Vacation October 2026
It's been a weird year....and I think I've said that about the last two years. Anyway, I'm finally on a real vacation now and I'm feeling unburdened. Work creeps into my mind a bit at times but I quickly shut it off. I can't worry about my job or career right now or anymore. I can't worry about all the things that I'm not in control of or the things that I am in control of that I miss or mess up. I am human, and I am very hard on myself. Harder than my franchisees would be on me if they held me more accountable - which is why I think they don't when they could because they know me enough that they know I've already beat myself up enough. But I can't worry about that either. I had a mental break, and I'm healing from it. This week I have an opportunity to be somewhere that meant a lot to me and has people here that would support me to my dying day. I also love this place. I had been drawn to it first because I wanted to go to college here. As...