Better Off Dead

I haven't heard that song, I should try to give it a listen sometime. That's how I'm feeling.

Anyway, FedEx brought the paperwork. I leapt forth and read it... blah, blah, lawyer, blah, lies, blah. Fine. I packed my backpack and told the kitty I'd return. Since it was on the way, I talked to the bank to see if they notarize documents for customers. Well, I didn't have my translator but as far as I could tell they don't do that. I wish the branch mangler had been around, his English is better.

So off to the notary and... I was early. Notary doesn't arrive until 10:30am! Ok, it was only a 10-15 minute wait. The guy seemed like a prick. I gave him one copy, paid $10, gave a finger print, signed, gave blood & urine samples... ok, well some of that anyway. Then I'm off to FedEx! That's in the mall across the street. So I walk, walk, walk and while I'm making copies I realize OOPS, there's a second page for notarizing! There are two complete 'originals' that need the same treatment. Fine, whatever. I pack up and walk back across the major roadway, around the fake homeless vet, and to the notary place! The guy says, "Did I screw something up?" Well... that's a nice and reassuring attitude. :P So I explain there's a second original and get charged $10! No anal probe this time. Back to FedEx. I stuff "pre-paid" envelope with documents to return and go to the counter. It gets ringed up and I say, "Uh... isn't that pre-paid?" She said, "No, there's no XYZQRP number." I check my copies and don't see any number. I say, "I guess I'm paying then." I'm thinking, "I know the cover letter said pre-paid! ARGH!" So that was like $22. Whatever... let me out of here.

I went to grocery and abuse the coin-counting machine. I think it stole a dollar from me. It only seems to know about recent dollar coins, not the older larger ones. Stupid machine! At least I only 'lost' one! I put one in as a test. I took the receipt to register, got the cash, then checked cereal. There was sale through tomorrow so I got 4 boxes. Then I came home.

I tripped on the uneven sidewalk coming back and managed to stop my forward motion just before hitting a rose bush. It wasn't an elegant effort but did the job. I won't make the Olympic team. Ok, so I got back to the house. Neighbor was watering his lawn so I chatted with him a bit. I came in, made cereal, got naked, rolled around in money... oh wait... no, I just had cereal. I checked cover letter and it does say "pre-paid" so now I have to complain it wasn't pre-paid after all!

I have a headache. Probably because of bad sleep and not eating before now. Cat is yelling at me. :/
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Ok, it's Thursday now... just after midnight. I napped a bit earlier because I had too much sun. Watered grass seed many times. I hope it will grow. Where I did 'test' seeding and watered it is growing so that is why I took the steps on Tuesday to reboot lawn. Ha...reboot.

Kitty is washing on the floor. She is good kitty and was outside with me a bit. I just came in from chatting to neighbor. I don't know how he does it. Probably be escaping now and then. OMG! It is birthday month for kitty! Need to make note of that. She is good animal.

The pre-paid envelope saga was sorted out. It was clerical error. It was blamed on temp. Or 5 other excuses. Whatever. Will be compensated for it. Need to decide if I want to allow direct deposit or wait for check which will probable end up with another stupid 5 day business hold. Must gather more information. Kitty is snoring. (Aww...)

How crazy would I be to propose just keeping the house with my brother. Yes, he wouldn't/couldn't pay his share but that wouldn't be a problem IMHO so long as I'm able to live here, keep things up... etc. Besides, I'd probably take on flat mates to defer costs anyway. This would be 'investment' for us. His wife might hemorrhage but it doesn't actually change the state of anything because law says we have equal interest anyway. Wonder how hard this would be to pull off and just how fucking nuts I am to consider it. There's no reason to put forth this notion until I can pay the Mother's other outstanding debts. Mother would say, "Are you f-ing crazy!?" HA. Maybe. She would say, "Don't trust!" And, "Run!" I will need to run numbers. This is why there are lawyers too. Lawyers to make agreements. The evil would be whether SIL would have 'half' of Brother's share or not... stupid 'community property' state. :/