ohana

a lot of people comment about how large my dad's side of the family is. it's always a shocker when i tell them that i have 11 aunts and uncles, 24 cousins, and 10 first cousins. someone had once even asked me if we were part of the asian mafia--which i still find hilarious till this day.

if you think about it, there are so many things that a big family like ours could do as a whole, like, we could take over all the major professions in the world or have a birthday in every month, etc. [actually, the birthday thing in every month is already kind of true, but that's really out of our control because we can't command when we get a new member...] the one thing that seems most plausible as of now is having all the letters in the alphabet.

my cousins and i were actually counting this out over the weekend [they were on spring break and i was just bored] and found out that the only available "slots" left for us to eat the alphabet are only: F, G, I, O, Q, T, U, X, Y, and Z. the most used letter happens to be A with 8 people and the letter S and K are tied with 7, but only K has no repeats. only the letters C, H, and N have one name to it. we have 3 "jrs." and only 2 families with only 1 child, and a female cousin-in-law who spells the name "joyce" like this: joiz. as for the K names, we have kasie [me], katherine, karen, kaitlin, kayla, kent, and kenny.

you follow me so far? good. it's really not that hard to remember everyone, i swear. we all meet almost every friday so if you stick around long enough, you'll get it.