My Crazy Family: Cousins

Chances are if you're friends with me, you've heard me tell at least one or two stories about my family. Like "the time Ange and I broke 5 vases" or "the time my cousin Ali accidentally jammed a guys finger in a really intense game of spoons." Well this time around, I'm going to tell you those stories and more. Probably more than you ever wanted to know about my family. ^^; So to start this off we'll start with the cousins on my mom's side.

This picture serves as an age chart and a height chart, isn't that great?! :D Notice how Anthony is the only guy on this side of the family? Yeah he resents that, very much so. That would be mine and Katie's fault, we'll get to that later though. Beth's off in her own little corner because she's not even related to anyone on my mom's side of the family besides Katie but I mean I have met her before so I feel guilty leaving her out. ^^; Plus she's part of one of these stories...actually let's start with hers. So Beth and Katie have the same dad and so Katie would see her pretty much every other weekend, but one time her dad thought it would be a great idea for her to go to Katie's house one weekend because he wanted her to become friends with Ange and Anth...and to a lesser extent me because I was kind of a permanent fixture in their house. Here's how that went...

So yeah...Kim kills another plan WOOT! She seemed really nice though. :3

Now, even though I spend most of my time with my mom's family hanging around Ange and Anth, I'm sort of tied to my three older cousins Tanya, Monika, and Katie. This is because we lived with our grandparents at the same time for extended periods of time.

Re-using pictures, like a boss. Katie was the only one who ever stayed there for a year straight. Tanya and Monika were in and out every couple of months and the time they spent there added up to about 3 years. And then me...I officially lived there for 2 months but when my parents were busy I'd end up there or at Ange and Anth's house (but that wasn't until I got older)

Tanya and Monika had some pretty...special adventures while living at our grandparents' house. One adventure in particular sticks out.

It was pretty much stuck there for the rest of the day, and because Monika was known for the "my dog ate my homework" excuse Tanya and Randy (random neighborhood kid) had to vouch for her when she said she got her backpack stuck in the tree...no one knows why Randy's shoe was in the tree in the first place though...

Moving on, since Ange, Anth, and I were born in such a quick succession, the three of us were forced to spend a lot of time together as kids, so that would cause my aunt's house to look a lot like this:

We were pretty violent when we were younger, one fight ended in five broken vases and a remote lodged in the tv. I'm not sure if this is how cousins are supposed to be with each other since they're the only ones even remotely close to my age but this is how we were so I just figured this was normal. Granted our fights were always over something stupid, like the tv or the computer, but I also had this problem when I kinda liked starting fights, I'd bring up something that annoyed them and then the scenes above would happen, here's how that would go down.

Those two things always bothered them because well..I'd never let them forget they happened. ^^; FLASHBACK!!!!

But of course...they have their ace in the hole too...

I think that pretty much covers my mom's side of the family. (for those of you who recall me mentioning a cousin who works at gameworks she's technically my mom's cousin so she's not on here) Time to move to my dad's side of the family. X3

I'm the baby on my dad's side, so to speak. Though ironically my oldest cousin is shorter than me...and everyone else. My dad's side lives in Wisconsin, with the exception of Ben who lives in Minnesota, so I see them all once or twice a year. (it used to be 3 times but after my grandpa died we stopped making our usual family trips to door county in the summer so I see them thanksgiving and fourth of july...sometimes one other third time)

Because I don't really see them much and I don't really know exactly what to say when it comes to them (I don't really know them all that well, I mean I do, but I don't, ya know?) I'll just do an overload of pictures of stuff they've done/I've done with them.

that blue thing is his favorite towel. :3

There's really not much else for me to draw for this...I mean theres the time William and Emily were fighting over who Emily's husband would give his old back pack squirt gun to (William or Emily and her husband's children), there was the time William told us about his marvelous misadventures in military school, the time he got into an argument with his dad over the properties of bleach. I can't really think of anything funny involving Ben since he's not always around. ^^; see I love my dad's side of the family, I just don't see them enough to know many stories to tell about them. Which is ironic because when my dad was a kid he never knew his dad's side of the family and he vowed that any and all of his children would know both parents sides and know them well and...well...he apologized but there's not much he can do about that now anyways, and I'm not mad, I just work hard to get to know them everytime I see them. :3

