Did any of you ever see the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen movie, It Takes Two?
For the most part, I could not stand MK and Ashley Olsen movies. I mean, hello! All the plots were exactly the same: girls go to foreign country, girls meet cute boys with hot accents, girls save foreign country from peril, girls and cute boys with hot accents get together and live happily ever after.
Luckily, It Takes Two was different. Can’t say it was my favorite movie, but I have seen it quite a few times. One of the movie’s biggest intrigues for me was this concept it introduced: the possibility of identical strangers. For months, I kept an eye out for “the other Katie,” convinced she was around somewhere.
Well, on Saturday, I found my twin:
Yes, yes, I know we’re not really identical. But hey, neither are Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. I swear we did not plan to both wear jeans, pink shirts, and black vests. It was twin sense at work. Plus, we share a mutual love of Artisana coconut butter… but maybe that’s not twin sense; that’s just common sense!
She even brought me some Raw Carrot Cake Bites!
Seriously, sweetest girl ever! We met at Whole Foods, and we talked non-stop about everything from blogging to food to life in general. I almost missed meeting this amazing girl, though! It was pure luck (or maybe fate) that our paths crossed:
I emailed Kelsey, because she’d won one of my giveaways, and she replied, “Ya know, I’m actually going to Dallas in a few weeks, to visit friends. If you want to hold on to the bars til then, you could give them to me in person.” As someone who envies all Californians and New Yorkers, with your routine blogger meet ups, I jumped at the chance for a blogger meet-up of my own. Our meeting was so much fun (albeit way, way to short!). She is absolutely one of the sweetest girls one could ever hope to meet. (Oops, I already said that! Ah, but it’s worth repeating, because it is so true!) Oh, and the Raw Carrot Cake Bites she made me? They were even better than the ones I make!
Has anyone ever told you that you look like someone else?
Perhaps someone famous? And have you ever wanted to be a twin?
haha you had me going for a second 😉 i haven’t seen anyone that looks like me in real life but someone in a grocery store told me i looked like marisa tomei once haha. i’m thinking it was the bounty of hair!
Wow, what a sweet compliment. Marisa Tomei is one of my favorite actresses. If you’ve not seen My Cousin Vinny, I highly recommend it!
I have had people tell me I look like Kate Beckinsale and Michelle Williams, but they’re obviously wrong, considering those celebrities look nothing like each other! I’ll just take the flattery and run, though. Mostly, people tell me I look JUST like my mom. That one I’ll believe. 😉
Hahahaha seriously, they don’t look anything alike! Too funny. But I can see your resemblance to Kate Beckensale! 🙂
And I think looking like one’s mom is the best compliment of all!
Haha It Takes Two was like my all time FAVORITE when I was younger! I thought it was SO good! haha. I’ve yet to find my twin 🙁
Haha, yes! The first few years I lived here, I was accosted on at least 3 different occasions by people who thought I was someone named “Max”. The last person who made the comment was in uniform so I asked him just who this Max person was. Turned out she had been in the Navy’s elite dive unit! That tickled me pink because a) I can barely swim and b) I’m terrified of the water! Kinda makes ya wonder why I chose to live on an island…
Well, that’s ok. Apparently your twin can swim well enough for the both of you! 😉
That is neat that you two matched without planning it. Those carrot maccaroons look good. I hope you get to meet up with many more bloggers. 🙂
I used to get that I looked like Keira Knightly, but now random strangers constantly tell me I look like Ellen Page (which, personally, I just don’t see.) It’s kind of peculiar.
Mmmm. Those balls look sooo GOOD. (:
I have come to the conclusion that I have many, many identical twins.
I am CONSTANTLY having strangers come up to me, addressing me by different names, insistent that I’m so and so. They start conversations about how it was great to see me recently. I always say no, I am not that person, and in response, I get, Are you sure you weren’t at so and so? Because you look JUST like her. Some people get this look like I’m messing with them, because I am clearly the person they think I am. It’s happened on the West Coast, on the East Coast, and it even happened when I was in Belize on my honeymoon.
Growing up, my best friends were identical twins. I’m an only child, I never wanted brothers or sisters, but I always wanted to be a twin. Perhaps I got what I wished for…just not how I imagined it!
LOL oh goodness, be careful what you wish for, right? 🙂
Okay, now that’s just creepy. You plan a blogger meetup with a blogger you have a lot in common with….and you both show up wearing practically the same thing!! Crazy!
For a few years, the people at my bank kept getting me confused with another customer they swore was my twin. She was short, pierced, dark hair, just like me. Since it’s a bank, they knew where she worked because it was on her paycheck. So they told me, and I went to this restaurant where she was a server in hopes of finding her.
I informed the waitress that came to our table that I was looking for my twin and she worked there. The waitress was, like “oh my god…you do look just like her! But she went to work another place on Beale Street a month or so ago.” Before I had the chance to be a total stalker and go there, I actually ran into the girl at a bar downtown. My boyfriend had seen her working at the Beale Street place and said he thought she could be my twin…the boyfriend was at this downtown bar with me and he pointed her out and then he went over and invited her to our table. Turns out, she’d been getting the same “you have twin” about me. Did we look alike? Not really, in my opinion but I could see the resemblance.
I don’t look like anyone! Maybe I’m meant to be unique!