It has felt like a busy day. I was in Emporia doing taxes at 9:00. We stayed busy all morning so the time went by quickly. I did the taxes for a high school classmate. I don’t think I had seen him since high school graduation. I kinda know his wife but I didn’t know that was his wife until today. That is the fun part of doing taxes – seeing old friends.
Had lunch with Jason after my tax shift. It is always a good day when I get to spend time with one of my kids.
Had a request for some business records from back in the day when I did McDonald’s. I had to go out to my shed and clear out a path so I could find the box that has the records in it. I thought I had thrown out anything to do with McDonald’s when I moved but I wasn’t sure if I had kept tax records or not. I didn’t find any so thinking I threw them out. I still need to reorganize the shed so will look a bit deeper whenever I get out there to clean and reorganize it.
While clearing out the shed I pushed the riding mower out of the shed. I am going to ask Phil to take it to my son in Emporia. I couldn’t get it started but am not sure if I forgot how it works or if something is wrong. I’ll have Phil look at it and see if he can get it running and then have him make it go away. I never did like that thing and struggled to run it. It will give me lots more room in the shed to have it gone.
I also needed to find my great grandfather’s diary. One of my mother’s cousins requested it as they are doing a family history thing. I managed to find it so will get it packaged up and mail it to them. The diary is from 1965 and 1966. It is mostly weather reports but it does cover the time when my great grandmother died. He reported over 800 people attended her funeral. That was back in the day when people went to funerals to pay their respects.
I am on hold with the insurance company attempting to cancel the insurance on Michelle’s house. I am number 25 in line. This may take a bit. Edited to add they finally answered after a 20 minute wait. I pushed the wrong button and hung up on them. I called back and waited 30 minutes. The person that answered the phone was efficient and didn’t make me send anything in and was able to cancel the insurance. Grateful but not sure I understand. Trust it will hold and I will get a refund in the next month or so.
I did manage to get my new local account hooked up with my on-line bank so I can transfer funds between the two. The process of depositing the proceeds check and getting the new account linked took over two weeks. Man, that wasn’t easy.
Tomorrow I go back to Emporia for another tax shift. I have Wednesday off but work another shift on Thursday. Next week I only have one shift and then the last week I have three. We are almost to the finish line of this tax season. There is some concern if AARP will be able to offer this service next year. We shall see what happens.
Got permission from my doctor to go off the new medication. I have to taper for a week or two and then can discontinue using it. Trusting my side effect symptoms will disappear when I am able to go off it completely. The side effects were worse than what I was taking the medication for.
Feel like I climbed a bit higher out of the pit I had fallen into. Today has felt somewhat easy and productive. If I can get the insurance thing resolved today it will be a really good day. I tried to cancel it the day after I closed on the sale and didn’t have the patience to do what they wanted me to do. I have to prove that I have the authority to cancel a policy that is in my business name. The things that make me go WTF!
Grateful I found the diary, grateful to see a classmate from years gone by, and grateful the shed is closer to being more useable.