Met with our estate planner this morning; it went reasonably smoothly and she was happy to answer all of our questions. Most of our stuff is pretty straightforward, but even so, setting up all the trusts and things properly for Theoretical Future Child are making me glad we're not using Willmaker 3.0 or something. Other things I learned today: ( Read more... )

Appraiser came over this morning to take a look; nothing's official but he's pretty sure it'll come in well over what we need for the good refinance rate. As a side note, he's like the third or fourth relative stranger in the last few months to compliment me on my 'realistic outlook' for some estimate or other, and I'm not sure whether to be ( Read more... )

Estate planning appointment for this morning was cancelled due to our lawyer being knocked unconscious while snowboarding yesterday. Rescheduled for Thursday. Wednesday morning we have an appointment with the appraiser for the refinance. I am approaching my limit for filling out forms and keeping appointments. This may have led to snippiness at southplains ( Read more... )

Holding down Fort Munger for the evening now that amiable_lyons and crooked_hill have left. Mostly smooth, but Bobby did NOT want to go to sleep. C eventually got him down with a football hold and knee bob; I would probably have just flailed around for another half hour, which has me a little freaked out but I will not dwell on it, because now they are out like lights and ( Read more... )

You know those puzzle games where you have to find the secret code on the wall that opens the safe, and that gets you the key to get out of the door, but then there's a waterfall with an angry gnome who won't be appeased without magic beans, and if you do it wrong you die and have to start over, only sometimes you put the code into the safe wrong ( Read more... )

You would think that when you spend over seven thousand dollars in a single day, you'd get more to show for it.

Hah. Our adoption counselor got her home study back from review in Portland today, and they were concerned that she'd forgotten to get my coming-out story. I did it in bits and pieces, so I don't really have an official date. It's not that it's a big deal to them; they just want to make sure they get all the important parts of everyone's stories. ( Read more... )

The five questions meme returns! Anyone who asks nicely will receive five questions to answer on their own journal.

5 questions from ironymaiden:
1. you read the Faerie Queene so we don't have to. what classic work have you read that we should all read too, and why?Art is so subjective. I usually try to take a person's taste into account when making ( Read more... )

I spent this morning in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying, but I think almost everything is closed out now.

We finally got an electrician to come out and replace the light fixtures in the bedrooms. (Exposed gas pipe = southplains is not going to mess with it.) I think that's the actual last thing I care about doing to the apartment, though I ( Read more... )

Cupcakes of Catan. I think the sheep is my favorite.