Adulting

With the graduating season upon us, I’ve started thinking back to where I was when I graduated high school and college. Even then I was in love with books and as the first child in my family:

a.) I had no idea what I was doing and
b.) neither did my mom. [Sorry mom, I still love you:)] So we looked to books.

There weren’t that many great ones, but it was still nice to know that we weren’t crazy, that other people had asked the same kinds of questions we were asking. Learning how to be an adult isn’t something they teach you in school, and yet, we are all supposed to magically transform into one.

So since those deer in the headlights days, I have kept my eye out for books that would have helped. The lovely Whitney put together a Great Gifts for Grads table the other day and I saw it: the perfect book: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly William Brown.

Based on her blog by the same name, this book has everything from how to wash a cast iron skillet, to what to do when you can hear the neighbors loudly playing music at 6am. This is one of those books that you want to say your reading because it’s funny, but you’re really technically maybe, ok probably, reading it because you’re unsure if you should have written that nice person a thank you note or not.

One of the many flowcharts and doodles from Kelly’s blog Adulting

So for all those grads (little brother, you have been warned. The book shaped present you receive soon is this) or 20 somethings in your life who have already read Defining Decade and still have no idea what they are doing with their lives, this is their book. At least then they will be properly aimless.