an anti-social experiment

8:07 pm - Sat, Dec 31, 2011

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good riddance to a crappy year

ok, so that sounds a little melodramatic. Some pretty amazing things have happened this year, for sure. I flew back from a lovely two week holiday in Australia this morning, feeling all refreshed and revived (though seriously jetlagged after a 22 hour journey), drove back to Cardiff, to find our house had been burgled.

Rather than the nice, slow paced, relaxing day unpacking and unwinding that we had planned, we spent the day with CSI Cardiff round the house dusting everything for fingerprints, taking bags and boxes away to be examined, giving statements to police and having locksmiths secure the doors for us.

Somehow, someone broke into the house just before Christmas (on the 22nd, we think), stole a load of our shit, and then legged it - leaving our patio doors open and flapping until 9am this morning when we got back. Our back garden is surrounded by other houses on all sides, and we only just moved in before we went away (like a week before) so didnt really know our neighbours very well to ask them to keep an eye on the place.

the worst thing is that rain has been pissing in through the back doors, somehow got damp into the electrics somewhere, so everytime I turn on the oven it fuses everything in the house. We don’t have a microwave, so our cooker and electric hob are our ONLY way of cooking anything.

Looks like New Year’s Day will be toast-fuelled.

I am absolutely exhausted and fairly pissed off. I keep on discovering new things that should be here but aren’t and have been stolen. Latest discovery - they took some of our bedding and our laundry basket. One month ago exactly I spent HOURS trying to find a nice fucking laundry basket. Do you KNOW how hard it is to find a nice one? I endured the torrid pains of Ikea, BHS AND ARGOS on a Sunday when everyone else was doing their Christmas shopping. AND NOW SOMEONE STOLE IT????

Shane suggested they probably wrapped everything in the bedding then put it all in the laundry basket and did a runner. Everything that was taken was fairly generic stuff that can be easily replaced (games consoles, games, phones, laptop etc)

BUT

they took my fucking hard drive as well.

I don’t keep any documents on it anymore (or photos - all that stuff is backed up on the cloud after I lost all my files on a dodgy hard drive back in 2008). But it had my Itunes library on it.

I am very very peeved. And jetlagged to crap.

in case you think the title is a bit heavy just for being robbed, 2011 has also featured these other delights:

- Shane’s dad spending three months in hospital recovering from a triple bypass after having a heart attack on Christmas Eve and nearly dying (a couple of times)

- getting rammed off the road by an idiotic Polish lorry driver who went the wrong way on a roundabout and damaged our campervan, ruined our weekend away (didn’t go to Greenman, which was meant to be for my birthday) gave me whiplash for about three months and resurrected my sleeping problems (the claim remains unsettled and our campervan still damaged and now rusting).

actually that doesn’t seem too much crappy stuff. I feel like there’s been more but I’m too tired to remember properly. On a clearer head tomorrow, hopefully 2011 wont seem as bad.

Happy new year. I’m going to pass out.

x