Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Daily we come across dips in the road...

And how we handle them is what we would all like to consider as having class in referring to refinement or character, meaning integrity.
Perhaps to some they are different things and in reality they are but they do go hand in hand when we all know that our reactions to some of our most difficult dilemmas in life are all telling on how we adjust to life’s curve balls with grace and patience and what we end up doing about them does determine our true character.
Frustration can bring out the best or worst in a person and at times we may fly off the handle, as the expression goes with what that really means.
Today, late this afternoon, we received a phone call from our homeowner’s insurance company agent, Terri who is actually with State Farm, which underwrites our policies with Citizens homeowners; wind therefore hurricane and our FEMA Flood insurances. She called around four thirty to tell us that Citizens will be sending us a letter stating that they would be canceling us due to our roof.
Further explained was the fact that she in the interim found out online in the city documents the permit and company that had installed our new roof in October of 2004 approximately two and a half months after Hurricane Charley ripped it off of our home and let us know that all was well since she had already contacted Citizens and yes we were reinstated and no harm no foul was ever able to be begun, whew!
Now I was shaken by her initial statement of them trying to cancel us, due to now being in hurricane season once again and you all can well imagine how scary that was?
But to be frank as long as we don’t have any hurricanes awaiting to come ashore here homes can be sold with new written insurance policies without any problems.
If a storm is eminent then you must wait.

And yes it is true that in the gulf there is a storm heading due west of us here in southwest Florida towards Mexico and she was named last night at seven P.M., her name is Arlene; our first of the season. I do hope that she will not cause too much upheaval there, but notoriously most storms have proven to not to be good for anyone.

I had interesting thoughts when I heard that the first storm was named ‘Arlene’. You see, that was my niece’s name, the one who passed away from a long battle with colon cancer back on October the 13th of 2006 also a Friday like Hurricane Charley was but only he was on August the 13th of 2004. She was only five years younger than me, my half brother’s daughter he was nineteen years older than me. You might remember me saying how bright she was and that her degree from the University of North Carolina was in physics and she also went for her MBA later on in life, and worked for nearly twenty years for the GE in their aerospace division, she was a trouble shooter for them and would travel all over the world to do her job!
She had had many boyfriends throughout her life but never married until just a couple of years before she passed away…

I think being a science geek all of those years she would have found the naming of a hurricane after her rather interesting. If anyone wants to know what she looks like she is posted in my wedding pics on my Facebook page, she was one of my bridesmaids; her only at the tender age of fifteen.

I do know that I am a character with honesty being occasionally my flaw, which in some people’s books means that I have NO class in handling trying situations and I suppose they could be right, since I express my true feelings whether they want to hear them or not.

Is that considered bad?
So when Terri, our agent, began to tell me what had transpired my heart dropped!
And I told her that.
It might have been better to wait until she finished, but I heard that Citizens was dropping us and after we got our direct hit from Charley they were the only ones who would cover us and so I was rightfully concerned, true?
Any-who, she was great and understanding and we thanked her for taking care of it so promptly, now that is a wonderful agent one who intervenes before it gets out of hand.
The reason for the call was to let us know that we would be receiving the letter from Citizens saying that they wanted to drop us and to just file it and not to worry since all was well!
Whew!
With our recent medical issues causing quite a bit of concern and with all the talk about the government problems on today’s news I do think that very few of us are not waiting for the other shoe to drop in our lives these days, if it hasn’t dropped already! Many already have.
Still waiting on Hubby’s test results of the three more he had just this week and he has one more test (heart) next week and a follow-up doctor’s appointment next week too…
And so, I guess most of you can well understand why we are a wee bit stressed, huh?
Nerves are shot.

On that note of trying to think on the bright side whenever possible let me be the first to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all you overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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