809th Friday Blog Roundup
Did you know a full version of “A Little Bit Alexis” exists and you can buy it on iTunes? We discovered it around midnight this week when ChickieNob mused, “I wonder if they ever recorded the song for real.”
Do we currently own it? Yes.
Listen, things have been shitty, and if we can grab five minutes of happiness (I actually think the full song is closer to three minutes, but you get the point) for 99 cents, then it was money well spent.
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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.
No Kidding in NZ draws a line between feminism and childlessness. She points out: “Discrimination against us, as women without children or as mothers, is a form of misogyny. It does not see us as individuals, but as objects, and judges us by our biology, rather than by our personalities, our characteristics, our flaws and our talents.” She unpacks why sometimes women absorb that misogyny and how it comes out against other women. A fantastic, fascinating post.
Bereaved and Blessed is celebrating the best possible outcome when it comes to the results from an ultrasound on her breast. She felt optimistic going into the test, but points out that she has been on the wrong side of the odds before when it comes to fertility and loss. She writes: “I’ve learned not to take anything for granted or put too much weight in odds. When you’ve fallen into the less than 1% chance category more than once in your life good odds don’t always seem nearly as comforting.” Glad she’s doing okay.
Lastly, The Road Less Travelled muses on postponed weddings due to COVID-19. You still get to have the love, even if you don’t get the ceremony, but I’m not belittling the sadness that comes from missed life cycle events. Both for the couple AND for the guests, as Loribeth explains. I miss weddings. I miss parties and getting dressed up, even though I never enjoyed those things before this point. The world changes. We change with it.
The roundup to the Roundup: A Little Bit Alexis. 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 28 – September 4) 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.
7 comments
Schitts Creek is a bright spot in my morning routine. I’ve been rewatching a few minutes each day with coffee in the morning before virtual school starts and it is such a funny break, even though I’ve seen every episode. I need to find a recipe that folds in some cheese.
So many of my friends love Schitts Creek. I guess I should watch it. 🙂
I generally let my husband pick the shows we watch, with mixed results. . . .
Echoing Sharon, in that I seem to know a lot of people who love Schitts Creek and have never seen it. We’ll have to look into it… I’m glad getting a hold of that song is bringing some happiness during such a difficult and uncertain time. 6 months in, this all still feels so strange and sad and surreal. Our family is doing our best to find happiness where we can as well.
Thank you so much for highlighting my post and your kind words about it, as well the results of my the test! It is a huge relief to get a break from breast scares, hopefully for another year, after being more on the every 6 months or so schedule, during most of my 40s.
Also, I think I tell you this every time and I am going to again… It is such an honor for me when one of my posts speaks to you and you share it in your Weekly Blog Round Up. I find it so validating that you, who I think is such an incredible writer, enjoy what I write too. xoxo
Thanks for the mention, Mel! It’s always a thrill to find my name in the Roundup! 🙂
At risk of losing my Canadian citizenship 😉 I’ll confess that I’m another one who hasn’t watched Schitt’s Creek (although I’ve caught a few minutes of it here & there). It was actually filmed not far from where I used to live, pre-condo move. 🙂
Schitts Creek is amazing. I’ve watched it probably a dozen times, it never gets old. A little bit Alexis is priceless. So glad you found this show!
Thanks for your kind words about my post too, Mel. I guess at the heart of it all, I was and am a feminist first.
As a second helping, Klara writes very honestly about being confronted by a young relative about who will inherit her (new, hard-won) house because – as the child said so hurtfully – she “doesn’t have any relatives.” http://thenext15000days.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-vultures-are-already-flying-above-us.html
I have only seen about one episode of Schitts Creek. I guess I should watch it, because everyone seems to rave about it – I think it’s now on Netflix, but there’s so much else to watch. Glad you got 5 minutes of happiness (that you can repeat whenever you want) for a very low price!
That was funny!
I watched the first season and haven’t been back. Maybe I need to. I liked how bite-sized the series is (3o min episodes).