Monthly Archives: April 2019
The purge…
As I sorted through the Halloween things, I found less and less I wanted to keep, the sell pile is growing rapidly.
Heck, the sell pile for everything else is growing too.
I think by the time we’re done, I’ll be down to the basics of my life, which, of course, includes books…lots of books.
I’ve purged a couple of the kitchen cabinets….have quite a few to go yet.
I won’t be touching my glassware and china until I have proper boxes and packing for them. Same goes for my curio cabinet.
I know I’m going to have to put my knee pads on and crawl into the lower cabinets to clear out pots and pans. I know there are a bunch in the back corners that he bought and/or brought home from his mother’s house that I have never used and will put in the sell pile for certain.
Puttering…
Off and on today, as my back would allow, I puttered from one room to another putting stuff in bags to donate to the men’s shelter and other things in boxes to move with me.
House or no house to go to, I will sell this place and leave PA the end of May.
I saw another one I liked but with my luck it will be gone before I even get a chance at it.
Oh well.
Ran around a bit…
G and I took a bucket of coins over to Giant this afternoon. Seems Jay’s habit of dropping change into jars netted me a little over $200.00. There’s still two huge jars of pennies…
We did a little grocery shopping but I’d left my phone at home and didn’t have my list. So naturally I forgot a few things, like furniture polish and paper towels, and bought some crunchy snacks I shouldn’t have.
Then we went to a garden shop so she could get some pansies for her back yard planters.
After that we stopped at a diner where, since it was Friday, she had fish and chips. I, on the other hand, had a delicious Monte Cristo.
I was so stuffed I very nearly skipped dinner.
(I had some cold cuts for a light dinner later than my usual time.)
Lucy was not thrilled with us being gone so long.
No bed last night…
So last night I felt like I had a bit of a bug starting–chills, upset stomach, that sort of thing. I wrapped up in a throw, and fell asleep on the couch.
I woke to the sound of Lucy rolling around on the floor around 9:30 a.m.
Silly looking alarm clock who went right back to the chair after an out and breakfast.
I feel much better this morning.
I hope that’s a good sign.
So damned depressing
To have one bill after another roll in, you pay them as fast as you can and then you get a ‘surprise’ bill that sends everything into a tailspin.
Yeah, got one of those today. I sure do need that life insurance check from TransAmerica.
OMG do not use them for life insurance! They hate to pay out. I have filled out one form after another and then all I hear is “I’ll check on it to see what the hold up is.”
Good thing I paid for his cremation from my savings or I’d have a funeral director on my ass for payment while waiting for the damned insurance check.
I have until the 25th to come up with almost a grand for the ‘surprise’ bill.
I have to pay it, it’s for my health insurance starting from 2/22/19 …Yep, you got it! They dropped me the day he died, but now want to charge me retroactively back to the 22nd of February, and haven’t covered my 2 appointments I had a few days after he died.
It’s a cluster fuck. I’m drowning in paperwork.
I can’t believe it…
So I’m beginning to think I should write a book “What to do before you die to keep your family sane.”
Today I discovered he had an accidental death life insurance policy through the credit union. (I have no idea for how much, I think I was so shocked, I forgot to ask.)
All this I find out because the old account suddenly had an overdraft on it.
I had to run in to deposit a check anyway so I figured I’d find out WTF that was all about in person and not on the phone.
Turns out they’d taken out a payment the same day I’d paid on his visa card and they caused an overdraft. Funny thing, they’d been taking it out all along and I’ll get those funds refunded back to February.
The next thing I heard was…
Oh, and you need to make a claim since his death was accidental and he has this policy…
See my jaw hitting the floor?
I’d asked the gal who was helping me before if he’d had a policy and she didn’t find it. So we figured there wasn’t one. She’s on vacation and the guy that helped me found it.
Holy crap.
Onward…
Still on pins and needles.
Waiting and waiting…seems like forever…no news yet but she only just put the offer in today.
