775th Friday Blog Roundup
We had a very chill New Year’s Eve. I listened to Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen while crocheting a bag. I couldn’t watch and crochet at the same time because I need bifocals, but I’m not getting them. So glasses off to crochet, which meant not being able to see Anderson Cooper’s facial expressions while he downed shots.
But I got to listen and imagine what was on the screen, all in the comfort of pyjamas and my bed.
Which is where I like to be on New Year’s Eve.
I hope you had an equally fulfilling night.
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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:
- None… sniff…
Okay, now my choices this week.
Dreaming of Diapers gives an overview of IVF #8 and #9. She is pre-retrieval on the latter cycle and holding hope. It is stressful to have cycles canceled, but she also acknowledges the fact that we have options (whereas in other time periods you had zero options). She writes, “At least I am fortunate to pursue this dream, I certainly won’t ever forget that…and also how unbelievably grateful I am to have my son…a true miracle…beyond a miracle really…” It’s an important lens to have.
Edenland gives a life update. It is an impossibly hard situation, but I love this thought towards the end: “I actually broke. My life was scattered everywhere around me and I was drowning. Someone came into my life and is actually helping me. Bono says a friend is someone who lets you help. I’m not used to accepting help but I couldn’t do this by myself anymore.” After so much upheaval, it’s a tiny light when people like that come into your life.
Finally, Much Ado About Nothing has an update. She is going through a health scare; trying to get answers. And she states exactly what she needs: “My doctor has ordered me to stop googling and talking to people because it’s making my anxiety so much worse. But if you have prayers, love, good thoughts, healing vibes, those I will take.”
The roundup to the Roundup: Hope you had a good New Year’s Eve. 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 27th and January 3rd) 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.
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What do you wear when on the computer? I wore single vision until maybe 47, at which point I needed bifocals. Right around then I also started needing computer glasses. Like, single vision used to be fine and now I absolutely can’t see words on the computer clearly without my middle vision glasses. (I tried progressive and that was a big fail.) So I mostly wear my computer glasses all day at work (it’s easier to just take them off when reading at my desk than to change glasses). Yes aging eyes suck.
Most of my NYE was spent relaxing at home with my husband and sons (which is just as I like it). We watched the ball drop in Times Square at midnight EST, and my sons were ready for bed a half hour later.
Unfortunately, all the fireworks being set off at intervals by our neighbors until after midnight our time unnerved our golden retriever, who was panting heavily and jumping on and off my bed until 12:15 a.m. or so. (My husband had wisely taken an Ambien and gone to sleep in the guest room at 10:10 p.m. — ha!)
We made dinner with our girls, had a fire and roasted marshmallows for s’mores, watched an episode of Nailed It Holiday, countdown early (thanks, Netflix!) and we were all in bed, cozy and asleep by 10 (the girls by 8). Perfect NYE.
Ha! I have progressives, and if I need to see something close (knitting, playing certain games on my phone, reading), I STILL take my glasses off, because my uncorrected vision is better for that stuff. But I feel your pain on the paying attention to what’s on my lap vs paying attention to what’s on TV dilemma.
Pamela Tsigdinos wrote a comprehensive and very awesome post this week called “Life After Infertility: One Decade, Many Thoughts.” https://blog.silentsorority.com/life-after-infertility/
I’m well into my third pair of progressives (though only because my second pair was broken), and recommend them. Though like a, there are times that not using my glasses is preferred. I love love love though my progressive lens sunglasses. It means I can eat at restaurants outside and not have to take off my sunnies to read the menu, or I can leave them on if I am outside and walk into a shop and need to read labels … or simply if I’m outside and want to read. Expensive, but best decision I made!
A little late to comment here but thanks Mel.❤️
Sometimes the roundup seems an awful lot like the LFCA, and it’s so comforting.
Oooh, pajamas. We had a quiet New Year’s with four and wine and pajamas and no TV. When we moved we lost the ability to watch on an antennae, and last year we saw weird YouTube ball dropping, and so this year…. Quiet. And lovely.
I loved Infertile Phoenix’s post on five years ago and now: https://infertilephoenix.blogspot.com/2020/01/5-years-ago-now.html?m=1
Happy new year!