879th Friday Blog Roundup

Even though I skipped purchasing at-home tests multiple times, I knew I would have regrets if we didn’t fill out the government site and claim the four tests they’re sending out next month. We still won’t change our behaviour — we wouldn’t trust a negative test and remove our masks indoors. But if anyone starts to feel ill, it’s worth having confirmation without needing to leave the house.

This is not a topic I thought I would still be writing about two years later back in January 2020.

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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 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. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “Choosing My Thoughts” (Infertile Phoenix)

Okay, now my choices this week.

PocoBrat sent me down a Googling rabbit hole with her post on Pongal. I didn’t know about this festival until this week. I loved learning something new. The fact that she references Klara and the Sun is a bonus.

From the sun to the moon…

Family Building with a Twist has a post about wolf moon, which is the first full moon of the year, but it’s really about the illuminating realizations about your life. She writes, “I feel like some parts of me have been frozen and frozen for a very long time. But they are thawing. And that’s horribly messy and confusing for someone like me who does prefer to feel in control and felt like she had a good understanding of herself.” Such a gorgeous way of describing it. And this: “what are warm tears but melted ice?”

Lastly, JewishIVF writes about that moment of shifting from needing support to giving support. She is answering questions for people looking to use her clinic. She explains: “At this point in my journey, where my role has shifted and life looks very different, I still feel connected to people who are struggling and want to offer any help I can.” She talks about how she walks that fine line, knowing how it feels to be asking the questions.

The roundup to the Roundup: Did you order your at-home test? 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 January 14 – 21) 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.