It had to happen again!

Happy Friday the 13th... 

As many of you know, it's today, and for a lot of you, it is considered an unlucky day! Some developed a phobia out of it, paraskevidekatriaphobia or fear of Friday the 13th. If you are indeed one to worry about this unlucky day, I suggest you stay in bed all day to escape any bad luck that may come your way. Even though in 1976, New Yorker Daz Baxter was apparently so afraid of Friday the 13th decided the safest place to stay was his bed. However, Mr. Baxter was killed when the floor of his apartment block collapsed that day. Be careful, your bed may not just be the greatest idea!
If you do not care whatsoever, please do embrace your Friday as it is, indeed, just another Friday. 

I don't personally take pride in worrying about that day, but I still try to stay away from any "bad luck" situation. Sadly, a lot happens on Friday the 13th, for instance, in November 2015, in Paris, a series of terrorist attacks happened. In 2010, lightning struck 13 years of age boy from Suffolk on Friday the 13th at 13:13 or 1:30 P.M. That's called horrible luck! To go back to History, WWII, one of the most destructive of Nazi Germany bombing campaign occurred on the 13th, Queen Elizabeth, and King George VI were at tea. Five bombs struck the palace, on of which destroyed the interior of the Royal Chapel. Another ruptured a water main and three people were injured, one fatally. 

For music lovers, Friday, September 13th, 1996... I was just a few months old, the rapper Tupac dies from gunshot injuries in a Las Vegas hospital. That obviously made a lot of people think it was fake and some will say that he is still alive, hiding away. I don't know about this theory... And finally, to sum up, the tragedies... In 2012, cruising off the Tuscan coast turned chaotic as the Costa Concordia cruise ship struck a reef and began to tilt. It starts out by passengers evacuating by lifeboats, but let's just say that the ship ended up sinking and survivor had to be airlifted to shore by helicopter. A massive salvage operation took 19 hours to raise the ship from the reef where it came to rest. The captain was arrested for manslaughter and for abandoning the ship instead of directing the evacuation.  

Friday the 13th has some crazy stories, some believable, others not so much. Yet, many of us believe in the theory of having bad luck on the 13th... Some hotel such as the Carlton hotel in London misses out on the thirteenth floor.  Many don't want to travel that day leaving the flying company a bit "stuck".  The number of property transaction decline on Friday 13, don't sell or buy a house that day unless you want bad luck. 

But it also has some perks... It isn't all that bad... Some good things happened as well like: 
1. Hollywood arrived! The sign was unveiled on the 13th. At the time it was to advertise a housing development, now it's just one of the biggest tourist attraction!
2. Amazing day for the Friday the 13th film franchise! A lot of money was made! GOOD JOB! 

3. Athens took back from fascist powers in WWII! Amazing for history! Italy invaded Greece but they were pushed back by Greek forces! Then came the German who helped out and occupied Greece until help from the American, Russian, and British moved in driving the Germans north. That was in October 1944, on Friday the 13th, Athens was back to Greece and not fascism allowed! 
4.First equal opportunity employment act for government workers!!!!! President Johnson signed an executive order meant to rid the U.S government of discrimination on account of gender!

Anyways, Friday the 13th is a myth, nothing has proved it was an unlucky day. You believe it or you don't, it's up to you! Frankly, I don't care much, but I still manage to worry a little... 
This "unlucky day" originated by different ideas like:
Apparently, Friday is an unlucky day and 13 an unlucky number, you add them up and here you got Friday the 13th! 
In numerology 13 is considered to be an irregular number and is also the number of witches you need to form a coven (if you believe in that stuff).   

Obviously, everyone has a different story to back it up! Nothing dramatic happened that day for me, so I can't judge or take it into consideration. All I know is that I ain't working today and I believe I'll be safer home than at work with some terrible customers. Maybe I would have been mean to one of them.

Let's play the safe card! 

"On Friday the 13th, weird things are supposed to happen... Maybe I'll get in a relationship..."

~Bella

Raiders of the lost arts...

How many of you love to watch documentaries?

I'm usually not a fan of any documentaries except for historical ones and the ones about Egypt (ancient times).  
I came across this tv show "Raiders Of The Lost Arts" on Netflix, just this morning! 

I was looking into history as I'm a fan (thanks to my grandfather), and I cannot help myself in wanting to know more about where we come from. 
This show actually made me think of the class I took back in High School, the art comprehension class. Art is part of our life, past, future, and being able to see and learn about the art that has been stolen is just a big source of facts, history. Being able to watch and learn about the art is incredible. I knew Hitler loved art and also destroyed a lot of it, but to know and to be confirmed that the Nazi actually appreciated art just like other human beings, is amazing in its own ways. 


Documentaries teach us about life in general, depends on which documentary you watch, but the ones that attracts me usually reveals the past, the acts that were done to us all. Learning is such a wonderful way to build our source of information that I just love watching documentaries. I'm far from telling you, "WATCH THEM!" I just want to let you know that if you want to know, learn about a certain thing watch a documentary, it won't kill you to learn something. 
If you are interested in animals watch an animal documentary, there are so many of them and most  of them are just incredible. 

When I was younger, I was into the pyramids, the history of who built them, the mystery behind the civilization... But I was also into WWI and WWII! I wanted to know why certain things happened like how a young kid became known as the most cruelest man on this planet, why did Hitler became a horrible man, and how come he did those cruel things. I wanted to know, I wanted to comprehend the history! After listening to my grandfather talk and talk about it all, growing up with the television, it helped me realize that documentaries could in fact help me understand the history! 

I've done my share of research with the mafia, mob for my novel, but it also taught me certain information that unconsciously I wanted to know about. 

Whenever you watch a documentary you learn facts, data that are indeed true. So you might end up impress someone out there with the knowledge that you learned from documentaries! :)

Be ready to read about history quite a lot more than cooking recipes... 

"In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller." - Garthstein 

~Bella