Trying SSA again this year

On my to-do list today is to finally call the Social Security office again. It's been since last May that I last checked on my mom's final SS payment. Ridiculous. But, it's $2182, so nothing to sneeze at, and she's owed it. Wish me luck........

I made some banana bread on Sunday, so that's been a nice snack to have. 

DD and SIL, and 2 other couples they are friends with, are renting a mountain cabin this coming weekend. Sounds fun. One couple are the ones they went to Scotland with (dd has been friends with her since high school). The other is a long time friend, who divorced a couple years ago, and now had a new boyfriend. They introduced the couples to each other awhile back and now all 3 couples are really hitting it off. SIL and the other 2 guys are all car nuts, so they have lots in common. DD and the other gals are similar in personalities. They have the cabin from 4pm Friday to noon on Sunday. DD and SIL are taking Friday off work (the other 2 couples are not) so they will head up there earlier in Friday. Maybe do a snowshoe hike on their own, before they check into the cabin. She said each couple picked 2 meals to cook, so dd and sil are doing Friday dinner, since the other 2 couples will have worked all day and then driven the couple of hours to the cabin. She said she's making chili and cornbread. They are also bringing their dogs. I guess they are all also thinking about doing a trip to Germany, together in the future. She said the guys have car things they want to do/see there....she said "us girls will look at castles and eat pretzels" LOL.

We got a few inches of snow last night. DH is out shoveling and plowing right now. Figured he better get what we have cleared off, as they are predicting more later this afternoon/evening. Amos was a good helper this morning getting started with the clearing LOL

He's a goofy cat.

Well, I called SS and am on eternal hold. When I called the times last year they offered a call back service so you don't have to wait on hold but that's not being offered now. So, I guess a 120 minute wait it is. Again, ridiculous. I'm 20 minutes in so far. So annoying. Then just now, at about 25 minutes, the recording offered to call me back when I'm next in line. I hope it worked because it didn't ask me to input my callback number. I guess if I don't hear back in the next 90 min or so, I'll know.