What I Couldn’t Do A Year Ago
by Jenners • 03/11/2009 • Confessions, Life, Writers Workshop • 36 Comments
Although I’m kind of obligated to spend some time with my husband due to his 40th birthday, I managed to squeeze in some time to pull off a post for Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. The fifth prompt just spoke to me … and I knew I had to do it.
5.) What happened in the last year? Write about something you can do now that you couldn’t do a year ago.
Well, a year ago I didn’t have a blog so I could not regularly humiliate myself like I can now that I have both a willing audience and the tools. I’ve showed you my evolution in to a nerd. I’ve confessed that I’ve pooped my pants, I’ve told how I was mistaken for a 35-year-old woman’s mother, so now why not show you the celebrities I resemble and allow you to watch me morph into an old man who I believe looks nothing like me but — according to the My Heritage site where I found this fun little doo-hicky — I look 73% like Vytautus Landsbergis. (I guess My Heritage’s definition of celebrity is even looser than that used by Dancing With the Stars as I had no idea who my doppelganger was. Upon Googling him, I found out at Wikipedia that Mr. Landsbergis “is a Lithuanian conservative politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was the first head of state of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union, and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament.”)
However, I will accept Janeane Garafolo as my closest celebrity match as I think she is fantastic, albeit a bit more attractive than me. It was the glasses, methinks. (And can you believe she is only 1% more like me than Mr. Landsbergis?)
And how much do you think Madonna is peeing her pants to see that she is a 66% match with little ole me! Plastic surgery, here we come! (For Madonna, I mean. Not me.)
And Sophia Loren — don’t even get this one at all.
And although I wrote a virtual love letter to my husband on Tuesday in honor of his birthday, I’m taking it all back because he saw the collage below and said “I think you really look like Jack Osbourne the most. You look almost exactly like him.” Thanks, dear. You know, I just checked and Match.com has a return policy, you know!
I might try that – I am so afraid of who they pick… you are hysterical… thanks!
Well, thank you for sharing your year of blogger humiliation with us!
Not only can you blog now…but you do it DARN WELL! I love coming here. I tried that thingamajig…and dang if it didn’t match me up to mostly men. Sheeesh I guess I should have used a photo showing a little cleavage!!!
I can’t believe you’ve only been blogging a year!!
I love the morph video, I think I will go get myself one of them!!
Funny. Always love coming here and reading your posts. Thanks for the laugh!
HEE HEE! I watched the little morph video several times…amazing!
You know what, I think this is actually accurate! You DO look like Janeane Garafolo!
That was so funny.
You slay me.
I haven’t read about how you were mistaken for a 35 year olds mother.
I have to know more. So I’m off.
I gotta give your hubby a hug for letting you break free for a moment and come up with yet another bloggy masterpiece. You are hilarious.
Kathy is a gem, by the way. Great choice!
You crack me up! I think the system definitely runs funny- you should run your husband through it and see what happens to him! It told us my husband looks like Jessica Alba! I think the only reason why it picked up Mr. Landsbergis on yours is because of the way you were holding your mouth. It is weird about facial expressions, I think.
Yes, you definitely win an honesty award. I think you are the only person I’ve met that has admitted to pooping her pants:)
I am so glad to have found you. I’ve always been too scared to do the celebrity-look-a-like test… You are too brave! (And also, Madonna has nothin’ on you!)
Fun post. I love your sense of humor. As for the morphing, one of my favorite videos along this line is Women in Art at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs&mode=related&search=
Check it out. It's worth it.
Hi Jenners! I have missed you….it was not you tho, it was me!
I've been absent due to a hardware problem. Weird how you can miss someone you've never even met! Fun post, I did the celebrity thing once too & it was not fun, it's the glasses. Mine were ALL MEN except one!
Ok, I just did mine. Got a few good ones – Kathryn Heigl, Marcia Cross, and FRED SAVAGE. Took me 4 photos to even get any matches. That was hilarious.
That was awesome! You know I’m going to try this because I’m such a thief and a scavenger. I love Janeane Garafalo! I have this strange suspicion that we’d laugh at most of the same things.
How are you so freakin’ funny ALL the time? This is so awesome – I gotta go try it on myself.
Those look-alike things are really funny! And so are you!
I’m scared to do this. But I think that Aki Hakala person is pretty close (of course, it’s a small, fuzzy picture, so don’t be offended if he (she?) is hideous… but he (she?) has to be better than Jack Osborne, right?)
I’ve always lived Jeneane! And you girls almost share a name.
Hope you didn’t have too much cake yesterday. 
This is SUCH a cool gadget!! I have to do this later, after I pick THE BEST photo of myself ever. Hm, that will take time.
I think most people would find Sophia Loren being one of their look-a-likes as a HUGE compliment!
Wow – you’ve come really far… you can even morph into Vy…what’s his name! I’m proud of you!
It took me 3 different photos before it even came up with ANY women!! I’m sure my husband would be happy to know all the celebrity men I look like…and it couldn’t even be a cute celebrity like Matthew McConaughey for me – one of my look-a-likes was Danny Devito!
Hahaha!!! I’ll have to try this one later to see who I might look like. That’s too funny. Thanks for the laugh!
And you TOTALLY DO NOT look like a man. You’re adorable with your litle chocolate yum-yum.
Okay, I just ran My Heritage and it matched me up with five asian women. I mean really… Methinks they are not very accurate!
I love Janeane Garafolo too.
You always keep me laughing!! That celebrity morph thing is pretty cool. I’m scared to see who they would come up for me! Remember how Janeanne Garafallo got the guy away from Uma Thurmann in “Cats and Dogs”? Tell hubby that he better watch out
I can see Sophia Loren too!
Aww YAY I'm featured
*waits for fan mail* haha I love that you did this post! It rocked just like you!! ♥
hilarious.
maybe the cookie in front of your face was mistaken for a goatee on the face detector thingymajig.
Oooh, I am sadly addicted to the celeb-look-alike things. They NEVER get me right. I always end up looking like a size zero Asian actress. And, CLEARLY, I’m not Asian and haven’t been a size zero since …. well, I care not to remind myself. ha!
Whoops, GarAfallo I mean – laughing too hard to type properly! And thanks, too, for the intro to Kathy’s blog. On my way there now….
That was hysterical, Jenners! You are a supershiningstar, y’know! Just give Janeanne Garfallo a cookie and she IS you. Humpf to Jack Osbourne – no way!
wow – you’ve only been blogging for a year? Well I really like you site – and think you’re doing a great job with it.
Totally love Janeanne Garafallo – I can see it!
Enjoy the day with your Man, hope you kids have fun.
Oh look how far you’ve come in a year! Thanks for the laughs.
How funny! You do so look like Sophia Loren. I’ll have to google Garafolo, I don’t know who she is!
Now go be with your husband!
ROFL! You are such a riot. I am so glad you decided to start blogging in the past year.
I LOVE Janeane Garafolo! She’s awesome. And I do see some similarities there.
And shame, shame shame on hubby!