826th Friday Blog Roundup

It’s the first Roundup of 2021, looking back on the final week of writing in a truly bizarre year.

Happy New Year.

Once upon a time, I would have had a crisis with this day—do I post a Roundup if I’m posting the Creme de la Creme? Do I post the Roundup a day early? Late? But… alas… no Creme de la Creme this year. I miss that.

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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.

The Road Less Travelled captures the strangeness that was Christmas 2020. I laughed about the breaded cod patties. That was so 2020. Unfortunately, I fear that we’re still going to be saying everything is 2020 in 2021. But! That’s not the point. The point is that people made the best of it and celebrated the holiday. As she says: “I said to dh that if we HAD to stay here, by ourselves, I wanted it to be at least a little special (i.e., not just another day at home) — and I think we managed that, even with COVID to work around. I hope you can say the same!”

Open Step at a Time also reflects on the year. I love the hope she captured in this post. Would anyone choose this pandemic? No. But as she says, “On the whole I am profoundly grateful for this year because it was a year of learning, growth and building. Everything I have learnt during 2020 is something I can build on for the future.” If nothing else, the pandemic revealed who we are—to ourselves and to others.

Lastly, No Kidding in NZ recounts a conversation she had with her sisters during Christmas. They spoke about her not having children, and she writes: “We talked about it in a matter-of-fact way, and it was just nice. Nice to know that my situation was recognised by them both, to feel seen. Nice to be able to talk about the occasional reality of my life. Nice to be able to move on to the next topic without feeling we needed to out of awkwardness. Nice to know that they saw it was a part of me, but not all of me.” Click over to read about the conversation.

The roundup to the Roundup: Happy New Year. 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 December 25 – Jan 1) 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.