983rd Friday Blog Roundup
We filled up on pizza and pasta this week, which feels like a cheat. We’re essentially trying to make ourselves sick of things so we won’t miss them when we can’t eat them during Pesach. Which feels like a loophole, right? It’s like if you gorged on chocolate until you felt queasy at the sight of it and then said, “I’m giving up chocolate for Lent.”
I may be overthinking this.
In any case, I only have a few days left with bread, so that’s all I’m eating until the first seder starts on Monday.
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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.
A Separate Life made me think deeply about autumn. Or, really, think deeply about spring because she is coming out of the season we’re entering. She writes, “It’s the season when we look at projects we wanted to do, and see them unfinished, or worse, even unstarted!” Reading this before summer begins (for me) means that I can go in with open eyes, trying to remember this valuable lesson from autumn, which sounds lovely in New Zealand.
Lastly, Bereaved and Blessed has a post on Molly’s 16th birthday/anniversary of her death. She explains the benefit of re-reading these old posts and remembering what she has been through. “When navigating difficult and uncertain times, I often think I’ve never felt like this before, it is so hard. However, in reality every age and stage of life is filled with challenges that can feel almost insurmountable while we are living through them.” Again, a bittersweet life lesson that I’m grateful she has put back into my head with this reminder.
The roundup to the Roundup: Trying to make myself not miss pasta. 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 April 12 – 19) 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.
2 comments
Enjoy your pizza and pasta! Oddly, at this stage of life I cannot eat as much of some of my favorite things as I used too (especially really sweet things), my body rejects them. So I guess there are pros and cons to that. I got to attend a seder once many years ago at a friend’s home and it was such an interesting experience. I hope to get to again someday, but don’t want to ask to be invited.
Thank you so much for featuring my post. I continue to be floored by how hard adulting is, when for much of my childhood/adolescence I couldn’t wait to be an adult. That said, there are also so many surprising and wonderful aspects of middle age that I didn’t anticipate.
If you know you have tobsacrifice, of course you should try to make it easier on yourself! Probably not the spirit of the exercise, but don’t make rules and the not expect me to twist them to suit my purpose! (This is how I always get myself in trouble, btw. Do not follow my example.)
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