Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?

Current mood: lucky

Friday the 13th...

I started the day bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as I trotted off to work to bring good fortune to our STARS on what is traditionally known as a rather unlucky day. Weeks ago, when I realized a Friday the 13th was approaching, I arranged to have dipped fortune cookies available to pass out to our STARS.

In addition, I taped off a ladder with caution tape to ensure no one could accidentally pass beneath it. I permanently closed an umbrella, hung a white cat from the ladder along with a few horseshoes, placed a pot of gold beneath the ladder, marked a mirror as being Certified Unbreakable for 7 Years and strung several gold 7s and a four-leaf clover from the ladder. I put up a sign saying, "Start your Friday the 13th with good fortune," and stood passing out dipped fortune cookies to everyone as they entered work this morning... forcing them to walk around the ladder of luck.

I WILL reverse bad fortune and deliver good fortune to them... or else!

So, as I was carefully carrying the giant black pot filled with hundreds of plastic gold coins, the handle broke spilling gold coins in all directions all over the floor. Is that 7 years?

Then, as I filled my bucket with fortune cookies to pass out, I dropped two and broke them. Is that 7 years?

I lost the top to my newest writing pen. 7 years?

I may or may not have broken the rubber nozzle on the helium tank as I was filling balloons. And I ask, 7 years?

And it's only 10:30 in the morning... so I can't wait to see what else the day has in store for me!

But here's a bit of funny that made me giggle for a while this morning. So apparently, when you read your fortune from a cookie, you should always finish the statement with the words, "in bed." I was unaware of this "tradition," but my cohorts Tommy, Shawna and Aaron quickly brought me into the loop on this one. It's crazy how the simple phrase always works... and it can turn an otherwise boring fortune into something worth giggling about at the lunch table... again and again and again.

Over the course of the morning, I opened 6 fortune cookies (broken ones, unwrapped ones, etc). Here's what I got:

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  You will be a great success (in bed).
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  You have a reputation for being straight-forward and honest (in bed).
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  Cherish all your loved ones by keeping them very near (in bed).
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  You are open and honest in your philosophy of love (in bed).
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  Look around; happiness is trying to catch you (in bed).
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  A bold and dashing adventure is in your future (in bed).

Go ahead and giggle... I did.