Today, I:

Mar. 29th, 2018 04:02 pm
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    Today, I
  • Woke up at midnight for my midnight food/pills, from a dream where I was trying to solve an epic quest, possibly with other people, and all the NPC ish people were no longer able to help us. We had to remove some bodies ?alive? from laying over other things protectively, and they were large and heavy and resisting, and we were down to the last one and I realized my cat was sleeping on my arm and I had to go to the bathroom. *sigh*
  • Woke up again about 10am after about 6 hours of sleep, and realized I was actually awake. So I texted R that I wanted to go out Notary Public hunting today, to be able to mail off the form for TIAA to give me Otter's pension. There were more dreams, but I didn't retain them.
  • Called TIAACREF to ask how long it will take to get the money once they get the forms. "5-7 business days." I'll believe it when it happens.
  • Called the person who had called me about owing money to the doctor group that Otter had apparently been paying $200/month to that I had no clue about until she called me as another phone number available to bug. I got the payoff number from her, made that check out and stuffed it in an envelope to mail while we were out.
  • Looked for the paperwork to turn the Merrill Edge account over, and couldn't find it. Sent the contact person an email owning my flakiness and asking for a new set of paperwork.
  • Went to the bank we started up the account with in December, and asked if they had a notary. They did, the guy who did the paperwork to start the account, who was happy to see us and just did his notary thing.
  • Went to the post office and sent the thing off for that pension fund certified mail, to get a return receipt.
  • Came home and did bookkeeping reconciling banking and making sure my checkbook was up to date.
  • Called the 401k plan company to find out how long it would take to get their money. After a bit of circling around with her trying to get her system to agree that I was me, ended up finding out that they have the two checks - one money for me, one money for the IRA I'm starting up, in the mail today. Wooo!
  • Culled through the things that have accumulated under the cut, and I've basically finished all of them. I'll include them above the cut this time. Go me!
  • Checked the mail, and nothing important was there. The most convenient branch of the bank that my mom's house account is with is closing, which is annoying, but no bills or anything else.
  • Received a phone call from the lawyer in Florida who is dealing with my aunt's estate. We started talking and then he sounded like he couldn't hear me, and then hung up, and rejected my callback. WTF-ever.
  • Went Upstairs To Play WoW!




    To Do Soon:
  • Arrange to actually get the roof fixed.
  • 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:
    Things I need:
  • 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?)

Today, I:

Mar. 28th, 2018 06:39 pm
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    Today, I:
  • Called COBRA Management company, to get my account details since I had misplaced the piece of paper I had written them on. I was told that the only record of me in the system was as his dependent, that he is listed as 'terminated' and not 'deceased', and this is incorrect and must be dealt with. I took a case number, and left them to deal.
  • Emailed Otter's HR to tell them of this, and that something is very confused.
  • Was told by R what the details of the account were, and successfully got into the COBRA management company's benefits account to continue to elect COBRA for my health insurance. Only to find that, having listed Spouse&Child as needing insurance, I *must* include the Primary Plan Participant in the insurance, and that doing so has the wrong number of people being insured. Apparently because Otter is NOT listed as deceased, things are SERIOUSLY upgefukt.
  • Called COBRA management company again and confirmed that yes, this is the reason it is all upgefukt, and they need to talk to Otter's employer and get things straightened out, and that it will take 3-5 business days, as it always does. Oh, and that another company will be the COBRA management company on April 2nd. Yes, I know, I called them 2 days ago and they said to complete the coverage with you folks.
  • Screamed for about 2 minutes straight, and then took many deep breaths.
  • Spent time trying to figure out who has our tax info from the cryptic note left by Otter on his computer for me. Even accounting for his atrocious spelling, I can't find anyone with any name anything like the names he wrote down that has ever heard of him, or our 6+ years of unfiled taxes.
  • Spoke with R about the various research projects I'd given her: our food spending is consistent on a monthly basis so we can work on that number as our budget; the post card from our local mazda dealer talking about a recall doesn't have one that is dangerous that we seem to be affected by; the insurance company that was dealing with the tree that came down on our roof had gotten back to her about when the check was cashed, cleared, and other identifying information, and that information was not found in our records.
  • So I Called up his bank and asked if they could find that information for us, to confirm that it was cashed by him. They said yes, but we'd have to come in person to talk about it.
  • Went to Otter's bank (where I now have a couple of accounts) and talked to them, and yes, indeed, that check was deposited into his account. Yay. So much for that 2k.
  • Did some Ingressing while driving around.
  • Went to BJs with R, doing some price comparing and picking up some pens that I love that are really inconsistent as to where I can find them, and these were 10packs of the matching pen and pencils. In addition to the groceries.
  • Had pizza for my 4pm food next to Stop & Shop.
  • Sat in the car while R went into Stop & Shop, because she wasn't going to be long enough for me to get in any cruising for interesting things, and she doesn't like the scent of lilies.
  • Came home and Called the lawyer in Florida who's taking care of my father's sister's estate. Talked to a person this time!!! But not the lawyer. He's out. But now he's it!
  • pored over the TIAACREF pension beneficiary form, and grepped through papers failing to find the information for the new IRA for me.
  • Got called into the kitchen to help R butcher a chicken. (I'd given verbal directions before, but this was eyes on while she wielded the knife.)
  • Found another set of papers with the account number of the new IRA for me, and used that to fill out the TIAACREF paperwork.
  • Called TIAACREF help line to figure out some confusing back-and-forthing in the form to fill out. (Mostly my confusion, less their writing, and making sure I understood that really, I didn't have to write anything on 4 pages of this.) (I wrote "DO NOT NEED" on them just to be clear.)
  • Proudly signed it only to realize that I should not have signed it because it needs a notary and I'm supposed to sign in front of the notary. Fuck.
  • Put it down to deal with tomorrow because I've been up for 19 hours and I'm done.


