Checking In

Hi all:

Basketcase checking in here! Hope all is well. My best friend in coming down tomorrow morning and we're going to NC for a few days. Today is 5 months since Charlie passed away. As I said earlier, I've been more emotional since Christmas but I feel that is to be expected. And also, I told y'all about the life ins. awhile back. On Dec. 2 I got a call telling me the amount had been corrected and it was almost 3 times the original amount. On Dec. 21 when I hadn't heard anything from the ins. co. I called back they didn't know anything about it; so I got on the phone with KMart corporate people and they show this issue as being resolved so they made a conference call to the ins. co. and this time the rep told us yes, that claim had been approved and should be going out in the next few days. I waited until yesterday since I had not heard anything more from them and called back and it's the same old story they haven't gotten anything officially telling them to make the adjustment! So I got back with the Kmart people and she made a conference call to the HR dept. which is overseas and the lady kept saying the amount was only for about twice the original which is what Charlie thought it should be originally. However, the kmart person told the hr person overseas that the case and research was done on Kmart's end in conjunction with HR overseas dept and she had an e-mail id stating the amount was to be corrected to almost three times what it was originally. So now she is doing some further investigation and is supposed to get back with me by 3:00 Monday. She wants to know why they were told the 3 times original amount and at one point the goombah overseas said she would have to speak with the associate to discuss that with him! I thought great I'd like to talk him too, let me know if you get through! However the Kmart person reminded her that the associate had passed away! What a zoo! Anyway to say the least I'm really bummed out about this and now playing the waiting game. On the upside, my unemployment was renewed since I'd exhausted the first bit. So that's good. And I had the nicest surprise on Tues. afternoon. My cousin Russ, from KY (the one who lost his wife almost three years ago to cancer) that I'm so close with him and his brother was in town on business and asked me to come meet him for dinner. It was a great surprise and we got to catch up. He wasn't able to come for Charlie's funeral and felt so bad about it. He became a grandfather in Oct. and of course had beaucoup pictures. It was a needed outing to say the least. I will probably go up to Ky sometime in March and visit them. Anyway gotta run and get ready to leave in the morning. Love y'all and God Bless!

Jan (Basketcase)