Hey, I resemble that!!!

When I was living in the Philippines, there was this chick that was a few grade levels above me named Maria. For my entire middle school life, I was always being asked if Maria was my older sister. That was until I chopped off all my hair in order to channel Watts from the movie Some Kind of Wonderful. Then I was asked if I was a girl or a boy! How humiliating! I'm sure Mary Stewart Masterson never had to verify her gender.

I found this picture of Maria on the internet - yes,I'm a cyber stalker!!

How cool was Watts??

Then while Picket Fences was on the tube, I was told that I looked like Holly Marie Combs. I didn't even realize she was on that show. Actually, I didn't know who she was until Charmed came out.

Charming.

A few weeks ago while imbibing with some friends, I was told by a guy that I looked just like Lisa Loeb. Remember her? I think it must be the glasses because I don't sing and I have these monstrous freckles that I notice Lisa doesn't have. Anyways, this prompted a conversation with my buds over the different celebrities that I have been told I resemble.

Lisa Loeb has cute glasses.

Now, granted, I know that I am a radiant beauty but I am far from the stellar reaches of grace and sexiness that these celebrities embody.

I was going through a taco bell drive thru when the drive-thru guy told me I looked like Sandra Bullock. I love Sandra Bullock so I thought this was a very nice compliment!

yo quero taco bell!

My old college roomies found a picture of Rosario Dawson sporting some reading glasses and I apparently looked just like her. They put the pic on our refrigerator where I was greeted daily by Rosario whenever I needed another beer. I looked all over the World Wide Web and could not find the exact picture. I even got onto the Information Super Highway.

she must be wearing contacts now.

Several peeps have told me I look like Lucy Liu but I think it's just ignorance. Come on people! NOT ALL ASIANS LOOK ALIKE!!

I love Lucy

And one of my all times favorite stories took place last October. The TSA security guy at the Las Vegas airport told me that I looked just like Sarah. I was baffled and asked, "Sarah who?" To which he replied, "Sarah Palin - of course." In front of me in line was a woman loading her stuff into the bin to be x-rayed and she was carrying Barack Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. She immediately turned around and told me that I should be offended by this comparison and that just because I was a brunette with spectacles that I looked nothing like Mrs. Palin. I guess my up-do was not conservative enough!

I don't see it.