710th Friday Blog Roundup
I’ve been glued all week to coverage for Hurricane Florence. We planned to be in Chincoteague this weekend, but on Tuesday, they closed the town for visitors and started evacuations. We moved our trip. Then on Wednesday, the storm turned and there was a lot of conflicting information flying around online whether the evacuation was still in place or not for the town. We’re keeping to the new plan.
At the current moment, DC is no longer in the path. We’ll just get rain. But my heart is in my throat thinking about the Carolinas. Be safe.
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Speaking of heart in my throat moments, I saw that I had a bunch of unread posts in my blog reader. So I clicked into the folder and realized they were all for MLO Knitting. She died about five years ago.
They were spam posts; someone had clearly purchased her blog’s lapsed URL and was posting spam. I sat with the thought for a long time, and then finally unsubscribed. I logically knew there would never be another post, but I didn’t want to sever that last tie. Is that silly? To keep someone who is gone in your blog feed reader? It made me sad to know that the blog isn’t there anymore.
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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:
- “Day 17 – Empowerment – Part 1” (Anne Heffron)
Okay, now my choices this week.
Don’t Count Your Eggs has a post about phantom pregnancies; those moments where we think we’re pregnant, even though our heart also knows that we’re not. This resonated with me because after we stopped treatments, I had a few times where I purchased pregnancy tests, sure that we had gotten lucky. But… no. I also mentally knew that it wasn’t likely. She describes it: “Some days the word embrace seems to fit. Others… I’m totally convinced I’m P, because perhaps there is something that just doesn’t feel finished to me.” Yes.
An Engineer Becomes a Mom’s blog title repeated a few times in my life these past few weeks as I’ve pointed out in various places that a totally valid option for confronting systems or ideas that aren’t working is “burn it all down.” She makes the most amazing life change, and it leads to her taking charge of her career. She writes, “For now, I’m done with the ladder. I need time and space to figure out where I want to take my career. I need to branch out to trying different things.” Love this post.
Lastly, Anabegins has a very honest post that resonated with me. It’s about eating and exercise and all the feelings you get when you notice that you can’t do what others can do. The paragraph that begins with this: “I was watching how the others were eating/drinking on this trip and they seemed to exert much more self-control” — that is me. We all eat differently, we all different needs, but that paragraph had me nodding my head through the whole thing.
The roundup to the Roundup: Worried about the hurricane. An unwanted unsubscribing. 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 September 7th and September 14th) 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.
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Did exactly the same with MLOKnitting’s site. 🙁
Thanks for sharing these, Mel. I’d like to add your post, You are Not Your Grief (https://www.stirrup-queens.com/2018/09/you-are-not-your-grief/). As someone else mentioned, your line, “it helped me to realize grief for what it is; something that is doing its hardest to help during a time period that only hurts.” was so powerful, and helpful in reframing the idea of grief.
I also liked An Unexpected Outing’s post, Can You See the Grief?(https://anunexpectedfamilyouting.wordpress.com/2018/09/08/can-you-see-the-grief/)
Perhaps it is this retrospective time between the holidays that has me focused on grief, and its evolution for me.
Shana Tova!
I stayed subscribed to my friend Jeni’s blog even after her death. And the same thing happened with a spammer taking it over :-(.
I wonder what your weather is going to be like in about 10 days…?
Geo-chick’s post was on my list, too. Glad you featured it.
Oh no, that’s really horrible about your friend’s blog. I completely understand that it was hard to sever ties. It reminds me to have a technology death plan – lay out my online presence, and what I want said there and done with the sites. I think you might have mentioned this before, that got me thinking about it? One of these days I’ll do it.
Yes, I’ve got a friend in North Carolina I’m thinking of. Also thinking about the Philippines, which is being hit by the world’s strongest storm this year, a supertyphoon (just another name for a hurricane). In fact, yesterday I heard that there are NINE hurricanes/typhoons/tropical cyclones on the planet right now. Isn’t that crazy?
As I catch up on my blog reading after travelling this last week, I might pop back with some second helpings.
I’m super late to comment on this, but I am with you on being glued to the TV watching coverage on the hurricane. It was a stressful week because my sister and her family are in coastal north-eastern South Carolina. So we were all frantic up here trying to help ship supplies down to them when things started getting crazy and shelves were empty down there. And my one niece drove up here (her bf is here) and evacuated early, but now she is stuck because you cannot drive through North Carolina right now due to all the flooding. Everyone who stayed ended up doing ok, but it definitely was a stressful week of breath holding.