699th Friday Blog Roundup

I am one Roundup away from my 700th Roundup.  It’s falling quite close to the anniversary of the very first Roundup, which was on July 21st.  I didn’t know how to hyperlink text back then.  It also seems like I didn’t know how to get the permalink for the post because I only included the main URL for the blog.  Oh weren’t we all so adorable back then?

Next week, I will write the normal 700th Roundup, but the week after that, I would like to celebrate by asking YOU to dive deep into your memory and come up with a post (or posts) that stuck with you.  You can go back as far as July 21, 2006.  You can nominate your own OR you can choose someone else’s post.  I’m giving you two weeks fair warning so you have no excuse.  Be ready to celebrate on July 6th.

And yes, I have a blog post chosen.  It is one that I have returned to read many times, and I think about all the time.  It is the best framing I’ve ever read.  It has changed my life; I hope it changes yours for the better, too.

So show up with your post and get ready to party.  Because… come on… 12 years of pretty much every single Friday?  That deserves a celebration with my favourite people.

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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:

• None… sniff… (dude, you guys better do better on July 6th — see above)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Wild and Precious Life has a post about how the separated families makes raw her own loss.  How she has to squelch that — this is about their situation — but also how it drives her because she knows what it feels like to live a nightmare.  It’s a beautiful, aching post about a truly awful situation.

Empty Arms, Broken Heart has a post about changing names now that the adoption is finalized.  The kids call all adults by their first name prefaced with Mr. or Ms. (As in, Ms. Melissa.)  And now it’s time (maybe?) to transition the kids to calling her parents something akin to Grandma or Grandpa.  And it begs another question: “I guess the biggest issue, regarding what my kids should call my parents, is really the very large elephant in the room, which is what do my parents call my kids?”  This post made me think about the complicated nature of names.

Lastly, Inexplicably Missing has a post about being in a waiting space.  She explains, “I promise I’m not stagnating. I just happen to be still. Hanging out. Watching. Waiting. Somewhat planning my next move. Somewhat not.”  Thinking and breathing are both good things.  Love this little post.

The roundup to the Roundup: July 6th — Roundup celebration (be there or be square).  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 June 15th and 22nd) 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.