I don't want to sound crazy but is anyone else having an unusually back 2013?
Never believe in the whole Friday the 13th thing. Or 13 being an unlucky number --Hell I was born on the 13th--BUT this year my wife and I have had an incredible string of just bad luck. We can't wait for this year to end and we are holding our breaths...
If anyone else finding this year having trouble?
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Best and most relaxed summer I've had in a while. It's amazing how much you get done when you're being laid back.
Hope yours gets better. 
In the first two months, I went to 3 funerals. Then in March I ended up in the hospital and missed almost 2 months of work. My son also was in the hospital around the same time.
Things are finally looking up.... but I'm almost afraid to exhale. It's funny because at the beginning of 2013, I just had bad feeling about "the curse of 13." Only 5 months to go! Better luck to us all!!!
It isn't as bad as 2001 though. That really was the "year from hell" for us. 
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DU and the people here in The Lounge have had much to do with that.
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“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.”
..........--Ignatius J. Reilly, "A Confederacy of Dunces"
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When we have incredible runs of GOOD "luck" in our lives, we tend not to
notice them because, I think... we kind of take it for granted that it's simply
the way life SHOULD be (and it is). Look back now and find some of THOSE
runs -- you won't feel so bad about this run of bad.
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And sometimes, as the quote above implies, I also think sometimes we have
to kickstart another run of good luck.
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"Make it so." -- Jean-Luc Picard, "Star Trek -- The Next Generation"
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Sending out vibes to help one of those good runs... a good LONG run... to return.
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Aunt Adele was a wonderful woman.
This house (that we bought last summer) keeps having little problems that needs a repair person. Got the AC fixed ... now I smell a gas leak in the kitchen. 
My car broke down, cost just under $2,000 to fix.
Two of my doves died. 
Seasons, politics, (especially in election years like 2012,) new stuff, old stuff.
It's been over 20 years since my worst year, while I'm not overjoyed or depressed, I am content.
I have my two sweet little cats as room-mates, only thing that bugs me is the History channel going so kooky. 
I wouldn't have no luck at all ( Albert King )
cancer ,death , yeah really fucking swell
but not good - lost my Louis cat , a couple of thousand dollars in vet bills, car totaled, a couple more thousand dollars, a root canal, a damaged concrete wall that I had to get fixed...if I can make it out of this year without going bankrupt I'll be happy.
