Sue's Rules

Sue published these rules in one of her updates during the last year. Mindy, Sue' s sister, has asked me to put them on the website for all to enjoy!

SUE’S RULES

1. You can cry with me, but only if you laugh with me, too.
2. Be kind to each other.  You are a crazy, eccentric group of people with many strong personalities.  That’s why I love you, but it’s also why you’re likely to clash occasionally.  If you are unhappy with each other, keep it to yourselves.  I believe you’re all like Mary Poppins—practically perfect in every way—and will hear nothing to the contrary.
3. Join me for the fight, not for the surrender.  I am living my life, not dying.  Don’t forget that.  Don’t talk to me as if you’re saying goodbye.  The past tense is banished from my vocabulary.  Clean up your language, too, or I’ll have to wash your mouth out with soap (as my mother used to threaten).
4. Pray, chant, curse the gods or beam positive karmic thoughts my way--whatever works for you.  I am gratefully accepting any and all modes of healing you have to offer.  I’m envious of those of you who have strong faith, but you’re going to have to accept that I might not share it.  My faith is in you.
5. Vote Democrat.  Oh well, I just thought I’d try to get that one past some of you.
6. Don’t tiptoe around me.  I don’t imagine that I’m going to get any less impatient or irascible, so you’ll just have to deal with it—as you always have. 
7. Get a flu shot.  Dr. Orlowski’s assistant suggested that those who intend to spend time around me should do this, as some of the possible treatments might leave me vulnerable to whatever crud is going around.  I’ll want to see you, so protect yourself and me at the same time.
8. Stay tuned for more rules.  I’m sure I’ll come up with some new ones.