Bad Decisions

When I got on the plane on my way to visit my dad's house, I knew something was going to happen. If I wanted a nice quiet vacation, I should have stayed home where it would be safe - but no, I wanted to visit my dad and I wanted my fiance to go with me.

I posted a comment on Mobius Stripper's blog about me losing my wallet, here is the story to accompany it.

On Wed. Dec. 14th I arrived in California. My dad was very happy to see me, we went to see if my optometrist would take my appointment after that and he couldn't - shock! I knew I probably would not get an optometrist appointment within a week and a half period, especially since my dad had not set up on before. They put me on the wait list, but I was not about to hold my breath. My dad and I went to the insurance to try and clear up a few things, with my university closing in a few days it is excrutiatingly difficult to get papers signed and what not. I will take care of most of that stuff when I get back to school.

I called my sister, then called my sister and called my sister. She was not answering my phone calls. I had gotten into an argument with her before on the phone, I figured she was taking it out on me now.

I thought my sister was being uber nice when she invited me to go see my niece in her ballet recital. She said that mom told her I was arriving on Friday, which would not give me enough time to get to the recital and spend the night to see the indoor soccer game the next day, but since I was in town early I should go. I asked my dad, he said "yes" eventhough I could tell he was a little heart-broken - I still went.

The recital was nice, they made me go back stage with my niece. Somewhere in this hussle and bussle is where I assume my wallet fell out of my pocket and some very unhelpful person pocketed my cash and threw the rest of it in the trash. None of my VISA cards or anything have been used, so I assume that they have since thrown it out OR (my favorite scenario) their child picked it up and the parent has no idea the kid has it yet.

Either way, near the end of the evening I found myself without cell phone and without wallet. Mind you, I got my cell phone back. It was underneath the chair in front of the chair next to me. When we asked around for that the ladys in the seats in front of us were very unhelpful in the process and I had to wait until I personally went over there to check before I could find it. I am still kind of upset at how unhelpful the people who put on the recital and other people watching the recital were.

How would they like it if their wallets were stolen? Truthfully, this is the second time something like this has happened to me. The other instance was also while on vacation in California. Last time I was much more stupid about what needed to be done and what not. There should be a website about losing your wallet and what to do and where to go. I can only speak from experience when I say it is one of the worst experiences I have ever had in my life because it jumbles me up and I do not need extra aggravation.

Either way, I filed a police report and the lady who did the print-outs was particularly rude. At least the officer who took down my report was nice. The people at Vital Statistics were ok too. They took my student ID card as a form of identification and everything. It was interesting to realize how little information was needed to recreate my identity. You could get just about everything for a person knowing about 3-4 pieces of information. Mind you, it is important information you need - but still.

Almost the entire Christmas break I felt like a screw-up every time it came up my wallet had been lost. My dad and my sister do not really talk much to each other, so whenever my dad got the chance he would talk about how much my sister was an ungrateful person and how rude she was. Really, she is quiet rude. I am not even saying that as the younger sister who was sometimes beat up by her, I am talking from the perspective of a person who has not even met her - my fiance. Those stories will come later.

But overall it was a nice vacation. I got to spend a lot of time with my grandparents. My dad does not think my grandmother will live much longer, she has Alzeimer's disease and takes medicine equivalent to a small pharmacy. My grandfather seems much better, but they are getting old and I fear my fiance will never meet them since he passed up this chance.

My Godparents also are getting aged and I fear they will not be able to come to the wedding. I really wish my fiance could meet them and get to know them. He did not get to visit the town I grew up in and the schools I went to, or the street I live on and the neighbors I had. I was very sad when he told me he was not going to be able to make it. Alas, c'est la vive.

That will be all for now (today), if there is anything you think I left out that I should write about, please e-mail me or leave it in the comments to this post. Now that I have the internet back I will be typing a lot more. I am also working on my schedule for the spring and hope to move on forward with my plans for my files, papers, and organization systems. We'll see how much time this will take from my vacation...

Hope everyone's holiday season goes well and if you believe that people should receive presents may the presents you receive(d) be thoughtful and/or at least what you wanted. - Vanes.