751st Friday Blog Roundup

This Roundup is the 13-year anniversary of the Roundup. The first one went up on July 21, 2006. (Very amused that I mentioned the garden in that post because it was only up for a single summer and it barely grew anything.) I’ve missed or we’ve had special Roundups 25 times over 13 years. But if I average 4 posts per Roundup and there have been 651 Roundups… that means that I’ve featured about 2604 blog posts. 2604 blog posts!

Happy birthday, little Roundup.

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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:

• “The Universe Is Screwing With Me, Big Time” (The Road Less Travelled)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Life Without Baby has a story about a woman conveying that she doesn’t have children. “She didn’t pause for people to give her sympathetic looks, she didn’t elaborate on why she couldn’t have children, and she didn’t explain that she’d wanted to have them or tried to. She said it matter-of-factly, as if she’d been telling us she didn’t care for the taste of liver and onions.” She didn’t apologize or explain. It was just one fact out of many pertaining to her life. It’s a great way to live.

The Uterus Monologues has an amazing post about being in an in-between place after her losses. She writes, “Sometimes, like me, you exist in an in-between state. I may not have living children, or even a scan photo, but I’ve stepped over the threshold of motherhood and now I can’t go back. I’ve felt that all-consuming love for something both of yourself and bigger than yourself; the love for a child I thought I would have by now. I can never un-feel that.” Moreover, she’s pulling together posts for a project, so go over and add your voice.

Lastly, Hopelessly Infertile and Surrounded by Fertiles has a post about not being on a same page with family building as her husband, and how that’s okay, too. She explains, “Which sounds quite bleak and like I’m not getting what I want out of my marriage, if you only look at this one element, which is not where I’m going with this.” Because it’s one tiny piece of a larger whole, though it’s the tiny piece that she needed to process this week.

The roundup to the Roundup: 13th anniversary of the Roundup. 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 July 12th and 19th) 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.