Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Book Titles That Describe Me/My Life & Tell Me Something Tuesday: What do you still love doing that you loved as a kid?

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 

Golly gee! It is Tuesday again. I am out doing Tuesday morning things today, but I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this week's topic: Top Ten Book Titles That Describe Me/My Life. I'm not sure I want to give anyone this much insight into my life. It might frighten you. LOL! Just realize, you have been warned. 

Top Ten Book Titles That 

Describe Me/My Life

I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman by Nora Ephron: As I sit here, hunched over my keyboard, praying for someone to put together the standing desk I bought in November, I realize getting old is not for sissies. 

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling: If you have lived your life feeling like you fit in absolutely nowhere, you begin to wonder if people are somewhere else having fun without you.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson: If it is embarrassing, it has probably happened to me. Awkward, scrawny, and unathletic, I tell you, I have tons of stories. Aging has not improved this situation much. 

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes: In my bravest moments, I feel like I am on the cusp of this. Training myself to set boundaries is a work in progress that I feel is setting me up to embrace a year of yes. I was not, however, brave enough to finish reading the book. SMH

The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay: I would not mind inheriting a bookshop, and envisioning a new path for yourself can bring unexpected surprises. 

Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris is a book I would likely never read. I do, however, connect to the whole working in retail during Christmas frustration. One day, after listening for hours to the same music coming from the animated Santa doll near my department, and nursing a headache, I turned it off. A customer reported me to my supervisor. Really? And don't even get me started on the day that I grabbed a shoplifter in a headlock and dragged her back to the office in my dress and heels after she punched my manager in the face. 

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh might be too close to my world than I would like to admit. I stumbled upon Brosh's website and wished I had half her humor and talent. That said, her sense of humor also reminds me of Aj at Read All The Things!. If I ever meet Allie or Aj in person, I hope we will be great friends. 

Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Ashley Keller shines a light on things like my inability to feel talented in any crafty sort of way, and how I constantly feel guilty for not being talented or even being able to do anything special with my daughters' hair when they were little. I was the kid who, when we made a craft for charity, the nuns didn't like it enough and "fixed" it. I will never have an influencer house, because I can't decorate to save my life. Cooking and baking, that I can do. Forget the rest of it. 

Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist is the book I needed two decades ago. It is, however, something I am working on now. These days, despite being a domestic failure in therapy, I do find myself saying more often, "It's not perfect, but it is done."

My Father's List by Laura Carney is about one woman doing an amazing thing and how it transformed her life. Laura and I have connected online. I admire her so much. Grief is a deeply personal experience, one I am all too familiar with. Some of my most vivid memories of my childhood are surrounding grief. Listening to Laura's story reminds me that there is a way to move forward after loss. 

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Welcome back to Tell Me Something Tuesday. Considering we just talked about our lives, it seems fitting that we chat about things we love doing now that we used to love doing as kids. I don't believe there are many of these things for me:

• Counted cross-stitch, which I learned from my mémère
• Cooking/baking--self-taught with some help from a summer Bible school cooking class and home economics in high school
• Writing for enjoyment since I was a teenager

What are some things you have enjoyed doing since childhood?