Okay, it's Leap Day... but let's not pull an Anna Brady and zip off to wherever our significant other currently is. Lets get one thing straight... if he hasn't proposed yet, there's probably a way better reason behind it than he's waiting for you to pop the question. So return that plane ticket, dump the rose petals, and ditch the engagement ring... (do you get a boy an engagement ring? see, this is just too complicated.) Got that out of your system? Good.
So what's with this Leap Day business? There's a certain fascination in something that happens only as often the Olympics, so here's a few fun facts that you probably never knew...
1. You have a 1 in 1461 chance of being born on Leap Day, and currently about 4 million people worldwide can say their birthdays fall on the special day.
2. There is a Leap Day every four years... usually. It gets nice and complicated every now and then. There is not a Leap Day added if the year is perfectly divisible by 100... However, if the year is perfectly divisible by 100, but is also perfectly divisible by 400, then we still get a Leap Day. Sufficiently confused? yeah... me too....
3. Sir James Milne Wilson, the eighth Premier of Tasmania (yeah... I'm sure you know exactly who he is....) was born on February 29th 1812, and died on February 29th 1880 at the ripe old age of 17.
4. In many places Leap Day is considered as unlucky as Friday the 13th. In Scotland it is considered unlucky to be born on February 29th (sorry James). In Greece it is considered bad luck to get married in a Leap Year, and even more so on Leap Day.
5. Though in many other places February 29th is considered quite lucky indeed. Hence, the flocks of women trying to snag their man on that date.
So, there you have it. I hope you enjoyed your Leap Day, and if your man still hasn't proposed by the next one... then I guess it'll be acceptable for you to propose to him by then.
beegleeful always
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