Taycob a Doppelganger for my husband?

I came into the Twilight phenomenon a bit late. I read the first book after the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie. Then I rented the movie Twilight. Then I read New Moon, saw the movie version, read Midnight Sun, bought the movie Twilight, read Eclipse, watched Twilight many more times, saw New Moon at the theater again… and again. I tried, I really did, to NOT read Breaking Dawn before New Year’s, because I didn’t need to be devouring four books during the holiday season. I wasn’t getting any damn sleep.

I’ve always been a Team Edward girl. I didn’t have Robert Pattinson in mind when I read the first book, but someone pretty close. And once he grew on me, he was like a barnacle. I’m in complete lust with Robward. Jacob is fine… he gets a bit surly in Eclipse, and I really didn’t like his assault on Bella. I liked sunny Jacob. And I think Taylor Lautner has done a good job with the part, and looked pretty damn hot in New Moon. Still, I refused to go there because the guy was only 17. I mean, lusting after RPattz is bad enough, but at least he’s legal and even old enough to be out of college.

So imagine my surprise when this little epiphany hit me yesterday (as I went to see New Moon at the cinema saver theater after my book club meeting)…

Taylor Lautner kind of looks like my husband (he's number 93 in the picture).

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How did I not notice this before? What made me notice it now? Is this good? Is this bad? Argh!

Had Mr. NoTime noticed this? Whenever he mentioned TLaut (like last week when he asked me if I wanted to see Valentine’s Day), was he offended when I told him that I was totally not into TLaut? I tried to think of a way to broach the subject. I ended up just throwing it out there as we spoke on the phone during our commute to work this morning.

Me: So, I just noticed something. Has it ever occurred to you that you look an awful lot like Taylor Lautner?

Mr. NoTime: What? The douchebag from the movie?

Me: Well, yeah. The Jacob character.

MNT: The werewolf? No… really?! Now I have another reason to hate that stupid movie.

Mr. NoTime was not thrilled. But then I reassured him that the resemblance somehow made both MNT and Taylor Lautner more hot to me. He said “Hmmm… we’ll see about that.” I think he’s waiting to see if he gets any bennies out of this… like perhaps in the bedroom. I guess we’ll both see about that.

The other thing I have to wonder, is… why my obsession with RPattz? I’ve always been into jock-types, and RPattz is definitely not that. He’s skinny, cerebral, and dorky. I never even liked English accents. I guess it has to be the “Edward Effect.” I can think of no other reasonable explanation. (Or an explanation, period.)