The Load Out
Feb. 28th, 2022 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotloursThat song title from Jackson Browne suddenly popped into my head as I started this post. Now I need to listen to it.
I'm back in ABQ after, what will hopefully be, the last drive to Chicago for quite some time. My sister and I spent 5 days making 5 trips to Goodwill to donate the stuff that still had some use. Probably almost the same amount went into garbage cans. The remaining items fit snugly into a mini-van to be brought back west. We also left all of the furniture and other selected items in the house to be disposed of by our uncle and his family. Hopefully my dealings with the house are now over. I just need to make sure the title is in his name. It sure as heck isn't in mine. We also closed out most of Mom's accounts which added a significant bump to my net worth. There's just one CD floating out there where she forgot to specify a beneficiary.
I wept a little as I sat in my old bedroom on Friday night realizing it will probably be the last time I would sleep in that room and in that house. The final tie would be cut the next morning. There was also a sense of freedom on that Saturday as I drove away. That string that connected me was also holding me back. It was now one less thing I had to worry about. I closed the chapter of that part of my life. Last year was a hard one but a good one. Like I said here before, the story ended in probably the best way it could have. Time to start writing some more happier stories.
I'm back in ABQ after, what will hopefully be, the last drive to Chicago for quite some time. My sister and I spent 5 days making 5 trips to Goodwill to donate the stuff that still had some use. Probably almost the same amount went into garbage cans. The remaining items fit snugly into a mini-van to be brought back west. We also left all of the furniture and other selected items in the house to be disposed of by our uncle and his family. Hopefully my dealings with the house are now over. I just need to make sure the title is in his name. It sure as heck isn't in mine. We also closed out most of Mom's accounts which added a significant bump to my net worth. There's just one CD floating out there where she forgot to specify a beneficiary.
I wept a little as I sat in my old bedroom on Friday night realizing it will probably be the last time I would sleep in that room and in that house. The final tie would be cut the next morning. There was also a sense of freedom on that Saturday as I drove away. That string that connected me was also holding me back. It was now one less thing I had to worry about. I closed the chapter of that part of my life. Last year was a hard one but a good one. Like I said here before, the story ended in probably the best way it could have. Time to start writing some more happier stories.
