Another week already? For those of you who have been/will be in Dorian's path - I hope that you and yours come through safely. To say that it is a horrible storm is to greatly understate the situation.
Things are still hinky here - I called the insurance company for our reenactment unit again to try to resolve the problem of the paperwork not being right. What the employee and I did manage to figure out is that it is not a paperwork problem - the changes to the policy do not seem to be right when we discussed them. She was to check with their underwriters and the files to see what happened and then call me back. I waited a week and then called her again - last Friday. The agency was closed for a four day Labor Day weekend. I called her again today, Wednesday. She was not in - working from home (I got the impression she was not well). She called back while we were out - which is why I said I would call back instead of her calling me, and left a message to talk to someone else at the agency - I will call them tomorrow. I have been trying to resolve this since June - policy renewed in late May. At this point we only have 3 events left before the insurance will renew again next year. I have now requested a printout of our payments to our medical insurance company in 2018 three times - hope this time they send the correct papers and not a summary of what we owed - what we owed and what we paid could be totally different amounts (although not in this case) and the county will not accept what we owed - they want a list from the insurance company of what we actually paid. That and one other set of papers is the last of what we need to file for our senior real estate tax exemption. Then I can assemble the "tome" of papers that have to go to them for this exemption. We learned our lesson last year. This year we will not mail the paperwork to them (and we had mailed it by certified mail and had a record of when they received it). We will drive to the real estate tax assessor's office and I will walk it in and get a receipt from them that they have everything. Husband will sit in the car as parking is just about non-existent. Newspaper article recently said that our new County Executive is going to make this department actually answer their phones and help people. When one calls the message on their end is basically - "We don't have time to take calls." and sometimes also "And we don't have any parking for you to come here." Public servants.
I have managed to do a bit of house cleaning this past week - I admit it, I am sooo off schedule as I just have not had a chance to get to anything.
I have been tasked by my sister to find sources to sell items from our family home - a library of books, a collection of records (LPs, 45s and CDs), china and glass - useful and decorative, dad had a number of clients who were artists and they have pieces from some of the clients and other pieces that purchased - only a maybe ten to twenty, but some of them may be valuable. We need to get as much as we can for items which can be sold as we need it to keep mom in the assisted living program she is in and likes. Time is also of the essence as mom has a reverse mortgage on her house and every month more interes accrues. The sooner we get rid of the stuff in the house the sooner we can sell it - the less money that goes to interest and the more that goes to mom. I emailed a client that I have still have whose husband is one of the artists and asked if either of them knows of a gallery or auction house to contact. I know the husband's work still sells from time to time and figured that they must still know who to contact. Problem, of course, is that we need to not just find someone to buy (or take on consignment) the stuff we need to get rid of, but need someone honest who will not buy stuff for considerably less than it is worth. I just found a site that was recommended by a seniors organization for pricing items. I will have to look at it. Quite frankly it was this part of clearing out the house that intimidated me. My sister had talked as if she had an idea of who to call about all this and I had felt better about it, now I am overwhelmed again - and quite honestly, my sister is handling most of everything. Anyone with ideas about getting rid of all this stuff without getting "taken" - please let me know, it will be gratefully appreciated.
I had the first meeting of my embroidery chapter today. I was not sure that I would that I would get to the meeting as husband is desperate to go away for a few days - both for sanity and because we have spent a lot on the RV to keep it in good shape, we do not use it, and it needs to be used - especially driven - to keep in it in good condition. Due to rain storms today where we were to go, we dropped the plans - bad for husband as he is upset, but good for me as I had my first non-work day without him since June. I did come home after running a couple of quick errands after the meeting and did not take the entire afternoon for myself as I normally do, as husband is sure that the Dorian will turn and hit Long Island and we will lose our electricity, so I did not want to leave him moping and in a panic all day by himself. We are learning a new stitch that I had wanted to learn and it was such a pleasant time at the meeting. I really need to find another group to join also - I have tried to get husband to join a group without me, but he is not interested and finds an excuse not to join any group that is related to his interests when I find them.
I normally write my post using a word processing program that I like and then copy it to the site. Tonight for some reason it would not work - it opens, but does not work, so I used good, old Notepad to write - any spelling errors or oddities in appearance of the post are due to that.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK -
Well, one has to go on and do what one can. Having my embroidery chapter keeps me sane - what keeps you sane when it is all piling up?
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