845th Friday Blog Roundup

I won my second GoodReads book! It was a book that I didn’t remember adding to my TBR, though I love it so I’m thrilled that my subconscious mind clearly did me the favour of filling out the giveaway form. It’s hitting a little close to home—woman experiencing anxiety after her twins leave for college (which happens to be my alma mater)—but still, it’s better than thinking about the current gasoline issues hitting the east coast.

Distraction!

By reading about something else that gives me anxiety!

Anyway, it is pretty much the most exciting thing that has happened to me since the last time I won a giveaway, which was right at the beginning of the pandemic. It feels really good to win a book.

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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:

• “Not Obviously Sad” (Finding a Different Path)

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Road Less Travelled has fantastic words of advice for anyone trying to make the decision whether to live child-free after infertility. Learning how someone else arrived at a decision can help a person find their own path to resolution. I love her bulleted list.

No Kidding in NZ has advice on how to get through hard days, like Mother’s Day. Getting out of your routine and going somewhere else is helpful to consider on all dreaded days. Moreover, I love this: “It is an invented holiday, and within a few days it is forgotten, and I refuse to give it too much power over me.”

Infertility Honesty honours “the person – or, more accurately, PEOPLE – I have been through my entire string of lived Mother’s Days knowing I’ll never be a mother.” She reflects on how she has changed over the years; how her reaction to the day has changed over the years. She takes the day and turns it into a celebration of being who you are and loving yourself in the moment.

Lastly, Scientist on the Roof asks an important question: “Dear reader, is there a time when you put your own needs before everything else?” The simple answer is affirmative, but the more nuanced answer is that it’s hard to put your needs first. To practice self-care when it’s not easy to practice self-care. Sending a hug because this post hit close to home for me, too.

The roundup to the Roundup: I won a book! 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 May 7 – May 14) 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.