876th Friday Blog Roundup

The final day of a collectively depressing year. Is there really anything more to say about 2021? We will spend tonight in pyjamas, eating appetizers, flipping between the various countdowns even though we don’t really want to watch any of them. We’ll feel an itch to do something more… something different. But unable to come up with that “something different,” we will do nothing and that will be okay. It’s almost as if we lived this very same New Years celebration 365 days ago. Oh. Right.

Hope you have an uneventful, healthy new year.

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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 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. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “Why I Love Rudolph” (Infertilityhonesty)
• “It Is Done” (Infertile Phoenix) — originally another title
• “Twenty Years” (No Kidding in NZ)
• “Mild Cases” (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, Jess!

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Barreness says goodbye to the year. She pays homage to her site: “I feel like I am safe in this space, with expressing myself. WHAT A GIFT THAT IS!” I love her acknowledgment of how five minutes of acceptance can grow (and if nothing else, five minutes is better than no minutes). For anyone who has been struggling, writing sometimes is a tiny good thing bringing you through a moment in time.

To that end, The Road Less Travelled does a collection of annoying things and small pleasures. I love that she balances out the venting and the noting; the release and the gratitude.

Lastly, Infertilityhonesty posts the final piece in her old space, ending 8 years to the day since she published her first post. She writes: “Organizing the past into narrative is a method of understanding the self. Not only is narrative the channel for communicating how you became who you are, it also informs who you’re on your way to becoming.” She has moved to a new space, linked to a few posts ago on the blog and in the purple circle at the end of the post.

The roundup to the Roundup: Goodbye 2021. 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 24 – December 31) 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.