tonight was pretty spectacular.
the former chinese restaurant is now a thai restaurant and the food is really good! we did take-out, we being Jackie (who was originally scheduled) and Christine and Charlie came along too. it is very exciting have a decent (especially Thai) restaurant so close!
the reason that Christine and Charlie came over was that when I got home this evening (after picking up a menu from the restaurant), I found that the house had been broken into. yes. sad. scary. in a bedroom window. took my jewelry boxes. all of them. lots of stuff. fortunately Audrey had taken to NY a lot of stuff from Linda's collection. i was wearing the mystic topaz on the long chain, and a ring that i've been wearing for a while. almost all earrings. really almost. more chains. rings. the small fabric traveling pack (in a drawer they opened, which also contained cash which was left) was not touched. very very important stuff in there that makes me feel a little relieved. for obvious reasons i'm not being too explicit here.
comments vary from "time to get a security system installed" to "glad you weren't home and are safe." obviously someone had been casing the neighborhood, noticing only one car in the driveway, and that when i leave, i'm gone for the day.
whoever it was left a few footprints, perhaps a fingerprint or two. and was neat. the screw-turn lock was placed on top of the drying rack. took a duffel bag from the bedroom and left the items that had been inside nicely placed in a laundry basket, not dumped on the floor. nice young officer came quickly, took report, dusted, took photos, etc.
for the present, i think i don't really get it...it hasn't fully hit yet. so please send your positive vibes out into the world, with the request that even the wooden boxes (including one Daniel made for me in woodshop in middle school) are recovered. the whole thing is pretty awful. but i am safe.
it's all in the timing: i'm timing my haircut for the trip and getting it tomorrow. if i need a trim right before we leave, i can do that. but the wings are really bugging me.
