gonzai | Ch-ch-changes

Mom confessed Sunday that she has no idea if she's paid the electric bill or not. Mike set up that bill and a few others for automatic payment two years ago, but she claims no knowledge of that (I've told her a hundred times and she has the bank statements to show it) and never enters any of these payments in her checkbook. Yesterday I discovered she hasn't paid the cable bill and was late on two others. I forced a sitdown last night and I will be taking power-of-attorney basically as soon as she can come to the office (so Molly can notarize and another co-worker can witness.) I will officially become co-owner of her bank account Monday, and the hope is that her bank rep can help me balance the checkbook then so that I can at least start with the right numbers. And set up online so I can check it daily, as I do with my own account. Oh yeah, I have to have a chat with the YMCA, too, as I joined a few weeks ago at a facility that doesn't open until June. They said I wouldn't be billed until June. You guessed it - they billed me for February, for using a non-existent facility. Grrrr...