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omaewokorosuSo our loan processor guy called yesterday (as I'd mentioned) saying the CareCredit card needed to be closed for SONYMA to put their stamp of approval on everything.
Serena called their customer service line and, fun fact, you can close a charge card account through the IVR now?? So she didn't have to talk to anyone but she did have to fight a little bit with the automated system. So they sent her a text confirming that it's been closed and when she logs in it also says that it's been closed; she took screencaps and sent them off to Loan Guy, who I guess is the guy we're going to be concluding all of this shit with.
I don't know what happened to Gretchen; our realtor tried calling her number and it said it was disconnected, so... No idea! It could be that she's no longer at that particular branch of M&T, because I'm assuming she tried the 845 number and not the 201 number (which is her personal number). In any case...
Loan Guy said he would give that to SONYMA and we should be starting the PREPARATION FOR CLOSING by the end of the week. SONYMA has everything they have asked for completed. All the disclosures, all the bank statements and employment verifications and letters and explanations for this and that and something else so we are...more or less done. We just need to figure out closing.
D says he has a feeling, a very strong feeling, that closing will happen the 8th, 9th, or 10th and whilst I'm not entirely sure where he gets this feeling from...it would be nice, wouldn't it?
Once we know the closing date then we can figure out what date we're going to be leaving work and give notice, officially, that we're going to be leaving. And then I can use up the rest of my PTO so idk if I'll even really be working my last two weeks lmao. But it's either I use it or lose it so. I'd be spending it all on packing and throwing as much shit in the trash as I can.
So yeah!
Then we can move all the shit we need to move ourselves...in my car... Figure out a moving company (we p much have one picked out), and get out of here before Thanksgiving. Because I don't want to be here in November. I don't want to be here now but I definitely want to be out of here before 13 November.
We're gonna have to ship Serena's car up using a car shipping service of some kind because obviously my car can't tow hers and I don't think either of us know anyone who does have a vehicle to hitch a car to. Her car needs new brakes and her alignment redone as well as an inspection or whatever, so we're gonna wait until we're up there to worry about that; that also means it's not "road-worthy" for the 2.5 hour drive. So yeah. It would be the easiest thing to do and probably won't cost that much since it's not that big of a distance.
Depending on when this all ends up playing out, we might not be able to change our voter registration in time for the election which is fine because we can just drive back down here to vote and then head back (after stopping somewhere for food). So. We're not missing this election!!!
(Our polling place is literally right off the bridge so we can literally park at the firehouse, vote, and head back the way we came and go back on 84 lmao.)
My brother keeps sending good vibes because he knows firsthand how important it is to get away from this woman. I hate bothering him too much since he's busy planning a wedding and everything but it's sweet that despite all of that he still makes sure to check in.
And to think Egg said that Michael doesn't care about anyone but himself.
I will, before handing the key in to Egg, make a "secret spare" for myself because everyone agrees that once we're out of here Egg is going to fall apart and I'll be getting a phone call saying that she's gone. So then this way I can let myself in, take whatever possessions I want, and leave Rob to deal with the rest lmao.
I'll also be making a fuckton of spare keys for our house to dispense to Mom and Dad, Christina, maybe Geoff. Whoever wants a spare key, basically. Except Egg. She's not getting shit. She's not going to even know where we live. Aleks has been very, very clear about that.
"So then why would you come back for some knickknacks?"
Because some of the stuff is my dad's parents'. Or my dad's. So I would be taking those. Insofar as anything else is concerned...I don't really care. I don't even expect Egg to leave me any money, but if she does, she does. She doesn't, she doesn't. I don't really care either way, but I know I'd use part of it to pay off our mortgage at least.
Before we head up to the Southern Tier...I do want to head down into Jersey so I can visit the cemetery. I want to see my dad before I travel even further away from his final resting place, you know? It's going to be 22 years. I remember when it was a year, two years, five years. It was all still so hard. It both felt like a lifetime ago and like yesterday.
It still does in some ways.
*
In other news, the monitor we've been using as a TV in the bedroom I guess decided to die??? So that's great I guess. It's almost 3 years old and we use it all the time so I guess it's expected... I was thinking of getting a similar sized TV tbh so then we could program the remote for the Fire stick to work with it and not have to use PC speakers for sound and so forth... The last time I bought a TV was in 2007 when I got the Magnavox (which I still have but don't use and will probably get rid of when we move because I don't use it), so... It's been a while lmao. The monitor is 24" so we don't need something terribly large, and depending on where we situate things when we move into the new place, we can always get a small stand so that it's closer to the bed if we need it...