Not including the other stuff. Done.
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The COBRA management company claims that Otter is listed as eligible for COBRA because he was terminated, not deceased. This is causing bloody hell with me trying to elect COBRA.

Furthermore, there will be a new COBRA management company as of next week. I had called them on Monday to ask if it made more sense for me to wait to elect COBRA until they are the company or if I should do it now and the person I spoke to seemed rather flustered and said I should definitely elect it before it got to them and let the system pull things over.

Current COBRA management company has '3-5 business days' for their resolution of issues.

*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*

Today, I:

Feb. 8th, 2018 09:47 am
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I did indeed get in contact with John, my FIL Finance Guy, who I guess is my finance guy now. He and his assistant "Who is the expert with paperwork" called back. The upshot is I have advice on how much to ask to take out before rollover of the 401k, and an account (with wells fargo, meh) to roll it over into. I have the 401k form filled out except for one page that I made massive mistakes on, which I can print out again as soon as I can get a printer set up that is functional and I can use. And then I can include the Death Cert in with it and send that out, yay. They recommended that I call the plan and find out how long it will take to get this money, and to get into the account, but the information I have doesn't indicate who to contact for information on the 401k, so I sent YET ANOTHER EMAIL to the long suffering HR person who is my email contact asking for that.

On to today!

    Hopefully fully functional!
  • Woke up around 7am
  • Ate more of the yummy steak that R made for me 2 nights ago. Still more left! Hyooooge london broil steak...
  • Realized that, while R had brought up my pillset for yesterday from where I'd left it down in the dining room, the *rest* of the pills were still down here from being refilled. So came down circa 9am to take/get more pills, and oh hai, be productive.
  • Read email, which isn't bolded as being productive cause it was all silly stuff.
  • Remembered to take pills, dammit.
  • Read over the information/instruction booklets from TIAACREF and made a list of questions.
  • Called the specific person given in the letter from TIAACREF, left message. Answer message indicates 48 hours before callback, requests good times. Left my name, Otter's name, associated # for the claim, my phone number, and pile of times through monday.
  • Resisted urge to call basic number and make sure that that person is still the right one to call.
  • Called SocSecDisability law office to see if lawyer had any reason to meet with me or anything. Apparently the person who I thought was going to be the lawyer isn't, her name is on things cause she's the lead lawyer in the partnership. I am SO FFUCKING TIRED of this switching things out crap! So I told the staff person that I was told by the SocSec person I saw when I talked to SocSec about Otter's death that they would be trying to expedite it. And anyway, after ranting a bit about yes, I'm low on cash, yes I'm likely to be having things shut off, yes I'm getting screwed by the cobra company and the life insurance company, and yes I think it might be possible to expedite this, that the actual lawyer who will actually be taking on my case wasn't in the office today, but he'll be in tomorrow afternoon and will see my message and hopefully call me to converse and stuff. *headdesk*
  • Called tax assessor's office about trying to get Otter's name removed from the title/deed/whatever. I finally got a firm reply about when the assessor is in the office, and WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON is one of the times WOOT CALL WEDNESDAY AFTER 12:30!!!!!
  • VICTORY!!!! The last Verizon bill in Otter's name was all credits. I called, and those credits should be applied to the new account as of tomorrow. I have a ticket number and everything!!!!!
  • Called Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Smith Sacco Vanzetti Reeves Taylor Smith Edge investment thingie (sorry, old in joke between me and a long lost boyfriend) and found out that no, I never did call them to tell them Angus was dead, and started that process, talking to Mark, who is a Relationship Consultant in their Life Services Department. I suppose that's better than Wells Fargo's Deceased Processing Unit.
  • Emailed Mike the Lawyer about contacting again, as we've not been able to connect when he's tried to call me.
  • Went on healthcare.gov to put in an application to apply, to at least see how it works. Apparently I'm eligible for medicaid, cause I have no income. quel surprise. They're gonna send me forms.
  • Got email from Mike the Lawyer saying today is a good time to call. So I did.


