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Fell asleep finally about 3am. Woke around 9, took pills, went back to bed. Woke around 2, fell back asleep. Somewhere around 5pm woke to a migraine. Headache pill, tiny bit of food, afternoon pills, back asleep. Woke up again around 10, groggy, and finally asked for more food around 11, took pills around midnight, and then mindlessed on my phone for a while. Moved to the computer, and have been mindlessing on here.

Princecon conchair sent out email to everyone who'd registered to attend. How do I know this? I'm *hoping* that he *intended* to use BCC and just ... missed. Wheee.

I've been trying to remember since last night to cancel the hotel registration!.

Ok. Cancelled. *whew*
Maybe typing at this here is useful after all.

My Youngest just brought me up some oatmeal; my text into the house discord was "I'm hoping htat it will be possible for me to get oatmeal before everyone goes to sleep. If not, pelase let me know, so I can think of what else to eat." 50 minutes later, I get a gif of a cat typing on a laptop. I had no clue anyone was still awake. Yay oatmeal?

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: Home-Den
Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/31535.html

I've been doing a lot of stuff that doesn't look like much.

Conversed with R about $THINGS. The primary thing coming from that is that we're moving up the timeline on househunting. Since I want to have overlap between getting a new house and selling this one so that I'm not frantically trying to pack, and the main reason I was setting it off 1-2 years was so that C would have a geopolitically appropriate address for his school, we can disconnect looking/moving and C's address need, and just leave him in the house on his own for a bit. So now I'm actually looking at the not-quite-spam mail that I'm getting from the three websites, and have brought R in to the ONE that lets you connect someone in (WHY IS THIS NOT A GENERAL THING???) and we're leaving comments for each other on houses.
Three of us went to a set of 3 open houses this past Sunday. First one was a house I wouldn't offer on, because it doesn't have the minimum accessibility I would need, but it was very local and a good learning experience. I also proceeded to inform the people manning the open house exactly why I wouldn't offer for it (there was much more than just the lack of accessibility, such as the complete lack of insulation in the attic, with sunlight visible in multiple places under the eaves). Second one, the people who were opening the house failed to show, it being after 2pm on a 1-4pm open house. We left. Third house was up in Bloomfield, move in ready, with some oddments that all older houses have (like, why was there a deadbolt on the door between the kitchen and the basement?) and all the accessibility I'd need. However, parking is minimal, and there are things (like one of the sets of steps from the house to the back yard is in the way of getting anything large *to* the hatch to the basement) that means that it's probably not actually the right house for us.
I had a week+ of doctor visits, that ended up with a small twinge in my back that I've had since about 2 weeks after Otter died flaring wildly. Paindoc thinks I might have gotten another compressed nerve, wants to MRI, and agreed to wait till I got insurance. That pain hasn't quite settled down, and is affecting my ability to do much. I've also felt lower energy since Sunday and the three open houses where I was walking around on uneven ground (looking around the houses) and doing stairs.
I came downstairs this past Monday to do bills and stuff, and was so out of it that I didn't even realize it was after 7 before I actually got moving on paper/mail intake until I was suddenly handed dinner. I meant to come down yesterday, and failed, ending up taking migraine meds, and extra pain meds. Today I woke up at midnight (top fo the day) and fell asleep again at 7, barely managing to eat food and take morning pills; ended up taking an extra pain med some time later; woke up just before 4pm pills, and dragged myself down here to at least do bills if not the phone calls, only to find that the fucking ATT bill is not here yet. *sigh*
Exiting Housemate has slowed down her exiting, due to her own health issues. Completely reasonable, but I'm getting antsy to have stuff gone. It's at the point where it's mostly just stuff to be put in trash and recycling, and I'm beating my head against C to do that, because R is doing EVERYTHING ELSE and we're really done.
To the point where R caught a cold (or something, it apparently came on faster than usual) and was sleeping a *lot*. A bunch of takeout later, a bunch of barely-touch-into-the-oven later, a few Inform-C-he-was-cooking-and-could-just-be-pissy-if-he-wanted-but-that's-it meals, and R took some money and slept in a nearby hotel for a few nights so that the allergen load would be less/different. Also, finally went to doc even tho temp never got over 101, and was given antibiotics anyway cause former smoker.
The kids, finally, after literally 2 weeks of nagging, moved the Forester out from underneath the dangling slate.
Finding a roofer to take on our roof has, again, been special, with 1 ghost on an estimate, 1 'you'll hear from us in a couple of days' that turned into two phone calls and a voice message later saying, "yeah, we do slate but not jobs that big" (WTF?), 1 semi-reasonable estimate, and 1 that said 'you need a whole new roof'. We have the lower estimate for the small roof that was damaged by the tree set to happen next week, and then we work from there, I guess.
May is the first month that I'm paying bills out of the account made with the life insurance money. Of course, the car insurance 6month is due this month, and the house insurance is due June 1, so there's going to be a huge dip to start with. Hopefully financial guy won't get nervous. :D
The car insurance customer service guy actually called late last week - later than he had said, but he *did* call back. Apparently C's good student discount is valid for, at least, this cycle of insurance payment. Yay! $2900 for 6 months is annoying as fuck.
I think that's all.

