1074th Friday Blog Roundup
Every afternoon or evening, I walk indoors and watch 20 minutes of The Crown. I’ve been doing this since the beginning of the pandemic, though it hasn’t always been The Crown on a continual loop. I’ve watched muted first-person walking videos on YouTube and listened to audiobooks. I’ve watched documentaries. But for the most part, it has been either all six seasons of The Crown, sometimes interspersed with the single season of One Day.
I am in the final episode of the final season of The Crown, and it’s time to make a decision. Do I jump back to the beginning and watch a young Elizabeth age over the next few months? Or do I pause and mentally jump back to college with the start of One Day? I’m going to have to make a decision this afternoon.
I don’t know what I’ll pick. I guess it will become a walk-time decision.
Is there anything you continuously rewatch?
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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.
No Kidding in NZ has a post about managing your boundaries and energy, something I am terrible at doing and often feel frustrated with myself over. These words made me feel less alone: “But it’s really hard when there are several active crisis rings in my life, and I’m at a different place in each of them. As are my family and friends. There are no rules or maps for navigating that. And no extra spoon/energy allocations for any of us.” I’m sending a hug but also a big thank you for voicing this.
Lastly, the Barreness talks about feelings around a complicated situation. What happens after a death when you were estranged from the person? When that person stands for things you find abhorrent? She writes: “Short term: We give. We continue to give and give as that is what makes sense to us. Kindness and love.” It’s a hard situation, and as she says, they are muddling through.
The roundup to the Roundup: The joy of rewatching something. 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 February 13 – 20) 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.
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I don’t watch a lot of TV, but during the pandemic lockdowns, we discovered that the CBC was showing Downton Abbey reruns every weekday at 4 PM. We’d watched the last few seasons when it was on PBS, but missed some of the early ones. I think we saw the entire series two or three times through before they put something else on in that time slot! Dh got hooked on it too! and it was nice distraction from the pandemic!
Also — dh watches reruns of Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy every night. I actually quite like Bob’s Burgers. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve seen every episode, but it’s probably a lot.
The Good Place. Or Extraordinary Attorney Woo. I’ve watched both several times. Downton Abbey would be good too. I would suggest Bridgerton, but it might elevate your heart rate too much. 😉
Thanks for including my post. It helps knowing others feel/do the same. I had that post from the Barreness flagged for a second helping, so now I will suggest the post from Elaine https://www.elaineok.com/lichtblicke/ about what is helping her get through the winter, inspired by Phoenix and Loribeth who both posted about that earlier this month.