735th Friday Blog Roundup

Thoughts in random order:

1. We have Tig Notaro tickets.  So excited to see her perform again.  (And it’s the first time for the twins.)
2. Really loved Maureen Johnson’s YA book, Truly Devious.  Like loved it so completely that I ran out to the library to get the next in the series and feel super sad that the third won’t be out for a while.
3. I bumped into the ChickieNob’s old ballet teacher at the post office.  I hadn’t seen her in nine years.  We ended up talking for a while, and it made me so wistful to think about the ways the twins have changed over the years.  Ballet was her life until she decided she didn’t like performing.  She’s my backstage crew girl now.

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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

Okay, now my choices this week.

Inconceivable has a post about luck as she moves towards her final transfer.  Maybe I related a bit too much to this: “I like predictability, stability, and known quantities – and privilege has allowed me some insulation from the unpredictability of life in other areas. This, I suspect, is why infertility in general has messed with my sense of self so much.”  Me too.

It’s Inconceivable (it’s an inconceivable extravaganza this week with two different, similarly named blogs) has a post about International Women’s Day.  She asks how the world sees women without children: “Where is the ordinary heroine, living her life after infertility, or baby loss or who is childless by marriage, or one of the many other reasons women haven’t had a child? When do we get to hear about her story, the grief, the despair she’s overcome to get here?”  Celebrate ALL women.

Lastly, Baby Ridley Bump created a book for her child to explain her donor gamete story.  These words made chills go down my arms (in a good, happy way): “But for us, and so many other donor recipients, we take pride in our story and I know for me, I want Georgia to understand and own her story just as much as we do.  We want her to know that every single thing that we did in our journey through infertility was for her, and was from a place of love.”  I just loved this post.  It’s a gorgeous book.

The roundup to the Roundup: Tig, Truly Devious, and ballet.  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 March 8th and 15th) 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.