Things are looking up
Dec. 14th, 2011 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyI haven't mentioned it, because it's been an ongoing thing in the works for a while, but I've come into a bit of money. Not enough to live in luxury for the rest of my life, alas, or even enough to take me through next year---but enough to do a few vital things, like an eye exam for me and a brake job for my car and to pay the bills for a couple months, by which time hopefully we'll have a premises for dog training and will be making enough for me to have a regular salary.
A while back, I read an article by a guy who'd "found" money through his state's unclaimed property office. I did a little detective work and discovered my late brother had something sitting in New York state. Dug a bit more and found out it was a life insurance policy our folks took out in the 60s. I had to provide a lot of paperwork and bona fides, and I couldn't get anybody there to tell me how much it was going to be until I got an envelope from the insurance company.
Given their singularly unhelpful track record, I figured it was going to be along the lines of "We got your paperwork and we're thinking about what else we want from you, please stand by", but no! I unfolded it and about fell over. It was a check!
After months of not even being able to buy a magazine from the newstand or go out for a meal, I feel downright afluent, and I'm trying VERY HARD not to go wild and blow it. That would be BAD.
I know y'all have been thinking good thoughts for me, and I really, really appreciate that. I think this is the result; I've got a modest cushion for the first time in years. (Now let's just hope this good fortune spills over and the dogs are lucrative....)
.
A while back, I read an article by a guy who'd "found" money through his state's unclaimed property office. I did a little detective work and discovered my late brother had something sitting in New York state. Dug a bit more and found out it was a life insurance policy our folks took out in the 60s. I had to provide a lot of paperwork and bona fides, and I couldn't get anybody there to tell me how much it was going to be until I got an envelope from the insurance company.
Given their singularly unhelpful track record, I figured it was going to be along the lines of "We got your paperwork and we're thinking about what else we want from you, please stand by", but no! I unfolded it and about fell over. It was a check!
After months of not even being able to buy a magazine from the newstand or go out for a meal, I feel downright afluent, and I'm trying VERY HARD not to go wild and blow it. That would be BAD.
I know y'all have been thinking good thoughts for me, and I really, really appreciate that. I think this is the result; I've got a modest cushion for the first time in years. (Now let's just hope this good fortune spills over and the dogs are lucrative....)
.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 09:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:27 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 09:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:29 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:02 pm (UTC)Hope you are doing well!
XO
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:31 pm (UTC)Long time, no nuthin'---how've YOU been? Ready for January 17th?!
And congrats on your icon, I've not written anything of note in months. Glad someone's making up for my lack of productivity!
.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 02:04 am (UTC)Thanks! NaNoWriMo was painless because I told NO ONE I was doing it, until it was over!
Write more!
You're good at it!
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 11:48 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:33 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:36 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 10:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 11:44 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 11:12 pm (UTC)*throws confetti*
I am SO freaking happy for you, you don't even know! Unexpected windfalls like that are the BEST kind, and right before Christmas even. *hugs you*
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 11:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 11:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-14 11:47 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 01:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 11:50 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 10:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 11:51 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-16 11:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-21 07:16 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-17 07:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-21 07:20 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-19 09:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-21 07:23 pm (UTC).
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-21 10:45 pm (UTC)