733rd Friday Blog Roundup

I went to a Wegmans for the first time last weekend.  I’ll couch that by adding that I’ve run in and out of a Wegmans two other times in life with people who wanted to pick up an item, but I’ve never gone to Wegmans.  Like wander up and down the aisles and poke around the prepared foods bar.  I was, for all intents and purposes, a Wegmans virgin.  And proud of it.  Other people told me Wegmans was great, so I screwed myself over and didn’t go.

But my cousin wanted a certain pasta shape, and the Wolvog told me that the shape was at Wegmans.  He is a Wegmans connoisseur.  My mother takes him because I deprive him of all the deliciousness.  So I put my trust in the Wolvog and told the guys in my gaming club that I was going to head over to Wegmans after our meeting.

They seemed slightly confused that I had never been to Wegmans.  They all reassured me that they weren’t Wegmans fanatics, but… yeah… like the rest of the world, they had been to Wegmans.

I entered by the prepared foods section.  You can imagine my face walking through the prepared foods section.  They had vegetarian egg rolls.  Not spring rolls (I’m never impressed with spring rolls) — egg rolls.  Why, yes, I’d love to try two.  And then, yeah, the rest of the store.  They had foods I haven’t seen in other places in years, including three billion pasta shapes.  (Including the one my cousin wanted.). I had to text an apology to my mother for being such a brat about Wegmans all these years.

Then I got in line.  Two people in front of me with half-filled carts, one in the middle of the check out process.  18 minutes later, I am still in line.  Actually, I’m in a second line because the first line wasn’t moving so I moved into a similarly queued line and ended up spending over a quarter of an hour staring at the gum display.

So Wegmans.  It’s like the Hotel California of food stores.

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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:

• “Forgiving Myself” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “Sometimes It Just Hurts” (My Path to Mommyhood)

Okay, now my choices this week.

ANDMom has a good vent/explanation on her blog about the ups and downs in recent life, but it’s the opening that got under my skin.  She writes, “Sometimes I really miss blogging. Having that place to dump feelings and thoughts, and the connection with other people. So I keep coming back, but never seeming to make another real go of it.”  And that does seem to be the hardest thing; not returning to write the first post after a long pause, but coming back to do the second post.  This is actually the second for her, so I hope a third one is in the works soon as she finds her rhythm.

Jewish IVF is thinking about her upcoming 35th birthday and having the birthday blues.  Birthdays are hard.  Even when everything is going well, they can still be hard.  She writes, “I feel that it’s incredibly entitled to feel glum or complain about something as simple as a birthday and/or its celebration. No one owes me anything and I’m incredibly lucky to be turning a year older.”  And, yes, that is one angle, but there are also big feelings tied up in birthdays and holidays.

Lastly, Bereaved and Blessed has a powerful, must-read post processing the feelings after a suicide.  My heart is with her, and I think everyone needs to read her words, even if suicide has never touched your life.  There are so many places where we need to hear and absorb the words, “It’s not your fault.”

The roundup to the Roundup: No longer a Wegmans virgin.  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 February 22nd and March 1st) 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.