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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!

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:

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/27493.html

ETA: I figured it out, I'm pretty sure. In the lutris window, in the config for the game i was clicking on (battle.net), I set it to 'keep resolution at' and set it to the resolution of the smaller screen, away from the default. I don't know why this was *turning off* the larger screen (since the setting for 'keep only this monitor on' I had set to 'do nothing') but when I turned that back to the default, it stopped turning things off and being weird.

I've got a really bonkers thing going on with my monitors and playing Blizzard games. I've got a long-ass write-up on the lutris forums, because Lutris is how I'm playing the games, and that's the only forum I got right now. Trying to get some - any - help at this point. Otter was the one who set things up, and I'm just getting frustrated.

https://forums.lutris.net/t/really-weird-problem-hopefully-related-here/1631

aka Barleduq on the wow-related-websites world.

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/26272.html

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 )

Crossposts: https://khatru.livejournal.com/24858.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

Had a very relaxing visit with folks in Maryland, and actually did not feel at all overwhelmed by learning new games. I learned 3! (one may have been a relearn, as it looked familiar but I had no clue.) I found out that my laptop was not actually completely set up by Otter, in that it apparently has no graphics drivers on it, and when I tried playing wow it was running at 1-2 frames per second - it spiked to 6 a time or two - so all I did was pick up Winter Veil presents on various alts while chatting with other people, during those times there were people to chat with and space for my laptop at the same time.

Back to trying to do useful things tomorrow. Wheee.