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764th Friday Blog Roundup

The Nats are going to the World Series! As a Nats superfan (though I’m sad that I no longer rank #1 for the search term “Nationals Superfan” due to all the Johnny-Come-Latelies), I was very excited ESPECIALLY because I botched things back in October 12, 2012, when I woke up the Wolvog before the final out to tell him that we were going to the playoffs. Then I had to eat my words in the morning and explain that we were definitely NOT going to the playoffs. Josh made me wait this time until the team stormed the field before I let the Wolvog know we were World Series bound.

I asked Josh if we were going to go to the World Series, and he looked at me incredulously and said, “Do you know how much those tickets cost?” Even for superfans who no longer rank on Google as a superfan? I just assumed Chase Parker would call and offer me free tickets so I could cheer on my boys.

So… yeah… exciting times in D.C. At least, on the baseball front. Everything else in D.C.? Let’s not think about that for a moment…

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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:

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Next 15000 Days has a post about a visit from a blogging friend. I love the part in the post where she recounts how they were speaking about the bloggers who came before them: “How important a bit older bloggers were for us. Reading their blogs was comforting for us in the darkest days of our infertility since it gave us hope that there is possibility of living happily again. We both agreed that Mali was a motherly figure to both of us.” I love that because we all have people who came before us on our infertility or loss journey who helped us through it with their words. Someone may be the same age (or even younger!) but, situationally, they still can be motherly.

By the Brooke wrote a series of thought-provoking notes in a single post. From being an anticipator (me too!) to being a pizza orderer (I think I’m somewhere between pizza orderer and chili cooker), I was nodding along. And then I got to these beautiful words: “For the longest time after Eliza died, it was so easy to imagine what my life would be like if she had lived that I couldn’t stop doing it. Eventually it got trickier, and although I still think wistfully of what it would be like to have her here with us, it’s harder for me to imagine. I just have no idea what kind of third-grader she would be.” She alternates between the what is and the what could be, trying to live in the space in between. Read to the end: she makes you laugh just as much as she makes you cry.

Lastly, it was Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day this week, and Of Needles to Noodles has a post about it. The letter she wrote her son made me bawl. She explains, “I want Laurie to know about his siblings who aren’t here. Although they were lost, we haven’t lost them.” Go read it. Bring tissues.

The roundup to the Roundup: Nationals are going to the World Series. 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 October 11th and 18th) 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

1 Charlotte { 10.18.19 at 11:02 am }

It was a big couple weeks for DC. The Mystics (women’s NBA) WOB the championship last week.
Not that I follow women’s basketball, but I happened to be in DC that night for comedy show at The Anthem (that Wharf area that is new is really nice! I remember when it was just a lonely pier.) and on the metro on my way back everyone had these red shirts on. At first I thought it was from a demonstration or something, but then I asked and they told me it was the Mystics, then I had to text my husband asking who the Mystics were, lol.

2 Lori Lavender Luz { 10.18.19 at 3:46 pm }

I was thinking about you, my friend the Nats Superfan, as my husband watched the NLCS. I even added a little bit of energy to your Superfanness. I’ll keep doing so through the World Series. I hope you re-rank so Chase Parker gets you those tix.

3 a { 10.18.19 at 5:22 pm }

I had a friend mention that World Series tickets are $750-$1000. It’s crazy. Congrats on your team making it to the World Series…but I posted a meme on FB for you. >:D

4 Mali { 10.19.19 at 12:05 am }

I can understand how excited you are! And how excited you must have been watching it. We have a big rugby game tonight, and I’m scared to mention it in case I jinx my team!

Oh, and by the way, I worked out a few years ago (when visiting her) that I am closer in age to Klara’s mother than hers, so the use of motherly was appropriate – but also very touching to this non-mother! Anyway, I’m glad you picked her post, because I didn’t feel I could. But the connections with blogging friends are really important, and I hope to link up with some of my heroes one of these days (incl you, of course).

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