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Renewal

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” - Anne Lamott Work has been extremely busy for me the last few months. The first few months of an accountant's year are often the busiest under the best of circumstances - year-end close, annual financial statement reporting, audits, tax filings, etc..  Add on top of that my employer getting acquired in January - going from being part of a 250 person organization to a 10,000+ person Fortune 500 company - it's been an exhausting whirlwind of non-stop meetings, questions, confusion, and chaos trying to keep my head above water. Working from home, while great in many respects, has even further complicated things by blurring the lines between work and home. When an e-mail comes in after or before "normal" working hours, it's so easy to just quietly  slip away downstairs to the home office to resolve the issue. After all, with all the meetings scheduled for the next day, I won't ...