My local realtor was here today with the woman who is going to make this an easier move.
She’s going to come in, clear out, clean up, and sell whatever I don’t want to keep. She takes a small commission for it, but if we can sell off everything that needs to go, she’s well worth it.
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I can hear the theme for Jeopardy…
Today I spent the entire day trying to keep my mind off my offer on the Baconton house and everything my realtor here has already planned.
I played with Lucy, I cleaned, purged, and cleaned some more.
Every break I took it was “throwitthowitthrowit!” time.
She’s really gotten into this game.
She’s so stinking cute.
The magnolia is in bloom, the daffodils are too.
And there I was online checking out how to properly prune a crepe myrtle and buying a camera for my computer so I could better talk to my friends.
After a lovely couple of calls on messenger from friends I decided I wanted them to be able to see me too. It doesn’t mean I have to keep the camera plugged in all the time.
I did it. OMG. I did it.
I took a giant, huge, scary step today.
I put an offer in on a house.
I kept going back to it time after time when scrolling through houses for sale in GA that I thought I could afford.
This house is less than what I thought I’d spend and I swear it called to me.
It is in a small town–a thing I was looking for.
I am beyond tired of big city life, the noise, the crowds, and crazy city life in general.
I have watched Allentown grow for 50 years and I was never thrilled of the changed that brought.
Yes, I love all the good restaurants, the farmers market, the theater on occasion, but life with Jay made me mostly a homebody anyway. We didn’t go out much.
I will miss my best friend G terribly but she’s only a phone call away when I need to talk.
I did get a huge surprise when my realtor friend stopped by today to begin the selling process. She valued my home at almost 3 times what I expected to get.
If she’s right, and sells it for what she thinks she can get, I will have enough money left over, after buying the new place, to make my new house everything I want it to be.
Farmers market sort of day
I indulged myself today, dragging G off to the farmers market in the rain to find something I craved.
Didn’t know what I craved, but I figured if I was to find it anywhere, it would be there.
I found bananas on the $1.00 table of one stand that were just the way I like them–still green on the ends. There were 6 in the bag so G and I split the bag. Not bad, 3 bananas for 50 cents.
At the bottom of the ramp on the right, there’s a bakery stand where I found a beautiful white sage foccacia–it’s delicious.
At one of our favorite fruit and veggie stands I picked up a lb of grapes–three different seedless varieties.
Of course I stopped at Mr. Beelee’s sushi stand and picked up some squid salad for tomorrow’s lunch. His is fantastic.
We got back to the house and split up our goodies.
Lucy wanted me to play “throwitthrowitthrowit” again, as if she hadn’t already had me doing it for hours before we left.
A day of success and failure
G came over to help me put up the blinds and curtains in my bedroom.
I had a hell of a time getting the old blinds down and was very grateful to have her there to hold the ladder.
I go to put up the new blinds and they have a completely different type of hanger and I couldn’t find a 1/16th drill bit in this house to save my life. I know he has a shit ton of drill bits somewhere.
So, since we couldn’t get the new blinds up right away we just went ahead and put the clean curtains back up.
I am exhausted from all the climbing up and down the ladder, running up and down stairs looking for the damned drill bits and doing laundry.
All this after a few hours of “Mom, throw the toy, throw it, throwitthrowitthrowit!
I don’t know when I’ll get those blinds up…
Slow but sure progress…
A little here, a little there. The new blinds arrived for my bedroom, I’ll put them up tomorrow when G is here. No sense climbing a ladder when I’m alone and putting all my friends in a panic that I did it.
I did put up three pictures, 2 sea scenes and an old Bull Terrier cartoon. I am going blank on the artist at the moment.
Vacuumed the bedroom, hallway, and the living room.
Coaxed Lucy upstairs and introduced her to the joys of a bed to snuggle on. I hope I can get her up there tonight when she is sleepy.
As for now, she’s in the lounge chair.
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