766th Friday Blog Roundup

We finally have semi-definitive proof that, in the future, I’m going to become a time traveler.

So back in April, I posted this story on Facebook:

Today I discovered that I may be a time traveler.

I went to the dentist and was being led back to the room by a woman I have never seen before. She said, “You look amazing. You did something different with your hair.”

I murmured, “No.”

And she said, “Well you look ten times younger. Really, you look amazing today. You’ve changed something.”

I wasn’t saying anything so she paused and her mouth dropped open. “Oh my G-d, you think we haven’t met yet. Okay, well, let’s just leave it that you look great today.” And then she walked away.

So either she is a time traveler or I am a time traveler, but there is something weird with our timelines.

Okay, so we already knew from that exchange that I must become a time traveler, correct?

Anyway, I was completely calm during the World Series because I definitively knew that the Nats would win. I didn’t even bother paying attention to most of the games because I knew it so completely.

Josh was freaking out during the last game. It was the third inning, and he was miserable because we were down two. But I told him not to worry; that nothing would happen until the seventh inning, but then we’d get our first run and ultimately win the series. I kept repeating it to him throughout the game, completely calm.

During the seventh inning, I moved away from him on the bed because I knew that when the hit happened, he would inadvertently grab my arm in surprise. But if I moved away from him, he’d jump off the bed instead and scream something like, “How did you do that?” WHICH WAS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.

I have never been so calm as I’ve been watching the game. I just knew, without a doubt, that we’d win. As if I had watched the game before. Which the ChickieNob pointed out I probably had, which was how that woman at the dentist’s office knew me. Or I must have told myself the score of the game so I’ll believed myself when I showed up.

Right?

#onlyhalfjokingaboutthis

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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:

• “The Lasting Trauma of Infertility” (The Next 15000 Days)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Anabegins has an eye-opening post about how sometimes the people around us reflect back our own communication style. So if we’re not feeling supported, we may want to peek back on whether the other person has ever been feeling something similar and think about how we reacted. It’s a post about dealing with stress and uncertainty; something related to infertility, and I think many people will find this post helpful.

Life Without Baby has a post explaining embracing being child-free by comparing it to playing a trombone. Like the instrument, processing living child-free means sliding around rather than landing soundly on a note. She writes, “One day, you’re content and determined to make the most of your situation, then something happens to trigger all those old emotions and you find yourself sliding back down. Then you get to talk someone who understands you and you feel like you can really figure this out…until your friend announces a pregnancy and back down you go again.” I like the analogy.

Lastly, No Kidding in NZ has a post about belonging. It stems from an interview with a Maori man wanting to be among other Maori, and she applies the idea to her own life of being around other people who also don’t have children. We all have places in life where we are the other, and places where we are among people in a similar situation. And we all need time with the latter to draw in energy.

The roundup to the Roundup: I am a time traveler. 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 October 25th and November 1st) 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.