khatru

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?)
  

I feel like I should be doing something. I was playing wow to take care of the 'need busy', but I can't focus. I looked up online downloadable forms for various legal things, like wills (no, he hasn't made one yet. I haven't either. This is all a piece of various handwaving) and durable power of attorney, which he says we have one of. I don't recall it, and asked him to dig it up to show me. R, who is our default cook, asked me to look up veggie dishes on the web, cause of content fatigue. Well, i'm tired of it too, but we've got a major disconnect, cause I'm, by far, the most interested in meat, what with trying to be low carb. Otter less so than I, and R least of all. As long as C has American Cheese, the world is good. Finding recipes on the web is a lesson in frustration, tho, because it feels like all of them have hot spice of some sort - peppers, cayenne - often hidden down in the ingredients list, and the other half have black pepper in them. The former upsets my stomach, the latter gives me migraines. Otter won't eat the former at all. I put 'low carb vegetable dishes' into the search bar and got piles of stuff going through a bottleneck called yummly, with tracking shit all over it. To the point that, when I clicked the 'read the directions', which took me to someone else's blog, and I copied the link to put into chat, and I removed the referrer crap off the end, when I hit return, the referrer crap was put back on. Fucking hangouts.

i'm not going to bother to pretty this up. yay stream of consciousness.

I can't concentrate on fucking solitaire. or sudoku. I tried leaning back in my chair to zone out for a bit, and I'm twitching. It's like I had too much coffee, but I haven't had *any* for over 24 hours.

I guess I'll look up hospice things. That's the only thing I've thought of to do extra.