Yesterday Izzie Darling asked me about 11:11. (No, I didn’t give her that nickname. Her nickname really can’t get any cuter, so I leave it alone.)
Every day at 11:11, you can make a wish.
Actually you can make two wishes every day. Really. Do the math.
Always start your wishes with “please.” That’s just good manners.
Please…
- Make some chocolate fall from the sky…right…now.
- Don’t let aliens abduct me.
- Have someone pay me to blog.
- Make my cat suddenly learn how to use the toilet instead of the litter box.
- Let me win a million dollars from the lottery. More than a million would be ok, too.
- Make one of the Supernatural Brothers fall madly in love with me. I’ll take Jared Paladecki or Jensen Ackles. I’m not picky.
Why 11:11? I don’t know. Maybe it’s a message from angels. Maybe it’s a Mayan thing. Maybe some 1st grader made it up.
Don’t question wishes, grasshopper! Just make them!
After I make a wish, I like to tell people what my wishes are. It’s the opposite of wishing on your birthday candles and not telling anyone what you wished for.
You know how your parents were the Tooth Fairy, Santa, and the Easter Bunny? (Uhhh…you already knew that, right? No one is sitting in the corner crying, right?) They might actually be the 11:11 wish granter as well. But I don’t have confirmation on that yet.
I announce my wishes loudly to everyone within earshot just in case one of them is the 11:11 wish granter.
Besides the more people who know about your wishes, the greater chance you have of someone making a wish come true.
So at 11:11 today, what are you going to wish for?
Thoughts Appear 
January 7th, 2011 at 8:29 am
So that’s why my wishes never come true. I don’t vocalize them. How silly of me to think that the wish granter would read my mind.
Everyone better understand that when that clock hits 11:11 now, just because I’m screaming “I wish I could be surrounded by cheese puffs and chocolate,” doesn’t mean I’m crazy. It just means I’m being vocal. And that is something admirable, I think.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
The mind reading assumption is a common mistake. Don’t worry about it.
You’re not crazy. If I heard someone say that, I’d be like, “Me, too.”
January 7th, 2011 at 9:16 am
ooo Jenson Ackles. He’s definitely wish-worthy. I remember him when he was on Days Of Our Lives.
I’m going to send out a mass email too, update my FB status, tweet it, and blog it, after I run through the office wishing loudly for a raise and stock options. Better not take any chances.
If Santa isn’t real then who is the fat jolly guy who asks me to sit on his lap every year???
January 7th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
He was on Days of Our LIves? I need to see reruns. Where can I find them?
I think you need to stop sitting on random old guys’ laps. That’ll get you into trouble one day.
January 7th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Be careful what you wish for, or at least be specific. Chocolate chips falling from the sky would probably be OK, although they’d probably sting a little, but a big Hersey bar falling from the sky would probably kill you.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Not if it had a tiny parachute.
January 8th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
You are diabolically clever.
January 7th, 2011 at 10:26 am
Wanna create a wish pact? First person to get Jensen Ackles has to share. This way, we increase our odds exponentially…! (PS: Fairly certain he lives in my neighbourhood so you’d be wise to accept my offer.)
January 7th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Pact sealed! Do I need to prick my finger or anything?
January 8th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Do you think that will improve our odds?
January 7th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Well, I see that chocolate did not fall from the sky (or did it?) but you weren’t abducted by aliens, so it works…sometimes. I’ll have to give it a try!
January 7th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
I don’t know for sure about the alien thing. What if I was abducted, but I just don’t remember it? ::shudder::
January 7th, 2011 at 10:35 am
I wish my paycheck is double the amount today! I just announced this as the ceo was walking by 🙂 What do you think my chances are? LOL
January 7th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Better than before!
January 7th, 2011 at 11:18 am
Not repeating wishes is so thoroughly ingrained, I could never start saying them out loud now! Has it worked for you?
January 7th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Not yet…maybe on the alien one. I’m not sure.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:52 am
I always make wishes when any of the numbers line up—4:44, 5:55, etc.
I’m a loser.
-L
January 7th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
No, I’m the loser, because I almost said, “Even on 6:66?” Heh. It’s Friday afternoon…that’s my excuse.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
“-Have someone pay me to blog.
-Make my cat suddenly learn how to use the toilet instead of the litter box.”
Ditto on these two things! I saw something that promises the second wish recently though:
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/dec/13/1213chattamoms-device-promises-to-toilet-train/
January 7th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
I see nothing about them learning to flush. =(
January 7th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Once again you have made my day. Thank you, I needed it. I think, in case you figure out who the wish granter is, I will wish for either a couple million dollars or a few jars of pickled herring (it groses out my wife.)
January 7th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
I’m with the wife on the herring!
January 7th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Love this post! I would like for someone to please make my migraines go away. Hope this goes to the 11:11 wish granter. 🙂
January 7th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Me, too. I’ve never had a migraine, but I hear they’re awful.
