My Family Still Roasts me Because...

0:14Welcome back to my sister's diary, the podcast where it feels like you've snuck into your sister's diary and found all her unfiltered stories, confessions, and thoughts she'd never say out loud. Hi guys, that's my new intro and I know it sounds super scripted because I literally read it off of my paper. I promise it'll get better, but I just want people, because I'm getting some new listeners, I want people to just kind of know what they're getting when they listen to the very beginning of the episode. So I'm going to start including that and hopefully it'll sound more natural the more I do it.

0:46But welcome back. It is September, officially September. When I'm recording this right now, it's September 1st. When you're listening to this, well actually no, if you listen to it on the day it comes out, it'll be September 2nd. Either way, you will definitely be listening to it probably in September. This is honestly one of my favorite months and let me tell you why. I love the summer. That's hands down my favorite months of the year is summer. But September is great because it's low pressure. Like there's no crazy big holidays. There's, I mean, there's like Labor Day and that's it, I think.

1:19But Labor Day is a chill holiday. Like it's just for fun. Yeah, the weather is really great in September for the most part. I don't we've ever gotten snow that I can think of in September. So it's really nice. It's cooling off. It's finally not like burning my face to go outside every single time. It's still like 85 degrees outside, but you know, I can handle that. 100 plus degrees I can't handle. So I'm thankful that that time of the year is gone. And you know, I actually had my first spark of excitement this last week for fall. I'm not like a crazy fall person. Not that being a crazy fall person is bad.

1:56I love that for you. But I just don't get like, oh my gosh, I love fall so much. I do love it. But the thing is, I love summer more. Okay. You guys know, you know, I love summer. So I'll stop talking about it. But I had my first spark of excitement. Let me tell you why. Last year, I found the most amazing pumpkin bread recipe in the world. It is so moist. And sorry if you hate that word, but it's 2025. So get over it. It's moist. It's delicious. It tastes like pumpkin. It has everything you could possibly want. It tastes like the pumpkin bread. What is the place? Neaters. Have you ever, if you've ever had pumpkin bread from Neaters, this recipe I found tastes just like it.

2:41It's so freaking good. I'll have to share it. I'll share it on my Instagram story so you guys can screenshot it, but I am excited to make that. And the next kind of thing update about the podcast, like I added in the little line at the beginning. And the other thing is when I do like the life updates or like things I want to talk about, I never know what to call it. And when I started the podcast, I had an idea and I just kind of forgot about it. So when I do my life updates and things I want to talk about, it's my diary. So like I'm reading you my diary for the week. So reading my diary entries, whatever, I'll say something along the lines of that.

3:13Not that you guys care about the exact format of the podcast, but just so you know what's going on when I say these things, you'll be in the know now. So let's read my diary for this week. A little half marathon update. If you guys listen to my episode, I can't remember. It's like the second episode maybe where I told you about like some of my new year's goals and I have not done a single thing. Not a, literally nothing. I have, I'm going to start this week though. I really am. I'm going to start this week. I only have eight weeks to train for it, which is crazy, but I've been working out just not doing long distance runs.

3:53I've been doing not like weights, free weights by myself, but I go to like surge and I go to a lift class and bar. And I mean, I do weights and it's a little bit of cardio. So hopefully I'm not too out of cardio shape that I can get it done by in eight weeks. I know people who are runners who are listening to this are like, you're stupid. You are literally stupid. And I know, I know I am. And I, this is the third one I've signed up for. This is the third half marathon I've signed up for. And it will probably be the last one. You know, I always had in my mind that I wanted to run a marathon, but I don't actually want to.

4:33I don't actually want to. I don't really love running that much. I do in, I don't know, I go through phases. Like once I get into running shape, it's good. I like it. But also I get bored. Like I get bored. You guys know how long it takes to run a marathon? It takes hours. And I don't like doing the same thing for hours at a time. So why would I want to run for hours at a time? I don't know. Anyway, I already signed up for this one. I'm going to do it. Even if I have to walk, I'm going to do it. It'll be fine. I don't care. I'm not embarrassed to walk at all. I will do it. And I mean, my goal is to run, but if I have to walk, I'll do it.

5:10Like if my body's not ready to run the whole time, I'm not going to like tear my body apart just to finish. I will listen to my body, take care of my body, and I might have to walk a lot of it and that'll be fine. That'll be just fine. It'll just take me, you know, eight hours and that's fine. Okay. The next thing is in my diary, I scheduled family pictures, which you guys may not care about, But here, let me tell you why it's important. I had a baby last year and it's been, let's see, he's, he was born in June. So it's been a little over a year. And since then, I have two pictures of my entire family, like all my kids and my husband and I, two pictures.

