Birthday Blues

Wednesday was my 22nd birthday. I knew that it was going to be a special one because you only have the same double digit number every decade. With that being sad let me recap my birthday for you:
It was a normal morning, I got to sleep in that morning and was taking it pretty easy. I was getting ready for the USU vs BYU basketball game when I went upstairs to get my small digital camera so that I could take it with me to the game. When I opened the drawer that is always in I noticed it was gone. I called Brett and asked him if he moved the camera and he said that he hadn’t moved it. He also asked if his camera was there, that’s when I noticed his camera and his video camera was gone. He then said he noticed the lock on the bathroom window was broken and that he thought we had been robbed. I looked in the drawer where we had been keeping some extra cash and low and behold the cash was all gone – there was about $400 dollars. The cash was from some of our last tips in Alaska, we had decided to use it for buying Christmas presents so we hadn’t put it into the bank. So the robber got away with 2 digital cameras, a camcorder, and about $400.
We think the robbery occurred on Saturday night. On Saturday my mom had gone to our apartment to get some Sunday clothes so that we could go to church with them the next day instead of coming home and going to our own ward. While she was here, our landlords were next door cleaning the apartment so that some new neighbors could move in this week. She talked to them in the parking lot and said that we would be staying with her for another night and we wouldn’t be home until Sunday. We believe that someone overheard them talking, someone in the neighborhood, so they knew they would have all night and the next morning to get whatever they wanted. When we got home Sunday night nothing was out of the ordinary expect some cloth curtains were missing from the kitchen window. The kitchen window is very small and kind of an awkward size so our landlord just made some cloth curtains for us instead of using blinds. We found it odd that they were missing but thought that she might have come into our apartment when she was there on Saturday to measure them or take them home to make some new ones for the other apartment. We weren’t too worried about it, that’s why we didn’t find out until Wednesday because we didn’t notice anything missing (we don’t use our cameras very often) and we weren’t using the money from the drawer yet. We didn’t discovery anything was missing until Wednesday, December 2, which just happened to be my birthday. Happy Birthday to me – you’ve been robbed.
We aren’t too devastated by our losses, we feel very lucky because we could’ve lost a lot more than we did. But it still sucks! We just feel so violated. The cops came and tried to get fingerprints but they didn’t really get anything good so we’re not hopeful they will be able to find anything from the fingerprints. It is under investigation, and they will continue looking for the cameras for us but that’s about all they can do. We’re not hopeful that we’ll get them back but what can you do?
We did end up getting into the BYU vs USU basketball game. Me and my best friend, Heidi, went up to wait in line at about 3:30 and the line was clear back by the Hyper building. It was the longest I have ever had to wait in the line but it was a dang good game. I thought the Ags were going to disappoint me in the first half but second half they got the jitters out and were actually able to play. They did not disappoint…. A ten point victory was very very sweet. I’m pretty sure the Cougs will not be coming back to the spectrum for a very long time – unless their dang head coach, Rose, gets fired or moves! Go Aggies GO! They did make my birthday a lot better. After the game we made a trip to Wingers for some Asphalt Pie and boy was it delicious! Let’s just say neither one of us slept very well on Wednesday night.
Thursday night Brett was at a study session for his chemistry final from 6:30 to 8:30. I went home at about 7 and was cooking some dinner when all of the lights went out in the house. Brett was still in the study session and I was so scared. I didn’t know what was going on, we have tripped out breaker before but I only had 2 lights on and the microwave. I thought of everyone that I could call to come and help me and I couldn’t think of anyone that could be there in a relatively short amount of time. I ended up calling Justin, a friend from my cohort who lives a couple blocks away to come and help me. When we got there I was still shaking but he helped me flip the breaker back and all was well again. Thanks Justin! Brett got out of class really soon after that so luckily I didn’t have to be home by myself for too much longer. I’m just not sure how much more of this stress I can take. I need to new apartment….