Wednesday, December 12, 2012

12-12-12!


Not being a mystic or soothsayer it baffles me why people are fascinated with the repeated digits, such as 11-11-11 or as of today’s 12-12-12 and what makes people do things to make them mean more than I can see that they actually do? Dates should be something we enjoy with fond memories, and yes, I do understand that it is easier to remember a date when all the numbers are the same, gosh that is a given. And you know this stuff has been going on for years and years and my first experience was with my sister-in-law who chose her wedding date for the same simplistic reasoning to not forget, and hers was 7-8-78, who knew it was a trend then? Ours was chosen for a rational/loving reason. You see, Hubby’s grandparents were celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary a year before we were planning our wedding and theirs was on February 16, 1920, and so on February 16, 1970 they had a lovely celebration. Yes, Hubby and I knew each other for nearly four years and were engaged for fifteen months on February 14, 1971, the date closet to his grandparents’ lucky day, and so we tied the knot; always wondered what that referred to, still don’t have any knots: Thanks to the site below for the info: http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/what-does-the-phrase-tie-the-knot-mean-and-where-did-the-expression-come-from “In Western culture, “tying the knot” suggests the pledge of inseparable unity made by a married couple. The expression comes from ancient India, when during the wedding ceremony the Hindu groom would put a brightly colored ribbon around the bride’s neck. During the time it took to tie the ribbon into a knot, the bride’s father could demand a better price for his daughter, but once the knot was completed the bride became the groom’s forever.” Years have passed since I gave the whole concept any interest that is of course before last year when that too was given more notoriety than in my way of thinking having anymore interest than days with more sentimental value for such occasions, hmm? What I have heard is that women are planning cesarean sections for today just so their children will have this birthday, if that’s not crazy I don’t know what it is and possibly dangerous? PS Our eldest was born on his aunt’s birthday and that was his decision not mine, since he was due in between both hers and mine and sure I would have loved him to share mine, but it was awfully hot up north that May and I was happy he chose hers compared to mine, a month later! Believe it or not when our second son was due I was given the date of my brother-in-laws birthday, but our little guy had the good sense to come out five days before his uncle’s, since with his older brother that we found out that sharing that date with a family member might be not be so sharing. Like those kids born on Christmas day I am more than sure or those parents who choose some mystical/memorable time in life that may embarrass them to explain to their offspring until those babes have sprung into adulthood! Oddly enough my distant cousin and I found out about eight years ago; that’s when we met online while she was doing my dad’s side genealogy that she and I were not only born on the same day of the month but the same year too, wild! No planning there, but to be fair each number is not the same on the last three examples I gave. Any-who, who am I to tell anyone what they do is odd or strange when I am the way that I am… more power to ‘ viva la difference, ‘ but if so many are doing it, ask yourselves is this really that different; just a thought. On that note to ponder, and don’t tell me it wasn’t to be unique, but are so many of us having memory problems, really? That sounds like a topic we should all address in the near future… if I remember, and so now allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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