Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill Today marks one year since my surgery. Today I weighed in at 203, which is 62 pounds lost in 2020. The practical part of me wants to always caveat my success with a “considering.” …Considering that a lot of people gained in 2020. …Considering that I haven’t been to the gym since March. …Considering that I work from home. Truth be told, 62 pounds is an amazing feat, no ifs,

Wake up to an email from a disgruntled applicant, upset because it took so long to respond to his application and the cat he wanted wasn’t available. I don’t have the emotional energy to reply. Drink a few cups of coffee and snuggle with my animals before I take a quick shower. Login to my real job, check work emails, then simultaneously: respond to a few emails, place a few calls, do a preliminary review of new applications that have come in, figure out where I am with appli