851st Friday Blog Roundup

Oh tampon manufacturer, do you not understand how little I want to find a new tampon this late in my menstrual cycle life? I have like… what? Maybe a handful of periods left. And you are going to make me read up on tampons and test out new products? At this stage of life? I am too old for new tampons.

I was given no warning. I went to buy tampons, and there were none of my tampons. I went to a second store and third store (okay, I sent Josh to a second store and a third store)—nothing. I finally Googled said tampons and stared at the search results in disbelief. I needed to complain about the situation in real time, and I clearly still need to talk about how annoyed I am to adjust to a new tampon this late in life.

But adjust I must.

Thanks for nothing, tampon manufacturer.

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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:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Uterus Monologues has a post on motherhood after miscarriage. Wow—this insight blew me away: “When you have a baby, people are drawn to you, everybody checks in, everyone has questions (Name? Weight? How was the birth?). Whereas when you lose a pregnancy people retreat.” Yes. I also love the do’s and don’ts at the end.

Jewish IVF is at the doctor for an endometrial biopsy when a woman enters the waiting room after an ultrasound. She writes: “I saw a lady coming out from the back with an ultrasound picture in her hand. The good kind. The 5-week bubble holding an infinite amount of joy. As she was shoving other things into her purse, waiting in line to make a follow up appointment, it waved around like a flag of hope.” It’s about the silent good thoughts we think for one another.

Guinea pig mothers have to stick together. I cannot resist linking to Lucifer the guinea pig. So cute, Slaying, Blogging, Whatever.

I was glad to have a heads up about the end of Us from The Road Less Travelled. I read the book, but I don’t remember everything. It’s a hard show to watch (and a hard book to read): baby loss, marriage difficulties, and how we change over time. It’s a little easier to watch with the warning as well as her unique insight into a particularly moving scene: “What I didn’t expect was bursting into sobs near the end, when Douglas, Connie and Albie embrace in a group hug in Albie’s college dorm room … but it also hit me (as it still does, from time to time) that it was one of those moments I’ve missed out on and will never experience with my own daughter.”

The roundup to the Roundup: New tampon blues. 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 June 25 – July 2) 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.