all the stuff for the future that's nearly the same in every post )

Today, I:

Feb. 7th, 2018 11:46 am
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So I was writing this on Monday, Feb 5th. Apparently, I never posted it. (sigh). I'm leaving it as is, the top part at least, with minor changes.

    Monday, Feb 5th, I:
  • Woke up in time to take pills, but didn't eat anything (and thus didn't take the metformin) because what I had available to eat in sufficient quantity really really needed to be heated up, and I don't have a convenient way to do that upstairs.
  • Came down around 10ish, convinced C to make me cheese flat and tea
  • C left right after that, so I puttered till R came down and had food and then we
  • Went to the bank and paid the mortgage thank you very much to the friends who gave me the money.
  • Came home to get me something to drink that wasn't sit-in-the-car-in-winter-too-cold.
  • Went to the eyeglass place to have them fidget with my glasses. Turns out the computer glasses had not had the anti-glare coating, which I had finally figured out was part of my problem with them. Once you get used to that, man it sucks not having it.
  • Did a very minor amount of ingress as we drove around.
  • R went out and deposited a check that I had gotten in snail mail from someone who wanted to help but didn't want to do paypal
  • Organized myself to do next things.
  • Texted John, my FIL Finance Guy, saying I wanted to ask him something, and would it be better to text, to call, or did he have an email? I got a call back within moments, where he told me that he didn't have time to talk. (o.O) And that I should call him tomorrow.


Tuesday I had a lovely day, where I spent the entire time playing WoW. I had started it cause I was awake at 8am, and didn't think I had anything important to do till I would call John, my FIL Finance Guy. And, somehow, I went from "noon, I have time to finish this thing" to "5pm, wtf?" and didn't call. And then had a humongous steak that was exceedingly nicely cooked, of which I put 3/4 into a container and in the fridge for future meals and fell asleep about 8:30 pm.

This morning I was awake by 5am, and was going to get on WoW again and continue my streak with an alarm set for noon, but I got distracted by all the things that the people I follow on twitter linked to over the weekend. And now I'm downstairs, dammit, and about to text John my FIL Finance Guy if today is good to call or not.

And then, hopefully, I'll get forms filled out.
all the stuff for the future that's nearly the same in every post )

*sigh*

Feb. 3rd, 2018 03:47 pm
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Wednesda - wednesday? - I had that lovely phone call with the life insurance company. The subsequent phone call with the mortgage company went even less well, as apparently they don't have any means within their system to account for the concept of 'partial payment'. All they do is hold the money until/unless they have enough to count as a payment. If this happens before their system instigates foreclosure, all well and good. Otherwise, they send the money back and it's in foreclosure. I had a small bout of hysterics, and have been hiding in bed (somewhat literally) ever since.

This morning I was actually awake at 7am ish. Took my pills, sat up poking at phone games till C came up to tell me it was 11am or so. I actually lay back down cause I was feeling tired-ish, and after a half hour gave up and came downstairs so I wouldn't be alone. I've done some useful things:

    Detailed list so I feel better about it
  • ate late lunch
  • record bank activity into my ledger book so I can correlate more information
  • wrote out checks for att, oil, allergy shot copay,
  • asked R to take care of bullshit forms for the day
  • Signed forms for life insurance, Otter's ashes to be returned (sooner than anticipated)
  • recorded new bill/payment info into ledger
  • Consulted with R regarding dinner, pulling a recipe from my childhood that was tagged interesting
  • Fell asleep while R made dinner
  • Eventually woke up and ate delicious dinner, discussed/evaluated with R, deemed a success by both. Even C went back for seconds.
  • Gave up being downstairs and came upstairs.


