I dropped into Cake Works yesterday to pick up some cupcakes, and I ran into the owner Abigail Langlas.
She said business was good. And Friday — today — was particularly busy.
“Why?” I asked her, thinking she was busy catering for APEC, going on this weekend.
“Weddings,” she said. “Everyone wants to get married tomorrow.”
Today — Nov. 11, 2011 — is supposed to be the most magical day of the year.
According to some reports, 11/11/11 is like three doorways — an extra powerful significance that won’t happen for another 100 years. “If you envision a doorway and walk through in triplicate on that same day, you can imagine what you want and achieve it in a more potent and imaginative way,” said Tania Gabrielle, a practitioner of numerology in Los Angeles, to the Associated Press.
And one way to commemorate this kismet kind of day — not to mention it’s easy to remember — is to get married. And Langlas, who runs a fairly small operation, is making cakes for 16 weddings today. Sixteen.
In Las Vegas — the wedding capital of the United States — more than 3,200 marriage applications were filled out — more than three times the normal number.
I have friends who are planning to do something special today. One is taking the day off to surf. The other is proposing to his longtime girlfriend.
I plan to surf, go to Pilates, hang out with my favorite people, take the dogs to the beach, bake something, Skype with Derek, read a book and write. Those are some of my favorite things to do.
What are your 11/11/11 plans?
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Today it is more of the same: make a pot of coffee, work the Sudoku puzzle, prepare to teach my classes for next week, keep writing my novel, and play with the puppy. Plan to find a killer cheesecake recipe for my son who returns from SC on Sunday. A typical day but one that will be oh so satisfying.
Well since it’s my birthday I plan on taking the day off, golf at noon, then meet some friends at the local brewery and throw back a few “brew-ski’s”.
unless the move to the julian calendar was preordained somewhere in the cosmos and the assumption that leap years would be incorporated into that calendar, I don’t see how today is more than a cool number trick.
Earth calendar: date today is 11/11/11
Star Trek calendar : Stardate 2103.6
which one is cooler ??
Stay at home, avoid the APEC traffic, go to lunch in Mililani with a wedding client, go to North Shore for a job if the weather is decent…
Hey Cat … a friend is proposing today??? … you sure you didn’t jump the gun on the announcement??? … haha … maybe she reads your blog??? …
… anyway … let’s see if I remember any extra significance … luck or anything … that happened on other possibly special dates …
… 7/7/77 … ???
… 8/8/88 … did anything special happen in the 80’s … j/k … a misunderstood decade …
… 9/9/99 … hmmm … possibly … wait, this might have been a heartbreak year …
… 10/10/10 …wtf … this was only a year ago and I have no fricken clue!!! …
… 11/11/11 … still hoping something good comes my way … there’s still time … but no special plans anyway …
… nope … 11/11/11 was a normal date … nothing significant … rather ho-hum …
… but 11/12/11 was a fricken disaster!!! … I’ll take more days like 11/11/11 instead …
11.11.11 was pocky day in Japan, so that’s what I did, eat pocky.