Celebrity Doppleganger Week on Facebook

Weeks ago on Facebook many of us saw what seemed like every girl changing their status so a different color. While it was fun to watch all the guys wonder what was going on, there was an actual reason behind it (besides messing with the men). Women were informed to post the color of the bra they were wearing at the time in order to raise more awareness for breast cancer. It seems to have been one of the more popular things to spread like a virus on Facebook since the "25 things about me" posting that went around, and is now featured weekly in Us Weekly.

Well right now there is a new one making the circuit--Celebrity Doppleganger Week. People are changing their profile pictures to celebrities that they have been told they look like or that they themselves think they look like. There are so many people where I look at their doppelganger and think "yes, that is spot on" while others I think are just doing a little bit of wishful thinking :-)

I decided to take part in the fun only to realize I don't personally think I look like anyone in particular, nor have I been told that I look like any particular celebrity. Upon making this discovery I decided to see if there was a website that could help me out. And of course, there is....

My Heritage is just such a website. Under the Celebrities & Fun tab you have an answer waiting right at your fingertips. All that needs to be done is to download the toolbar and then upload a picture of yourself--easy peasy lemon squeezy. I did all this and here are my results:



Tell me what you think!

I think I might need help....think I'm becoming and addict

Everyday when I wake up in the morning, after I take care of my daughter of course, I'm already thinking about it and I go for it. The days she has school I'm on it. When she's taking a nap I'm on it. When she goes to bed at night both my husband and I are on it.

Do you have any idea what it is like to be addicted to a freaking game? And for some of you reading this and thinking other things you might as well move along....lol.

Several of my friends had been trying to get me to join their "mafia" on the Facebook game "Mafia Wars", and for a long time I resisted. I would tell them "Look, I've got no real desire to sit here and play stupid games on here." One of my girlfriends kept hounding me to join just so she would have more people in her mafia, and so finally I just joined so she'd leave me alone.

Well a few months later I kept getting more and more requests from other people I knew that played the game and were asking me to join their mafia. So one day I decided to check it out and see what was so great about it. It started off slow for me, figuring it out and then playing for a little bit and then ignoring it for several days. I don't know what happened but one day I just started getting really into it and it's pretty much been that way since.

For those of you that don't know, Mafia Wars is a game where you are in charge of your own mafia. Just like in the movies you start by doing small jobs like mugging, robbing pimps, beating up rival gang members, stuff like that. The higher you get in levels, the more money you make and the weapons and other items get better. Of course, in order to have a strong mafia you need more people. So you take to the message boards for the game and pimping service, that's right, I said pimping services. These are basically discussion boards that you join and if you get lucky you get your name posted and a bunch of people will add you to their mafia, in turn, they become apart of your mafia--you were pimped.

I've even set up a special group in my friends list called "Mafia Wars" just so I can add all these people to my mafia. This way, these random people I add don't have access to my personal information, pictures, etc. I mean, yes I want a bigger mafia, but I don't want them knowing all about me and my family!

There is something kind of relaxing about it, especially after you've had a bad day. For example, you're driving down the road and some old lady loses her mind and yells out you for god knows what, every stupid person in town decided to be out the same time you are, your dogs ate another box of crayons, whatever the reason, you go home and get on your Mafia Wars game. You've got all this pent up energy and you let it out by killing a bunch of people on Mafia Wars and taking their money. It sounds weird but it does work! My daughter will make have a tantrum and make me upset right before her nap or something and then I get on the computer and kill a few people, go up a few levels, add more people to my mafia, and then all is good.

The days when I'm actually doing something productive and useful I'll be out and think "oh man, I've got to check on my mafia".....so sad I know!

Oh well, such is the life of the modern housewife! By the way, feel free to look me up and join my mafia....lol