901st Friday Blog Roundup

Every two weeks since the pandemic began, we’ve made a meal list. Everyone chooses between three and four dinners they want me to make, I compile the list, make a PDF of recipes, use it to write up a shopping list, and… well… as you’ve probably guessed, cook the meals. On one hand, it’s super useful. I’m never scrambling to figure out what to make in the afternoon. We limit trips to the grocery store. We have little food waste because I jenga the meals together so I can use up a rare ingredient the next day. It works. I mean, until it doesn’t work.

I’ve hit a wall of decision fatigue. Making the list has become my most dreaded task. I don’t know what I want to eat days in advance. No one else knows either. It has seeped into the rest of life. I am so tired of making decisions.

The solution is to give up the list making for a week or two. Allow myself to become more annoyed by the lack of structure. Go back to appreciating the system that has served us well for over two years.

Anything goes. Cereal for dinner. Pasta four days in a row. Cucumbers three meals per day.

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Apart at the Seams is on sale until July 15th for just 99 cents. A story that will occupy you for hours for less than a dollar? One click, that’s all it takes to have it on your Kindle. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell random people in the grocery store.

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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:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

We are all talking about Roe. Family Building with a Twist sums up what many of us are thinking/feeling: “Like many, I am appalled, devastated – choose your adjective – about today’s ruling by SCOTUS. And I wasn’t surprised. I read the released draft ruling and I knew how this court was going.” Just because you know something is coming doesn’t mean that you don’t feel it down to your bones when it happens.

Lastly, The Road Less Travelled has lots of odds and ends, but also links for the Childless Collective Summit. It’s online, and she provides a link to a review of last year’s summit. Go check it out.

The roundup to the Roundup: Decision fatigue. Apart at the Seams is on sale. 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 June 24 – July 1) 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.