The more I read Jen Lancaster, the more I realize that she and I are really the same person occupying two different bodies, married to two different husbands, living in two different states. Impossible, you say? Just read a few of our similarities below:
1. We are writers. Well, Jen is the real writer. I am a former English teacher who occasionally teaches writing and I’m a blogger and that’s close enough.
2. Both of us reinvented ourselves after unfortunate ends to our respective stints in corporate America. Jen: see #1. Di: university professor.
3. Both of us prefer our new lives over our former corporate ones and our pets to most people.
4. Neither of us can decide which Chicago-area lifestyle is more fabulous: city or north shore suburbia and can make a case for each.
5. We can quote 25 year-old Tom Cruise movies, yet cannot articulate our reasons for liking or disliking fine art without being prompted. "Looks like it's University of Illinois!"
6. We worship Candace Bushnell.
7. Both of us appreciate the bizarre combination of dessert and bacon (Jen: doughnut, Di: chocolate bar).
8. Both of us are at our creative best while irritated.
9. We don’t suffer fools and may owe some apologies as a result.
10. We often engage in too-candid verbal expression which exacerbates #9.
11. We spend far too much energy on choosing the ensemble and not nearly enough on the event we attend while wearing the ensemble.
12. We are prudishly troubled by (our own and others’) nudity.
13. We find it nearly impossible to relax during a massage (see #12).
14. We hate traveling alone.
15. We are obsessed with the Twilight saga.
16. We are conservatives whose friends are, mostly, liberal (and how the hell did that happen?).
17. We buy shoes, photograph them, and post the photos on our websites (Jen: http://www.jennsylvania.com/ , Di: my Facebook page—Sorry, if you aren’t already my “friend”, you don’t get to see the shoes).
18. We both wear Crocs (Jen: all colors, Di: ASU Maroon and Gold with Sparky on the side) despite our inherent taste for couture.
19. We both rely on “asides” to convey even more personal commentary than is possible in one side of a normal person’s conversation.*
20. Both of us are married to saints (Jen: Fletch, Di: Brian) whose military training and service adequately prepared them for the patience required to endure our neuroses and adore us despite all of them.
*Fabulous!
Convinced yet? I report. You decide.
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