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the_siobhan) wrote2024-08-18 09:58 pm
the_siobhan) wrote2024-08-18 09:58 pm
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I am exhausted.
I have been dragging boxes around all week. Today I finally emptied the last of the boxes of Old Man's possessions. Pictures have been taken and sent to family members and a number of items have been claimed. I'll wait a couple of days and start putting the rest up on Freecycle. A bag of unused medication got dropped off at the pharmacy yesterday and a huge box of equipment has been packed into a box to go to FedEx for return to his ISP whenever I can get around to digging the bundle buggy out of the basement.
H&M has a fabric recycling program so clothes that are too tattered or stained for donation have been going to them, one bag every time I walk past the mall on my way to the subway or the farmer's market. They give store credit for every bag dropped off so I'm slowly racking up the points. I am so far outside the age demographic of their target market it's kind of funny. "I go into their store and their clothes are so beige." I complained tobcholmes. "But I went online and their website has a housewares section. That's mostly beige too, but they at least have some things in 'stoneware' so it's grey."
"Ah," she said. "Grey. The black-and-white version of beige."
This week I should probably just concentrate on paperwork, since all the companies I reached out to have finally gotten back to me with all the list of documents and forms they want me to deal with. And I have to figure out how to file for probate, which is a brand new thing. Yay me.
Maybe I'll take a few days off next week just to deal with some of this shit. I have surgery in September - nothing major but doctor's orders are not to not lift anything heavy for a month after. It would be really nice to have a house that isn't wall-to-wall boxes to relax in when that happens.
I have been dragging boxes around all week. Today I finally emptied the last of the boxes of Old Man's possessions. Pictures have been taken and sent to family members and a number of items have been claimed. I'll wait a couple of days and start putting the rest up on Freecycle. A bag of unused medication got dropped off at the pharmacy yesterday and a huge box of equipment has been packed into a box to go to FedEx for return to his ISP whenever I can get around to digging the bundle buggy out of the basement.
H&M has a fabric recycling program so clothes that are too tattered or stained for donation have been going to them, one bag every time I walk past the mall on my way to the subway or the farmer's market. They give store credit for every bag dropped off so I'm slowly racking up the points. I am so far outside the age demographic of their target market it's kind of funny. "I go into their store and their clothes are so beige." I complained to
bcholmes. "But I went online and their website has a housewares section. That's mostly beige too, but they at least have some things in 'stoneware' so it's grey."
"Ah," she said. "Grey. The black-and-white version of beige."
This week I should probably just concentrate on paperwork, since all the companies I reached out to have finally gotten back to me with all the list of documents and forms they want me to deal with. And I have to figure out how to file for probate, which is a brand new thing. Yay me.
Maybe I'll take a few days off next week just to deal with some of this shit. I have surgery in September - nothing major but doctor's orders are not to not lift anything heavy for a month after. It would be really nice to have a house that isn't wall-to-wall boxes to relax in when that happens.
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I have surgery in September
Oh no!
I hope you have support organised.
(Because, you know, you're not organised at all. :P)
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Perhaps points could be used to acquire some work-appropriate attire and/or undergarments to be donated to a shelter?
The amount of bureaucracy involved with someone dying, a thing that will happen eventually to every single human being on this earth, is just mind-boggling to me.
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