My bathroom has to be cleaner than my bedroom. I can sleep in a messy room, wading through piles of clothes to get to my bed, but I cannot even look in the mirror in a dirty bathroom. So this week was the every other week, and since my lazy sister didn’t have time to do her share, I cleaned the entire bathroom.

Lemme tell you, nothing made me prouder than staring at that gleaming porcelain of my Kohler toilet. Well, maybe, showering in the newly-cleaned shower topped that - all that gleaming tile and shiny, clear glass doors.

Since it took me around two hours to finish the job, more))

…in fact, I would strip down to my knickers! Episode 206 of Mad Men, “Maidenform”, is my favorite ever. It even made me cry this time (spoiler alert).

“Mad Men” refers to the men of 1960’s Madison Avenue advertising who lead whirlwind lives filled to the brim with booze, women and egos. Part of its charm is its period quality: vintage wardrobe, upscale restaurants of olden day Manhattan and tons of cigarettes. Don Draper is the high-power creative director at Sterling and Cooper. 

I don’t know how Jon Hamm can be Don Draper without actually being Don Draper. Maybe that’s why he’s nominated for an Emmy! Don is a complex character, good and bad and blah blah blah. Silently powerful in his well-made grey suit, he loves his children and has countless affairs; he demeans his colleague while still showing concern for his secretary; he’s a stone in the office but cannot control his emotions for other women. I was so jealous when he showed up in person, bedside, when Peggy was at the hospital, looking miserable and fat; heartwarmed as he looked down with pride into Sally’s admiring eyes; hopeful everytime he called his wife “Bets”; sympathetic when he was rejected by Rachel Mencken, who unforgettably, and tearfully, realized: “You don’t want to run away with me, you just want to run away.”

I don’t feel I watch Mad Men for the romance so much more))