709th Friday Blog Roundup

We’re saying goodbye to a car this weekend.  Luckily, it’s going to people I love, so there’s a chance to see it again.  (Can you tell that I’m not really good with goodbyes?)  I am glad they are taking it because this is the car that we got a few weeks after the twins were born.  It’s the car that I drove them around in when they were infants.  The one where they’d throw their binky into the hatchback and then howl as we drove down the highway.  It’s the one where they crushed Cheerios against every surface.  Where we listened to hours upon hours of Dan Zanes.

It’s not really the car that I’m missing.  It’s the memories of the kids being infants.  It’s missing the baby years.  I don’t really want to go backwards to listening to them howl in frustration while we’re going 60 on the highway (seriously, why did they always toss their binky into the open trunk?), but I miss the quiet moments.  Wedging myself between their two car seats so we could do a double bottle feed.  The conversations we’d have as we took wrong turns.  I miss that.

It’s never really about the thing itself, but instead, all the memories that come with it.

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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:

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Okay, now my choices this week.

Dreaming of Diapers breaks down the concept of being happy… enough.  About being happy, even when parts of your life are not going as planned.  Being happy when you’re living out the “ever after” and it doesn’t look how you thought it would look.  And comparing happiness to other points in your life; are you happier now than you were then?  It’s a thought-provoking post.

Searching for Our Silver Lining is going through stress, and it’s affecting her mood.  She’s blue, and it isn’t one thing.  It’s just a lot of things all coming together at the same time.  It’s life at its sloggiest.  This post is about knowing that it won’t always be like this, but it’s hard right now. and you need to honour the “right now.”

Lastly, Bent Not Broken has a post about an exchange with a neighbour that got under her skin.  She writes: “I don’t write about this for sympathy, rather I write it to show that grief is not linear. This happened after a long period of doing really well, being confident, and fully embracing the life I’ve been given. And yet words, simple, innocent words, cut right through me.”  And that is precisely why I think this is an important read.

The roundup to the Roundup: Goodbye car.  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 August 31st and September 7th) 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.