5:54And they were taken on an iPhone and they were taken this summer, which is a really big bummer. I'm actually really, really mad at myself that we don't have any pictures of the whole family when he was younger. But you know, I can't go back. There's no going back. The last family pictures that we took, we took some with my, like my extended family, like my parents and my siblings and stuff. But the last time we had just like my little family pictures was when my daughter was born and she's turning five on Wednesday. So five years ago, five years ago is the last time I had professional pictures of like my little family.

6:28Besides, I have a couple here and there from when we had like my extended family family pictures, but I only have like two or three. Anyway, I'm excited. And here's your sign. If you guys are on the fence about doing family pictures, do it. Just do it. I know it's expensive. You don't have to pay somebody. Just like have what I mean. It's like, it's good to have to pay somebody if that's what you want to do. But even if you don't have the money to do it, just get somebody to take a couple iPhone pictures for you because you're going to want that. You're going to look back and be like, I wish I had a family picture during that time.

7:03And you know what? I think the reason I didn't want to take a lot of pictures when my son was born was because I didn't like the way that I looked, which is stupid. I'm sorry. I'm just going to say it like that. And I wish I didn't care so much about the way that I looked because now I have no pictures of it. And I can't even like go back and look at pictures of me and my baby or anything like that because I was like, no, don't take a picture of me. And I wish I hadn't been so stupid during that time because now I regret it. All right, last thing, speaking of babies, is I am attempting to wean my baby.

7:34I'm still nursing him. You know, I'm not, I'm ready. I'm not, like, emotional about it, I wouldn't say, but I'm just lazy. Like, it's super convenient to just go somewhere and not have to bring a bottle, not have to do that. If he's grumpy and hungry, I can just feed him. Like, anywhere I go, it's literally attached to me. I can feed him anywhere, and that's really nice. And he hates bottles. He hates them. we made the mistake of never introducing one like ever when he was a baby. I think you need to do it like right when they're born because we did the same thing with my daughter. When they were like three months old, we kind of tried a bottle and they wouldn't take it.

8:10So I wish if we were going to have another baby, we would do this, but we're not. And introduce the bottle earlier because now it's going to suck. It's going to suck to wean him. He's going to be so mad about it. And I should just like do a cold turkey, but I also gave away my breast pumps. I don't really have a way to like relieve the pressure from myself if I do that. So I'm trying to do it slowly. If anybody has, I'm genuinely serious. If anybody has any tips for weaning your baby, please message me because I would love to know. I forgot, like always, to introduce the topic for today. The topic is things my family still roasts me about.

8:51So this is like things that happened a long time ago, whether they're embarrassing or funny or I don't know, something like that. And your family still roasts you about it. They still bring it up. That's what that's what we're doing. And you know what made me think of this is it is we're coming off of family reunion season. And I feel like a lot of times when you're at a family reunion, you do a lot of reminiscing. And these things get brought up a lot, you know, because they're funny and you like to tease people about them. So that's kind of what made me think about it is because we've had a lot of family reunions in the last couple of weeks and I just thought it would be fun to hear everybody else's stories.

9:28So that's what we're going to do. A couple of my own before we get started. I posted on TikTok and on Instagram to ask like my audience, I thought I would do something different this time to get submissions and it was kind of fun. Well, it was really fun. I don't know why I started like that. It was fun to do it that way. But I posted on there in the comments, I posted that when I was a tween and I was probably like 12. Yeah, probably 12. Way too old to be doing this. Way too old. And I, my mom had this exercise ball that was shaped like a, like a peanut. Like, uh, it wasn't a circle. It was like an oval, like a peanut, but it didn't have like an injet in the middle.

10:06It was just like a bean. I don't know how to explain it. anyway, I, my, my older sister did this too. Okay. Just to let you guys know, but I won't go into detail about her performance. I'll just tell you about mine. Anyway, we decided to do dance routines using this exercise ball and we recorded ourselves doing it on like a camcorder. And I can't remember what song I did. Actually, no, I think it was a Nickelback song. I'm pretty sure it was a Nickelback song. What's the song? It's like, I love you. I don't know. I can't remember the name of that song. I'm pretty sure that's the song. I will not be showing you guys the footage.

