OCD Hamsters Descend

If theres one thing my mom hates, its rodents. Of course, her angel of a daughter would never do anything to displease her mother dearest, right? wrong. Last weekend, while mom was out of town, i went out and bought a hamster. This wouldnt be too terrible if i hadnt gotten a hamster which my mom believes to have ocd. This is only made worse by the fact that Mom was out of town with her father and siblings, who are all OCD in their own way.
i think Mom might bite off my head if the hamster doesnt run in a different direction on his wheel soon.
... Only in my family.

Father-Daughter Time

So i forced my dad to watch Tangled with me tonight, as my moms out of town and i needed some "girl time". Besides the gagging noises and the overall lack of attention to the story and lovey-dovey story tale, he had his nose in a book the entire time.
well, i should say, he had his nose in a book until he saw the king... " Hey look... it's Burger King dude... I'm hungry. what do you want for dinner?"
...only in my family

Torture Through Love

For those of you who don't know me well, I have a boyfriend who I've been together with for over a year now, and personally, i love him to pieces. If you think it's impossible for a high schooler to full heartily love a boy and "know" it won't work out, let me learn on my own. For now, its one grand adventure through the sinews of my heart. For the time being, I'm enjoying putting my parents through hell. This boyfriend lives in Australia, a good couple thousand miles away from my home on the east coast of the united states. When we have the chance to talk on the phone or face to face thanks to Skype, the "mushiness" comes out in full force. Any normal teen would hid this from their parents, but again, what is this strange word "normal"? After our 4 hour or so long phone call while i was in the car with my mom driving home from my grandparents house miles away, my mom cannot stand the phrase " i love you" uttered from my lips if anyone other than family is the recipient. This Might have something to do with the fact that my boyfriend and i continued to raise our voices until we were nearly yelling to each other how we loved each other, purely to get on her nerves.
Today, we were able to talk after having technological problems caused from the Austrailian side of things for a couple days. As we finally had 10 minutes or so to catch up, Mom walked into my room and began to read over my shoulder. The inevitable words " i love you" were typed repeatidly, with varying words in all caps until mom read my chat and ran screaming from my room to my dad. " The sweetness of the love flowing from our daughter's room to and from Australia is too freaking overwhelming!!!"
Now shes on the phone complaining to her friend a couple states away about teenage love. Soon to be worldwide by nightfall- my love life.
Only in my family...

Rocking Old Heart

My dad is a- shall we say- interesting character. He still has the soul of a 20- some year old, and believes himself the drum player which he used to be. Of course, this is the Stones and AC/DC fan who grew up in a Christian family and whose parents played classical music religiously... so he was a full out rebel. As I get older, I realize how true this really is.
Well, my friend, lets call him "Tom", plays guitar, and after a snowball fight between me, dad and Tom, we got some hot chocolate and brought out the guitars . Somewhere between pelting me with snowballs and retelling his experience of getting "second-hand high" at his AC/DC concert when he was in college... Dad forgot he was a dinosaur.
If you ever drive alongside Cedar Lane and see a teen girl being pelted with snowballs by the side of the road by a man, don't worry, its just dad forgetting his age again, and me forgetting how horrible my aim is. Thank God i never got into softball.
Of course, now my Dad thinks that since Tom has fixed my guitar and proved that its playable, Dad has decided hes a hard rocker once more and cant stop talking about aspects of the guitar which no one in our family knows about. I can't wait until he attempts to play the thing himself. I'll get a video up here of the experience when it happens.
Only in my family

I Stab You!

How many of you out there have seen "Achmed the Dead Terrorist" before? The "terrifying terrorist"? If not, check it out, its good for a quick laugh. just skip ahead to 1:12 or so to hear the quote I'm emphisizing ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go ).
The other night, my mom was bored. Never a good thing for my mom. So, being the animal lover which she is, she decided to feed our 6-ft iguana some watermelon i was cutting into chunks. She may have been the one to rescue Ziggy, but she is not the fondest of our green-skinned friend, and therefore was using a BBQ skewer to poke a piece of watermelon, and push it into Zig's face through the bars of his cage. When Zig employed her belief of closing her eyes to make the world, and my moms ugly face, disappear, my mature mother began to play with our cat, Kitty, who was lounging around on top of Zig's cage by running the skewer in front of his paws. This apparently became boring after a good minute or so, and she began poking Kitty to make him react to this new game. Finally a reaction was heard from the cat, in the form of a prolonged "meow" and a hiss. Of course, this didn't end my mom's fun. It was only seconds until mom began to yell, in her best Achmed impression, " I STAB YOU! In the Butt! In the nose! In the tail! In the.. oppsies, sorry kitty! In the chest!..." Please don't call Peta on my poor mother for loosing her mind.
Only in my family....

Horrible Movies

Most families go out to the local movie theater and see the movie with the best ratings, buy popcorn and submit themselves to some high-action drama, romance comedy, or kids movie. However, they miss the chance to learn how to crituique bad acting while they are surrounded by a hundred other people watching the big name actors run across the screen. My family? We leave the tv running as we clean the house, and when something truely aweful comes on, we sit down and watch. Last years hit was "Ice Spiders". it must have been filmed on a terribly low budget, the actors had the most obvious lines ( for example, " There's a spider on the opposite side of the door! Don't open it!"). Amazing acting included to support the stunning lines. Of course the actors had to have had their hair died from their natural blonde coloring. Rated 3.2 stars out of 10.
Today, i was called into the living room to witness another horrible movie, "Hunt to Kill". The "main" actors were horrendous, overweight and attempting stunts that are stupid to attempt in reality (repelling from a 1/8" rope, made from the band of a watch, down a free-fall cliff into a waterfall is never ideal.) however, the characters in the background had hilarious actions while close up shots of a dramatic facial feature of the kidnapped daughter were filmed. Big bad guy number one smelled his girlfriends hair while skinny bad guy number two played guitar using said rope that good guy was using to repel down the scary cliff. At least this keeper had 5 stars.
Who wants to go out to watch everyday stupidity, when you could watch paid stupidity? Support the cause!
Only in my family...