beekaytee, I'm no help on the legal stuff, but please send Todd my love and let her know she is missed.

Also the finance person. ND is always willing to listen, but it can be hard to engage about it sometimes. It was incredibly hard these past four years when money was so grim and there just weren't any solutions. We've turned that corner now finally with the closing out of Dad's estate and ND's business thriving again (finally, post-Covid!!!) due to his hard work and tenacity, but woof.

We do have an existing trust we set up before we got married, but we never actually put anything in it (never had any assets!), but now that we have paid down a lot of debt and have equity in the house despite the mortgage, we need to revisit it. It's on my list for early next year. I also need to talk to a financial adviser about my TIAA-Cref retirement investments to make sure they are what they need to be so I can retire in 12-15 years.

Friends, things are a shitshow at work. Being very vague on the extremely unlikely case anyone could find this post, we are 90% sure our Big Boss (BB) just fired our secondary Big Boss (SBB), who had been at the school 25 years and was beloved. SBB has been disappeared. No one in lower admin knows where she is, but she's been removed from email lists and her work phone has been turned off. No announcement has been made. If this is true, a LOT of people are going to leave this school by the end of this year. It's...it's not good. SBB was the only one putting guard rails on BB, who has gotten more and more rigid and scary the longer she's been in power.

Cereal: Beekaytee, I'm so sorry to hear about Toddson. Thank you for helping her. I don't have any connections beyond recommending doing what you probably already have done, which is to do some googling to find local attorneys who can help. Durable POA isn't too expensive to set up, and I'm sure those of us who are able would contribute to help pay for it.

I'm sure those of us who are able would contribute to help pay for it.

Absolutely.

Cheers, Laura, Pix and Steph. I will figure something out. The case worker may have ideas and, at the very least, I can check with the Legal Services for the Elderly, through AARP for her.

beekaytee, I am not at all sure I understand what it is that you and Toddson need, but if it helps, I used www.rocketlawyer.com and their online templates to prepare my will and PoA documents. It was pretty simple and straightforward. My local bank branch provided the notary services, and I was done.

I'm sorry to hear about Toddson.

Work was slower today. Other places are opening up. I'm so glad we didn't have to deal with a store being without power and closed for multiple days with meat and dairy sitting out. At least it's not August.

I have today and tomorrow off. Yay.

I heard from Mom. Apparently I woke my neighbor up when I was outside talking to her. He came over with some ice to ask that I keep it down. He wasnt home but I left a note on his door apologizing and explaining what happened.

Mom is good. I got to hear her voice.

We did not clean out our fridge or freezer because we didn't expect to be out of power until it was too late. Our trash pick up is Monday and should be picked up tomorrow. I hope. Our trash can is full from a bunch of stuff so we are going to throw out more after it's empty..

Power is expected to be back for us Friday.

Tomorrow I plan to wash out the tub and then wash some clothes and figure out where to hang them out to hopefully dry. I am running low on shirts and underwewr. I think the laundry mat has power but not sure and I can do this at home so why not.

Will give me something to do.

Thanks for the suggestion, dcp. And, I understand the confusion. I think I can reach out to the AARP legal services for the elderly. I don't know if Todd is a member, but it's worth a try.

There are some complications that make the DIY forms option less useful than they would be otherwise, but worse comes to worst, we will go that way.

Beekaytee, I will ask at my work for any suggestions of a DC lawyer.

M's brother has power. His cousin who was stuck at our house is back at hers and she has power. Mom has power

Mom said if it had been safe we could have come up there to do laundry and have a hot shower. She's the only one who has offered

We are projected to have power back on Friday. But who knows. M"s brother doesn't come over like his cousin does but damn...you would think they'd at least offer to let us hang out in the afternoon and charge our phones.