Contemplate agitating at ATT to change billing date.
Try to take Skitty to the vet for checkup when C is home.
Do more of the stuff that needs to be kept up with.
Find out when annual taxes are due
Arrange to actually get the roof fixed. IN PROCESS
call tax assessor office 9a-3p Barbara 9087692906 AFTER 12:30 WEDNESDAY as of 20180208
Decide day of month I need to pay bills. (2 days before end of month is not enough time)
Clear out envelope of Bills Since Death and sort into records, bills, whatever.
Figure out what to do about cpap machines (company emailed back, saying donate or whatever) (in process)

Talk to R about:

Container specifically for estate stuff. - Catbag?
Container for my paper notes on phone calls.
Container for medical records current year, bills and other
Container for keeping records, current year (currently back half of step sorter that R got from Staples, and repurposed wire mesh phone stand)
Container for medical records specifically for past years.
Containers for keeping records for past years, to hold paid bills and record keeping.
Container for tax info papers bundled by year for past years.
Container for my frustration and sanity. (Research ongoing. Last marble was found in dice bag, perhaps something similar?)

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/28195.html

Actually did something.

The last few days I've been .... Ok, more like the last week, I've been doing nothing. My sleep cycle has cycled around to me being awake from anywhere from 6-10pm, to 6-8am. C has been poking me both at 11:30 am ish and at 1:30 pm -ish, and even when I sit up and try to get up, I'm falling back asleep. Last night I didn't wake up at all till about 10:30 pm. Tonight I managed to get up around 6pm, and come downstairs cause bills, goddammit. I had asked C to tell me what bills there were, and he did. Yay. There were also some letters from Social Security back on the 25th (yay for inculcating "write teh date received on the envelope, dammit"), one of which was acknowledgement that I was getting the widow's benefit of $255 (which hit my bank account on the 19th, iirc, after the meeting on the 16th), and the other acknowledging upcoming hearing (tho no date set yet.) That was cc'ed to lawyer, too. So yay.

I *have* been getting online and doing wow things overnight, tho, which at least forwards my nominal mindless pleasure.

Realized my checkbook and the bank readout were hundreds of dollars off, and so did the arithmetic to resolve my checkbook, finding an egregious error that should never have happened at all. So yeah, $200 off where my checkbook says low, ok. where my checkbook says high, bad.
Looked on the life insurance letter for the general customer service number.
Paid bills. Still working on tracking what's needed, so can't tell what budget should be yet.
Organized what should be done next.

Now, to play wow.

Call Abby re chocolate party
Call PSEG wrt lack of return envelope, was this asked for, can it be changed?
Dig out previous water bill and find out what the difference is for, and call for explanation.
Call Verizon and ask for discounts again. 2 yr contract?
Call Oil Company - overage mentioned on receipt received 20180119
Call SocSec lawyer and see if she wants to meet (partner of no longer eligible lawyer)
call tax assessor office 9a-3p Barbara 9087692906
Call life insurance folks again. And again.
Call xolair pharmacy about bill, thought it was going on credit card.

Call mike the lawyer about the north bergen house deed.
Find out if I called Meryll Lynch about angus gone, account come to me?
Decide day of month I need to pay bills. (2 days before end of month is not enough time)
Contact EZPass and find out how it was being paid and figure out if I need to do anything with it.

