Along with For Better or For Worse, I was reminded recently — twice! — about PostSecret. Eight years ago, that site was a weekly visit, and by this week, I forgot that it existed until I read two pieces about it.

It’s twenty years old.

Twenty. Years. Old.

I never sent a secret, though I loved reading them weekly and checking out the PostSecret books from the library. Did you send one?

Many years ago, I started a tradition of spending half hour every Friday near lunchtime eating good chocolate and watching a television show. Right before the twins left for college, I decided to re-watch Ted Lasso. ChickieNob joined me for the final few Fridays before she moved, and then she left me to finish the rest of the episodes on my own.

When I was still in Season One, I couldn’t imagine how I would get through this year. How was I going to get from Friday to Friday? But that’s the thing about time; it keeps going. And suddenly, I was weeks away from picking them up for summer break.

I finished the series’ final episode an hour before we left to pack up their dorm rooms. I am so grateful that positive stories like that exist because this has been such a hard year — both the twins being away and world events — and to spend a half hour each Friday taking a break from this world to spend time in a fictional world was priceless.

I decided to re-watch One Day next. It only has 14 episodes, so I’ll finish it before the twins return to school and have time to start a new re-watch while they’re still here. But thank you, Ted Lasso, for keeping me company during a hard year.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

*******

I always click on life advice, figuring that it costs me 30 seconds to skim the list to see if anything jumps out, and this list grabbed me at the first point: “Don’t go to every fight you’re invited to.” Let’s just say that I saw the list on the perfect day to take that advice and use it.

While I’ll never aim to wake up before sunrise on a daily basis, I took #13 and #14 to heart.

What appealed to you on the list?

*******

Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

I forgot that For Better or For Worse existed until a friend shared the comic of the day on Facebook. In September 2008, they started re-running the completed comic strip, occasionally adding new updates. But I didn’t even remember it existed until I saw the share and remembered how much I loved the strip when I was a kid.

Which is a little weird, right? Parents were clearly the target audience, but I remember diving for the newspaper to read it every day when I was in middle school. It reminded me of what I loved so much about Ramona Quimby, which depicted a normal (vs. idealized) family with their ups and downs.

But I wasn’t the target audience any more than I was the target audience for the television show Thirtysomething when I was twelve. But I loved that show, too. It’s not streaming anywhere, or I would rematch it to see if I still connect with the characters. Or now that I’m on the other side of thirty and once again not the target audience, will I be able to find whatever interested me when thirty was a number in my future vs. my past?

I went back to September 2008, and I’m slowly re-reading For Better or For Worse. I don’t remember most of the storylines, so it feels new. It’s nice to revisit old friends.

Provided I keep writing the Roundup every week this summer, I will hit 1000 Roundups on August 16. Moreover, if I keep writing this blog, I will hit 18 years in a few weeks in late June. My blog will be an adult.

Think about how many blog posts I’ve read to write 1,000 Roundups.

Writing the number for this Roundup — 987 — made me think about milestones and big numbers. A deep slowdown in blogging makes me think about what comes next.

*******

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…

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 wrote about the sequel to a book that has been on my TBR. There is a lot many of us will relate to, and I loved this line she highlighted: “In talking about pregnancy loss, she notes,’That you can’t let go of grief, you have to wait until it lets go of you’.” Also, Mother’s Day is a complicated day, and while I’ve seen it expressed on blogs, I’ve yet to see it expressed in a book. So now I have another entry on my TBR.

Lastly, the Road Less Travelled wrote about the Northern Lights. We couldn’t see them because it was too rainy both nights, but my Facebook feed was flooded with pictures. She expresses feeling guilt that some people were seeing the Northern Lights for the first time, and had thought they would never get to experience them. She explains, “They were infrequent and special enough that we’d usually go outside to have a look at them, but they weren’t exactly a rarity.” I fall in the “haven’t seen them yet” camp, so looking forward to the experience one day.

The roundup to the Roundup: That’s a lot of blog posts. 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 May 10 – May 17) 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.