The Blonde Excuse: Lunar Eclipse

February 28, 2008

Lunar Eclipse

On the night of the lunar eclipse, Brent and I drove to a nearby park, across the street from the reservoir where we often go for walks, to get some good pictures. I brought my tripod with me to get some good night shots, but I accidentally left the camera attachment piece in my room, making the tripod useless... ugh. I used sticks to try to build a tripod-like contraption and I think it helped my pictures a little bit, but they're definitely not as good as they could have been with a real tripod. Anyway, here are the ones that came out the best:

We had a lunar eclipse about a year ago that I also posted about and when I was re-reading that entry tonight, I read about Brent's and my psychic encounter that we had on the night of the eclipse. I had completely forgotten about this and was really creeped out by it when I read it just now so I thought I'd re-post it.

March 6, 2007

Wow, I actually just realized this, but isn't it cool that we went to Luna Pizza on the night of the lunar eclipse? It's also pretty cool that we met a psychic in Barnes & Noble that night. He happened to be deaf which somehow made him more credible. He was a really nice guy who told Brent that he had a strong, white aura. I hadn't met him yet (Brent was off in one of his nerd aisles while I was looking at normal people books) and he told Brent that he and I are going to get married, isn't that weird? Brent said it was right after I walked past on my way to the bathroom that the guy told him that he was going to marry me, and he didn't even know that we were together! I wish I were psychic. The guy was trying to teach Brent how to be psychic too and then I came over and he told me some cool stories about his experience with psychic stuff. I know I sound like an idiot, but it was actually really really cool. He showed us a book about Nostradamus and when he saw that I was wearing a turquoise necklace (the one Jocelyn brought me from Mexico) he told me all about what turquoise means and how it protects people from the "evil eye." OK, I know I sound like such a loon right now, but wait, it gets better. So the psychic guy told me that I had to rinse my turquoise necklace under cold water to get the something off of it... it sounded like he was saying e-chi but I'm sure that makes no sense. Anyway, he said I had to put my necklace under cold water before I wore it again. I got home and was washing my hands in the bathroom when I saw my necklace in the mirror and remembered what the guy had said. I almost rinsed it off in the water and then thought I was really going off the deep end and started to leave the bathroom. I threw my paper towel into the trash can and, what was there? A can with the words "Evil Eye" right on it, facing up out of the trash. Wow, isn't that creepy? Obviously I turned around, went back to the sink, and rinsed my necklace under cold water IMMEDIATELY. Maybe I'm just crazy, but I thought that was more than coincidence.

For those of you who are curious, I found a picture of that Evil Eye beer can HERE.

-Lauren

Posted by lauren at February 28, 2008 12:44 AM

Comments

There won't be another lunar eclipse here for ten years. So glad you saw this one. I tried to get Dad to look but he said "if you've seen one eclipse, you've seen them all." Humph.

Posted by: M at February 28, 2008 10:16 AM

My favorite eclipse is when it involves the sun. I remember there was one when I was in the 3rd grade. We were are sitting in the classroom on a sunny day and then over the course of the next hour or so it got darker and darker until it was completely dark, like night time. It was really weird. I can't remember a full one like that since. I wonder if it will ever happen again my lifetime?

Posted by: Jocelyn at February 28, 2008 11:16 AM

your pictures came out so well and that was so much fun. and as for what your dad said, i think it will be tough for any lunar eclipse to rival that one in '04.

Posted by: brent at February 28, 2008 01:28 PM