Failed on:
currently trying to get the impetus for
filling out forms for 401k
filling out forms for TIAA pension

Now to see if I can manage to play wow today. If not, Diablo.

Today, I:

Jan. 30th, 2018 09:58 pm
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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.

    So, things I did today:
  • 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.

    To Do Tomorrow 20180131
  • 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.

    ToDo SOON!
  • 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:
    Things I need:
  • 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?)

Today, I:

Jan. 16th, 2018 07:52 pm
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I don't recall doing anything yesterday. I came downstairs cause I didn't want to sit alone in my room, but that's it.

    Today, I
  • Had brunch at Panera with C, who was my driver today.
  • Went to SocSec office and talked to someone, giving them information to fill in a form. I will be getting $255 lump sum payout as immediate death benefit, in a couple of weeks, direct deposit. He also filled out a form to go with the disability hearing that is pending, to hurry it up and to have everything decided at once; if I am declared disabled, I get socsec payments immediately. Otherwise, I have to wait 4 years.
  • Stopped by the Paindoc building and had C go up to the office and pick up the forms for handicapped parking placards.
  • Went to DMV with two titles in hand, and the form to fill out for the missing title we've given up on finding. Got distressed and flummoxed by the forms, looking for information I didn't have and didn't realize I needed. Gave up and went home.
  • Got C and R to get me the odometer readings adn VINs and such, which involved jump-starting one car that had run out its battery somehow. (Because with new cars, there is no dial, you have to have the car on to see the odometer. *headdesk*. Filled out ALL THE FORMS.
  • During this, had a small snack, cause it was pill time.
  • Went BACK to DMV and waited on line for a bit; someone came through checking forms and said I was ok, and that it was ok to sit on this chair near the front and leave C on line for me. Ended up having to go through the line twice: the first two titles were put into my name, and the new duplicate title was done, and the handicapped parking placards, for $189. And then I had to fill out the new title to put it into my name, for another $64.50. (4.50 to move the registrations along with them, on each car.)


I believe it was about an hour or so total, it just felt like forever. I'm fried, aching, and going to bed soon.


    To Do soon (so that the checks mailed earlier this week have a chance to reach them):
  • Find notes re: calling credit union branch manager directly about making an appointment to close/change accounts
  • 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 )
  • Find notes re: talking to various companies/entities about adjusting late fees etc wrt extensions.
  • Call PSEG, ask for late fee to be removed? Check what needs to happen to be considered up to date?
  • dammit, there was something else and it just fled my mind. Had to do with other things on those notes.


    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
  • 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
  • read in detail, evaluate, car/home insurance offer from AAA
  • JANUARY 23rd: Call old trash service AGAIN adn make sure account is CANCELLED.
  • 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!!!!!



    Things I need:
  • 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.
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I did nothing Saturday; woke up late, headache-adjacent. Had C put bengay on the aching parts, and a hotsock. (Similar to http://bedbuddy.net/ but not that brand.) After a few hours (after the bengay was soaked in and not a problem for adhesive) I had him put on a lidocaine patch. Neither of those helped significantly, but it's possible they kept it from being worse.

Woke up earlyish on Sunday, but instead of trying transdermal effects, took one of my hoarded Good Pain Meds. Got to the computer after a bit, poked around on WoW most of the day; ended up falling asleep ZONK in my chair at 6:45, while waiting for the folks who I play with to appear online at 7pm. *sigh* R woke me up for dinner at 7:40, I got on WoW, we played till 10:30 or so. Maybe later. I did wow things for a few hours more, and suddenly woke up, in my chair, covered iwth random pieces of clothing (apparently I was cold, but never woke up) at 7:45 am. Took meds, crawled into bed.

Woke up at 11:30 ish by C, checking if I wanted/needed anything. Asked for food, ate it, eventually decided that I didn't really want to do anything but I also didn't want to sit in my room alone. (which is what I did yesterday, never getting checked on till 4pm or so) Am downstairs.

