What's the meaning of 'squared away' here?

We had a death in the family this weekend, so I haven't had the time to spend on this... We've the funeral next weekend, so hopefully we can get squared away before Friday...

Looking it up at tfd.com, I am confused about the meaning. Two meanings seem to match:

• To bring (oneself) into a better position or relation (He tried to square himself with his parents.)

• To put away or in order

But since the person has directly written 'squared away', so I think the second one matches better.

Solution 1:

You can get "squared away", and it means getting yourself in order. In this case, it probably means getting your life back in order after the emotional and logistical upheaval of a funeral. The meaning here has nothing to do with the "square oneself with" usage of the word.

A quick ngrams search turns up, for example:

The bill had not passed and we did not know what was going to happen and we did not get squared away until July 11,

And I was alone at the time, trying to get squared away.

Solution 2:

You should be looking up the phrasal verb - to square away, instead of just to square. Quite often a phrasal verb's meaning differs wildly from the verb that forms part of it.

To square away simply means to finish or to complete. I am not aware of another idiomatic meaning associated with it.