692nd Friday Blog Roundup

An indoor sky diving place (like this one) is being built nearby, and I am obsessively going back and forth between “I must do this” and “I cannot do this.”  On the must-do-this side: it is safer that real sky diving and it’s over in one minute if I hate it.  On the cannot-do-this side: fear of the sensation of falling.  I need to talk Josh into doing it first and then have him walk me through how everything feels.  And then dither about it for a bit longer.  And then finally work myself up into an anxious lather.  And then finally do it but only enjoy the last ten seconds because I spend the first 50 freaked out.

You know, just be me.

Would you do it?  Indoor sky diving?

Um… have you done it?  What is it like?  And do you like roller coasters and such?

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May the Fourth be with you.

(I had to say it.)

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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:

• “NIAW: Don’t Stay Stuck” (Capturing Jewels)
• “You Won’t Always Be Sad” (No Kidding in NZ)

Okay, now my choices this week.

My Path to Mommyhood has a post musing on that distant day in the future when they’ll finally be done telling people about ending their family building efforts.  Oh my G-d, I love this so much: “It’s a tough balancing act, conveying the enormity of what we lost along with how incredibly happy we are to be living our life, free of the tetanus-rusted chains of uncertainty.”  And this: “It would be lovely if we were done. If future conversations could center on who we are NOW, rather than the roles we’d hoped to have but failed to acquire, every single time.”  Read this whole post.  Now.

Inexplicably Missing has a post about finally getting an appointment — 9 months in the waiting — with a particular RE, and finding out that the RE is currently out for a hurt foot.  The clinic was going to put them with someone else in the practice, but this is it, a final round of IVF.  Does she wait and see the person she wanted to see, or does she go with someone different, knowing that she may or may not have “what ifs” in the future?  This is the stress of infertility you don’t hear about; the big weight of every decision.

In Quest of a Binky Moongee has a post marveling at how different life has turned out.  It is their anniversary, and she reflects on her marriage, stating: “After all the struggles with Bob’s parents and building a family, it is nothing short of a miracle that we have both my in-laws and our babies sleeping under the same roof.”  Here’s to being on the other side of struggles and the next seven years.

CountingPinkLines has a great analogy post comparing the stress of infertility and the stress of pregnancy to the stress of a PhD program and the stress of medical school.  It actually makes perfect sense if you go over and read the post, and I had never thought about it that way.

Lastly, More Than Riley’s Mama has a post about telling people about infertility… and hearing crickets.  We can’t just ask people to talk about infertility or loss; we need to do a better job at asking people to be better receivers of information.

The roundup to the Roundup: To try or not to try indoor sky diving.  It’s Star Wars Day!  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 April 27th and May 4th) 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.