book, I literally could not put
it down until I was finished."
BookSurge Publishing
(January 11, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419657550
Do you ever feel like you've missed the boat and are always running to
catch the train (or are about to get run over by it)? Well, you're not alone.
Unless there is something special about you, (maybe you're an alien or
superhuman), then you're probably living your life like the rest of us poor
schmoes: overworked, underpaid and unappreciated.
Breasts too small? Butt too big? Always afraid that size really does
matter? Ever suffered from depression, anxiety or the nagging feeling that
you're not living up to your full potential?
You are not alone.
If you are thinking maybe you “ain't all that”, and life isn't delivering what
you thought it would, again, you are not alone.
Like the rest of us, you are simply coming to terms with mediocrity.
In 90 edible and easy-to-digest essays, each with their own humorous life
lesson, the author invites you to accompany her through the agonizing
terror of writing a book, fixing up a house, buying another and moving
halfway across the country (while managing not to kill anyone), and trying
to be thin, perfect, carefree and a somewhat sane human being in the
process (and failing miserably).
This book will make you laugh. It might even make you think. You might
actually think it is worth reading a second time. And, if you're really paying
attention (or just a bit lucky) it will inspire you to change things for the
better. Somehow, this book makes it okay to be a real person – to
embrace the art of being normal.
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Unless there is something unique about you, such as you're an alien or
superhuman or totally full of sh*t, you live your life like the rest of us - one
mundane, mediocre moment at a time. That's what this book is about. It's
about moment-to-moment personal endeavors and the lessons they can
teach to the people who live a daily life - us. The topics range from the
underlying fear that the author is wasting her life by not getting to the
things she knows deep down she should do, to why Mother Nature is a rat-
eating assh*le. Some other topics covered are: dieting; the dreaded
plateau; money (or lack thereof); asking for help; a man's relationship to
food; how expectations can make us miserable; the role of flatulence in
marriage; the anxiety of writing a book and risking ridicule and failure; and
the horrifying discovery that she's not a supermodel, rock star or racecar
driver, and is, instead, a nervous wreck. The book is personal,
unpretentious, totally open, and pretty darn funny, too.