741st Friday Blog Roundup

I am still blissed out after seeing Alan Cumming on Wednesday. He was in town, performing his new(ish) show, Legal Immigrant. So different from the one we saw last year around this time, but, again, I had the same reaction to his voice. He begins singing, and I just feel happy. There was no huge sadness to climb out of, so it was more like a vitamin. Like all of a sudden, someone dumped a bucket of happiness on me, and I’m still covered in it.

Two songs he sang that I didn’t know that I loved. The first was Dougie MacLean’s “Caledonia.” I love Scotland and consider it my “heart” home — like you know how you’re from one place but you always sense that your heart should have been born in another place? That’s how I feel about Scotland.

The other was a song from Moana. I don’t know anything about Moana, but even Josh’s mouth dropped open when we heard the lyrics because they are so personal and specific to my life. So having a singer who makes you so happy introducing you to a song you’ve never heard before but that describes a chunk of your life? That was a little mind-blowing.

So riding the happiness into the weekend.

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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:

• “Ticket in Hand” (Inconceivable!)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Life Without Baby answers her often asked question: why didn’t you adopt after infertility? Her reason is so simple, so straightforward, based on the “most important piece of advice we were given.” And she points out this fact so well: “Adoption isn’t the next logical step on an infertility journey; it’s a step off that road and onto another completely different path.” Go read the whole post to understand.

It’s Inconceivable has a post about holidays when you don’t have a lot of family members. She examines how holiday celebrations and etiquette have changed over the years, and she writes, “I’m used to my own company nowadays, I just wish society was a bit more inclusive of others who don’t fit into family shaped ‘moulds’.” Important words everyone should hear and think about the next time holidays roll around.

Lastly, The Road Less Travelled has a post about a surprising way of receiving a birth announcement; one that could only exist in the digital age. Go over and read the post (and adjust your settings!) about this happy news.  As she writes about the “glee and grief”: “I am so happy for them. I am SO terrified for them.” Doesn’t that sum up hearing someone else’s pregnancy news now?

The roundup to the Roundup: Covered in a film of happiness thanks to Alan Cumming.  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 April 19th and 26th) 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.