681st Friday Blog Roundup

As self-predicted, I have become obsessed with the Wolvog’s VR headset.  I like the LifeVR movies, especially the ones where you’re underwater or the White House one, but I mostly want to just sit on the roof of the Cliff House and look at the floating islands.  That picture doesn’t really capture the whole scene, with the beach below and the perpetually blue sky.  But it gives a sense of the space.  I like to sit on the floor and look out at the scene.

Luckily, I have zero clue how to work the equipment, so I can only go on when he’s home and able to set it up for me.

We are still in the honeymoon period of the VR rig.  I heard the twins playing with it the other night, and the Wolvog slipped it over her head with a surprise.  “I am at Buckingham Palace,” I heard her start to shriek.  “There is a man standing next to me and OH MY G-D, I FEEL LIKE I’M IN LONDON AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE!”  And I smiled, internally predicting that at this time, next month, we will no longer be sweetly exploring the world together but rather snarling about something.

Enjoy it while it lasts?

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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 in order 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.  In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “I’m Doing it For My Daughter” (The Road Less Travelled)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Not a personal blog, but the story is worth highlighting as it makes its way around the Internet.  An 8-year-old girl helped deliver her baby sister after also going through her parent’s miscarriages.  I love this story because infertility is sometimes a personal story or a couple’s story, but it can also be a family’s story.  And in this case, it was a healing moment for a girl who wanted another sibling.  The pictures made me burst into tears along with her, especially the one where the girl is crying with her hand over her heart.  Take the fact that I cried as a warning if you’re in a fragile place.

No Kidding in NZ got a chance to meet another IF blogger face-to-face.  I cracked up over (and second!) this: “I meet you all online, which is truly special, and I feel as if my life is much broader than it might be, simply because I chat with you all on a regular basis. That, it turns out, is the top factor contributing to longevity, so I thank you all in advance!”  I’m jealous because I’d love to meet both Mali and Valery.  Here’s to long life.

Infertile Phoenix has a post about her pediatrics unit at school.  The class is going to visit a NICU, and the professor mentions that the pregnant classmate may want to skip the visit because it can be upsetting.  She internally asks, “What about women who have lost babies? Wouldn’t the NICU be even more upsetting for them? We don’t know what everyone has been through. There might be someone sitting in that class who has had a traumatic experience in the NICU. But no one ever considers the infertile and baby loss population, do they?”  It’s a thought provoking post about the places where infertility and loss rears its head.

Lastly, Non Sequitur Chica has a post about their new cats (yes, plural!) with pictures.  I love this post because I spend a lot of time looking at more guinea pigs even though Josh has told me that we’re not getting another guinea pig.  Even though they’re so cute and they fill a hole in my heart.  But I digress.  The cats are really cute, and it’s a sweet story about their new family members.

The roundup to the Roundup: The VR honeymoon period.  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 9th and 16th) 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.