Sarah Joyce's Slice of Life: The Good the Bad and the Pissed Me Off

Work is utterly ruining my blogging lifestyle. Working nights is completely draining and such a buzz kill. I mean honestly I didn't even know about the Boston Marathon bombing until 2 days after it happened because my schedule consisted of work, sleep, repeat. So after a 50+ hour work week last week I was excited to the moon and back to escape with Derek and my mom and dad to Kansas City for a mini family getaway (minus Melis and Rebec) of baby cuddling and the NASCAR race.

I worked the night before and on the trip down south only got a few hours of sleep with all the excitement of hitting up the Kansas Speedway and scoring some free stuff. We arrived at the speedway around 2ish in the afternoon and parked in the free lot we through our purses in the back of the Envoy with our overnight bags and covered them with my big body pillow. When we walked up to the vendors we (Derek and I at least) were ridiculously bummed to find most of the free booths were shut down and closed up during the truck races that were going on. So, after stopping by the Chevy station and checking out the new line up of cars and getting a free T-shirt (the only free thing we could find aside from some weird tasting caffeine gum samples) we headed back to the car.

Upon arriving at the vehicle I noticed the very back side window was busted out. Immediately papa bear called the police while Derek, Mom, and I went all CSI on the Envoy. Reader's Digest version-- they stole my mom's silver Sak purse--but not mine, which was sitting directly beside my mom's. The only thing we could think of is that my big Sak purse with my wedding planning binder sticking out looked like a work bag rather than a purse (thank goodness for that :)). My mom's iPad was sitting in the sleeve behind the driver's seat untouched. Dad's GPS was still in the middle console and none of our bags were touched--not even our racing tickets were taken. So WTF right?!

Obviously whoever broke into our car just wanted cards and cash and after thinking long and hard about the scenario we remembered seeing two ladies sitting in a white car right next to ours as we were grabbing some money and hiding our purses. I remembered seeing a lady in the back seat with a hand out the window smoking a cigarette and another lady sitting in the front seat. They must have been watching and waiting and it makes me want to vomit (and then punch them square in the face). So after an hour and a half of canceling credit cards (they had already used the one 3 times--all were denied but one of the charges had been for $350 at a Walgreens. What could you possibly want for that much at a flippin' Walgreens?!), talking to police and security personnel, and taping up our broken window we headed to the hotel (which was a total B-hole to find).

By the time we got there I was exhausted and wanted to freshen up my face, brush my teeth and get ready to eat some amaze-balls BBQ and cuddle with baby Benjamin when I realized those little B-holes stole my friggen makeup bag!!! Now I don't know about you but apparently I hold a LOT of stuff in my makeup bag. Toothbrush, toothpaste, hair brush, deodorant, a BRAND NEW JUST OPENED tube of tinted moisturizer (insert my extremely angry face here), as well as new eye liner, etc. etc. I mean--it cost $50 at Walmart just to get the basics that were in that bag to get me thru the night.

Anyway-- we had carry out from Oklahoma Joe's (which is FANTASTIC BBQ!), and got some great family time in with my little nephew (whom I'm falling in love with more and more every day) Saturday night. The race went fantastically and the men of the family had a great time (which fills my happy tank)! This left the week with more happy/enjoyable moments than sad/mad/vulnerable moments and yet I'm sitting here on a Thursday afternoon still reeling about the robbery.

I mean, I don't even know where to go with this story---it's all a bunch of ramblings from here on out but some people are seriously so unbelievably worthless and suck sooooo badly. If you think you need to take things from others, whether its things or money--GET A LIFE PEOPLE---and more importantly get a JOB instead of taking advantage of others who work their butts off for everything they have. What did we do to you? absolutely NOTHING but still you have cost us hundreds of dollars in window repairs, cash stolen, cards used/needing replaced etc etc.

Police called the other day to say they have used surveillance footage from the ATMs the thieves were at and have spotted the car at the casino near the speedway. So---with nothing more to do I'm sitting on the sofa crossing my fingers that those two klepto's get arrested and get what's coming to them. I hope when karma catches up to those two broads she's raging witch!

Without further ado---the "Good" moments from our family getaway in Kansas City: