Looking for things….

I don’t know why, but I always seem to misplace things that I am going to need.  Drive me nuts and you would think by now I would know better… but I still misplace things.

Today I called the law firm in Elkton that was suggested as the place to handle the settlement for the sale of my Maryland property.  I wanted to see how long it might take to get the papers in order so that I know how long I will have to finish moving the things out of the place.  I decided to try to find the paperwork in one place that the attorney might ask for right off the bat.

I first looked in a lock box that I keep under my bed… and there were the deeds to the lots I was selling.  Easy Peasy!  So the only things I needed, besides copies of the tax bills which were in my tax records for this year, would be a copy of Rudy’s will and an original death certificate.  I thought they were tucked away in a small desk when they were not in the lock box, but they were not.  I looked in files under my bed, but all I found were the paperwork for my father and the tax files for my business for 2010.  No I am beginning to panic.  I went through drawers in the living room, looked in book cases and end tables.  I looked in my office and I looked under the desk.  I looked under my cedar chest and in my closet.  I looked on the shelves that go up my attic steps…. Nothing!!!!!  After all the trouble I had getting the right death certificates, I had misplaced them.

I decided that I would take a break from the panic that was growing in my brain and clean out the steps to the attic where I had stored some bins of quilting fabric and projects.  Low and behold, there was a leather bag that I had used to carry records to and from right after Rudy died.  The bag was hidden by the bins.  So I stacked the bins at the top of the basement stairs for their trip to their new home and reached for the bag. 

Yippee!!!  No longer misplaced!!!!  Now I just have to wait for a week to get the ball rolling.  It seems that the attorney who handles settlements for Indian Acres is on vacation this week!  But now, I am ready with the papers.