1062nd Friday Blog Roundup

It’s a good week because the kids came home and I could smoosh them in person. I love it when they’re here, and Quentin is beside himself with excitement.

It’s so hard anticipating that they’re going again in a few days because it’s so hard when they go.

I’m happy that they’ll be home again a few weeks later for winter break. But it doesn’t make the leaving any easier for me.

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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:

• “Hope vs. Optimism” (No Kidding in NZ)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Whoa! Infertile Phoenix moved a very far distance. I love this: “But it is done and I am proud. I saved myself once again. I saw what wasn’t working. I saw the direction things were headed, and I made major changes. Did I want to do all of that work? Not at all. Not any of it. But I did it anyway.” There is a lot of power in saving yourself and making things happen.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path explains how she can instantly recall the age of her sofa because they were “part of our ‘things we can have because we’ll never have children’ campaign.” It’s funny how we can date things through these random associations. The simple objects that we see in other people’s homes can carry enormous stories.

The roundup to the Roundup: Good break. 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 November 21 – 28) 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.