So the other day I was burglarized for the first time, and its really quite astonishing how these things go down, I would love to know what is going on inside the heads of the individuals who commit these acts. Let me just give a brief run down on what occured.

So I left my house on Saturday the 28th at about 12pm to meet up with my twin brother for lunch, and to go out on the motorcycles for a few, 4 hours later my girlfriend returned home with her mother from shopping to find our front door wide open. Upon walking in she realized our house had been broken into. Which in itself is quite shocking I have a police office across the street, and another behind me, and its a nice neighborhood near Clearwater beach. The community is mostly older people.

We searched the house to find what had been taken, they had odviously gone through all the dresser drawers and night stands throughout the entire house. The only thing they took was my laptop which of course has a high value to me, a small dish of loose change, which he was lucky if it contained more then $20, and a bottle of Armani cologne. Thats it! He left behind guitars, cell phones, digital cameras, TV’s, DVD players, stereos, purse with credit cards, jewelry. It just shocks me, if you are going to risk the jail time why not get all the money you can out of it?

Whats even more shocking is the idiot when breaking my sprinkler system using it as a step to get through my bathroom window, managed to leave 2 huge hand prints on my bathroom window while trying to open it. You may want to think about a new career there buddy. The sad thing is he walked out the front door and no one ever saw him.

What we had discovered we had lost was so much more important then the physical items that had been taken from my home. That laptop contained pictures, probably near 100 per month for the last year, of things my girlfriend and I had done. Christmas, her birthday, a trip to NY to see my daughter. These are things that no amount of money could ever replace, the one thing I didnt have backed up. I will never make that mistake again in my life. I can only hope the laptop is recovered, but we all know its highly unlikely.

I have to come to realize how much burglary effects people. Its not even about what was taken from your home, or what was broken. You feel violated, knowing someone unwanted just came through your house, looked through all your belongings. Everytime you pull up to the house you look at the front door to see if its open, and the windows. I walk through the door and instinctively I want to do a walkthrough my house before my girlfriend comes in. Wondering if maybe while they were there they saw something they wanted to come back for. Its not a good feeling. I do know one thing, he better hope I’m not home if he ever comes in.

I’ll keep everyone updated as I find out more.