10:49I'm sorry, but it is too embarrassing. It's literally, you know, when you're watching AFV, well, I don't know if anyone else watches, but my family likes to watch it. And there's like ones of teenage girls and they do something embarrassing. And it's like hard to watch because you're like that, that is actually like embarrassing. It's like not funny embarrassing. It's just straight up embarrassing. That's how this is. It's like not, it's almost so embarrassing. That's not even funny. And my family loves to bring it up. My family loves, oh, you know what the worst part was though? My older sister posted my video on Facebook for people to see.

11:22And there's a part of the video where my underwear is poking out. It's so, it's so incredibly embarrassing. And when you're 12, that's like the worst thing in the world. That's the worst thing that had ever happened to me in my whole entire life was my sister posting that on Facebook for all my friends to see. And I pretty sure we were camping when it happened and she was not with us for some reason. And I just, I don't remember how I found out that it was posted. Actually, I think my aunt, one of my aunts was like, wow, this is so funny. And I cried. I cried hard. And my mom made my sister take it down.

11:53Yeah, that gets brought up quite a bit. We talk about the ball. We call it, you know what we call it? We call it the ball Olympics. yeah that's what we named it anyway it's so embarrassing I would show you guys I really would but I can't I can't do that to myself I won't allow that video to be on the internet I can't I can't let it happen um the next one most of these most of these you've heard I just can't remember I think that I've told this I've never told anybody about the ball olympics ever besides I think I told my best friend in high school and she told somebody I don't know maybe she didn't.

12:25I think she saw it though, which is embarrassing. I can't believe I let her see it. Anyway, let's move on from the ball and limp because I don't want to talk about it anymore. The next thing is on vacation one time. I'm pretty sure this was me. I was asking my siblings about it and no one could really remember who it was, but I'm pretty sure it was me who we went on vacation and I had to use the restroom and it was not number one. And I clogged the toilet. I'm pretty sure it was me. If I'm wrong, if any of my siblings are listening to this and they're like, no, that was me, please tell me. But I'm pretty sure it was me.

12:59And then there was no plunger. There was no plunger there. So we had to go to the front desk and ask for the plunger. And I was so embarrassed. I made my older brother go with me and I'm pretty sure I made him ask for it. But yeah, we talk about that one, not like super often, but quite often. But that story also reminds us of one time, one of my other siblings, I won't tell you who it was, was at my house, I think. Yeah. And I didn't have a plunger. Gosh, I can't remember now. It might've been my brother's house. He was at one of either my house or my other brother's house. Okay. Hold on. I just kind of added who it was.

13:36Anyway, my sibling was at one of our houses and that house didn't have a plunger. So they had to walk over to my house and get the plunger and do like a walk of shame back to the other apartment. And we do bring that one up quite a bit. My family has issues with plungers apparently. Okay, the last one is this one is like, we do talk about it quite a bit with my extended family. And when I think about it, I was trying to be funny, but it also wasn't funny. So let me tell you, we were playing in the church gym because we had a family Christmas party there. And one of my uncles was we were playing soccer and he kicked the soccer ball all the way across the gym and it smacked me in the face so hard it knocked my glasses off my face and it like smacked my head around so I like turned my head around and was like holding my face and everyone was like dead silent for a second and then I remember I was like okay be cool Sam so I like looked up at him and gave him like this really bad scowl face and I was like that'll be funny but I was also like really hurt so it didn't look like it was trying to be funny and we call that the look and so every once in a while Actually, we talk about it quite a bit.

14:42People are like, oh, they just gave me the look. And that's what the look is. It's my mean, grumpy face. So yeah, if you guys ever see the look, then I will pray for you. okay let's move on from from my stories I know people are probably bored whenever I tell mine so I'm sorry but let's move on to your stories like I said I asked on TikTok and Instagram and then I also had a anonymous submission box open so I will keep all of these anonymous I'm not going to call anyone out by name but some of them you can see on my Instagram and TikTok if you really want to do that so I picked I there was there was not enough time to pick all of them so I picked some.

15:22Let's, let's start us off right here. It says, I was trying to get my parking pass in college. When they asked what kind of car I had, I said a Chevy Chrysler. The lady looked at me like I was crazy and said something like, that's not right. And I was like, well, I don't know then. You guys, I had to Google this one. I was like, well, what's wrong with a Chevy? Like, why is that not right? Um, it's because Chevy and Chrysler are both brands. So they can't, you can't have a Chevy Chrysler. It's, it'd be like having a, a GMC, GMC Chevy or like a, I don't know. I can't, I'm not a car person. Okay.

