1046th Friday Blog Roundup

In addition to having general glasses anxiety, I now have new prescription anxiety because the last eye doctor messed up the prescription. It was my first time going to her, and she refused to listen to me during the appointment, gave me the wrong prescription (which I put in new frames that I lost money returning because I could not see in them), and then refused to correct the prescription.

I got her to return the prescription on file to my old prescription, and then I had to wait a full year for insurance to cover another eye exam. If you’re playing along at home, that means that I went a full year with glasses that barely worked.

They were just good enough to get through life, but it was a daily frustration.

So now I can finally get a new prescription. I went back to my old eye doctor with a sheet where I wrote out my current (too weak) prescription, the wrong prescription from the terrible doctor, and the prescription before that just to have it. I left the office with a prescription that makes sense, but I’m going to be nervous until I put on the next glasses and see how they work.

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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.

And now the blogs…

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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.

Steal this note idea from Swistle because it’s brilliant. After leaving to-do lists on the counter that were ignored, she left a note for her two kids. “I said would the second of those two children to see the note please empty the dishwasher. Then I put ‘first person to see the note:,’ with a line for them to write their name. You see. This way, the motivation is TO HAVE SEEN THE NOTE.” Read what happened next.

Finally, Jess from Finding a Different Path writes about a book about periods written by Anita Diamant of The Red Tent fame and a podcast about PCOS. Both sound fascinating, so go over and read the post.

The roundup to the Roundup: Wish me luck on new glasses. 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 July 18 – 25) 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.