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Do you believe in 11/11/11?

By Catherine Toth Fox • November 11, 2011 • Musings, The Daily Dish

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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8 Comments

  • Reply David Jackson November 11, 2011 at 3:29 am

    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.

  • Reply jaydee November 11, 2011 at 4:26 am

    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”.

  • Reply matt November 11, 2011 at 8:02 am

    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.

  • Reply Cody Zamboni November 11, 2011 at 9:35 am

    Earth calendar: date today is 11/11/11

    Star Trek calendar : Stardate 2103.6

    which one is cooler ??

  • Reply uncleb November 11, 2011 at 9:37 am

    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…

  • Reply rayboyjr November 11, 2011 at 11:48 am

    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 …

    • Reply rayboyjr November 15, 2011 at 2:03 pm

      … 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 …

  • Reply kat November 12, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    11.11.11 was pocky day in Japan, so that’s what I did, eat pocky.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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