15:54Robbie will sometimes, we'll be driving and he's like, oh, look at that, the Pontiac. And I'm like, okay, where? I don't, I don't know. And he's like, it's silver. I'm like, okay, I don't, I don't know. If you told me to tell you the difference between like a Dodge and a Ford and we were driving on the highway, I wouldn't be able to point out which one unless I'm literally staring at the the logo I don't know what the car is and Robbie can tell just by the shape of the car and I'm like I don't I can't tell I literally can't tell and it doesn't make any sense to me because I feel like they they changed the shape as years go on like a 2010 Dodge doesn't look the same as a 2025 Dodge right I don't know he can tell And I don't understand it.

16:38It's a superpower of it. My brother does the same thing. He's like, look at that. I'm like, how? How do you know what that is without looking at it? I don't know. Anyway, I would do the same thing, though. I would do this. I feel like I've done something similar, taking my car to like the car shop or something in high school. And so I just got to the point where I was like, hey, I'm Jeff Cranny's daughter. I brought in the silver car. And they're like, OK, I'll look it up because I just didn't want to say what it was because I knew I'd be wrong I would probably say say something like Chevy Chrysler okay next one says I accidentally put a half a cup baking soda instead of half a teaspoon while making cookies at like eight and they still remind me not to do it at 23 uh first of all making cookies by yourself at eight years old that's impressive they should be patting you on the back and like telling you thank you for even attempting that uh the other thing is what I bet they were so gross I'm sorry.

17:33I wonder what they, because I feel like it wouldn't rise or maybe it'd rise too much. I feel like we've all done this. We've all done a cooking blunder. Like we've tried to make cookies or we've tried to make something for dinner and it burned or we didn't put in the right ingredients. And it's just kind of like a rite of passage. Like we, you have to do it. It just happens. And I remember when I was a kid, I was banned from cooking, not cooking. I was banned from baking cookies because I would, honestly, I was just in it for the cookie dough. I would just make it, eat the cookie dough. And then obviously I didn't eat all the cookie dough because I would probably die, but I would eat the cookie dough and then I'd make cookies with whatever was left over.

18:13And then I would forget about it because I didn't care. I didn't care about the cookies anymore. And they would always burn. And one time my dad pulls them out of the oven and he's like, you're not allowed to make these anymore. And I was like, are you serious? He's like, yeah, they burn every time. It's a waste of resources. And I was like, you know what, you're right, but I was actually pretty bummed. And now I make some pretty dang good cookies. I make some good cookies because I don't burn them anymore. I actually pay attention. Anyway, sorry to like bring that back onto me and be like, well, I'm so amazing.

18:42But yeah, I think we've all done this and it's yeah, you're going to get made fun of. That's just how it is. Okay, next one says, for a family activity, I taught my family how to do the hoedown throwdown. as you should as you should the hoedown throwdown is a dance that everybody should know it's like the cotton eye joe actually i don't think i know the whole cotton eye joe i don't think i know the cotton eye joe at all it's like you know what actually i don't think there's a single dance that i know all the steps to even the cotton eye joe yeah no i could not do it but i could do the hoedown throwdown if i had a little refresher first because one time when kate and i were doing Call Your Sisters.

19:26This had nothing to do with the podcast, but we were hanging out because we were making stuff for Call Your Sisters and we decided to teach ourselves the hoedown throwdown. And it's actually really freaking hard, okay? For me, a person who has no musical, I don't know, I play the guitar and I used to play violin. So not that I don't have any musical abilities, but I have no dancing abilities. I have absolutely no dance abilities or coordination is is more like it. Like I have no hand eye coordination. My brain doesn't connect to my limbs when there's a beat around. It just doesn't. It doesn't work.

20:03And that was the hoedown throwdown was hard. It was hard to learn, but we did it. And there's video evidence of it out there somewhere. So I'm going to find it and I'll post a reel, a reel for you guys showing you the hoedown throwdown. And it'll probably be embarrassing, but I'll do that. I'll do that instead of the ball Olympics. Okay. I will never show you the ball Olympics, but I'll show you Kate and I doing the hoedown throwdown. And I think that's a great activity to teach your family. It's wholesome. It's fun. Everybody can do it. And I think that was great. So I do love though that they're like, hey, are you going to teach us the hoedown throwdown again?

