Triple-seven fever grips the US
Is today your lucky day? Apparently a lot of people think that the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the millenium is not only lucky but also magical.
I wonder why 7 is considered a lucky number and 13 unlucky. Does anyone know?
Meanwhile, too late to get married today but might just buy a lottery ticket . . .
casa azahar 
I won’t even buy a lottery ticket 🙂 However, it’s popular to get married here as well today.
Maybe 070707 will be an easy date to remember for an anniversary. Men seem to be quite forgetful
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Well, Nog and I ended up buying lottery tickets – what the heck. And get this! My ticket has two 7s and the rest of the numbers add up to 7! (cue oooeeeeeoooo music)
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Any luck?
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Won’t know till Thursday … wish me luck!
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Thirteen is considered unlucky because back in the bad old days when the Catholic church decided they needed to get rid of the pagans who observed the cycles of the sun and moon, they declared 13 to be unlucky primarily because there are 13 full moons in the solar year. That is also when they declared cats to be disciples of satan and black cats were unlucky.
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Last time I visited Foyles I found and bought “The DragonQueen” by Alice Borchardt*
One of the key plots are the 13th moon and the 13 zodiac house – the dragon.
When women ruled the Moon calendar with thirteen moons was followed. Then, when men overruled women, the Sun calendar came into fashion. The strongest of the Moons, the dragon, were forgotten…
*just because of the name, (sigh!) hardly worth reading, unless you’re into “neopagan, great mother of everything, warrior queen, pre historic astrology monster Fantasy”
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Why doesn’ any of my links ever WORK!!!!
I was even RTFM this time….
*hate*hate*hate*
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Link fixed! (I think)
I’ve never heard of Foyles.
It occurred to me that all those people rushing to get married on 7-7-7 in the hope that it would help make their marriages last probably shouldn’t have been getting married.
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Hi I got your name from WC’s place. Just thought I would stop and say hello. Nice reasons to blog. I started because a friend sent me her moms blog address and I thought it woudl be cool to stay in touch besides e-mail. Now she can look at my girls anytime. Stop by anytime.
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Hi tweetey and welcome!
A friend of mine set up a blog after her twin girls were born and it’s a great way for family and friends to see the kidlets and keep up with news. As you can imagine, having twins wouldn’t leave much time for writing emails other than the ‘newsletter’ type.
I used to write letters and emails all the time, then a few years ago I just kind of got out of the habit and felt quite guilty for not keeping in touch with people. So I thought the blogs would be a good way for friends to find out what’s going on in my life and say hello. But it turns out that most friends who don’t have their own blogs don’t seem to like visiting other blogs – I guess it doesn’t feel as personal as an email? So sometimes I ‘cheat’ and copy and paste stuff from my blogs into emails.
I’m reminded of this cartoon that I found over on raincoaster’s blog. . . 🙂
Kid Blogger
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*giggles at cartoon*
Foyles is a MUST!!! when you’re in London. It’s not as chaotic and charming as it was some ten years ago. But even fully computerised and well in order the bookshop still is well worth visiting.
…and my wallet is thinner and my bags are usually a lot heavier when I leave…
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Foyles is one of the best bookshops I have ever been in – not that I’ve been for a VERY long time.
For second hand books, this place is amazing too – http://www.bagginsbooks.co.uk/ . The website isn’t up to much, but the shop is brilliant.
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