Solitary in Sanity

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Despite everything, I am still trying to enjoy the rest of this sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal summer. We plan on heading back down to the shore next week while some of Jim’s family is there.

Enjoy your weekend! I’ll be sure to keep you posted on Puppy Idol/The Puplerette/Big Puppy/So You Think You Can Adopt a Puppy?

image via design is mine

Stephanie over at So-So Stephanie recently wrote:

“We are all learning to live with this comfortable sadness that is now a part of our days.”

The situation she’s referring to is far worse than anything I’ve been through, but these words resonated with me. No matter how hard I try to remain positive, for as long as it takes to have a baby, I will carry this sadness with me.

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Moving on to stories you cannot make up….

About a month ago, I put in an application with a rescue group for 3 soon-to-be-available maltipoo puppies. I have been in contact with their foster mom for 2 weeks. She told me she would be setting up a meeting when the puppies turned 8 weeks old. We set a date for Saturday and then just a few moments ago I received the following email addressed to myself and “Susan.”

“…I will have two puppies for you to look at.  Only one is available for adoption so only one of you will go home with a puppy.  The person I select to take a puppy can then pick the one they want.  I’m sorry to do it this way, but I want to select the person/situation that I think best fits the puppy.”

Um, Babs, I do have a question. Did I inadvertently sign up for a reality TV show? Just how do you plan on wording your final decision? “Sorry Brooke, you have to go home. Susan, will you accept this rose?”

This could be a devastating situation for me.

If these puppies are 8 weeks old, they were born the week of June 15th. I can’t help but make the connection. I don’t know if we should make the 3 hour drive with JJ, just to be sent home with my heart in my stomach.

Some days I swear the universe is pushing me closer and closer towards a mental institution.

Visors suck. I guess I kind of get wearing them for activities in which  you want to keep the sun off of your face, but not trap heat on your head. For example fishing, golfing and tennis. However, coming home from work, sliding out of your Docker pants and into your Docker shorts and throwing on a visor – every day – is not a good look. In fact, it keeps me from guessing that you are in fact a previous generation douchebag (not to be confused with today’s breed of douchebag).

Get a hat. Or a pair of sunglasses.

Best,

Brooke

P.S. Oh, and you can pass this along  to your friend/relative that wears them all the time too. He looks equally ridiculous.

For now, I am adhering to these words. I haven’t uttered a single statement that even hints at “only five more days” or “I cannot wait until ____.” I have been enjoying each day as it comes and have not been staring at a calendar, slowly crossing off the days. Even now, in my 2WW (look it up, if you must), I’m not sweating next week. What happened or didn’t happened already happened and biology works in such a way that I cannot find out if that thing happened for several days. So there.

Of course, with this I am teasing my readers because I won’t tell you if it did happen, but I’m sure you’ll know it didn’t happen when I am back here. What I’m saying is, you can basically track my cycles by my blog posts. How very modern/TMI of me.

I’m not a joiner. I don’t join things, attend anything regularly and committee member, I have never been. This year when my cousin asked me to join the team of her 3 year old charity, saying yes was a no-brainer. I’ve watched closely as the past two events came together after careful planning and grass roots-style promotion. I’ve contributed by attending, finding a sitter for her girls or donating decor from my wedding. Now, with less on my plate and more time on my hands, she wanted me to take on a bigger role. Over the course of the past 8 months, a group of 5 women have met up, sent countless emails back and forth, brainstormed, promoted and sometimes begged to pull the third annual event together. This past Saturday all of our work paid off. The event was beautiful. From the weather to the decor to the food and entertainment, it was perfect. Best of all, despite the lowest attendance, we raised the most money ever. $2,600 will go towards granting a wish via The Make a Wish Foundation for a local family in need of a little cheer. So Saturday was just the beginning, now I get to look on as the fruits of our labor pay off – big time.

So I guess now I am a committee member and a joiner and a charity organizer. I was, I am and will continue to be (for as long as they’ll have me) a part of something great. Now I see what all the hype is about.

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Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey

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These are images of my almost-22-year-old cousin’s apartment in Savannah, Georgia. Let me repeat that: My almost-22-year-old cousin’s apartment – like where she lives while she attends college. Have you ever heard of a 22 year old, full-time college student with such a sweet little abode? Miller Lite signs, Bob Marley posters and a sticky beer pong table is more like it. The SCAD student did such a fabulous job designing her very own space, I can only imagine what her home will look like one day.

You can see more images of her apartment and plenty of inspiring content on her blog – Love You in the Fall.

Hope your weekend is filled with dozens of pretty little things!

Should I link up some of my favorite posts from my baby, Slice of Style, here on SiS? Absolutely. For now I’ll start with Chic of the Week, featured on Slice every Monday.  Enjoy!

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Today I bought my first teapot and earlier this afternoon, my mother in law gave me one of these tea-steeping devices. These things made me very excited for my evening tea. What a great way to end the weekend.

I’ve been drinking these organic herbal teas that are supposed to “support the female system.” Nettle leaf and red raspberry leaf, in particular. I started drinking them when I was pregnant (but after the missed miscarriage, so you need not worry about their effects) and now I’m drinking them to ensure that my uterus is the coziest place on earth to live for a little while.

Have a great week!