In all my years of blogging, I can’t believe I’ve never done a Friday the 13th post. I’ve been blogging since March 14, 2006, and since then I have had 7 opportunities to write about this reputed unlucky day. On only three of those special Fridays did I even get a post up. I declared that I was still alive (the day before I wrecked my car), I did one of those lovely meme things, and I made an entry in my Encyclopedia of Me series. I was going to do another encyclopedia post, but then I looked at the calendar.
Today, you’ll get 13 Things about …me, of course.
- This is my 8th Friday the 13th as a blogger, and my first Friday the 13th post
- The Encyclopedia of Me post that I almost wrote for today would have been for M, which is the 13th letter of the alphabet
- It won’t be all that unlucky a day, since it’s payday
- I have never seen a Friday the 13th movie, because I hate horror flicks
- I got my first visit from Aunt Flo at age 13
- From my archives, both April 2006 and August 2007 have 13 posts
- I have visited 13 foreign cities (Toronto, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Stockholm, Gävle, Örebro, Jönköping, London, York, Edinburgh, Bath, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Paris)
- There are 13 states that I’ve only driven through, but wouldn’t really say that I’ve actually been to even though I spent the night in a few of them
- I do not have triskaidekaphobia or paraskavedekatriaphobia, but I do have another phobia
- August 13, 2004 was a Friday the 13th that I worried a lot because my sister lived in a trailer park in the path of a Category 4 hurricane (everyone was fine)
- As of this writing, both my birthday and weather categories have 13 posts
- Mister promises to take me to a special Friday the 13th flashlight tour at the Winchester Mystery House (but he should probably book that now for the next Friday the 13th)
- Coming up with a list of 13 things about me having to do with the number 13 or Friday the 13th is really hard
Happy Friday the 13th!
ETA: Even though this post is scheduled to post in the morning, I actually hit the button to publish this at 12:01am on 8/13/10.
Good luck I received on this Friday the 13th: I got paid as well. Actually, my paydays are the 15th and 30th of each month and I was shocked that the state decided to pay me today instead of waiting till Monday! Now I have something to do on Saturday……….shop!!