Christmas Thievery!

Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year. The get togethers, the classics on T.V., the food, and this year lets add theft. Dammit what a drag. Thomas was out at a Christmas lunch with his boss and other co-workers at the KEG yesterday. (The Keg – yum.) A server came to their table and asked if one of them was Thomas. Turns out two cars had windows broken in a smash and grab. The police had been called and ran my husbands plates through their system and came up with his name.

The thieves made off with his laptop computer, his contact book, our GPS system and a very large amount of gift certificates from The Future Shop. Also in his contact book was some bank info re credit and debit cards. Lovely! Doesn’t that make you want to curl up by the fire?

Quickly he called the bank and shut down his cards. That’s always fun when Christmas shopping has to get done. I had to hightail it from my office Christmas get together so he could jump in my van (yes, a van. Very soccer momish, I know but I like my van). He had to go to Future shop in person with the numbers from the gift cards – they can’t shut them down over the phone. I think that’s pretty ridiculous. It turns out that the certificates were cashed. Wily thieves. I only hope they used the money to buy some poor kid an X-box.

Thomas spent the night on the phone and the police are checking surveillance for the time the thieves cashed the cards. No doubt it will be a kid wearing a hoody or a hat of some sort. We hold no real hope of them being found.

Well we won’t let this get us down. Yet the inconvenience of getting a new window (and not using insurance because it only hurts to use the insurance you PAY for) and Thomas getting a new computer up and going isn’t a lot of fun.

On a totally unrelated matter (and much lighter!) I had a conversation the other night with Thomas about the things you find yourself saying when you have children that you never thought you would ever say. Invariably these sayings are always prefaced with a “please don’t”. Here are some examples:

“Please don’t sit on Alex’s head”
“Please don’t lick my ankles”
“Please don’t kiss your sister’s nudie butt” (Now that’s a good one to use to embarrass my son at a later date.)
“Please don’t dance on the fireplace”
“Please don’t use your fingers to eat rice”
And the one I REALLY never thought I would say,
“Please don’t press your bacon against my wine glass”. Really - it’s a whole new world sometimes.

Enjoy your X-Box whoever you are!!!!! Merry Christmas !