Anyways, there's one more important part of my family that I'm gonna go over now...the childrens... Here's how it goes. Emily is married and has two kids, Ben is married with no kids, and Tanya is divorced/soon to be remarried with 1 daughter and two soon to be step children. Here's that chart:

Roger was my favorite to draw...not gonna lie...and by draw I mean copy and paste from the last 3 times I used the baby drawing lol. All of Tanya's kids (especially her step son Ian and her daughter Bella) want to come hangout with my friends and I at Ty's house one day. And that conversation always goes the same way. "Why don't we wait till you're about...34 before we do that? Ok?" ^^; I do not want to be held responsible for corrupting them in any way. Ava has already figured out how to eat cake (slam your face right into it, just forsake the fork you don't even want to share that cake with anyone anyways) and I'm so proud of her. :3 I decided I wanted Roger to be a ginger like my cousin Luke is and like my dad was when he was a little kid, so I came up with this plan to just sneak into Em's house every few months to re-dye his hair while he's sleeping. (Nevermind that Em is a light sleeper and it's a 4 hour drive to their house. I can totally pull it off)

Alright well that's about it for this update. I labeled it cousins cause I might talk about other family members later, but for now it's just mah cousins. Hope you enjoyed my crazy family. I know I do lol. ^^;

I have a strange mind

So Eric demanded another update of the blog and at first I said no cause I'm lazy and all, but last night I was driving Kiki and Colleen home from a wonderful adventure filled day, with things like this...

and this...

and this...

Anyways, after all that, I had to drive them home and on the way home we had some very interesting conversations. The first of which was about a time in High School, Colleen estimates it was Junior year, where I was out of school early and I was walking around outside of their school, I know for a fact it wasn't Tuesday (otherwise I would've been there for anime club, but right after everyone got out of school we went to Colleen's house, so we think it might have been Halloween). Anyways I was wandering around outside the school when I spotted Colleen near a window in one of the classrooms...

And of course the first thing that came to mind was to call my mother and ask how much trouble I would get in if I threw my shoe at the window and broke it. Possibly write "Hi Colleen! From Kim." on the shoe so she knew who threw it in there, but of course my mom tried to talk me out of it by saying we'd be sued...

That didn't really stop me from removing my shoe though and contemplating whether I should actually throw it or not. Unfortunately, or fortunately if you're looking at this from my mom's point of view, class ended before I could actually throw the shoe so I was sad.

After this conversation passed and Kiki had been dropped off, Colleen and I had to head in the complete opposite direction so that we could get home, and as we drove we started talking about different movies, old movies, new movies, disney movies, movies that disney really shouldn't be making because we're seriously concerned that episodes 7-9 are going to be twenty times worse than episode 1 HINT HINT!!!!

Anyways, as we're having this conversation I'm constantly changing radio stations which at one point led to me yelling at 87.7 because it wouldn't play Radioactive by Imagine Dragons and "this is why we can't have nice things!" But eventually we landed on a station that was playing Take My Breath Away from Top Gun and so Colleen started telling me how her dad had made a "special" version of the movie where he completely cut out the...that one scene that that song was in...*ahem* so she was a little mortified when she saw that scene when she was older. XP And that turned our conversation to how, seeing certain movies when I was younger, basically ruined them (and other scarier/more sad movies) for me when I was older. Here are some examples...

I'm not saying those movies are boring, but because I watched Titanic when I was 4 I just can't cry during that movie now. Because I walked in on my dad watching Goose die in Top Gun when I was 6 I just don't find it very sad. And well...actually watching Keiichi Maebara beat his two best friends with a bat in the Higurashi live action movie Shrill Cries of Summer isn't as interesting as I thought it would be.

Now here's why all of those scenes were dubbed boring by me and ruined forever.

Titanic

The movie was pretty boring in comparison to ignoring rules blatantly stated by my parents, grandparents, and my 3 cousins who I was living with at the time. And now I can't cry during it which, in the eyes of my cousin Ange, makes me a monster.

...my dad is really tall just so you know.

As for Higurashi well...

That's all I can update with for now cause I have class and my dog is trying to come downstairs and she's not supposed to cause her leg is injured. not much of a point to this but its an update. byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.