

Deal with the two year old honestly. We have no more x-box, until the x-box comes back we can not watch blues clues.

Or you could do the $50 trick of going out and buying a roku box for netfix etc.

The "what if" of someone stumbling across a robber, is usually robber-drops-the-junk-possibly-throws-some-at-you-and-runs-away. So don't freak too much about it. People who want to do you bodily harm, come into the house while people are there, hurt the people and then take the stuff.

~Euterpe-The-Egret Aug 31, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

the library on campus should have dvd's. If your dvd player and tv are still there you could look there. Local libraries also have bunches of kids dvds typically.

Sorry to hear this bad news. At least you will get your stuff back eventually.

`bohobella Aug 31, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Can't you play your kids' netflicks shows on your laptop for the time being?

~pippi18848 Aug 31, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

The kids can't leave the laptop alone, so no netflix. They are only 2 and 1. They see laptop and essentially go "Buttons! Must smash!"

`bohobella Aug 31, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Perhaps you could connect it to the TV? Not sure how expensive the wires for that sort of thing is, guess it depends on the laptop really or if you already have them, but it could work.

~2lazy2talk Aug 31, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Usualy robbers avoid confrontation, otherwise they wouldn't rob people at night or wait for them to leave.
About the rest, aren't the people who got robbed that decide to press charges or not?

~pippi18848 Aug 31, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Well, this person did it while we were all sleeping. And I typically get up for work at 3am, though I had a 6am shift that morning so wasn't up as early.

And we will be pressing charges, but they've got to catch him first since he ran and no one can find him.

~bleachrocks2010 Aug 31, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Just ignore the what ifs we have been burgled 3 times even though we have 4 dogs and they always wait til we are out.

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