756th Friday Blog Roundup

I tried the Impossible Whopper, and it was awesome. I’m pretty sure that Burger King has had a veggie burger for a while, but I’ve never felt moved to try it. But this was incredible. I got mine without the sauce and a side order of onion rings.

I’ve had the Impossible Burger before, and this wasn’t quite as good as the version at Founding Farmers. BUT the fact that I can pick it up while on the road from any Burger King in America? Priceless.

I felt like such an American having a “hamburger” for dinner to the point where I couldn’t stop saying, “Look at us. A typical American family having hamburgers, just like everyone else.” (By which I mean that I couldn’t stop until everyone around the table said, “Please. Stop.”)

Have you had it yet?

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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:

• “Stages of My Survival” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “Maximum Responsibility” (Torthúil)
• “How Can You Be Happy?” (My Path to Mommyhood)

Okay, now my choices this week.

I bookmarked “How Can You Be Happy” by My Path to Mommyhood for this week, too. The words she has been waiting to hear from someone — what a difference it makes when you feel the other person is listening and not judging. And I love this: “Because, NO ONE HAS ‘BEEN THERE.’ Just you. People may have been in general proximity to your ‘there,’ but your situation has its very own GPS coordinate.” This is a post that every single person who speaks to other people (um… all of us?) needs to read.

It’s Inconceivable has a post about being alone without being lonely. She write: “I’ve also come to realise that not having a family of my own has given me the gift of being responsible for my own wellbeing and content in situations of enforced isolation whereas others with families (whom have never had to consider this option) have struggled with these same things. Who knew that being childless not by choice would have prepared me for these things?” I love this thought of being your own anchor.

Lastly, Inconceivable! has a very funny post about the unwritten rules of calling the RE. I laughed so hard because one of my “Public Places Corollary” moments involved having to discuss my uterus while crouched on a staircase at the college where I was teaching while students walked around me.

The roundup to the Roundup: I tried the Impossible Whopper. 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 August 16th and August 23rd) 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.