Review of Still Hanging In There: Confessions of a Totaled Woman [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

I read this book last month and I am still laughing. Jan handles so many subjects including doctors, exercising, not exercising, football reruns, makeup for men, politics, advertising, television, sex and all family matters including dogs and gophers with great humor and philosophy. While I yell at my kids for not doing their homework, she contemplates an excuse note, since she's run out of excuses, claiming that since her little Boris is an alternate astronaut he needs to be alert and not start his homework if there is a chance he would not be on earth to complete it. Of course she does not really let him get away with it. She believes everyone must be responsible for their own lives including the kid who wet his diapers and claimed his daddy did it. She knows he couldn't have since dad works downtown. She declares that while she became a liberated lady and let everyone do "their own thing" her family and the nation started to fall apart. Now that she is back doing what she does best, "Nagging", everything is back on track, She has advice for the lovesick in a chapter called, "HOW TO TELL WHEN IT'S OVER". Here are a few subtle signs there may be trouble brewing, according to Jan: When he joins Parents WITHOUT Partners, If he introduces you as his "former wife"When he advertises on a giant billboard, "I love you Myrna" and your name is not Myrna, If you return home to find him napping with an army buddy and the towels read HIS and HIS, it may be time for a little chat at Starbucks. Good advice. She handles it all with such fun and insight. The problems that usually annoy me, she sees totally differently in an amusing way. It has taught me to approach my life in a lighter manner. How could I not like someone who claims as I do that "Pasta is her life." Among her fantasies: Diving into an Olympic size pool filled with spagetti and eating her way out. She also reveals how she turned flab into dollars. Jan Marshall is a very funny lady. I would absolutely recommend buying this book.

Product Description
A lighthearted manual for getting through each day with humor and giddiness. It is a delightful look at some of our minor, daily irritants that includes marriage, motherhood, football reruns of highlights of last year's game and the men we love who watch them... again and again.

The book is filled with astounding anti-diet/anti-exercise advice in the chapter "How I turned flab into dollars." While Jan was jogging she thought she heard applause. Regretfully it was simply her thighs hitting together. She was paid extremely well to leave the neighborhood. Franchise anyone?

There are time management tips "If you do not polish silver for six years it begins to look like pewter. Pewter is nice!" This joyful philosopher notices most human absurdities, ponders, reflects and then answers such questions as "Can we really leave nagging to strangers? Why is it that for every light on Broadway there is a runny nose? She agrees with Hemingway that though the sun also rises, it also fades the drapes.

This witty book will have you shaking with glee (67 calories expended) as you realize the stuff that really annoys you can be thought about in a more amusing, tolerable and weight losing manner.

About the Author
Jan claims her overbite is from hanging in there by the skin of her teeth. Founder of the International Humor/Healing Institute she is a Certified Master Clinical Hypnotherapist, humorist and speaker. A frequent guest on radio and television she actually believes not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious.

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