Here's Luckin' At You

Happy 1/11/11!!  I'm the kind of girl who makes wishes every time I catch a digital clock boasting an 11:11 time, so I am super pumped about today.  I don't know that it's been a particularly lucky day for me, but I've certainly been productive so that counts for something right?

I used to be much more superstitious- touching metal and raising my feet to drive over railroad tracks, running races with my lucky ponytail holder, holding my breath going past graveyards, a weird thing about making a tiny "19" on my reports in school, etc.  But 11:11 is the only thing that stuck (although I still reeaaaally miss my lucky ponytail holder).  According to many superstitions I'm doomed anyway.  It seems redheads are not great luck.  Here are just a few misconceptions I've heard of:

~ If a redhead is the first person to cross your home's threshold at New Year's, you'll have a lousy year. (Is that why I didn't get any New Year's party invites this year!?  Wussies!) 
~ It's bad luck to have the shadow of a redhead fall on you. 
~ It's bad luck to see a white horse and then a redhead.  (Equestrians, beware!)

Weird, right?  Of course, for every red-hair-means-bad-luck rule, there's a red-hair-is-great-luck rule to negate it.  So I guess it all evens out in the end.  Which is why I'm sticking with the color indifferent make-a-wish at 11:11 dealio.

I love this McDonald's commercial with the superstitious smackdown.  And there's another commercial after that, just for luck.