I got stuck late at work today, so I decided to treat myself to some Chipotle before heading home. I had just finished vacuuming up the remainder of my corn salsa and guacamole when Kristian called. I thought that he was calling to see why I was so late. But no.<\/p>\n
He was calling to tell me that someone had broken into our house and stolen a bunch of our stuff.<\/p>\n
I had this funny idea that 2012 was going to be my year, but so far it’s not impressing me. I’m just returning to some semblance of normalcy after losing my Grandpa and some cretin(s) had to go and make things worse. I know it’s just stuff, but goddammit it was my<\/em> stuff. And I liked<\/em> it. Plus, there’s that whole creepy “somebody ransacked my house and rifled through everything” with an added dash of “ewwwww, they went into my underwear drawer.”<\/p>\n Most of what they stole was stuff that can be replaced (how easily it can be replaced is up for debate, I’m holding out hope for insurance covering some of it). But those bastards had to go and steal my charm bracelet. A bracelet that my Grandparents gave me. That had charms that my Grandpa bought for my Grandmother over the years. Sentimental value: 100 million trillion billion dollars. I knew from the moment that Kristian told me about the robbery that they had probably stolen all of the jewelry that he ever bought me (which they did). But when I realized that they took my charm bracelet, I cried like a baby.<\/p>\n The good news? If they ever get caught with the bracelet, one of the charms has my name and birthday on it. And there’s even a second, seperate charm that’s identical (Grandpa bought one for Grandma and one for his mother and I had them both). To which I say, “Seriously thieves? You couldn’t have left one of them?” So, if you happen to be in a pawn shop or on Craigslist and you see a silver charm bracelet with the following charms: “Hope 9-8-81,” a cottage, a computer, a camera and some other charms that I’m probably forgetting…. well punch the person who’s hawking it in the face for me, woulda? And then sit on them and don’t get up until the cops show up.<\/p>\n So far, 2012, you’re not doing much to impress me. Shape up or ship out, because I’m putting you on notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got stuck late at work today, so I decided to treat myself to some Chipotle before heading home. I had just finished vacuuming up the remainder of my corn…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,34,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble","category-kristian","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-Nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}