2013

It's okay to laugh at me... my cat laughs at me all the time. Especially when I get mad at him for walking underneath ladders and walking on cracks in the sidewalks.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am powered by symbolism and signs.  I don't like to say "superstitious" but there really is no explainable word for my character otherwise.  So, Hollie the Superstitious Weirdo. I will answer to that. I've been trying to figure out what fuels that part of my personality.  I suppose it could be control. Subconsciously I like to feel as if I had a certain amount of control on life around me and what happens in my future. In ways, monetarily, I do. Work hard... be responsible... use my manners.. respect people. All those important wonderful traits I parentally beat into my children daily. However there is a certain comfort in the idea of spiritually persuading the odds in our favor.  I have been this way since I can remember..... ridiculous idea that something I did or didn't do could twist my fate. To this day, in my 33 years on this Earth... I will not walk under a ladder, I freak out when someone opens an umbrella indoors. I HAVE to eat a piece of the birthday cake... I always hold my breath driving through tunnels, I put my hand on the roof of the car while driving through a yellow light. I wish on falling stars... loose eye lashes. I knock on wood religiously and always tell those I love to drive safe and I love you when they leave me. ALWAYS.  I may not really be able to control much but for some odd reason.. it sets my heart at ease that by saying those words I have done what I can to protect you with my thoughts.


This part of my personality has become very evident as I am beginning to plan this wedding.  This one event that will spur a new chapter of my life being joined with another is a prime recipe for wishings of luck, happiness and prosperity. Right down to the day we choose.... it will need to be a blessed lucky date.

Going along with superstitions are horoscopes and anything of that category. Today is the new year of the Snake.  I hope the snake brings me tricky ways to maneuver around challenges and showers me with love and happiness. The snake may seem like a derogatory animal... slithering.. sneaky, lethal but it is also is intuitive, intelligent and will empower those around them to achieve what they want. I hope the metaphoric snake in my life (even though I do NOT like snakes... heebie jeebies...) will empower me to speak up, to do what I feel is right for my family and I and to not be a push-over. I hope good things will come to us and I most certainly hope that love will be felt by all!

Happy Lunar New Year world!