March 23, 2010
When I moved here, I did not know that there were so many Arizona sports league teams to join. I got an invite in the mail from one of them and then got online to explore what other teams they had to offer. I was interested in the Scottsdale kickball league and saw that I could just make the deadline of registration if I signed up right away.
Within a few days, a guy called me that told me he was the coach of the Scottsdale kickball league team that I would be playing on and when our first practice was. He told me that the first practice would be at a local bar, and immediately I knew that I had made the right choice.
Ever since then, I have been on some kind of Arizona sports league team and they all seem to have their first practices at a bar. I think that they are all genius. I have met so many people this way, that I probably would have never met any other way. They are all into the same things that I am and just like to hang out and have fun. I highly recommend joining a sports team in your area, if you are not lucky enough to be in the Phoenix area.
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March 16, 2010
The whole reason for requesting no medical life insurance quotes from our insurance company was to compare them to the free quick ones that we got from a company online. My husband and I had been talking about getting life insurance for years and had never done it. I think the hassle of calling the insurance agent that we are used to dealing with, waiting for him to put something together and then finally getting back with us just seemed like more of a hassle than anything.
There have been a couple of times when I have to actually run in to his office and pay our auto insurance premium and I have noticed literature on term life insurance around the office but I have never seen any type of literature for the no medical life insurance like we are getting. Maybe he does not offer it, but my husband thinks that every agent offers every type of life insurance that there is.
No matter if he offers it or not, the price and the ease of setting everything up, has made up our minds and we are not going with a term life insurance policy from our normal agent, we are definitely choosing to write up something from the online company that offers the insurance with no medical exam required.
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March 1, 2010
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Jewelry — Megan @ 3:07 pm
I called my sister to ask her why it is that I saw her favorite ring at our local jewelry store for sale. She told me that she really needed the money and that is the most valuable thing that she owned so she knew that she could get a lot from it. I told her that if she was selling gold jewelry to a store then things must be bad. She said that her husband lost his job and their savings was running out quickly.
I told her that she needed to look in her jewelry box and get out all the old pieces and how selling old gold for scrap can make you a lot of money these days too. She told me that she had already been selling old gold for scrap before her husband lost his job, just for extra cash. There was pretty much nothing left at this point which is why she sold the ring.
I really wish that I had known that my sister was selling gold for a while now, just to get by. I would have helped her out in any way that I could have. I know that she is too proud to take a handout and apparently it is too late for a loan of any kind, so I will just have to be here for moral support but I am going to go and buy back her favorite ring and keep it in a safe place to give back to her in the future when things are looking up.
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