Winging it!

Lately I've been really missing my Dad. Everyday it was nagging at me like a minor headache. Maybe it was because I was away for Father's Day and didn't get to see him. I finally told my husband last week, "we need to go see my Dad." His response, "we'll be spending a week with him in a couple weeks on our family vacation." My response, "that's too far away." Since there is very little that my husband won't do for me, we drove down to visit. They only live about 3 hours south of us, so it's not too far. We spent quality time with my Dad, Stepmom, Brothers, sister in law, nephews, and my sons who also came down. It was a totally fantastic weekend! Much needed time with everyone and completely stress free! Now in less than 2 week's we'll all be together again for our family vacation, needless to say we are all super excited for that. I think sometimes you just have to listen to that inner voice that tells you when you...

I had a customer a few years back who was driving down I95. It wasn't rush hour, thankfully. His exit was coming up so he started to merge to the right lanes. He kept looking in his mirrors, turning his head and checking as he got over. However, there was a car in his blind spot that he didn't see and he slammed right into it. He hit the car hard, going at a pretty fast speed and spun the car into a guard rail. Fortunately no one was hurt. Unfortunately, the car he hit was totaled. And more unfortunately, the car was a Jaguar. In his case, he had property damage limits of $100,000, and the insurance company wrote a check out for $92,000 to the other driver. The state minimum limits of liability in Virginia are $20,000. Do you know how many people are driving around with $20,000 of coverage for property damage? If you live in the DC Metro area, you know that most of the cars on the road around you are worth more than $20,000. This is the case in most areas these days. So ...

Sunday, July 10th, 2016 I thought a good topic to post today would be "Getting back into the swing of things after vacation(s). It felt like I was pretty much on vacation for most of the month of June. I went to Paris with my daughter for 10 days, and then after being back to work for 4 days, I went to the Bahama's with my husband for a week to celebrate our anniversary. I've been back to work a full week now and finally feel all caught up as far as office work goes. I didn't work at all while in Paris, but I took my computer on my second trip so that I could issue policies and work on quotes when time permitted. I have found that the time away was good for me because it gave me time to think about the processes I use and the way things should work. Things that I think about all the time, but don't really have the time to dwell on and follow through. One example, I really thought about how I find myself doing too many things at once and how I want/need to cha...