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The bedroom is a mess but my files, folders, paperwork? - alphabetical, by year, color-coded - you get the picture. I'm always tweaking to make it more intuitive. I have a couple of lists I give my husband with all of the accounts, contact phone numbers and addresses, logins and passwords, email accounts with logins and who to notify if I can't, for whatever reason. I update at least once a year. I've filed the paperwork for all accounts that can be POD or TOD (paid on death or transfer on death) so they will go direct to my beneficiary(ies) bypassing our wills. I still need to make a bequest list for personal items, though I have an idea of what to give our two children. But I've got 8 brothers and sisters, so this could take some time.

My husband and I have power of attorney for each other but need to update living wills to reflect newer technology. Basic funeral plans - organ donation if possible, cremation, no services. I want a big party on the birthday following my death, complete with song playlist. We've talked, gotten most of the details down.

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Auburn Annie,

I think there could be a potential 'business model' in providing those services to others.

I'm still trying to balance my check book.

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I feel like such a slacker for not having these important details all better organized!

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I am not the least bit organized. Living proof you can be in the library biz and still be a scatterbrain.

You do need a couple of things to pull such a thing off. The first is a tech services department to do whatever cataloging and such that needs to be done. (most stuff comes already cataloged.) Of course when you are having trouble finding something you can blame it on how these catalogers think.... That happens much less often now that everything is automated and you can play with key words and such.

The other thing you need is to be too smart for your own good. I always keep things in my head. This was great for thirty years or so before my head became a less reliable depository for facts. Used to be able to memorize credit card numbers. Now I feel fortunate to remember my zip code! Not that I'm old (yeah, sure) but I did have those ministrokes in 2002. i can blame those....

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Thanks Misty Moppins, I'm just reminding everyone (not lecturing) that our Founding Fathers really appreciated the ownership of firearms, in case a rogue government became a tyranny. I think we USA citizens are getting very close to Revolt, we are over-taxed and over-regulated for so long, we almost wish for King George 3 to come back, so we could be less-taxed and free-er.Auburn Annie, let us agree to disagree.

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Heh - my grown children plus siblings keep me plenty busy. Today I re-uploaded a resume for a job for my unemployed youngest sister who has no computer. It had been done once before but "vanished" in the ether of the state labor department's site, so I sent it direct to the temp firm handling the job she's applying for. What with fact-checking her pay from 1990s jobs and other stuff that took an hour, including a follow-up call to the temp agency to let them know they might have a problem with their openings getting directed elsewhere via an incorrect website on the job description.

There actually are folks who either organize your life or just your finances or your medical bills or your clothes closet etc. It's just that I've been doing that for so long that it's not fun any more. I love a challenge - did my own taxes for years - but you reach a point when it becomes work (as in Maynard G. Krebs exclaiming in alarm "WORK!") I'm ready to shift gears downward. It would have to be a REALLY exciting job to get me interested.

When you go from setting your own work schedule, pausing to change from one task to another as you want, to being on someone else's schedule and track, it chafes and irritates. I wore a name badge for 22 years and didn't mind it, but I also filled out my own timecard each week, coded my own time off etc. I came in early more often than not, sometimes stayed late, took breaks when I felt like it - and truth be told they owed me about 6 weeks pay for breaks never taken - and went to lunch at a time of my choosing, depending on how busy I was.

When I returned briefly to my former employer as a non-manager in a different department, I had an ID slung around my neck which I used to clock in and out, with a five minute window (can't come in early or, of course, too late.) When they decided in the last 15 minutes of the 60 day limit not to keep me on, there was nothing quite so satisfying as that last swipe at the timeclock before dropping off the ID at the manager's desk. My blood pressure returned to normal within a week.

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hmmmm, think you're describing organized kaos here!

lol oh I know how cataloguers think :p! My supervisor and I had such fine memories...we knew where everything was without having to look it up on the pc ;p. But these days, I'd probably find that my rote memory is no longer anything to brag about. 10 years ago, waitressing -I could take up a table of up to 6 orders (drinks, appetizers and entrees) without having to write it down.

I've never memorized cc #'s though!! But I think you're being too hard on yourself because technology has made that a less-needed thing to do anyway. You have enough on your plate with what you've been through. My memory (and many other things) has definetly improved with resolving the low glucose and adrenal stuff so I feel very fortunate!

Hope you're doing well!!! I'm on what I hope is my last hurdle for getting well again -next week I'm back to the allergist for food allergy testing. Today, I stopped by the health food grocer and the store owner spent a lot of time helping me find some different things I can eat. I had started skipping breakfast again because I'm so sick of eggs (and no toast!! :(). So now I have organic tapioca for a breakfast choice :).

But now, it's dinnertime! A baked sweet potatoe w/Greek yogurt :rolleyes:

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Misty, thanks for the update on the case. I hope so badly that you can ID the woman and that she's prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Well Misty yours is a life full of surprises, but not funny @ times. I can certainly understand you really getting FED UP with being jumped in parking lots and stores etc... boy anyone would be.

Breaking that sound barrier & ripping up those roads in between the corn fields. lol !

It's a strange world we live in with every kind of bad people.

Do take care !

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You're braver than I would be, MM. You're probably more aware of such things since the incident in January, so you can anticipate and react in the situation. I can't believe these things happened in stores in public though! How scary!

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Jeez Louise, MM, sounds like you've got some sort of neon sign over your head that reads "TARGET." Alas, formerly nice places to live no longer are. We ain't in Mayberry any more. I'm not sure that there actually is more bad stuff happening these days, it's just more casual and out in the open rather than furtive and limited to the "wrong" side of the tracks.

The quality of life in even the better neighborhoods seems to be in genteel decline as people care less about themselves, their neighbors (if they even know them) and what anybody else thinks. On the other hand when I walked home from work at night back in the 1970s I always had a 6" pair of scissors in hand (or keys between the knuckles), even though I was within 10 minutes of home. Guess that comes from being a policeman's daughter. I never have had a run-in personally but I am always aware of where I am, who is around me, and walk at a good clip like I mean business and know where I'm going. I listen to my gut.

When Rachel was a baby and couldn't sleep at night I'd load her into her stroller and take her for a walk at 4 in the morning. Never saw anyone but a few trucks going by on the main drag. The last few times I've been out after, say, 11 I bring our dog Samson, who weighs almost 100 pounds and looks like a white wolf (he's a shepherd/Samoyed mix.) We've got a 24-hour gas station and convenience store about two blocks from our house now which adds to the mix of odd folks at odd hours, plus a couple of bars in the same area. At least now that we have central air conditioning I don't have to choose between sweltering with closed windows or listening to drunks fighting at 2 a.m. in the summer.

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Amen.

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how about peeing into a water pistol ( easier said than done for women, i suppose)...it would be satisfying to spray it in their faces:clap:

all the best, mm...a disheartening post and state of affairs for sure...i can't imagine carrying a knife or gun in public...i carry a blade like that when i go walking up the lane or about the fields with junior but that's in case of wild (and/or senile and rabid) dogs swarm...using it is plan B... plan A is to serenade them with random GL lyrics and melodies in the hopes of chilling them out

all the best, misty....oh baby, baby, it's a wild world....maybe trade in the blade for some new sneakers or a portable Lightfoot blaster:)