Unsettled

It's been a weird week for our little city. Last week, a dog walker found a decapitated man at the park next to a junior high. Apparently, the man committed suicide at 4 a.m. by strapping a pipe bomb to his chest and setting it off (people in the neighborhood woke up to the sound of the explosion). Can you imagine finding a headless man like that?? It's so horrible. A few days later, the high school had a bomb threat. Weird to have two incidents like that in one week.

And closer to home, like AT my house, someone tried to break in to our house. It's SO CREEPY. Thankfully we had shut and locked all of the windows that night... The burglar pushed the window screen in and used a pry bar to try to open the window, but he wasn't successful (thank goodness).

I'm pretty sure this happened in the night, because I noticed something was awry when I went to open the front window on Friday morning. The screen had been pushed in (and was bowed in a way that looked like it had been pushed in the middle). The metal frame was a little bent too. When Ben came home from work, we went outside and looked at it more closely and saw where the guy used a screwdriver or some other tool to try to wedge it open (there is an indentation in the metal frame).

I've felt unsettled lately after having a nightmare a few weeks ago that someone was trying to break into our house. It really spooked me and I kept trying to brush it off, thinking it was just me being paranoid. Of all the houses to rob on the North Shore, I'd say ours is pretty low on the totem pole in terms of valuable stuff inside. You want my ugly 10-year-old t.v.? It's yours. Just ask me! But don't break into my house.

I get the city's daily crime report by email, and sure enough, today there were multiple listings of homes where someone attempted to pry open a first floor window. There was one home where the burglar was successful, got in through the window and stole a laptop and backpacks.

At least now I don't think I'm totally crazy - the fact that there were other reports from the same day makes me fairly certain that someone did attempt to get in our house. We don't currently have an alarm system, but you can be sure we are getting one now. Thanks Mr. Burglar, for freaking me out enough that I will ALWAYS close and lock our windows at night.