Rules For Living, In No Particular Order

I've been sick all week.  Really sick.  Hospital 2x, sleeping for 20 hrs. a day sick.  Do I feel like writing a blog entry?  Honestly, no.  But, if I didn't do something every time I didn't 'feel like it,' I'd never get anything done.  So, today's post is a simple quote from 'Mad Men.'  Yes, the TV show.  I read a great quote recently that was such a great advice that I thought it couldn't possibly have come out of the mouth of Don Draper.  Yet, I was wrong.

Over the past ten years or so, I've compiled these 'Rules for Living,' often taking them from interviews, books, poems, films, old quotes, etc.  When I came across this quote by Don Draper's character in 'Mad Men,' I thought that maybe I should actually write these down so I'll have some kind of record of all these jumbled ideas about how to live my life.  Most of them I don't have to explain, or just plain won't explain, but that's mainly because if you don't understand it, the rule may not apply to you or your life.  Well, here goes.  The most recent addition to my 'Rules for Living:'

MAKE IT SIMPLE, BUT SIGNIFICANT.

- Don Draper

My life should be simple, but significant.  What a perfect summation of something that Don wasn't remotely referring to: how we want to be remembered.  Simple, but significant.  

xoxo 

Hiatus from the blog: Unplugged

The thing about a hiatus is that it's often unplanned. I don't usually go this long without posting/blogging about something that's on my mind, but what's on my mind right now has caused my hiatus.

My great grandmother is 99 years old, but you'd never know it. She's amazingly intelligent, extremely well-traveled, sweet but witty, and does the newspaper crossword in pen. There's an infinite number of things I love about her, which is why it's so difficult to suddenly have another not so lovable quality added to her list: Cancer. Again.

A few years ago it was breast cancer. Now it's lung cancer.

Writing that "c" word is difficult for me. Understatement...it makes me want to kick and scream and throw a tantrum like a two year old. It makes me want to ball up my fists and punch something.

I'll be unplugged for awhile longer. Keep this amazing lady in your thoughts.