Good News First...

YAY! Cohen's numbers are all within normal range today. The Neupogen worked and we don't go back for another two weeks to check and make sure the numbers are still looking good.

I'm not sure exactly what we ruled out with these results, but I know we probably ruled out something... of course I thought of all the questions I would have asked as I was driving out of the parking lot.

On another note:

Remember that great workout I got at the gym two days ago? Well, like an idiot, I stuffed my purse underneath the seat before I went in because I didn't want to hassle with getting a locker. Turns out I should have hassled after all.

When I got home from the gym, I forgot about my purse in the car. Duh. I didn't go anywhere yesterday, so the car - and purse - stayed put in the driveway.

You already know what's coming, right?

Early this morning, around 2am, there was more than just little critters and wild animals roaming in the moonlight just outside our house. Think larger and much more devious.

Their handiwork was all-too evident in bright daylight: hundreds of tinted shards of glass littered our driveway just beneath the rear driver's side door. To make matters worse, the early morning sky had released a torrent and it basically rained inside our car: water and glass mixed together like dark gray-green peanut brittle and silvery glass beads that shattered on the leather seat and formed a dangerous mound inside Hannah's car seat.

No purse in sight.

Here's what went down according to the transactions on record: by 3:30am the perps hit up seven gas stations with two cards they found in my wallet. Card number one was monitored by a very pro-active (almost frustratingly hyper-active before I realized how beneficial that could be!) financial insitution which shut down the card by the time they reached location number four and the other, a pre-tax medical mastercard that wasn't worth a darn at any gas station.

So they hit pay dirt with a very exciting and lucrative DVD rental from one of those red boxes outside McDonald's, and two whole tanks full of gas before their operation was cut off at the pass, so to speak. WOO-HOO! I hope their cars get great gas mileage, cuz the fruits of their labor are probably evaporating very quickly :)

The PD sent out an officer from CSI to dust for fingerprints and he told us that a string of young guys have been cutting holes into car windows and knocking out the glass before reaching in and grabbing anything that looks like it could contain a credit card or money. They do not go for valuables, just straight $$$. We're still trying to figure out how in the heck they got into our gated community at 2am. Maybe these gates are a false sense of security. :(

My car has a factory alarm. They should add a disclaimer that those things only work if someone is actually trying to steal your car, not the stuff inside. Or maybe I should have known that already.

Anyways, five cars were hit last night. These guys have been operating for weeks. Hope they catch them. We all work hard for what we have. So now we have to get the window repaired, and since our deductible is more than the cost of the window, we're out a couple hundred bucks.

The list of stuff I have to replace:

CELL PHONE (Ouch. This one hurts)
Driver's license
The cards they used, or tried to use at least...
Medical insurance cards
Make-up (and this stuff is not cheap!)

This involves a lot more errands than I want to run right now and long lines of people with lots of waiting around.

I hope I learned my lesson!!

So tonight I take my Aunt out shopping for her birthday. At least I still have money in the bank. Could be worse. Just hope I don't get pulled over and yes, I just knocked on wood.