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771st Friday Blog Roundup

Many years ago, a friend was telling me about her country club because she thought that I should join, too, and a mutual friend told her, “Mel is not a joiner.” And Mel isn’t really a joiner EXCEPT when it’s joining the library. Yes, I just became a member of the fundraising group for the library system, and I am so excited.

I joined so I could begin volunteering with them. I also joined because they give you a membership card, a special newsletter, and emails for members only. I told the kids that I’m going to march around town with my card held out, casually saying in a very loud voice, “I wonder if there are any other library members around me right now.”

Just to be clear, this is different from my library card. I now have two cards: a library card for checking out books and a library member card for expressing my enormous love of libraries.

ChickieNob told me that she is concerned that I’m getting a little too into old lady activities. Birdwatching, fundraising for the library, attending meetings for Bifocal Needers of America. (That last club may be fake. Or it may not.) Face it, kid, I’m an old lady with old lady tastes.

AND I’M A LIBRARY MEMBER! (Which means that I’m awesome and part of an exclusive club of fundraising book nerds that anyone can join if you pay them money.)

I wonder if we’re going to talk about how we track our TBR lists at my first meeting.

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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.

My Path to Mommyhood has a post about speaking up for yourself. When she is about to get placed in a post-natal Pilates class, she explains: “I had two choices, 1) don’t say anything and keep the time at 5 and suffer through because I didn’t want to be ‘weird,’ or 2) explain a bit and be firm that while they may be a fun group, it’s not the class for me.” You’ll have to read to learn what she chose to do.

By the Brooke talks about how grief feels in her body. She writes, “I was trying to explain it to David last night… how I feel tired. Just knowing someone else is remembering Eliza is a gift because it starts to feel like something I carry alone.” What a simple, clear thing we can do for another person; just help them carry the memory by remembering alongside them.

Lastly, Empty Arms, Broken Heart has a post that I connected with this week about kids growing up. It’s an ache I know well, but I love this post for the wisdom in it: “It does hurt my heart sometimes when the little ones express missing him. They feel the disconnect as well. But, one day they will be the ones prepping for that leap from home, so it’s best I show them this is all ok, just another stage in life.” So true.

The roundup to the Roundup: I’m a library member. 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 November 29th and December 6th) 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.

3 comments

1 torthuil { 12.06.19 at 8:49 am }

As I watch my mother age, and others, I’m thinking a bit about quality of life and what that actually means. And I’m thinking it’s probably a good thing to take on some “old lady activities” at a youngish age, and get used to hanging out with old people, so it’s not such a huge shock when one is elderly. We spend years preparing children for adulthood before they are adults, right? Why would we not spend the same amount of time preparing to be elderly?

2 a { 12.06.19 at 7:08 pm }

I do not want to get involved in what I am sure is drama on our library board. I’ve seen some of the board members come through the library, and…no thanks! I do love the library though, and spend a lot of time there (relatively speaking).

3 Lori Lavender Luz { 12.08.19 at 12:21 pm }

Hey, old lady!

What *I* want to see is you marching around town with your BNA card held out, casually saying in a very loud voice, “I wonder if there are any other Bifocal Needers of America members around me right now.”

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