Until I had my accident two years ago I had no idea how many different types of lawyers there really are. I just figured that a lawyer is a lawyer is a lawyer! I didn’t know the difference between a Medical Malpractice or a Wrongful Death attorney.
So I was unhappy when I found myself in the position of being in a new location (having just moved to this state) and trying to find a Personal Injury attorney to help me with my case. I didn’t even have enough friends to ask for a recommendation as to which attorney would be a “good one.”
Just my luck the attorney I hired was supposed to be a “good one” but only a couple of months after hiring him I lost him because he was given a position on the bench and got dumped onto one of his partners. Not very happy about that move I can tell you that! I don’t think he is aggressive enough and my wife and I are considering changing to a different one.
I wonder how many of you out there have a friend or relative that practices passive aggression? I don’t know about you, but I wish these people would just grow up and stand up and talk out their issues instead of making life more complicated for those people around them. My poor wife has so many people in her family that are passive aggressive and it drives her absolutely crazy! I think that people who practice passive aggression are sneaky cowards. I don’t envy my wife having to deal with so many of them!
Many of my friends from New England still keep in touch on a regular basis. That sure helps me to get through the many long and lonely days of recovery from my accident! Jarod called me to wish me a Merry Christmas last night. He was telling me that Santa had been really good to him this year. He said that he found a Burton snowboard under the Christmas tree at his parent’s house when he went over there for dinner. Jarod says he’s not quite sure how to send Santa a notice of new address from when he moved out to his own place last year! In addition he got a new Burton beanie and a new Burton jacket to wear while he is out on the slopes trying out his new board.
I never learned to snowboard; I always enjoyed alpine skiing and snowmobiling. Snowboarding always seemed like a lot of fun that I’d like to try someday, but now with all of these back injuries I have I’ll probably never get the chance to try it. My wife says we’re too old for that anyway and it’s time we started acting more our age. To be honest I think she’s just worried that some of the other boarders might run into us and that could really hurt! Well, too old, or too injured, either way it looks like I’ll just have to be satisfied watching that sport from a distance!
My wife and I were hoping to go to the 7pm candlelight Christmas Eve church service tonight at the church down the road a bit. Although it had rained today, the weather was rather warm and we didn’t think that the roads were going to freeze during the service, so we got gussied up and headed out. When we got to church, about 6:45 we were disappointed to see that the parking lot was empty, and the church was dark. The parking lot was still full of snow from last weekend’s storm! I don’t know why the lot had not been plowed.
Needless to say, we were disappointed that there was no service. This area sure does shut down a lot more than the New England state we used to live in!
My wife has been encouraging me to consider investing in gold when we get our insurance settlement money. She seems to think that putting some of our money in gold would be a good hedge against the stock market dropping again. I have to admit that I have always considered gold as a suspect when it came to investing money. I know that the price of gold can fluctuate too.
But my wife keeps telling me that investing in gold as a way to diversify our portfolio is a sound decision. She keeps telling me that it is never wise to put all of your eggs in the same basket, and that we need to spread our money out so that if one investment does poorly then the other might take up the slack and do well. I have to admit that there is a lot of logic in that reasoning. Diversification is a good way to protect ourselves financially.