To Do Soon

Cannot do until make payment! Waiting on Life Insurance. Call Mortgage, ask for late fee to be removed.
Fill out forms for 401k
read in detail, evaluate, car/home insurance offer from AAA
Get onto Otter's computer and look for the file he left me.
Deposit checks received (2017-12-22: 1 to date.)
Clear out envelope of Bills Since Death and sort into records, bills, whatever.
Figure out what to do about cpap machines (company emailed back, saying donate or whatever) (in process)
Find out wtf to do about the argument with the insurance and the roof
DO NOT LOSE PRINTED FILLED OUT FORMS BEFORE DEATH CERT SHOWS UP!!!!!

Talk to R about:

Container specifically for estate stuff. - Catbag?
Container for my paper notes on phone calls.
Container for medical records current year, bills and other
Container for keeping records, current year (current back half of step sorter that R got from Staples)
Container for medical records specifically for past years.
Containers for keeping records for past years, to hold paid bills and record keeping.
Container for tax info papers bundled by year for past years.
Container for my frustration and sanity. (Research ongoing. Last marble was found in dice bag, perhaps something similar?)

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/24438.html

I need to ask C to keep poking me when he gets up, so I at least have the possibility of choosing to get up and do things, rather than not waking up more than possibly groggily to take my pills, and then sleeping again till 2pm. Once it's that late, it feels futile to try and do anything. Which is wrong, but need to recall that there are things I need to do that don't involve calling businesses.

Getting stuff done on wow, tho.

I don't have the mental energy to actually try to figure out how much carbs is in every meal we eat. I want to eat fewer, but it requires too much thought.

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/24305.html

Yesterday, the migraine leapt up and bit me again. I pretty much slept all day. At one point I asked R to help with the compression stockings on my legs, because I was overdue for dealing with that, and between the pain in my shoulders, and the migraine, I couldn't properly reach. That was overly exciting, as I found out when I got a phone call, R in the supermarket, wanting to know what I wanted for dinner, having forgotten all about coming back in an hour to put compression back on. *headdesk*

Similarly today, headache making it hard to sleep, I've been awake and in pain unrelieved despite taking pain meds. Neck and shoulders, not *quite* at the level of headache and I really don't want it to go there, either. :/ I'm gonna try to play some wow and hope that I can be up for doing something other than maintenance.

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/23841.html

Today started with me needing to take a migraine pill when my alarm for my 8am pills went off. At some point later, C came up to see if I needed to be awake, at which point I asked for food, please, so I could take the rest of my meds. I came up ~~for air~~ from the migraine around noon, with no food. I managed to get talking enough to ask for eggs, and came downstairs so I was functional for the 1pm call to cancel the trash pickup account.

Which went much easier, once they could get me on the line with someone. Whee.

Now I have to figure out what I can do with this migraine lurking.

Received phone call and, finally, cancelled the trash pickup company I don't like.
Had R create a receptacle for incoming income tax prep items.
Resolved checkbook and bank (using online statement, go me) As I found back in the day, having spending money and bills come from the same account is dangerous.
Called R down to use the debit card to pay off student loan. Aiieeeeee
Failed, due to the debit card not having enough daily transfer to do so, and my having somehow not gotten the account number when I opened the account. wtf?
Created a box for bills paid to date out of the shipping box for the leather checkbook cover and handbag that I ordered from Oberon Designs. Pretty, but could be better. And yes, expensive, but pretty. C did most of the work.
Created a "done pile" container from a metal mesh phone stand I got from Staples years ago that we found in a pile still in the plastic wrap. (No, I don't know why I bought it, it was circa 2006).
Figured out where to put them where they are both within reach and out of the general way.
Opened recent mail, marked up notations on envelopes, sorted into inbox/record keeping.
Found bank statement from account that student loan money was in, confirmed account number, to be paid. (aaiie, 9500, so much for having some unexpected money.)
R cooked one of the keto recipes I found on the web. As is common so far, I like it, she doesn't. *sigh*

OH, and...

Went to credit union and brought the home equity loan up to date, and then put enough money in the formerly joint account to pay the HEL monthly for 10 months, and set that up to happen automatically.
Did some Ingress things while on RU campus
Went to the optician and picked up my glasses. Which are driving me crazy, but I'm giving them a week.

