A Thankful Cleansing

Today has been a day of cleansing

As I watch the big rainstorm happening right now…

Today was beautiful, sunny and warm, until around 3:30…then a cloud cover came and by 4 pm it had unleashed a thunderstorm of major proportions.  Thunder and lightning!

As this was happening, I was calling and emailing back and forth between a title/escrow company about my mother’s house. (As my mom's power of attorney, it is up to me to handle all my mother's financial affairs.)  

A month ago, after only 2 days on the market, we had a full price offer on my mother’s house.   (As I told my Hub a few months ago…”If I never have to set foot in this house again, I will be happy.”  I never lived there, and it has truly been a source of problems and misery for me for the last 10 years, after my dad died in 2006.  Having to drive 2 hours each way to see my mom, to take her to the doctor for a "personal" issue that we couldn't get resolved because she could not remember how to use a medication; to grocery shop for her because she stopped eating anything but junk food; to help her with house/dog/bank issues etc etc, because she could not remember how to do anything herself.)

Anyway, it took some time to get a few wrinkles ironed out…Bank of America is a bunch of assholes (seriously…yes, THEY ARE), and so is my only brother (I told my husband today If I never speak to my brother again in my life, it will be fine with me)…but FINALLY TODAY all the paperwork was complete, the buyer’s money is waiting to be deposited into my mother’s savings account once I sign some papers tomorrow…(the money will now be readily available to pay for her ongoing care at her memory care facility).

So tonight I am celebrating this cleansing with a beautiful rainstorm.   

After tomorrow, I will never have to drive 2 hours to my mom’s house again, and my life will be so much simpler.

I am so relieved and thankful…

Thankful for my husband who took control of all the house repairs that needed to occur before the house could be sold; and for talking me off the ledge when my brother started to be a jerk about signing some papers…and for finally today getting my brother to sign the necessary papers by threatening him with “something.”  (Don’t ask, don’t tell…)

Thankful for the amazing title company people who worked TIRELESSLY to help me with Bank of America (BTW, based on their treatment of me…on Monday, Bank of America will no longer have my mother’s accounts, now containing a LARGE amount of money from the sale of the house).

And, finally, on a totally unrelated but coincidental note…

Thankful for finding a chiropractor who is finally helping me with a chronic issue with my arm, that has been impacting my weightlifting, sleeping, and just general enjoyment of life for the last 6 months.  After my second treatment today, I am feeling better, stronger, less pain…I’m thrilled.

Today, May 4, 2017, is a great day.  

A CLEANSING DAY.