Sticky Bandits…

So my house was burglarized the other day. I dropped my kid off at school at 9AM, picked up my mom, made a pit stop and came home around 10:15AM. The front door was wide open and I’m thinking to myself “WTF? I know I locked the front door.” We get out of the car. I entered first and all I saw was my shit all over the floor and graffiti on the walls. I cried.

I immediately look to the dining room table…both laptops gone. Quick scan of the living room…all of my son’s games (Wii, Nintendo, Game cube etc) gone. I cry again.

On remote I walk into my bedroom and all my stuff is everywhere, drawers and dresser turned over, side tables, clothes, jewelry boxes thrown everywhere. “Shit” is all I can say. I pretty much walk in circles trying to take stock as my mind is reeling.

The antique peice in the dining room that has been in the family for 4 generations has been hacked at (it has a hidden skelaton key and I guess they tried to get into it and could not…nevertheless the value has been destroyed).

I notice my golf clubs gone, my motorcycle gear is gone…they even took our swear jar which was full of money (yes 99% of the money that was in the jar came from me…dammit!)  

What I don’t get is the graffiti on the walls and on the furniture.  They tagged it “Sticky Bandits”. That’s just plain mean. The cops showed up and apologized for being late if you can believe it. I look down at my watch, it took them 45 minutes…this is good by Oakland’s standards. The CSI fingerprint tech comes out and does her thing. That was the surreal part being in my own TV movie.

Come to find out from one of the neighbors that their signature “Sticky Bandits” comes from the McCaully Caulkin film series Home Alone.

I posted the burlary to my neighborhood email group and come to find out from another neighbor on the other side of the hill:

My house on Outlook off of Seminary was robbed yesterday morning. 4 turntables, lots of other dj and home studio equipment, cash, jewelry, cameras, etc. “Sticky Bandits” tagged on the wall of the living room.

I got some information: I am a teacher and a student told me that they have heard of and seen them. They are a crew of a bunch of them, maybe 10. Possibly high school age. They even have black sweatshirts with “Sticky Bandits” in white on them. They have been seen often hanging out by/at the Fish Place and the Loard’s Ice Cream at the corner of Macarthur and Seminary. 

Sounds more like the Dumbass Bandits to me. Brazen kids with nothing better to do.  I told a friend of mine that I was either going to move to Marin, Idaho or Montana. Me, the kid, my dogs and a shotgun on my own little fenced in peice of land. She said “Leave the shotgun in Oakland just move to Marin and leave your troubles behind.” I wonder what the crime stats are there?

Recession 1971, 1972, 1939?

You can’t keep up with the news and the economic status statistics/information. It changes each day and each station gives different stats and time frames. Is out current situation worse than ‘72, ‘73 or ‘39? All the while economists are saying “Buckle Up!” Buckle up? Give me a fucking break. What if you have nothing to buckle up with? Pretty soon we’ll be in our own Soweto the way the news is presenting things and if this crisis (and I’m not talking about the economic crisis…I’m talking about this Diva’s life) doesn’t change soon.

I can’t even wrap my head around the worst case scenario because as far as I am concerned not having money, no real incoming business, no savings and a depleted unemployment account is a worst case scenario.

I’ve been thinking a lot about positive and negative vibrations and my ritual/blessing to Oshun (that’s another story and another entry), Esther Hicks, Joe Vitale, Michael Losier and how I can invoke all that I’ve read and learned, tried but not perfected.

Short Sale

On the short sale front Jack Ass accepted Buyer #2 because they were able to come up to the $625K counter. So we got the verbal but not the hard copy approval. We asked Jack to send over the hard copy approval letter and were told “just use the old letter that I sent you previously and simply white out Buyer #1s name and put in Buyer #2s name.” Are you fucking crazy? Not only was/is this a problem with our industry I can’t believe that a I am being asked to do something fraudulent. My response was “Ah, no.” In the end they resent the same letter saying we should use it for Buyer #2.

Senator Colin Powell

You know…I’ve put off commenting about Sarah Palin for a long time now. I’ve watched the SNL excerpts and yes they are damn funny but when I heard her say “Senator Colin Powell” I had to roll my eyes and it brought me back to Dan Quale and his “potato” comment. Its so embarrassing. I give her lots of kudos and the credit for even getting up there when she is so not qualified for the position but good god who is coaching this woman?

Scale of 1-10 the day was a disaster because of the burglary. I lost everything including interviews for the WBWTR website. I am trying to retrieve them but one of the laptops was a back up and even the external backup was stolen.

I guess this should be the least of my worries. No?