my wallet was stolen!!

So I went to a 1 p.m. meeting with Trish and Patrick. I come back to my desk an hour later and have a voice mail from a woman who says she has my driver's licence card and my OHSU Fitness Center card, a petsmart card, and a couple more small things. She said she found them on Terwilliger, the road that leads up to work.

I panic and start looking all over for my wallet. It's not in my purse, which is in the cubby over my desk, it is not in my coat pocket. It's not anywhere else in my desk. I immediately think that it must have fallen out of my jacket when we went to Starbucks on the way to work, since I definitely had it then.

But I am obsessive about checking my bank balance and crossing stuff off in my palm pilot that cleared. I know I wrote down in my Palm Pilot (which is in my wallet) that I was transferring money to savings and I didn't do that until after 10 in the morning. I didn't go anywhere else all day, and I distinctly remember putting my wallet in my purse and putting my purse in my cubby before the meeting, because there has been a theft in our building before. And we closed and locked our office door before we went to our 1 p.m. meeting.

That means someone broke into our office (or had a key) almost right after we left for the meeting. They also stole my ipod and whatever cash was in my wallet, no more than $10.

I felt scared and angry and just creeped out. Someone went through my stuff. They went through my purse, they looked in my cubby. If that woman hadn't called me to say she found my driver's license (and if I didn't have my fitness card still in my wallet indicating I work at OHSU), I wouldn't have know about it till I was ready to go home.

As it was, whoever stole my wallet had no more than an hour with my debit/credit card. I put a block on it as soon as I got off the phone with the woman who called me. I looked through all my checks, and none were missing.

More than that though, I hate that they have my palm pilot. My palm pilot has all my bank information. It doesn't have my account number or anythign, but it has my balance. I hate that someone has that. As far as the ipod, I'm actually slightly amused about that because the ipod doesn't hold a charge anymore. I wasn't good about draining it completely and then filling it completely, so it doesn't hold a charge for more than half an hour now, so it is not like they stole a great ipod. I had to replace it anyway.

It was just such a violation. Thank god for good, nice, decent people. If whoever had stolen my card had had longer with it, there is a very real chance our new rent check wouldn't clear and then we'd be in such a horrible position. So I will be grateful for small miracles and small blessings.