677th Friday Blog Roundup

I don’t do yoga on snow days.  I sleep in instead as a treat and get up when I would normally be finishing yoga.  Then I attempt to go through the rest of my day.  This is how that looks:

Morning: I’m going to make bread and soup for dinner.  I’m going to write three documents and complete dozens of small tasks.  I’m even going to get downtime in the afternoon!  I’m going to finish it off by finally scheduling some appointments.

Noon: My brain feels like mud.  I am not getting enough done.  I’m going to make the bread, but I’ll buy the soup.  I’ll be fine if I get one document done and complete the tasks.  And I can at least schedule the appointments.

Afternoon: I didn’t make the dough for the bread.  Fine.  I’ll buy the bread.  I’ll buy the soup.  At least I got two documents done and the tasks complete.  I haven’t made a single appointment, and I’m definitely not getting downtime right now.

Dinner: (Eating store-bought bread and soup) What happened?

Evening: I’m going to do better tomorrow.  I’m going to bed early, and I’m going to wake up and do yoga.  And then I’m going to power through things without taking a breath.

Night: We are totally on track to have lights out by 11 pm at the latest.

Midnight: Why are we still awake?

Rinse, wash, repeat because the snow keeps coming.  It’s like my brain becomes sludge any time my schedule is thrown off course.

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Stop procrastinating.  Go make your backups.  Don’t have regrets.

Seriously.  Stop what you’re doing for a moment.  It will take you fifteen minutes, tops.  But you will have peace of mind for days and days.  It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week.  In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “The Transformational Act of Really Seeing People” (John Pavlovitz)
• “Non-Moms” (Silent Sorority)
• “#Microblog Mondays: Somehow Not Sad” (My Path to Mommyhood)
• “Lucky People” (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, Cristy!
• “Be Careful What You Wish For” (NotMyLinesYet)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Anabegins has a post that resonated with me, especially when you look above and see my own experience with spring winding.  (Or, I guess the times that my spring becomes kinked?). There is a part that stands out: “I also remind myself of all the things I shouldn’t be doing: no wine, no snacks, no phone in the evenings… It takes many turns of the spring to make sure I’ll keep moving all day.”  So there’s the to-do list, but there’s also the don’t list.  And what happens when they’re both equal in length and everything is looming over you?  Gives me food for thought.

NotMyLinesYet has a post about those cycles where bench warming has a silver lining.  I like this post because it’s aspirational.  Maybe sometimes an imposed break can be a good thing, and it takes an open mind to see that.

Lastly, Kmina’s mother died, and she writes about it in a brief post.  She is having a very hard time as she is still processing her father’s death.  Please circle the wagons and give her support.

The roundup to the Roundup: My brain becomes sludge the moment my schedule is thrown off-course.  Your weekly backup nudge.  And lots of great posts to read.  So what did you find this week?  Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between January 12th and 19th) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week?  Read the original open thread post here.