Friday the 13th

I'm glad I'm not superstitious . . . at least not very much.

Friday the thirteenths have never really bothered me.  N proposed to E on a Friday the thirteenth -- 10/13/06.  They contemplated getting married on Friday the thirteenth -- 7/13/07 -- but decided to wait one more day and go with the more traditional Saturday afternoon wedding.

My brother dated a woman whose birthday was August 13, 1959, but that year the thirteenth of August was on a Thursday, not a Friday.  Still, every now and then her birthday falls on a Friday.

I suppose I believe any day can be lucky or unlucky.  It doesn't really matter what the date is or what day of the week it happens to be.  I think it's interesting that there isn't a corresponding "lucky" day, like Tuesday the 21st or Saturday the 7th.  What's up with that omission?    

Some people I know refuse to use the words luck, lucky, fortune, or fortunate.  They say that using those words denies the sovereignty of God.  I have to agree, but I still use the words.  I tend to opt for fortunate more often than any lucky; I guess I think it sounds better, less capricious (although they all boil down to a definition that involves the element of chance rather than an intentional choice or direction).

Friday the 13th?  It's all TGIF to me.  : )