808th Friday Blog Roundup

I am the proud owner of a sore arm and flu immunity. I had to go to the doctor this week, and while I was there, her nurse offered to give me a flu shot. I learned from past mistakes to take anything offered when it is offered.

I know what you’re thinking—Melissa, isn’t it too early in the season to get your flu shot? Well, reader, I’m glad you asked. Apparently it is not too early to get your flu shot—they already have the 2020 version in most offices—and they want people who are young and healthy getting their flu shot now to save appointment space in mid-September for people who need more coverage during flu season.

So I can check my flu shot off my list, which is nice because I felt like crap afterward, and now I’ve gotten the sore arm and crappy feeling mostly out of the way so I don’t have it hanging over my head.

Win-win!

P.S. Go get your flu shot and be a public health helper.

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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:

• “Women Like Me” (Mrs. Spit… Still Spouting Off)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Lavender Luz has a new podcast about the long view of adoption. The purpose? “To bring a variety of perspectives around topics I wish I’d known more about back in my pre-adoptive days and early-parenting years.” Lori has always provided amazing insights on raising kids in written form. I’m sure she’ll do the same in spoken form.

My Path to Mommyhood conveys a freeing thought. “Lose what was, it doesn’t exist anymore. I think for clarity it needs to be adjusted to lose the expectations of what was, but I did like it.” Which isn’t to say that losing those expectations isn’t sad, and they certainly need to be grieved. But it IS also freeing to let go of that past vision and see what you can do with the current situation.

Lastly, Infertile Phoenix highlights why it’s not always a bad thing to ask THAT question. Sometimes doing so reminds two people that they’re not alone. It’s a great story—click over to read it.

The roundup to the Roundup: All the cool kids are getting flu shots. 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 August 21 – 28) 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.