The Latest: Easter and Anniversary

This week was Christi and my first week doing live quotes with all the coverages we quote. I had 16 that came through the Denver office that I was able to do. Our goal is to get quotes out within 24 hours - the latest 48 hours. But with our quotes needing to be checked before we can send them, we need to watch which quotes we take - basically when they came in - and with checking and everything, will they make our 48 hour timeframe. If it doesn't look like we will make 48 hours - we don't take that quote, someone else on the team works it. One of my quotes had a 186 page benefit booklet I had to go through for Life, Dependent Life, Voluntary Life, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Vision and Dental (yep, that's all our coverages) to find out what I needed to quote to match their current coverage as close as possible. Our trainer said that quote almost did her in checking it - I said, "almost did you in?! you're the trainer - imagine what it did to me." :)

We were going to have a departmental Easter egg hunt Thursday but our manager had to postpone it until this coming week because we got slammed with so many quotes. I told everyone to watch out because the eggs were fair game and this old lady was taking no prisoneers - if you were in my way I'd lay ya down flat - just kidding - kind of. Some of the plastic eggs will have candy in them, some with a piece of paper saying you get an hour of PTO (vacation), some saying you can wear jeans one day, etc., so look out.

Friday would have been our 28th anniversary and it was an interesting drive to work. I had an '83 or '83 Mercy Lynx when I met Mike and guess what I saw driving on the freeway.....an Escort - ok it wasn't a Lynx but it was the same year and look as the Lynx. When is the last time you've seen an Escort or Lynx - that old - on the road? Me - forever. It was like my past was next to me as I was driving my present. I passed the Lynx (of course, speedy me) and realized I was ahead (or in the future) with the Lynx (my past behind) and then the Lynx passed me and led me off the exit ramp. As I turned into the parking garage the Lynx went on south on 7th Avenue, kind of like Mike going on with his journey. Anyway it was symbolic to me.

Wasn't sure what I wanted to do Friday night so I rented two DVD's. Contagion and Reel/Real Steel. Contagion was good, slow - but good. And like I posted on Facebook actually scary to realize how quickly an epidemic like that could spread and wipe out so many people. Reel/Real Steel was awesome. A great family movie.

Saturday got up to help decorate the school for Easter breakfast and service - see the pix below - and of course a picture of Butler too.

Breakfast had a great turnout! The service was awesome. A boy from our small group played a few songs before service on the electric keyboard and did a great job. Then my small group leader, his wife and two of his brothers sang a song during service that was out of this world. I always give Rob (my small group leader) a hard time about any and everything (and he usually gives it back) so I told him I was sitting up front to get a good view of him singing. He told me he wasn't going to look at me during the song. I ended up moving over to the side of the gym to sit with a friend.

We had around 20 Easter lilies that people purchased in memory of loved ones. I had one for Mike and another for Mom. It kind of got to me during the last song that Mike wasn't there and I wished he was - but that wasn't God's plan. I have to remind myself that Mike got to celebrate his second Easter in Heaven - can't even begin to imagine what that was like.