Day 143: They are back!!

J's local best friend DG and his wife AA had to move to Denver for a year, and although they insisted they wanted to return to Eugene, they're young and who knows? But they did. They arrived this weekend, and this evening we had a socially distanced barbecue, with the three of us, both of them, and our mutual friend JC, sitting in three groupings in J's yard. It was so great! AA is super-fun, too, and we had so much to catch up on. We talked for three hours, until it got dark. Yay for friends!

Earlier today, I went back to the courthouse with the corrected version of the estate paperwork for my mom's estate, but they still didn't like it. This was the one where the website just had a pdf, not a fillable form pdf or a doc/x file, and I had to convert it to docx and then the stupid little checkbox squares fused together so I couldn't mark the correct ones, so I ended up deleting everything that didn't apply. It turns out they still needed everything that didn't apply to appear on the form. I had to sit there half an hour in the courthouse, which was too hot, waiting while they read it all carefully and agreed that I'd done everything correctly except for leaving the empty boxes that didn't apply. Apparently the norm is for people to fill in this entire 10-page legal form by hand? No way am I doing that. So I guess the next thing for me to do is to cut up the text I've typed and tape it into a paper copy of the form and photocopy that to make it clean... they seem to think that's fine too. But grrrrr.