700th Friday Blog Roundup

700 Roundups.  Okay, really 600 Roundups because the Roundups got misnumbered along the way, but it’s still an impressive feat.  I’ve only missed around 10 Roundups in the last 12 years.  And if I highlight — on average — four posts per Roundup, that means I’ve highlighted about 2,400 posts.

Remember, next week, we’re marking this milestone with a little online party.  Bring a single post (your own or someone else’s post) to share with everyone else.  You’ll add them via the comment section so you also have space to explain why you chose that particular post.  So get choosing.

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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:

• “And Now We Are Four” (With Every Heartbeat)
• “No Fast Forward Button to Healing” (No Kidding in NZ)
• “Alloparents” (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, Jess!

Okay, now my choices this week.

One of the nicest things about the Internet is finding two unrelated people both sharing the same sweet moment.  (This happens all the time with birthdays on Facebook.)  Inconceivable has a post about her 13th anniversary.  I love it for this line: “As far as creative and collaborative endeavors go, I think it’s a success so far, that we still wake up and wouldn’t want to do this with anyone else.”  Sounds like a success to me.  And then Searching for Our Silver Lining has a post about her 14th anniversary.  I love it for this line: “Because before the one before the four there is almost a quarter of a lifetime’s worth of memories, crazy stories that bring about belly laughs and moments that still bring tears to my eyes.”  And for both, I love the behind-the-scenes glimpses into a life.  Congratulations!

Risakerlake answers anything about cycling again after a failed cycle.  She admits that she feels like she’s in the minority in moving on to the next cycle as quickly as possible.  She writes, “Sometimes I think I’m in the minority when it comes to this because the first thing I wanted to do after a failed cycle was get right on to the next one.”  As she says, there isn’t one way to do it — everyone needs to choose what fits their heart (and budget and body).  But it’s an interesting question — how one chooses what to do next.

Not a Wasted Word has a post about watching the Handmaid’s Tale, calling it misery porn.  I’m not watching this season — at least, not yet — though I went through a similar struggle in identifying with Serena Joy despite also despising Serena Joy in season one.  She’s infertile.  She’s a horrible human being.  It feels awful to identify with her.

Lastly, Lavender Luz opens up a discussion on the border situation with an analogy used to explain adoption, especially as adoption is offered up as a solution to the immigration crisis.  She writes, “As long as the prevailing adoption narrative leads people to believe adoption is Win/Win, we will keep acting as though parents ARE interchangeable. As we know from the switcheroo scenario above, that is not true.”  It’s a post that offers a lot of food for thought.

The roundup to the Roundup: 700 (okay, 600) Roundups! 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 22nd and 29th) 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.