Call life insurance folks again. And again.
call tax assessor office 9a-3p Barbara 9087692906
Call mike the lawyer about the north bergen house deed.
Find out if I called Meryll Lynch about angus gone, account come to me?
Decide day of month I need to pay bills.
Record received bills into ledger.
Call oil co re payment due listed on receipt for last delivery
Call xolair pharmacy about bill, thought it was going on credit card.
Contact EZPass and find out how it was being paid and figure out if I need to do anything with it.

To Do SOON!

Cannot do until make payment! Waiting on Life Insurance. Call Mortgage, ask for late fee to be removed.
Fill out forms for 401k
Read in detail, and evaluate, life insurance mail from credit union BY JAN 25
read in detail, evaluate, car/home insurance offer from AAA
Get onto Otter's computer and look for the file he left me.
Deposit checks received (2017-12-22: 1 to date.)
Clear out envelope of Bills Since Death and sort into records, bills, whatever.
Figure out what to do about cpap machines (company emailed back, saying donate or whatever) (in process)
Find out wtf to do about the argument with the insurance and the roof
DO NOT LOSE PRINTED FILLED OUT FORMS BEFORE DEATH CERT SHOWS UP!!!!!

Talk to R about:

Container specifically for estate stuff. - Catbag?
Container for my paper notes on phone calls.
Container for medical records current year, bills and other
Container for keeping records, current year
Container for medical records specifically for past years.
Containers for keeping records for past years, to hold paid bills and record keeping.
Container for tax info papers bundled by year for past years.
Container for my frustration and sanity. (Research ongoing. Last marble was found in dice bag, perhaps something similar?)

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/23786.html

Spent 27 minutes on hold, in order to speak to a representative, in order to cancel the account with the trash pickup people who pissed me off. However, apparently the call answering person needs to talk to Someone Else (tm) in order to do so. *They* get off work at 7pm, but she was on hold to them from 6:50 onward, and finally came back to me at 7:05.

So NOW I'm going to get called back tomorrow at my convenience (it's never fucking convenient, but I picked 1pm cause I'm most often awake then these days) in order to cancel the account.

Fuckin' a.

Oh, and I also went to the endocrinologist. My blood sugar is up, A1c at 9.6 (quel surprise); my free t4 is 1.03, in range; TSH (reflex to FT4) is 7.49; my cholesterol overall is high, but it's the good cholesterol that is high, and the bad stuff is low, and it's borderline. I have another appointment in 3 months.

And the drugstore insists that I have insurance, and only charged me about 1/4 the full price for the expensive drugs. Whee?

Otherwise, the fucking knot in my shoulder is still there, and I've been sleeping shitty because of it. But that means I remembered a dream: we were going to a convention, and driving past where Einstein lived, which was notable because I'd found a game that he designed, so I decided to stop at his address and see if he would speak to randoms. The address was an apartment building, 3-4 stories tall, and I was let in, and invited up. He took my compliments and praise for the game delightedly,, speaking to me over his shoulder from where he sat on a couch watching TV. When he got up, i saw he was only wearing underwear, and he led me across the hall to another apartment, from which I got the impression that he leased/owned/whatever something gave him access to all the apartments. In this other apartment he got out a development copy of the game to give to me as a gift, and then gave me a kiss from an old man to a young girl (no, i wasn't any younger than I usually am) in thanks, and went back to teh tv. On the way out, I couldn't find my friends in the car waiting for me, so I went back in, and got lost, adn started running away from Ingress players who were trying to catch me for some reason, and managed to finally exit the building 3 blocks away, and was cautiously making my way around the building to find the door I'd gone in by, and then I woke up.

Current Location: Home-DR
Current Music: People moving in the house
Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/23549.html

am doing nothing, having woken up with a muscle spasm at the juncture of my left shoulder and neck. It didn't respond to my normal morning pain pill & muscle relaxant; it didn't respond to the Embeda. Now it's a flector patch and a hotsock, and hopefully no aggravation. I'm not going downstairs; I'll probably poke at WoW for a bit.

disgruntle, I have things to do.

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/23252.html

Jan 8 didn't happen. Every time I thought I was awake, I fell back asleep.

It's noon ish now. I've been awake since aout 5am, but I'm only now getting to the point of doing things.

Bleah.

