For some reason, we still get paper calendars in the mail. We used to give them to Bobbie the Nun — I’m not sure what she did with them, but she was always excited when we sent them to her. The ones we got for this year, I’ll just recycle — so if you want one, let me know right away.
Anyhow, I was looking at the one from the Smithsonian and something caught my eye. I admit I’ve been a little (probably a lot) on the pessimistic side of things lately, but when I looked at the 2025 calendar, I noticed that the first three days of 2025 are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I’ve recently looked for signs in everything and everywhere — and — the first sign of 2025 just jumped out. The acronym for the first three days of the year is WTF. The pessimistic me immediately thought this was a bad omen.
I certainly had been hoping for a really good year in 2025, but I just had this uneasy feeling. I won’t exactly call it extensive research, but flipping through my phone, it appears that the last time a year started out on a Wednesday was 2020…. we probably all know what 2020 was like…. think COVID.
I also noticed that January of 2025 will have 5 Wednesdays, 5 Thursdays and 5 Fridays. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t happen too often. That means that not only will we start out January with the W-T-F but we’ll also finish the month with another W-T-F.
Well, I’m not sure if this W-T-F start is really a bad omen or not. But you might want to dig out that rabbit’s foot or burn some incense just to be on the safe side.
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