Read: "I Feel Bad About My Neck" July 10, 2007

I was reading the June 2007 issue of Metro Magazine when I landed on the page where they were doing a review on books. I love books. Especially romance novels — I can go on and on all day just reading these.Ü My bestfriend was the one who introduced me to these lovely books. I like romance novels written by Nora Roberts, Jude Devaraux, Judith McNaught, Johanna Lindsay and the like.

Going back to the Metro mag book review page, there’s this book that they recommended titled “I Feel Bad About My Neck — and Other Thoughts On Being a Woman” written by Nora Ephron. The same author that brought us When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and Bewitched. I was already interested with the book with the just the title but after discovering that she’s the same author as the others I made up my mind to buy the book. It’s not anything like the romance books I read (with Lords and Dukes and Knights and Damsels in Distress) but it’s reality in a way that I know I’ll learn something from it.

 

Here are selected bits of wisdom from the chapter “What I Wish I’d Known”:

• Buy, don’t rent.

• Don’t buy anything that is 100% wool even if it seems to be very soft and not particularly itchy when you try it on in the store.

• You can’t be friends with people who call after 11 pm.

• The world’s greatest baby-sitter burns out after two and a half years.

• The plane is not going to crash.

• At the age of 55 you will get a saggy roll just above your waist even if you are painfully thin.

• Write everything down.

• You can order more than one dessert.

• Back up your files.

• If the shoe doesn’t fit in the store, it’s never going to fit.

• When youre children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so someone in the house is happy to see you.

• If friends ask you to be their child’s guardian in case they die in a plane crash, you can say no.

Payday is on Friday, just in time for me to buy this book. Yey!Ü