getting things in order… in my cloud!

oh my goooosh, what a whirlwind we’ve been all caught up in!! our new-old-housey is still a major work in progress, but just a few bits here and there are starting to look cozy and settled and that feels so amazing! 🙂

i don’t know if we’ve really even processed all the craziness of moving, yet, but with everything going on… really! i would literally have lost my own head if it weren’t stuck right onto my shoulders. i still can’t find half our mugs or any of our steak knives. anyone seen ’em?? nope, me neither! and i juuuust now got my beloved computer all plugged in and sitting on my desk [downstairs… in a room that’s had dusty men filing in and out fixing our crawl space/unfinished basement area, aye-yi-yi!], so i am hoping to go through photos and thoughts and feelings and la la la all that stuff soon!!

but first… i was excited to finally unbox a special little technical something for my ‘puter life, WD’s My Cloud [personal cloud storage space!!] [3 terabytes!!], to help keep me somewhat organized… if only digitally! but let’s be honest: we have a lot to digitally organize these days… A LOT. plus, i use an older macbook, and i’m constantly afraid i’m going to open her up one morning and find that she’s gone to her final resting place… in which case i would cry huge tears because i don’t plug in and back up my stuff nearly as often as i should!

so, i had reeeally been hoping to get this sucker all set up before the packing and the moving even began! but alas, it arrived just in time to hop in a box and move…

…but now! ta-daaa! a nice, organized place for all my digital belongings! and since it’s a cloud, i like to picture unicorns and cotton candy and castles and stuff in there, too. naturally.

anyway, with two baby bunners adjusting to new house life and husb back at the daily grind, i found myself with a whole slew of stuff to sort out on my own this week… and i was pretty relieved to find my personal cloud unicorn space to be relatively easy to set up! i plugged it into the wall, into my router, created an account, and bam! it gives you the option to store folders of files, photos, media, etc., and then access it all from your other devices! yaaaaay! how handy to be able to get to my stuff from anywhere in our house… because after 7 years in a cozy one-story home, we’re definitely adjusting to the two-story routine!

and truly, i have always depended on WD for added storage options [and my dad to supply me with them, ha!] but this one really consolidates everything for me… and allows me to set regular, automatic backups of my hard drive, too, which is such a great relief to my digitally-documenting self!!

okay, so then! something extra magical happened…

…precious babes! taking simultaneous naps! in their own new bedrooms!! the sweetest moment of perfection. and we aaaall lived happily ever after. in the cloud. s!