Friday the 13th

I like that my birthday is on the 12th day of the 12th month in a year that the last 2 digits equal 12. However, there are have been many times, where I wish, that I was born a day later. Then I would have been born on the 13th and I could have Friday the 13th themed birthday parties. However, where did this come from?


It looks like, it wasn't a very popular superstition until the 19th Century, says the Wikipedia.. and that the 13th is a scarier thing than the Friday. 


It is looking however, that the number 13 has some serious mojo to it, not all of it bad. 


As for the days of the week having meanings be it malicious or benign, I would just like to say that, 

"Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace,

Wednesday's child is full of woe,

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for a living,

But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

Is bonny and blithe and good and gay."

I was born on a Wednesday, which means, that I would be full of woe, which last time I checked, I wasn't the woeful kind of call. However, funny side note. My mother's maiden name is Adams, and if she had named me after the day I was born on and then double barreled my last name, I would have had the coolest name ever. I would have be able to put down Wednesday Adams! 
Another cool side note, having to do with nursery rhymes and birthdays. My husband was born on a Monday, he is quite "fair of face", but... 

"Solomon Grundy,

Born on a Monday,

Christened on Tuesday,

Married on Wednesday,

Took ill on Thursday,

Grew worse on Friday,

Died on Saturday,

Buried on Sunday.

That was the end,

Of Solomon Grundy."

My husband... is Solomon Grundy! 
Did you know that in Jamaica, the have a "delicacy" called Solomon Gundy?.. it looks nasty.


And now.. a David Bowie song:

Reflecting back on a year in Canada

April 3rd, 2011 I moved to Canada, to start a new life.  The Husband and I had been apart for a year and a half.  We wanted to be able to know that we were going to be able to start a family, own walls and generally better ourselves as people. It has been a year and 3 days and I am feeling that I have finally laid the base work down to start the life I dreamed of. The life is this, "grow up", start a "career type situation", purchase four walls with a floor and a roof, have larva,  raise larva to be super heroes, kick larva out of my four walls, become old bitty who yells at kids who are on my yard, deteriorate into insane self-soiling machine, die in my sleep next to The Husband.. who will also be his version of an old bitty who pees himself. The End.

So, lets do a check. 

"Grow up" - 75% there

"Start a career type situation" - Reached level 10, need to reach level OOOVVVEERR 9000!!!!!!

Purchase four walls with floor and roof- hahahahahahahahaha.. However, my apartment is pretty epic

Have larva- We are really researching this. making great strides in kinda beings sorta ready to start thinking about it.

Raise larva to be super heroes- we have super hero names picked out for the most part. we know the ethics we want to teach them. The skills we want them to have we are also starting to learn ourselves as well. 

Become old bitty- ALREADY THERE!

Soil ones self- Only when I am really drunk. 

Die- Long way off on that goal.

What have I done in this year. I have met a really great group of people who really care for me and show me new amazing things all the time. I have lost friends who are not worth my time because they are douchey. I have learned to knit, I have started growing my own food, I have found out I was allergic to eating food I like, I learned how to make the food I like out of food I am not allergic to. I fell in love with my husband again ( *barf* I know, totally sappy, but we will have been married for 5 years on the 16th, and I really don't think that I can find anyone better), my relationship with my parental units has become better/equally less stressful., I have a new baby sister, who is wee and amazing. I have made new "family". I LOST 50 LBS.! I am still losing. I joined a book club. 

So, do you think I am doing so far?