20:36Something like that. I love that. That's a great joke. Okay. Next one says, I drove through a garage. This is an easy mistake. Okay. Cause the garage is right there. It's right there by the car. so of course it's easy to run through the garage this actually reminds me of my mother-in-law maybe she won't love that I tell people this but uh I don't think she listens either so anyway she drove through their garage it wasn't her fault though the brakes went out on their truck and so she hit their garage door and like some of the bricks next to the next to the garage door and broke the garage door and they didn't replace it for like 15 years they had like this canvas this curtain type thing that they had hung up to keep, you know, it from getting super cold in the garage.

21:22And they didn't fix it for so long. So hopefully you were able to fix the garage sooner than that. Because I don't know, maybe not the curtain worked just fine. This also reminds me though, of one time when I was in college, my brother and I were hanging out and we saw this news article from where we're from. And it says 61 year old or something, 60 something year old woman drove into the local bank. And we're like, Oh, what an idiot. We're like, of course she was 60. Like, Oh, she's so dumb. We were being mean. Okay. We were not being, we did not have any empathy in our body at the moment. And then we get a call from our mom.

22:04And she's like, so grandma got into a car accident. It was my grandma. It was my grandma who ran into the bank because she got her break and the gas mixed up. That's the story that I heard. Don't ask me how she didn't know, like, why she was trying to hit the brakes if she was back. Maybe she pulled into the parking lot and tried to stop, but then just accidentally hit the brake. I don't know. Anyway, we felt really bad after that. And, you know, since then, when I read news articles about old people doing stuff, I don't call them stupid because I'm going to be that person someday. I'm going to be that person.

22:41Okay, next one says, when I was in high school, I tried to help my mom by making meatloaf, but I browned the beef before forming it. It was so crispy and I still hear about it. I'm sorry, but there's no way to ruin meatloaf because it's already ruined. Meatloaf, just think about the word meatloaf, a loaf of meat. That's, I, I'm just not a meatloaf person. Maybe there are people out there, but to me, it's always dry and crispy. Maybe I just don't know how to make meatloaf right, but I don't think there's a way to ruin it because it's already ruined when you make it. But yeah, like I said, there's always a story about ruining food when you're a kid that will stick with you forever, and it'll continually be talked about.

23:28My brother, one time my aunt and uncle were at our house, and they had come from pretty far away. And it was my dad's birthday, I believe. And my brother wanted to cook the steaks out on the grill. And so my dad let him and he burned the shiz out of them. They were literally charcoal. And everybody, actually, I don't know that everybody still ate them, but my uncle did. And he's like, wow, these are really good. And we still talk about it. We're like, don't let cook the steaks or cook the burgers or whatever. He's actually a really good cook. And that was just a one-off thing. I think he was still in high school, but yeah, we still talk about that.

24:04So we can we can relate to talking like messing up on a food thing and it being a conversation for the rest of your life that's just it's how family works okay okay next one says I stole cigarettes from my dad literally 12 years ago and my uncle still brings it up every Christmas you know what what is it with uncles and bringing up memories in at an inappropriate time like Christmas time doesn't seem the time to be like so remember that one time when actually that's not an uncle's voice Let me try again. So remember that one time when you stole your dad's cigarettes? That was really funny. No, we're trying to talk about Jesus and Santa.

24:42So let's not bring up the cigarettes. It's not an appropriate time. Okay, next one says, my brother and I were wrestling and he fell with his full weight and kneed me right on top of my foot. I thought my foot was broken. So I told him to go get the crutch. Sorry, I can't talk. I thought my foot was broken. So I told him to go get me the crutches my mom had when she sprained her ankle. My siblings will never let me forget that. The only, this was my own sister. I have to say this because there's more context to the story, okay? The reason we don't, she was like very dramatic about it when she asked, okay?

25:19She was like laying on the ground and she's like, will somebody please give me the crutches? And we're like, stand up. We were mean. I didn't realize her foot was hurt that bad. I didn't even realize her foot was hurt at all, I was just like, well, just stand up. And we didn't, I don't think we did get her the crutches, but she had a bruise on her foot. And I'm pretty sure it like left a scar somehow, like a bruised scar. Like she still has a dark spot on the top of her foot. So who knows, maybe there was a broken bone in her foot. But anytime anybody gets hurt in our family now, we're like, oh, do you need us to go get you the crutches?