FRIDAY THE 13TH - Not So Bad Afterall!

Many people don't look forward to Friday the 13th as the date has negative connotations due to the hugely popular and successful film series (which released its latest film last month on...Friday the 13th). For those that aren't fans of the horror genre and are not supersticious then the date holds no negative effect.

I, on the other had, am a huge horror film fan and always looking for something "evil" or "bad" to happen to me when a Friday the 13th rounds the bend. This year I thought I'd try and change my luck (because true to form something bad has always happened to me on a Friday the 13th), so, I decided to have a late date that night with an old flame of mine. We hadn't really seen each other for several months and a few years back we dated and in the passing time we still remained very good friends.

When she suggested that we have a late diner (more like after diner since we got together after 10pm) I accepted as she has always been one of the few women I'd ever truly gotten close to. We ended up going to this restaurant called the Krog Street Bar (so named because of it's location). It was a place she had read good reviews about and I was more or less up for anything. I was happy just to have her company.

Over the course of the evening we each had four glasses of wine and a large variety of the speciety dishes offered by the restaurant (enough so that the bill was just at $100.00). It was an evening like many that we had shared long ago (...in a galaxy far, far away) and even though there were no romantic intanglements, we had a great evening that ended just after the place was trying to close at 2:00am the next morning.

Having been single for most the second half of 2008, it was good to be out again with someone whose company I truly enjoyed (its better then having been on any blind/first date where anything could have happens - Good and Bad). It was a great way to end the evening and start the next day. The best thing being that I ended up with a Friday the 13th that did not bring upon the Apocalypse on try to destroy me. Instaed, I had an elegant evening with a lot of great food and drink with someone whom I truly wanted to be with.

Maybe this is the start of a change for Friday the 13th for me. Maybe my luck is finally changing! (Then again there is still one more Friday the 13th this year so anything's possible)