Thursday, September 20, 2012

For some reason, this blog site will not let me create a title for this post.  I want to call it "The best laid plans..."  Oh well, I shall post this anyway.

I had every intention of getting us out of the US and down to Ecuador before the end of the year.  There is no way that is going to happen now.

You see, I had a 401K and a pension from my job that I retired from.  I have rolled the 401K $ into an IRA, where it now sits.  I opted for the cash payout of my pension, minus the taxes and sat back to wait for the check to come in.  And waited, and waited.  We wanted to use this money to make some minor repairs to the house prior to listing it, and to also finance our move to Ecuador.

After waiting about a month after I submitted the paperwork, I finally broke down and called corporate headquarters.  Turns out that when you opt for the cash payout, it takes time for them to process that request... to the tune of 90 days!  I will not be receiving those funds until the beginning of November and they could not be more specific than that!

So here we sit, waiting, unable to do much of anything as I don't want to spend what little savings we have, not knowing exactly when I will get the pension money.

The other issue is that I had thought we had found a home for the dog and it doesn't appear that it is going to happen after all.  I was told that they would take the dog this month, after a trip back east was taken.  Trip over and done with a couple of weeks ago and I have heard nothing further from them.  We have got to decide what to do with the dog and cats prior to listing the house for sale.  It will be impossible to sell the house with an out of control dog running rampant throughout the house and jumping all over people.

So, facing obstacle after obstacle and wondering if we will be able to resolve anything and get the hell out of Dodge.

And I still have all those photos to scan!

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