Less then a week after the wedding and we get our house broken into. They took the computer, the portable that wasn't working, the DVD player that likes to eat DVDs, and an American Gamecube which matched my Gameboy Advanced that was stolen out of my sister's luggage earlier last week. They also took all of the remotes even for things they didn't steal and they took my really cute rechargable light I had just bought and that I really adored. It was sort of this organic rounded oval shape and it changed colours from blue to green. It was also the only one left at the store and had in fact been the display model.

They also took my brand new backpack which had my Hello Kitty plushie backpack in it along with a favourite leather organizer thing that had my Virginia State Driver's License in it and my checkbook. The backpack also had a hard-to-find little fox plushie keychain on it. :( Oh, and my credit card was in there too. So all of our credit cards have been cancelled - which means we can't do shit until we get replacements. We were going to go to pick up Olo this weekend, but now we can't get the tickets. At least the breeder had recently offered to bring Olo to us. So I think we'll have to be taking her up on that.

Of course what really sucks is the computer is Philip's life since he telecommutes. The thieves also took all of the networking stuff, so we're really screwed. I'm in an internet cafe right now. Philip's at home. We're truly paranoid about going out because we suspect they didn't take everything they wanted to. At least we're all OK, although we had a really nasty scare with Ryoko. She got out somehow (or they tried to steal her too) but we finally found her hiding in the storage shed. For awhile there we thought she was gone. It was such a relief to find her. (But if they did try to steal her, they now have fuck-off huge bloody gashes all on their arms because she's a bitch to pick up. Philip got some of his own trying to grab her to take her back inside.)

Oh, and they left an ugly, oily footprint on our new couch.

(And yes, we have contacted the police and they've taken fingerprints and photographs. We've also started making a list of everything to report to the insurance company.)