There are persons who are really paranoid about Fridays which fall on the 13th day of the month. When a month begins on a Sunday, the 13th will fall on a Friday. Friday the 13th won't occur in January again until 2017 and then again in 2023. In 2012 there will be another two months which will host Friday the 13th....April and July. So if today doesn't hold enough bad luck for you, you can try again during these two months.
People have this superstition that the number 13 is unlucky and also that Fridays are unlucky. I've never had a real problem with either (knock on wood)....but just watch.....today will probably be the worst day I've had in years.....sometimes when I say something then the reverse happens.....the luck of the Irish I guess....NOT!
When you fear Friday the 13th, it's called "Parakevidekatriaphobics". What a mouth full that is! It means the affected person is afflicted with morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. I don't have this....do you??? Doctors feel that perhaps 21 million suffer from this condition. WOW!
Typically I just go my merry way on any Friday the 13th. I remember having employees who refused to come to work on that day. Some won't buy a lottery ticket....but I know someone who always goes to the casino on this day as she feels it is a lucky day for her instead of the unlucky day for most.
Some of the legends/fears which surround this date are: If 13 people sit around the table for dinner, one will die within the year. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. Many cities don't have a 13th street/avenue. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffery Dahmer, Theodore Bundy all have 13 letters in their name). There are 13 witches in a coven. But.......the Chinese and the ancient Egyptians think/thought the 13th is lucky.
If so many people think the number 13 is unlucky and many people think Friday is unlucky so that means:
Unlucky 13 + Unlucky Friday = Unluckier Friday the 13th...the unluckiest day of all.
As you go through the day today, think positive. Tell yourself and the devil spirits that this is the luckiest day you have ever lived. Go buy a lottery ticket but be very careful when you drive there.....because your luck might just be that of an unlucky person.
Old Things In Greenview
Do you remember the old post office in the old bank building....it had those little boxes with the combination dial in the front. Occasionally you see one of these at local auctions as they sold them when the new post office was built.
Do you remember when we had a marching band with an accomplished majorette....Janet Tice.
Do you remember when we bought school books and supplies at Whit Stone's drug store.
Do you remember when we had a laundromat in a really skinny building in the downtown area for a couple of years.
Do you remember when Greenview had a homecoming queen each year.
Do you remember when the grade school classes were involved in Biddy Basketball.
Do you remember when Doctor Pulauskis came to town and we finally had a doctor...and his wife was his nurse....and you couldn't understand either of them because they were natives of Lithuania!
Do you remember there were multiple piano teachers in town and they held recitals for their students.....I remember playing Itsy Bitsy Spider at one recital during my first year of lessons.
Do you remember as a child growing up in Greenview, you had to make your own fun and never really feeling bored living here.
Do you remember having multiple grocery stores, multiple cafes, multiple churches, multiple bars, multiple gas stations ..... and we are left with nothing like this now!
These are just a few things to jog your memory. We all have memories of growing up in vintage Greenview....some good, some bad, some fuzzy, some clear in mind and some we don't want to remember.....but we lived here and will always be a Greenviewanite.
Recipe
I like Hashbrown Casserole but due to the sodium content and the fat grams associated with the mushroom soup most hash brown casserole recipes use, I had to come up with a different recipe. I found this recipe and really like it....it takes a bit of work but is worth it. It's kind of like Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole and I really like the taste better than the typical recipe using mushroom or chicken soup.
Lowfat, Low Sodium Hash Brown Casserole
26 oz shredded hash browns
2 cups lower fat colby cheese
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 cup milk
1/2 cup fat free lower sodium beef broth
2 Tablespoon lower fat margarine, melted
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt (I use low salt and only use 1/2 teaspoon and Mrs. Dash also)
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Combine the hash browns, onion and cheese in a big bowl. Mix the milk, beef broth, 1/2 the melted margarine, garlic powder, salt and pepper in another bowl and mix well. Pour over the hash browns and mix well. Put the other tablespoon of low fat melted margarine in a no-stick skillet and when hot, add the hashbrown mixture. Fry until brown and then turn over and fry until the cheese is melted (about 7 minutes total). Spoon into a greased 8 x 11 casserole and bake at 400 degrees until dark brown on top....about 45 minutes or maybe a bit longer.
Thought For The Day
People hate those who make them
feel their own inferiority.
--Philip Chesterfield
There are advantages to being a woman over a man.....the men might not think so, but I think so....but I totally agree there are advantages of being a man,.
Being able to get out of a car and pee is a great advantage for a man....you can't imagine how hard it is for a woman to try to pee outside .... it ends up showing the old shiny white hiney in the squat position. Not good. Some of the other advantages men have.... men get paid more....they typically get better jobs than women...they're physically stronger than women....and the list goes on.
But as I see it there are advantages as a woman. we can attract men cause we have boobs....most men are boob men. And when the lovely lady is pregnant they become gigantic boobs. Us women didn't/don't get drafted to go to the service during war times. We typically live longer. We are stronger in soul and we don't get all ruffled when our masculinity is questioned....because we have none!
Women are "softer"...softer skin, softer personalities and softer voices are just some of the softer things. We can wear clothes and look sexy....men just wear clothes and look .... well nice, but usually not sexy. We are cuter!!
Men need us....even though most won't admit to it....to clean, to to cook, to keep their sanity, help keep them on the straight and narrow.
Just some other things we are good at: we "put up with" men well, we are good listeners, for most of us, we like agreement better than conflict, we tend to pay a lot of attention to detail, we have more instincts toward crafts and the arts.
See there is an intrinsic value to being a woman.....if the job environment would just recruit us women and give us a chance to get our foot in the door, give us training, recognize and cultivate our talents and then support our efforts, the world would be much better......at least that's my opinion, biased as it is for the female population.
Now you men out there, don't become steamy and bent out of shape that there are advantages to being a woman over a man.....remember there may be after-life and second life rebirth in the hereafter, and, you could come back to earth as a woman the next time!
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