Worst day of the year

Today is not a great day for me. I 'celebrate' 39 years on this miserable planet.

Best day for me; any day when the sun is shining and it's warm. Any day when I dont look out of the window into what looks like a nuclear bloody winter. Maybe I have SAD..

Actually it might just be a hangover...   

Edited by Bob Greece - January 28 2008 at 06:53

fandango wrote: anyway Bob...it's great to see you back in the forums...

Friede and I live by a different calendar which we created ourselves. it has 13 months of 28 days each. since 13*28 equals 364 only, we have an additional New Y>ear's day at the beginning of our year, which is not assigned to any month or week, and in leap years a leap day, which immediately follows after New Year's day and also belongs to no week or month. this has a lot of advantages: no matter what year it is, a certain date will ALWAYS fall on the same week day. what's more: the first of all months falls on the same weekday. the calendar also has a more logical start; it begins with the spring equinox (which in this year falls on March 20th, according to the Gregorian calendar). I always felt a year should resemble a life with winter being old age; thus it never made sense to me that winter drags along throughout the first months of the new year. our months have all been named after Greek Goddesses. for the weekdays we used the name of the 7 Pleiades. anyone who would like to know more about our calendar (for example conversion tables) is welcome to send either Friede or me a private message.
the calendar is part of our religion (Friede and I are High Priestesses of a small religious group that worships Gaia, the ancient Greek Goddess of the Earth). consequently we celebrate other feasts than Easter or Xmas; however, the kids don't have to go without "Xmas presents", in a way, because we celebrate the solstices and equinoxes, and the winter solstice is very close to Xmas.
as to worst day of the year: I would name 4. the days after our big feasts (the solstice and equinoxes) are usually filled with headaches and nausea for us. not because of too much booze, by the way


Edited by BaldJean - January 28 2008 at 08:48

Well if today's the worst day, imagine the best one!

The winter keeps coming later and later here. It's soon February, and the only snow we've had only lasted 2 days!

Just a common day here.

The most horrible day on this Earth for me, so far, is on the 21th of August. Involves a past event.

When's the happiest, I couldn't tell. A day when everything works and everything's happy isn't far from a little miracle, but I'm not having hard times either, so I lately never complain....


Edited by Ricochet - January 28 2008 at 13:36

fandango wrote: Blacksword wrote: Visitor13 wrote: Happy birthday Blacksword!!! Do you mean you actually have a proper winter where you live?! I'm so jealous, I sure could use one here in Slushland. Clean, crisp snow is a beautiful thing, whether in light or in the dark. Thankyou. No, we dont get a propper winter at all. The skies are generally overcast and there's frequent rain. We've not had a real winter in the south since the 1980's. I miss snow..   back in the spring of 2001, when I was working half way up Snowdon, we had beautiful crisp snow on the mountains, and azure blue, cloudless skies for several weeks... it was the best winter walking weather many of us had seen, for that length of time...   the only  problem was that foot and mouth kept everyone off the hills for 3 months, and all the local businesses nearly went bankrupt as a result...

Only two years ago my country saw temperatures drop as low as -30 Celsius... sickest winter I can remember. And it lingered for two whole months!

There is an upside to the current situation though - earlier poor people used to freeze to death by the dozens here, that harsh winter alone claimed some 200 people. This is less common nowadays.
 

I have to say my worst day of last year was 12/28.  I had a grand mal seizure and I'm still feeling out of whack.  Then there was that giardia attack back in June, but that was more like several bad days...

I refuse to answer this question because the day is not over.