Yesterday morning I was walking to work along Gladstone Avenue when all of a sudden a dead bird came hurtling out of the sky and crashed head first into a snowbank right in front of me. It was a pigeon: I could tell by its little pink feet sticking out of the snow bank.
Wiki Answers says it’s a sign: “That means a near death of you, a family member or friend or someone close to you.”
Not only that, but I looked up my Chinese horoscope because it’s the Chinese New Year, and it told me to be very careful because I’m extra susceptible to bodily injury and ill health this year. It also says I’m going to have a bad year financially, romantically and professionally. Keep a low profile, it says. Try not to make too many mistakes.
So, you should probably stay in bed all year….
If my horoscope was real, I’d be wealthy and have a house full of guests every other night. They’re always telling me my “ship will come in” and I’ll have a “group of interesting people” over. Now, maybe I should just hang out at the dock for a while. I do work with interesting people (at a community mental health center) but I tend not to take them home.
The one thing yo u can be sure of is that “signs” like these come true almost half the time. It’s uncanny I tell you.
Well, if you had been really hungry, it would have been a blessing…
I didn’t get my horoscope butI did discover that I am a Wooden Horse. Figures. . . .
And what did your fortune cookie say?
My money’s on “you are a handsome and powerful man”
– RG>
Aw, I think that that was a few years ago and it’s done. This year is going to be the best one yet. This is my prediction and I’m sticking by it!
On another note, I’m making original valentine cards (postcard style) based on cards from the fifties. They can be seen on my blog http://www.quirkybs.blogspot.com and can be purchased at Wilde’s, Gypsy & Co. and After Stonewall in Ottawa. Heaps of fun and frolic.
For the pure enjoyment of love!
Wiki Answers really isn’t providing very good advice.
It’s just a coincidence – there is no such thing as a bad omen, except perhaps in cases where a person creates a self-fulfilling prophesy by believing in such superstition.
If it’s any consolation, my chinese horoscope isn’t so hot either, at least according to the Toronto Star’s forecast. It’s a shitty year to be a Dog, apparently.
Things could always be worse… I mean, we’re better off than the pigeon. 😉
good thing you don’t believe in those things, yes? yes.
Chinese horoscope aside, I think you should consider yourself lucky that the hurtling bird didn’t crash into your head!
I had a friend who signed all of their emails “think positive always!”
It’s is hard to do that, but ignoring that depressing horoscope seems like a good start.
I sometimes like to celebrate every New Year celebration serially – 1 Jan, then Julian calendar, then Lunar New Year, then Tibetan, then Nawruz … and by then there should be some flowers growing somewhere nearby and I can ride my bike again.
Please don’t keep too low a profile – your readers enjoy your blog very much!