Called paindoc and talked to some staff member, who said of course he'd be willing to fill out the dmv handicapped parking form. I didn't ask if she was sure, I hadn't even given my name, but I'm not going to argue.
Called Doctorville about getting anti-hive shot, appointment for Jan 11
Called Doctorville about lack of synthroid. Made appointment for bloodwork, and followup exam.
Realized that I was flailing, decided I was hungry, C offered to make me food. Ate it.
Printed out handicapped parking application (had R set up the printer, realized that attaching it to the dining room desktop involved crawling under the table, swapped to my laptop and printed it from there)
Filled it out which involved realizing that it wants the signature of the registered vehicles' owner, and determining that by the time I hand them that piece of paper, I will be the registered vehicles' owner....
Sent R off to drop it off at the doctor's office, which is what the staff person on the phone said to do.
Processed all currently unopened mail - some with intake undated, some from 12/23. Sorted into bills to pay, things to process wrt death, things to look at soon, things to laugh at, trash, shred.
Pulled out my ledgers from when I was paying bills regularly, created new pages and filled in current data.
Wrote out checks and put in envelopes for everything but the mortgage (last day the 15th), the Home Equity Loan (I have weird mail that I need to talk to them about) and the cellphone bill, which they sent me mail that I got today saying they'll shut it off if not paid by the 11th, so I need to talk to them tomorrow about paying that in person somewhere.

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Call old trash company and cancel the account
Call Mortgage, ask for late fee to be removed.
Call PSEG, ask for late fee to be removed? Check what needs to happen to be considered up to date?
Call ATT, tell them check in mail today, or where can I walk in and pay? No online, thank you.
Call Credit Union, make appointment for showing them stuff. FIND L8 FORM!!!!! fuck. (note: Can be downloaded from http://www.sussex.nj.us/documents/surrogate/itl8.pdf )

To Do SOON!

Find the mazda car title. (R found the other two)
call oil company about account and payments etc.
Fill out forms for 401k
Call number at town hall about making appt to talk to folks about putting house/bills in my name only. (look for business card. Catbag? DeathCertEnvelope?

To Do Later

Read in detail, and evaluate, life insurance mail from credit union BY JAN 25
reqad in deatual, evaluate, car/home insurance offer from AAA
JANUARY 16th: Go to SocSec office and deal with death stuff.
Get onto Otter's computer and look for the file he left me.
Deposit checks received (2017-12-22: 1 to date.)
Figure out what to do about cpap machines (company emailed back, saying donate or whatever) (in process)
Find out wtf to do about the argument with the insurance and the roof
DO NOT LOSE PRINTED FILLED OUT FORMS BEFORE DEATH CERT SHOWS UP!!!!!

~~Container for current month bills before they are paid.~~ R picked up a mail sorter thingie.
Container for medical records current year, bills and other
Container for paid bills, current year.
Container for record keeping, current year
Container for medical records specifically for past years.
Containers for record-keeping for past years, to hold paid bills and record keeping.
Container for tax info papers for current year
Container for tax info papers bundled by year for past years.
Container for my frustration and sanity.

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/21538.html

I'm really getting annoyed with my digestive system.

In general, I try to do lower carb. I'd *like* to do seriously low carb, as in 15-30 g carbs per day, but we can't really afford that. As it is, the rest of the family usually eats rice or bread with their meals, whereas I don't, and end up eating a bit more of the expensive stuff as it is.

But lately, I've had days where my gut is unhappy with ANYTHING OTHER than toast, with butter, and usually tho not always a little bit of jam. Other days, all I want is egg noodles with eggs scrambled into them. (higher on the noodles than eggs, or I'd count that as ok.)

And then there are times when anything I put in my stomach gets it all acid and/or grumbly, until I eat STEAK. Not hamburgers; not other unadulterated lump-of-meat like pork chop. If it isn't beef in solid chunks, and nothing else with it (so, stew doesn't help), I'm either extremely acidic or my stomach's rumbling like I'm still hungry.

And let's not get into the times when I'm not hungry, but it's been 6-8 hours since I've eaten, so I eat *something*, and 5-10 minutes into the meal my stomach suddenly has me doubled over in hunger pangs.

I need a new body.

(ps: and this is why I'm getting take-home food from texas roadhouse tonight. Because neither kid wants to cook steak, and Otter is off to dinner with his dad, like he does every Friday night.)