784th Friday Blog Roundup

I decided that it wouldn’t hurt to purchase a few extra cans of beans and bags of rice. We’ll certainly use them. But I was shocked that the store had exactly one can of tomatoes left. Crushed tomatoes, whole tomatoes, diced tomatoes… all gone.

I also decided to purchase a new thermometer because our 15-year-old thermometer wasn’t working. Well… that was a little more difficult than the beans and rice. It was more in the canned tomato zone. I was able to purchase a generic CVS one that had doubled in price since CNET wrote about it six days earlier.

But we have beans and rice and a thermometer now. So I guess I feel a little more prepared for… something.

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What I wasn’t prepared for is Warren leaving the race. I love Elizabeth Warren, through and through. I now need to mentally recalibrate for this election.

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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.

A writer on Longreads asks a valuable questions: “If Miscarriage is So Normal, Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About It?” It’s a hard read about her miscarriage, but it’s also an important read.

FinallyMyLinesNow has a post about the difference a year makes. She writes, “I can’t say that raising twins is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, because losing twins was harder. I can say that it’s the most rewarding, in an ongoing sense.” The highs and lows of a year.

Risakerslake answers a question about donor eggs. The reader wonders if she had concerns about using donor eggs before she knew the outcome of the cycle. She admits: “I dealt with insecurities, loneliness, anger at my body that we even had to do this in the first place, but I knew it was our best chance at having a baby, and along with that, a pregnancy, and a child that shared genes with my husband. But no, I was always confident we were making the right choice for us.” Grateful for people who share their stories.

Finally, The Barreness is feeling invisible and asks if anyone else feels invisible, too. This feeling is especially acute right now as she tries to decide what to do about her 50th birthday. Go give her ideas.

The roundup to the Roundup: Feeling more prepared. Elizabeth Warren. 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 28 – March 6) 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.