Mission Accomplished

Within a week, I will be signing off on the release for the final leg of my quest to get money off my dad's death. The final offer was sent down earlier this week, and it's fair and just and enough that I will be able to pay off the car, my debts and leave some left to go on a righteous vacation. I won't be getting as much as expected. I didn't take into account that my father's lawyers who are overseeing his estate will be taking their cut first out of the $250,000 pie. All in all, I will be getting $50,000 which, after taking out the fee for my lawyers will be more like $33,000. Now, I'm sure you wondering how this number came up. Well, it was fair and evenly distributes the money to all FOUR of us. Yes, at the eleventh hour, my brother seemingly decided that, yes indeed he wanted to benefit off my father's death and take a cut of the action. This has sent me into no end of fits where I'm cursing his name for all eternity.

I'm not so pissed off that he's wanting it because he is entitled to it. But, he didn't tell me or my sister anything about him being involved again until we heard about it from our lawyers. So, yeah, much pissiness going on in the house. Mom's gonna call him and get him to help me and my sister pay our legal fees, but I'm not holding my breath.

Anyway, I guess the best part of all this is that I could theoretically be getting this money before I leave for Virginia which will be awesome. And I'll be able to spend a good year and a half not worrying about how much money I'm making at work and all that other good stuff.

As for a vacation, I'm not sure where I'm going yet (still). I keep making my mind up and then changing it all over again. I guess once I get the bug up my ass to head off in any given direction, that's where I'll end up. Until then, I'll just keep my options open.