854th Friday Blog Roundup

Auntie Day is this Sunday, July 25th. Savvy Auntie started the day years ago, and it’s always celebrated the fourth Sunday in July. Being an aunt is clearly 10,000 kinds of awesome, not least of which because you can send annoying toys and then not have to live in the home with the annoying toys. For the win!

If you were looking for a reason to have a fancy brunch this weekend, celebrating aunts (being one, having one, living with one, or simply loving the kindly old aunts that show up in British murder mysteries) sounds like the way to go.

Thank you, Savvy Auntie, for lifting up aunts.

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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:

• “Everlasting Snowdrops” (Finding a Different Path)
• “Summer Blossoming” (Torthúil)
• “Best Books of June” (Stirrup Queens)—thank you, Jess!

Okay, now my choices this week.

Anabegins has a rundown of her weekends, but it was a thought tucked towards the bottom that made me nod. She is looking forward to five days alone, and she contrasts that with G saying that he’s lonely when he has time alone. She writes, “We are different people clearly. I need a lot of time to myself. I have not been getting it. It has affected my mental health & my relationships. I need some absence to make my heart grow fonder.” It’s so important to know where you fall on that spectrum (I’m on the far end of needing lots of alone time) and giving yourself the type of time you need.

The Next 15,000 Days has a story from a workplace social event that she felt obligated to attend. As they are toasting the guest of honour, she thinks, “If they only knew, how hard it is to be an infertile woman in the fertile world. How hard it was to be a loving wife when my soul had been broken into million pieces.” Her final line of the post—so true.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path has a post about the stories that need to be told. On the importance of diverse books, she points out: “There are so many people who want to see stories that reflect their lives, or to peer through a window into a different existence, but they don’t seem to be listened to as much.” Who gets to tell the story? Who gets to drive the narrative? And when it comes to infertility, who gets to define success? It’s such an interesting read.

The roundup to the Roundup: Happy Auntie Day. 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 16 – July 23) 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.