It Runs in the Family

So as many of you may not know I am spending this summer with my dear younger brother Andrew. He has  job in Salt Lake, I have a job and school and a life in Salt Lake. It just made sense. Some people may be thinking "You're whaaaat? Jessica won't living with your brother create so much strife and tension in your life that you and your brother will eventually explode creating an impassible chasm in what was once a healthy and mostly working relationship? It's one thing seeing him when you are at home and chilling together when you are at family functions, but actually living with your brother? Are you insane?" Well, I probably am insane, but that's a whole other issue that is in no way dependent on my current state of familial cohabitation. Actually my brother and I get along really well. Either that or we are both so busy and see each other so rarely that we are able to repress our rage and hatred really well. But I think it's the former. I mean we hang out and stuff. He has met most of my friends, and he has no friends in the SLC so I have met none of his. It's a really good thing we have going. So good in fact that I have become inspired to jot down a list of things we both do really really well, probably because of genetics.

The duck face shows how cool we are

1. Taking naps, especially of the mid to late afternoon variety. Seriously we are both world class nap takers. I just got up from an hour and a half long snooze, and my brother is still in his room asleep. Yesterday he got up from a 3 hour rendezvous in dreamland thinking he had slept through the whole night. His disorientation was adorable. I don't know if this extreme napping has to do with lack of sleep, some sort of anemia, or a recessive hibernation gene that probably means we are related to bears, but we have this napping thing DOWN. Go team Swensen!
2. Looking alike. Apparently this is a thing, because whenever we go to some sort of public gathering people feel the need to mention it.  Comments like "wow Jessica you look just like your brother," or "are you two twins?" are totally normal and expected.  So expected in fact that I have planned witty my responses that go "yeah it's almost like we're related," and "yes we are, identical twins in fact." I personally don't see it. I mean sure we look like siblings but I wouldn't say that my brother is like a dude version of me, or I am like a chick version of my brother. Which I have heard, often, and have yet to figure out whether to be insulted. I've included a picture to let you decide, and to add color to this post. 
3. Blogging. I don't know if we both do this well, but, well, we do it. My brothers blog  "I live with my sister now" is his completely falsified account of our, or more specifically my, summer exploits. And I have this little thing. Just so we're clear I actually did have human friends over and don't know anyone named Ralph. But hey whatever makes him happy.
4. Being hilarious. Am I tooting our horn right now? Yes. But gosh darn it people find us amusing I swear. Seriously the words "funniest people ever" have been used to describe the comic stylings of the Swensen Siblings. I'm thinking we should go on the road.

And that's about it. Yup, at the end of the day my brother and I live together so well because we're funny bloggers who take long naps and look so much a like that the thought of harming the other person would just seem like self injury. Maybe it's not much, but it's what we have.