I have not abandoned you!! (nor made my blog private!)

I've just been a bad, BAD girl when it comes to blogging!! OOPS.

Anyway, I'm back and I have a funny story to tell. If you have facebook you probably already heard about this, but I thought it'd be funny to tell the whole story.

So, on Friday, October 2nd I was running late to work that morning. I remember that I was going to text my boss and tell him I'd be a few minutes late but when I picked up my cell I saw that I had a text waiting. It was my boss texting me to tell me he was going to be late. OOPS. I guess that means I had better be on time! So, I rushed to work and made it with 10 minutes to walk to the clinic from parking and get everything open before patients arrive. I remember pulling into the parking garage and looking at the time and it was 7:50 on the dot. I noticed as I was getting out and putting on my coat (yes, it's cold in the AM's in Colorado!! brrrr!) there was a man who looked as though he didn't belong in the garage. He was at the far end of my level and was wearing a big, bulky blue jacket and a blue "toboggan" (winter hat) and was walking reeaaaaaally slow and whistling. I remember thinking that he didn't look like he was supposed to be there because I work in a professional/medical setting, so everyone is either wearing business clothes or scrubs/medical attire. He was wearing neither. And I remember thinking how odd it was that he was walking SO slow when it was so close to 8 am. Anyway, he walked into the stairwell about 5 seconds ahead of me and I couldn't tell if he went up or down, so I took the elevator. I didn't want to risk running into him if he WAS up to no good.

So, I rushed into the office and didn't think another thing about it.

Jules came and picked me up at work at 3 because we were going to look at this apartment complex that we LOVED and if we were happy with it we were going to go ahead and get the paperwork started to move there. Well, of course we loved it and so we were there from 3:30 until about 4:45. At that time we headed back to my work (which, by the way, is going to be about a 5-7 minute drive!!! instead of the 45 minute drive I have now!!) So, I go get my car and Jules is following me out of the campus and she calls my cell and says that my rear license place is missing. I was like, WHAT?? so I pulled over and sure enough the rear plate is gone! So, I go back to the parking garage where I parked that morning and call the campus police and they come and we file a report and the policeman is going to look at the surveillance tapes for that day and see what he can find out. So, I go home (Friday) and I'm totally not worried about it because it never occurred to me that that crazy man from that morning might have taken my tag.

Saturday I had to get up and come into work to finish up some things that I didn't get finished. I also wanted to listen to the Alabama game and I couldn't get the Internet radio to work at our house. So, I came into work for about 4 hours and then went to the grocery store and then went home. When I got home my tag was laying up against a column on my porch. I immediately got scared thinking that that crazy man had found out where I lived. I called the city police (remember that the police who originally filed the report were campus police) and asked the city police what they thought about it. They said, "we do not take these things lightly." They filled out paperwork to have extra patrols drive around our house daily and nightly and also have an officer come by the house. Feeling a little relieved I locked myself in the house and started thinking. Well, after a little while it started bugging me that the plate just "showed up" so I started knocking on neighbors' doors.

Oh, by the way. Have I mentioned how nice our neighbors are?? No?? well, that's because THEY'RE NOT!! I knocked on every single door and even though I COULD SEE THEM IN THE WINDOW, they wouldn't open the door.

Well, I was thinking if one of my neighbors found this plate and put it on my porch then they might see me outside and come out and tell me they did it. So, I walked around our part of the complex like 15 minutes--around and around and around and around. Hoping that someone would see me and come out! I looked pretty silly just walking around. I tried to seem more casual by looking at the ground as though I was looking for the screws that went with my tag. (oh, I'm sure that looked SUPER casual!) Anyway, there is one lady who lives like 5 doors down who is friendly. We've seen her a few times when we've been apoxy-ing jules' side-view mirror back on or trying to pull up the broken window on her passenger side. (wow, that was a very redneck sentence!) Anyway, she came out (finally!) and told me that she found my tag FRIDAY MORNING right after I pulled out of my spot! oops!

So, I had to call the campus police and tell them to "please don't waste man-hours on looking at surveillance...there won't be anything there!"
I had to call the city police and tell them that they can better spend their time on real criminals instead of my make-believe ones.

OOPS.