Bad Blogger, no links for you!
I’ve been bad.
Sittin’ back, snarking at things I read on other blogs (that shall remain nameless) all the live long day.
Honestly?
I’m graduating in a month, I’m a whirlwind of craziness (mushy mush mush and goo), and my 9th birthday present (the ever wonderful Cinderella) died yesterday (babyface cat, 17 years young).
Oh - and - I’m moving in June.
Insanity!
Whine whine whine complain complain - didn’t I say I wanted this to be an impersonal blog from the get go?
I do believe I did.
Mucked that one up!
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In news of the random, I found a ladybug in my backpack yesterday.
My backpack that hadn’t been outside.
My backpack that had been sitting on the floor of my classroom all day.
It was still alive and my plan was to free it outside.
I walk away for a few minutes and boom - it’s gone! Knowing my luck, I stepped on it.
Anyway, ladybug-related, I looked up some ladybug ‘lore on the internets yesterday.
Results were inconclusive - I found the following:
Superstitions…
*Finding a ladybug is good luck (the redder the better) < -- "the redder the better"? I feel dirty.
*Killing a ladybug will cause bad luck and sickness.
*To know the direction from which your future love will come catch a ladybug and chant the following:
“Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are gone.”
*Also has been said as
“Ladybug, ladybug, to your house you must turn.
Your house is on fire and your children may burn.”
OR
“Fly away east, Fly away west,
Show me where lives the one I love best.”
Let the Ladybug go and watch what direction it flies in to find your answer.
*A ladybug landing on you is very lucky.
*A ladybug on your clothing means you will soon get a new piece of clothing. < -- boring!
*The number of spots on a ladybug indicated the number of happy months lay ahead.
*To cure a toothache rub the yellow liquid discharged when a ladybug becomes alarmed on the tooth. < -- unsanitary to the maximus!
*If a ladybug lands on your hand and then flies away, it said to be good weather on the following Sunday.
*If a ladybug lands on the hand of a recently married woman the number of dots on its back is the number of children she will have.
AND ALSO:
The lady bug is a porta fortuna or charm (good luck) and, last but not least, a symbol of the soul. In this latter capacity the lady bug is called anima della Madona (soul of Our Lady) or anima del paradiso. Should anybody have the misfortune to kill the bug, he or she would die the very next day.
Good to know. I really am an overflowing fountain of useless knowledge.
You’re welcome.
Oooh - lest I forget - I uploaded a few photos from my trip to Louisville - here.
April 14th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
I’d completely forgotten about that rhyme: “Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are gone.” My grandma taught it to me. I loved ladybugs, I’d let them crawl around on my hand. But the “your children are gone” part doesn’t sound right to me.
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