Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2008. I remember this moment in time like it were yesterday! It was grandparent's day at Mattie's school. My parents had a wonderful time meeting Mattie's teachers, touring the campus, hearing a choir concert, and watching Mattie in action with his friends. After that event, we went out to lunch together. Unlike me, Mattie was NOT into food. Therefore, to get him to sit at a table with us required many tricks up my sleeve. That day I brought a whole bag of Legos and as you can see he was creating at the table! Loved that smile!
Quote of the day: The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances. ~ Andrew Bernstein
I truly wonder.... does the average person face the same amount of stress I endure each day? I certainly think we are surrounded by stress in our lives, but there is something about the frenetic and daily stream of problems and crises that come before me in any day that truly frazzle me. I live in a constant state of being hyperalert. Today was more of the same! It started with an email from the mortgage assumption company! Guess what? ASKING the same bloody questions! If you have been following along then you know I have received constant emails from the company with the same message, asking for the same materials!
I literally left my dad at the breakfast table and jumped onto my computer to respond to today's email. Once again, I sent the same documents! But today I did not just send them in the portal, I also copied my assumptions agent. If you recall his name is Jesus. Jesus is getting to know me quite well, as he now knows he is dealing with a woman who has faced a lot and is living with constant stress and anxiety. The mortgage company wanted a copy of my divorce and marital settlement agreement and these documents paint a small snapshot into the heartache I have been facing. In any case, somehow after he saw these documents today, he took a pro-active approach and called me. He wanted me to know that he personally received the documents and he is now putting them into the hands of the processors. Which means that hopefully I will not receive another request asking me for the same information. The reason I freaked out today is that today's notice said that either I supply the documentation or my assumption application gets closed. That was issue number one today. But it did not end there!
After dropping my dad off at his memory care center, I went to the Post Office to talk with one of the employees about the certified letter I sent to the IRS. I paid for tracking, but according to the tracking, the letter still hasn't been received and it was mailed on April 29th. Which is clearly ridiculous. I was hoping the postal employee could help me. She was lovely and she even got her supervisor involved. However, given that the letter was going to the IRS, they explained that this tracking issue is a common problem. The notice that we all get when trying to track this letter is.......
Even with the assistance of technology, combined with our employee's best efforts, items will be delivered but unfortunately may not receive a delivered scan. We know this is disappointing, and we ask that you please accept our apology for any inconvenience. If you tax documents did not received a delivered scan, we recommend the following steps.
The steps basically take me right back to having to call the IRS. Any case, I decided today to contact my parent's accountant and we have a strategy for dealing with this, but I also decided to write another more comprehensive letter to the IRS and I included a ton of documentation, including a copy of the voided erroneous check they sent me, a copy of all correspondence, and a copy of the certified receipt from the post office. The post office ladies all chimed in today and said to me that this receipt proves that you brought the document to the post office and that it went into the mail! Any case, I have to determine how to best mail this second packet to the IRS in a way that will generate for me a confirmed response.
So that was issue number two. Issue number three was dealing with Wi-Fi issues inside the house and it is affecting certain devices. I am truly waiting for a day when there are NO problems, NO demands, and NO big decisions that have to be made, because honestly if this is what the rest of my life is going to look like, it isn't sustainable.
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