Crouching Tiger Flying Rat

For those of you who have read/viewed the video "The Secret", you know you attract the things you obsess about-- good or bad. Tim obsesses and CANNOT stand birds and rats.

A little background of personal experience with this Law of Attraction... One time in Hawaii during an outdoor lunch at a restaurant with 10 other tables, for some reason a small flock of birds flooded around his feet while he ate. Not my feet, nor anyone at any of the other 10 tables. Just Tim's feet. I tried not to laugh while scarfing down my food to avoid chocking while in hysterics. I could see the boiled blood of frustration reach it's way to the top of his head, and the dude started kicking at the pests. We had to leave early, because somehow kicking egged the "flying rats" (as Tim would say) to stay. Along that same law of attraction (that comes into play for me when it comes to those huge roaches there in Hawaii also), check this out...

We're standing in line at a huge food court in one of the largest supermarkets in Shanghai. You Taiwan lovin' friends of mine will have sweet memories--- we were at "Carefour". We were standing in line for ice cream, another thing the Chinese do all too well. I was eyeing the "taro" flavor, after many years of taro deprivation while being in the states.

All of the sudden, out of the corner of my eye, I see a 9 inch brown blur fall from the rafters. I almost over looked it, thinking the ceiling was falling apart, like it was no big deal-- heck we're in a 3rd world country, right? Realizing what I was just ignoring, I walk to the other side of Tim, to see, only 2 feet way from him, in a room full of many hundreds of people, a 9 inch rat had fallen from the rafters. Because of the impact, it couldn't run away, and laid still on the floor. I think, secretly, Tim hoped it would have ran away before I started saying loudly (through extreme laughter ) "Lau Shu! Lau Shu!! (rat! rat!)"

I knew what Tim's reaction would be. (FYI, I am laughing so hard right now, I can barely sit to rehearse the story to you). "Augh! Augh!" he yelled, in a very masculine way. I love that he can still be manly when being totally freaked out. He backed away, facing the beast, with his arms holding back me and Hunter, as if we were the ones totally freaking out. I was afraid he would be mad that I was laughing so hard (I know the locals looked at us like "crazy Americans”). Instead, he just kept jolting his shoulders, the way you would if you were to shake off a spider crawling on your shirt collar.

Then he started in laughter too, rehearsing the story over again. T: Suzanne! The thing was aiming for my head!
S: "Law of Attraction", Babe.
T: Whatever, it's the same way with you and roaches.
S: Seriously, we were in a room of gazillions of people, and some how it lands closest to you.
T: Crouching Tiger, Flying Rat.
S: Way to take a hit for the Blog, Babe! I give him a hi-five and our obnoxious laughter continues.　

My Mom says you need to find appreciation for everything in life. Like the fleas that kept the guards away from preying on the women prisoners at the Nazi concentration camps.

So, I thought of an appreciation for rats today: They eat Cockroaches.

This is about where we were standing.