Received email from life insurance! yay! No information on how much the payout is. An offer of having the money in an interest bearing account wiht the insurance company. No information on how much the interest is. I called the number for my consultant at 2pm, left a message. No response. The packet included a pamphlet about What Beneficiaries Need To Do After The Death Of A Loved One. The first chapter is "in the first two weeks". The second chapter is "weeks 3 and 4". the third chapter is "In hte next month." I'll note that Otter died on Dec 8, and the postmark on the envelope is January 10th. Fuck them.

Having agitated AGAIN for the kids to PLEASE look for the title of the car that was gotten in late November, more likely early December and thus on the day before Otter went into the hospital, I finally got some motion out of them. They found the envelope from the bank that held the car loan, with the old title (with the lien holder on it) and the various papers from the visit to DMV that acquired the new title and the handicapped placards for Otter. Unfortunately, the new title wasn't in it. Also, none of the receipts listed the date of the transaction. (wtf dmv?) So we STILL don't know, for sure, when it was done. *argh*

Aggravation, annoyance, and a chilly house. Wheee.

Frustration

Jan. 5th, 2018 04:41 pm
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    Today, I:
  • Laid in bed for 5 hours, during which I did not sleep overnight. I expect this is due to having woken up around 8pm yesterday after taking migraine meds and letting my body be unhappy.
  • Received a phone call from the doctor's office where I had a 10:30 am appointment to get my anti-hive shot. Apparently, they had not received the medication from the specialty pharmacy, and thus we need to reschedule. They gave me the number of the specialty pharmacy so I could kick them
  • Got dressed and got downstairs about the time I would have if we were going out to the doctor.
  • Called the Surrogate's office for the county Otter died in (which more than one person had said was where I needed to go), to find out where it was, and also to ask about the fact that the DMV website said that, to transfer the title, it needed stuff from the county he lived in. Turns out 'county he lived in' was correct. They gave me the number to call them.
  • Called the Surrogate's Office for the county we live in, got directions, and was told I didn't need to bring any proof of what he had, or any papers like that, they'd figure out everything there.
  • Went out with C to have breakfast at the diner, as it was on the way to the county admin building.
  • Stopped at the eyeglass place for C's glasses, as it was also on the way. His were ready, mine were not. (unsurprising, both.)
  • Got to the County Admin Building and walked from where the car was parked through the long hallway and into the Surrogate's Office section in mostly one fell swoop. A slow swoop, but a swoop nonetheless.
  • Waited for a while, and then talked to the assistant surrogate or something the like, and found that while they were not going to question me about the value of anything, they really did want the checking account numbers and the VIN of the cars. She was willing to type it all up and leave 'currently unfindable' in place of the info we didn't have. I poked my phone onto Kelly Blue Book website to get the values of the cars, which she persistently lowballed. I received "Affidavits of Surviving Spouse", which apparently stands in for Surrogate's Certificates when the estate is worth less than $50,000. Yay, we're poor?
  • Got directions, and went to DMV to retitle the cars, it being almost 30 days since Otter died, and that's what the DMV website tells me is the grace period for this. As it turns out, if I don't produce the titles, I can't just create titles in my own name with their database info and the relevant paperwork. I must *first* ask for copies of the titles as they currently exist, at the cost of $60 per title, and THEN I can ask for the titles to be changed over to my name, at the cost of $60 per title, with the registration carrying over for $4.50. We have three cars.
  • Noped the fuck right out of that and came home.


Partly due to pain, partly due to 'i am not paying nearly 400 dollars to do this', and with the gentle words from the nice police officer who had drawn duty that day in Somerville's DMV office, who told me that as long as I don't do Bad Things (tm) (like commit crimes, or do things that might cause people to try to find the owner, or try to register the cars again in the decedent's name) that I won't be hassled over it.

Oh, and I also called the pharmacy to find out why I hadn't gotten my synthroid refilled along with everything else. Apparently I'm out of refills.

    To Do
    • Jan 8, Early In The Day
    • Call paindoc again re willing to fill out handicapped parking forms.
    • Call allergy doc about resched shot.
    • Call old trash company and cancel the account
    • Call endocrinologist about getting more synthroid

    • Jan 8, anytime
    • PAY BILLS
    • Find the mazda car title. (R found the other two)
    • call oil company about account and payments etc.
    • Fill out forms for 401k

    • Any Wednesday
    • 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?

  • JANUARY 16th: Go to SocSec office and deal with death stuff.
  • Depending on paindoc answer, DL handicapped parking forms from DMV and get him to fill out, if he's ok with it.
  • 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!!!!!



Things I need:
Container for current month bills before they are paid.
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.

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