Friday The 13th @ MindSay

I usually consider the number 13 to be a lucky number.  I used to buy those cheap "lucky 13" gambler's candles with sticky wax in the colors of yellow or green and black cats, four leaf clovers, and horseshoes printed all along the sides.  I would burn these not because I am superstitious, but because anything that is pop culture occult is amusing and sets the atmosphere in my home.  Plus I'm just so right at home around curious things like that.  After all my courtroom drama today, life did treat me well.  Here's a list of my Friday the 13th magic moments:

• I got to try on Indian and Turkish bellydancing headresses at the Gyros and Kabob House downtown.  When I did so, the crowd around me looked at me in awe for some reason.  I like that attention, but did I look that good to warrant such a reaction?  Maybe I should throw my entire self into bellydancing like I've always wanted to!
• I saved a dragonfly's life today.  While helping a friend close her store after a sidewalk sale, I noticed that a little blue green dragonfly was caught in the window.  Poor thing would not survive there and I did not feel like killing it.  I also didn't want to pick it up and accidentally damage its wings or body.  So I talked to it!  Grabbed a small piece of paper towel and asked it to land on the paper so I could take it back outside.  As if it understood, it stopped trying to fly out at the glass window and dropped onto the towel and clung for dear life.  I said, "Hold on, hold on, hold on!" over and over again while carefully opening the door and lifting it into the air.  It took it a moment to catch wind, but soon it was off.  My good deed for the day.
• Right after my courtroom drama, I looked up and saw what appeared to be an Osprey or other small falcon chase after a fat piegon.  In a bloody rain of feathers, the piegon was history in the other bird's talons.  Too cool.  I love seeing predators in action like that, plus falcons and hawks are my clan animal.
• I got to take home some unsold 2007 calendars.  I'm going to send these unused calendars to my friend, Jenn, who loves to make funky candle holders using magazine and art photos.  She should love that.
• I managed to find a really interesting 2-CD pack of Pirate Ballads, Songs, and Chanties titled Rogue's Gallery -- has several tracks sung by Nick Cave, Sting, Rufus Wainwright, Bono, Bryan Ferry, and Lou Reed (to name just a few).  I only spent $4 for it.  The best, most enjoyable song so far is Nick Cave's "Fire Down Below" -- must be heard to be believed. I only wish Tom Waits was on this, his voice would have made it even better! Other used CD finds I found today were: American Doll Posse by Tori Amos, La Nuit: rare lounge grooves mixed by DJ Jondal, and The Open Door by Evanesence -- each one only $4.  Can't beat that.
• Since my brother bought me four books from my Amazon wish list, I gave him the Evanesence CD but didn't tell him it's his.  I just snuck it into his CD player in his car so he can hear it tomorrow morning!  I don't know if their second album is worth it because I haven't heard it, but after hearing at least one song from it in the movie Blood and Chocolate, it seems like it'll be good.  I'll find out from Mark tomorrow when he finds his surprise new CD.  If he gets all critical about it, then I'll know that after losing two members from the band, that Evanesence was a flash in the pan...  Unfortunate considering Amy Lee's voice is beautiful, but the break up between her and Ben Moody was pretty intense.  I once watched a very funny video where Moody TP'd Lee's house after she discredited him on the second album.   
• Tonight I went to the grocery store and found one of my favorite desserts on sale for only $2 each -- Mango Italian ice!!!  Me very happy and pleased now.