907th Friday Blog Roundup
After years of making fun of Josh and his love affair with his Yeti cup, I have tried and given in to the magic of the Yeti. It keeps drinks hot or cold for hours. Two hour meeting, no problem. (Well, I mean, a two hour meeting is a problem, but I have my tea to help me power through.) My iced coffee is now followed by a decaf English breakfast and sometimes a Twinings’ raspberry and lemon in the afternoon.
It feels positively luxurious.
I like to annoy the twins by talking about how I’m now part of Yeti nation, living the Yeti life, and part of Team Yeti.
They’ll learn, in time. They’ll borrow the cup and see the difference. They’ll understand the siren song of the Yeti.
In all seriousness, my long cups of tea really do make an emotional difference in my day.
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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:
- “Musings on a Soft Heart” (TheFrugalGirl)
- “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” (Afterward Honesty)
Okay, now my choices this week.
I had Afterward Honesty’s post for this week. She revisits her old hometown, returning after nine years away. I love this piece: “As we proceeded through the quaint, well maintained town center, and I laid my eyes on the very sidewalk that used to carry me from school to my weekly flute lesson, I felt myself beaming into young Sarah in ways new and unexplored.” It’s a beautiful post about seeing an old place through a new lens, one that incorporates all that came after. But I especially loved the question at the end.
Lastly, The Uterus Monologues has written a book. She explains: “Just over a year ago, I started writing a book. A book about everything that happened on the road to having a baby. A book about miscarriage. A book about how society treats miscarriage – or, more to the point, doesn’t treat miscarriage.” It’s coming out this winter, but you can order it now.
The roundup to the Roundup: Living the Yeti life. 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 19 – 26) 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.
4 comments
I will never need a Yeti. I don’t drink hot beverages. I like my water at room temperature for the most part. And I don’t like the stainless taste. And so, I will keep buying and then breaking my glass bottles. My last one was one a clearance rack and marked $7. But it rang up at $1 – I should have gone back and bought them all!
While the Yeti may be awesome and all, I would challenge you to try a Bubba. Sold at Walmart and other places I’m sure. Keeps cold cold for 80 hours, hot for 27. We actually call it Bubba, like did you remember to refill Bubba. Even better it’s like 1/2 the price of a yeti.
Interesting. I am team Contigo for coffee/tea cups because they have a cup that you can fill, seal, lock in a way that it can be carried reliably on its side (or upside-down!) in a backpack and not spill, and still be hot (or cold) 8 hours later. Brilliant stuff. For bottles, I’m team HydroFlask for pretty much the same reasons. We have a couple of Yetis, but I haven’t really used them. Most of my cups/bottles arrive in my possession after sitting around the college campus where I work for a month or so, after which time I claim (and scrub) them.
You make me laugh. I’m thinking I might need to get my hands on some of that raspberry and lemon herbal tea though!