SIGH.
Serena called their customer service line and, fun fact, you can close a charge card account through the IVR now?? So she didn't have to talk to anyone but she did have to fight a little bit with the automated system. So they sent her a text confirming that it's been closed and when she logs in it also says that it's been closed; she took screencaps and sent them off to Loan Guy, who I guess is the guy we're going to be concluding all of this shit with.
I don't know what happened to Gretchen; our realtor tried calling her number and it said it was disconnected, so... No idea! It could be that she's no longer at that particular branch of M&T, because I'm assuming she tried the 845 number and not the 201 number (which is her personal number). In any case...
Loan Guy said he would give that to SONYMA and we should be starting the PREPARATION FOR CLOSING by the end of the week. SONYMA has everything they have asked for completed. All the disclosures, all the bank statements and employment verifications and letters and explanations for this and that and something else so we are...more or less done. We just need to figure out closing.
D says he has a feeling, a very strong feeling, that closing will happen the 8th, 9th, or 10th and whilst I'm not entirely sure where he gets this feeling from...it would be nice, wouldn't it?
Once we know the closing date then we can figure out what date we're going to be leaving work and give notice, officially, that we're going to be leaving. And then I can use up the rest of my PTO so idk if I'll even really be working my last two weeks lmao. But it's either I use it or lose it so. I'd be spending it all on packing and throwing as much shit in the trash as I can.
So yeah!
Then we can move all the shit we need to move ourselves...in my car... Figure out a moving company (we p much have one picked out), and get out of here before Thanksgiving. Because I don't want to be here in November. I don't want to be here now but I definitely want to be out of here before 13 November.
We're gonna have to ship Serena's car up using a car shipping service of some kind because obviously my car can't tow hers and I don't think either of us know anyone who does have a vehicle to hitch a car to. Her car needs new brakes and her alignment redone as well as an inspection or whatever, so we're gonna wait until we're up there to worry about that; that also means it's not "road-worthy" for the 2.5 hour drive. So yeah. It would be the easiest thing to do and probably won't cost that much since it's not that big of a distance.
Depending on when this all ends up playing out, we might not be able to change our voter registration in time for the election which is fine because we can just drive back down here to vote and then head back (after stopping somewhere for food). So. We're not missing this election!!!
(Our polling place is literally right off the bridge so we can literally park at the firehouse, vote, and head back the way we came and go back on 84 lmao.)
My brother keeps sending good vibes because he knows firsthand how important it is to get away from this woman. I hate bothering him too much since he's busy planning a wedding and everything but it's sweet that despite all of that he still makes sure to check in.
And to think Egg said that Michael doesn't care about anyone but himself.
I will, before handing the key in to Egg, make a "secret spare" for myself because everyone agrees that once we're out of here Egg is going to fall apart and I'll be getting a phone call saying that she's gone. So then this way I can let myself in, take whatever possessions I want, and leave Rob to deal with the rest lmao.
I'll also be making a fuckton of spare keys for our house to dispense to Mom and Dad, Christina, maybe Geoff. Whoever wants a spare key, basically. Except Egg. She's not getting shit. She's not going to even know where we live. Aleks has been very, very clear about that.
"So then why would you come back for some knickknacks?"
Because some of the stuff is my dad's parents'. Or my dad's. So I would be taking those. Insofar as anything else is concerned...I don't really care. I don't even expect Egg to leave me any money, but if she does, she does. She doesn't, she doesn't. I don't really care either way, but I know I'd use part of it to pay off our mortgage at least.
Before we head up to the Southern Tier...I do want to head down into Jersey so I can visit the cemetery. I want to see my dad before I travel even further away from his final resting place, you know? It's going to be 22 years. I remember when it was a year, two years, five years. It was all still so hard. It both felt like a lifetime ago and like yesterday.
It still does in some ways.
*
In other news, the monitor we've been using as a TV in the bedroom I guess decided to die??? So that's great I guess. It's almost 3 years old and we use it all the time so I guess it's expected... I was thinking of getting a similar sized TV tbh so then we could program the remote for the Fire stick to work with it and not have to use PC speakers for sound and so forth... The last time I bought a TV was in 2007 when I got the Magnavox (which I still have but don't use and will probably get rid of when we move because I don't use it), so... It's been a while lmao. The monitor is 24" so we don't need something terribly large, and depending on where we situate things when we move into the new place, we can always get a small stand so that it's closer to the bed if we need it...
SIGH.
