[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Lux

Perhaps, but being wide-eyed at 4am every night just to make sure I can jump out of my chair every time the fridge sigh, I'm over-doing it for sure. I'm convinced a monster will creep out from under my bed and also that staying awake all night will somehow prevent the situation.

I had a break-in once back at home. I had to creep around the house with a steering wheel lock over my shoulder, ready to swing around every corner of the house. I established they had gone but it was freakin scary wondering if someone was going to be around every corner. Plus I would have killed them had I swung and then I'd be up for manslaughter. I dropped the weapon when I noticed my empty guitar stand......my Les Paul!!! My precious Les Paul was gone. P****ers!

I think that if you feel too bad, you could move back in with your parents temporarily, then stay at your place a few more nights, then go back to them for a night if you want to...just take it slowly, you know? Just a thought. I know how you feel about the break-in thing, though I never actually had any kind of weapon. But I remember that awful feeling of thinking he might still be in the house, and I didn't have a lock on my bedroom door at the time, which was why he got in and out of it to begin with. I'm sorry about your guitar getting stolen. The most important thing of mine that was stolen was my sterling silver stethoscope necklace, which obviously was not as valuable, and I replaced it soon afterward. But it did really piss me off.