What a week!

I woke up monday morning as if it were any other day, i rolled out of bed, brushed my teeth and headed out the door. I had a dentist appt, and i was there give or take 45 minutes, and then i went up to Starbucks for my daily latte real quick and i came home. when i twisted my key into my vintage looking door and pushed it open, everything looked like it does every other time i walk into our house; our Tv still placed next to our fireplace, and a laptop sitting open on the couch. Everything was normal until i turned the corner to head towards the hall and to my bedroom. i turned the corner and saw that our hall closet was propped open, i thought to myself oh thats weird, i must have left it open or my roommate did. then i realized that no, that wasn't it. Our house had been Burglarized and my entire bathroom was thrown open, i looked into my room and it was an absolute disaster...clothes everywhere, drawers thrown open, and my jewelry case emptied and thrown on our wood floors (which caused it to shatter on the hard surface). Once mymind figured out what had happened i ran out of the house and went over to our sweet neighbors house while i was hysterical not knowing if these people who did this to my house were still in there somewhere.

I went over there and my lovely neighbors were distraught with the news. apparently they saw a car with 2 hispanic women and 1 man pull up into our driveway not that long before, and they knocked on the door twice and then drove away. They said that they noticed it but that it was anything really suspicious so they didn't think much of it. after we found out this we used our csi skills and discovered that they must have knocked to make sure none was home and then once they found that none was there they went around back to our alley and then went into our house.

i called my Rooomate Kirsten , and she came over as soon as she could. I called the police and we sat outside our house for a good 2.5 hours before the cops showed up. realllllly patterson police department, i don't understand how it takes that long to come, our town takes like maybe 10 minutes to drive across. once the police women came she tried to take some fingerprints. we waited outside of our house for those 2.5 hours just so we wouldn't mess up the "scene" but apparently i don't dust my room enough and she couldn't get a good enough print in my room because of the dust...whoops. But she may have been able to get one on our back window where they may have entered.

once she left i had to go through all of my stuff and write down all that i was missing! this was the most upsetting part. I felt completely violated. when you see all of your personal belongings thrown across the floor as if they have no meaning and see things that you love so much gone...its a whole lot to take in. I lost my macbook...itouch, all other electronics.....and ALL of my jewelry. Some of which i had from back when my mom was in high school, and others from my grandparents and other things of sentimental value. i wasn't so upset about those things that which can be replaced...but more upset about the irreplaceable things that i will no longer have.

oh did i mention that they also stole my entire jar of bobby pins?? what the what?? Out of everything in my bathroom that was what they decided to take....instead of my mom's louis vuitton duffle (1000's of dollars in just that)....instead of my coach purse...instead of hundreds of dollars of makeup they decided to take only my bobby pins out of my bathroom. These people were SOOO NOT smart. but i was totally ok with it. But if i see a short hispanic lady wearing blonde bobby pins in her hair....i just might have to tackle her.

because of this whole incident we decided to borrow one of our friends dogs to have in our house just for protection and piece of mind. Her name is Tabby and we love her!

If that wasn't enough....later in the week i found a small lump in my chest (too much info?) and had to go to the doctors. After going to the doctors i thought that i would find relief knowing immediately that it was nothing....But no i ended up just getting more anxiety from the fact that they ordered me for an urgent Ultrasound to make sure that it wasn't cancerous and to try and figure out what it was. ugh. so here i was 2 days after i had gotten my house broken into, laying on a doctors table thinking that i might possibly have cancer. awesome. oh all the while my boyfriend is across the world in the middle of a war zone. craziness let me tell you! I tried to give all of my cares and worries to the Lord, reminding myself of his soverignty , but i seriously felt overwhelmed with it all and wept like a baby a few times let me tell you.

They had scheduled my ultrasound for a monday which was like 5 days after my initial appt. ...but my mom ended up pulling her awesome skills and got them to fit me in for the next day. which i was oh so happy about so i didn't have to think about it all for the next 5 days. the next day came and i finally had a peace about everything. i went up to starbucks and got a coffee before my appt. and reminded myself that no matter what they found that day, that i was still in the lord's hand..and that is a very good place to be no matter the circumstances. mom met me at my appt. and we headed back to put my oh so lovely gown on and then i went and got my ultrasound done. I kept staring at the screen hoping to maybe be a doctor myself and be able to see something as she was doing it...but no, i had no idea what the heck i was looking at. after laying there for a good 30 min. they ultrasound technician said that she didn't think she saw anything abnormal...but that she couldn't be sure until they had someone actually really look over the images. but oh that was joy to my ears! then about 2 hours later they called me and told me that it was NOT malignant...and that they are not really sure as to what is causing the little lump but that it is not cancerous and that i shouldn't have anything to worry about! Praise the lord!

Though this week was seriously crazy, i can still say this .... although My boyfriend is still in afghanistan....although my belongings are still gone....and although i still have a strange lump....i still have my joy. i know that these belongings that i had....are just things that are wasting away...and even this body will not last forever....but i have a heavenly home with blessings that are eternal and there is a whole lot of peace in knowing that!!