Thanks for stopping by!
January 7th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
For my enemies to be in pain, and a bigger penis.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Did you see Todd’s comment about being specific? You might want to clarify “how much bigger.”
January 7th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
When it’s time to blow out the birthday candle, my son always wishes the same thing: “I wish for a piece of my birthday cake!” Wish granted.
Have you ever heard about wishing on white horses, too? I read that in a book somewhere once, and now I look for white horses whenever I travel. It’s a giant waste of time, and I can’t help myself.
Happy wishing. May Godiva fall from the sky and straight into your hands.
January 10th, 2011 at 7:11 am
Mmmm…Godiva.
I’ve never heard the white horse thing, but I’ll be wishing on them from now on!
January 7th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
For the love of frick, I’m reading this post at 11:30am! I missed an opportunity! Maybe the wish-granter will potty-train your cat and my son together! What fun!
January 10th, 2011 at 7:11 am
I think your son will be easier to potty train than my cat.
That’s the great thing about 11:11. Maybe you’ll catch it today!
January 7th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
I would have to wish for my coffee mug to supply me with an endless White Chocolate Latte at the perfect drinking temperature, a chocolate fountain so I could cover everything I eat in chocolate, and free sushi!
January 10th, 2011 at 7:12 am
I’m with you on the chocolate fountain! Would you put the sushi in the chocolate fountain?
January 10th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
ABSOLUTELY! A phili roll has cream cheese in it and anything dairy can be covered with chocolate without question. Besides, it would take an awful lot for me to say something couldn’t be covered in chocolate.
January 7th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
I love the 11:11 wishes. Sometimes I’ll look at the clock at just the right time (is that just wishful thinking?). Tonight, I’ll wish for the weekend to last doubly or triply long. 🙂 Hope your weekend is wonderful!
January 10th, 2011 at 7:13 am
You missed it, didn’t you? Because my weekend was still short.
January 7th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
I wish for it to be 4:44. That means I am likely home and the part the day that pays my bills is over. Now I can get on to what is important in my life.
I am glad I found this blog. I will be around to check it out.
http://timkeen40.wordpress.com
January 10th, 2011 at 7:14 am
Work being over is always a good thing. Thanks for stopping by!
January 7th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
As far as I can tell, humans grant wishes too. 🙂 But they’re not psychic. Since there’s a whole army of minions out there just waiting to do thy bidding, it’s really only common courtesy to say your wish aloud, right?
January 10th, 2011 at 7:15 am
I agree! Expecting someone to grant your wish and be psychic is too much.
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
January 7th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Your wishes are really hilarious… but I do wish someone would pay me for blogging, and that chocolate would fall from the sky! I really love 11:11 even though I don’t go much for that sort of thing usually.
January 7th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Love your list! I’m wishing that any excess Chocolate you happen to miss might fall my way! 🙂
January 7th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
ugh, stupid mayans. they are messing everything up these days.
whatever. screw them.
January 10th, 2011 at 7:16 am
You might want to throw some salt over your shoulder or spit or something just in case the Mayans heard you.
January 8th, 2011 at 1:42 am
Chocolate falling from the sky? That’s too good to wish for, isn’t it?
NAAAAAAW.
XD
Hmm… I’d wish…
To be an author.
To get my dog to stop being a yappy.
To go to Ireland.
January 10th, 2011 at 7:17 am
All excellent wishes!
January 8th, 2011 at 3:39 am
Oh my gosh – I’m seriously superstitious about 11:11. I usually have to make everyone stop what they’re doing and then when I get them good and startled, I announce the time. Oh fun times! Glad there’s someone else out there who’s about as nuts over 11:11 as I am!
January 8th, 2011 at 10:01 am
All these years of wishmaking, and now I find out I’ve been doing it wrong all along. Curses! I guess that’s why I don’t wear a C in bras or have a million dollars yet. I’m going to give this another try in… an hour and one minute.
January 10th, 2011 at 7:18 am
I think I get a cut of your million dollars now.
January 8th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
I’m going to wish that someone will pay you to blog and someone (same someone or someone else – doesn’t matter) will pay me to read it. Win, win! You make me laugh. 🙂 May all your wishes come true.
January 10th, 2011 at 7:18 am
Paying you to read would be awesome! I’d like to get paid to read, too!
January 10th, 2011 at 7:42 am
I still believe that thing where if you’re wearing a necklace and the clasp scoots around to the front of your neck, you get to make a wish when you put it back. I also get highly agitato when other people go to fix it for me… ’cause they’re trying to steal my wish.
January 10th, 2011 at 8:25 am
If a cat could actually use a toilet I would have 2 of them and my daughter would be in heaven! I hate, loathe the litter box! EWww!
Great Wishes!!!