I Have Received an Urgent Message from the Universe....

Last night, for some unknown reason, I was craving Chinese food.  In general I am not a fan of Chinese and I eat it maybe 1 or 2 times a year.  But I really wanted some last night.  As most of you know I have pretty much been a vegetarian since March.  I have eaten meat a few times since then if it was in something (say Turkey Noodle soup), but I have not fixed or ordered something where meat was the main ingredient.  Normally if I get Chinese I order Sweet and Sour Chicken.  Hmmm….I didn’t really want that – it’s nothing but chicken and it's fried.  They didn't have any vegetarian dishes, so I opted for Cashew Chicken.  I have literally never had this in my entire life!  But, it was smaller pieces of chicken with cashews and some veggies, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad.  I also got the Vegetable Spring roll and fried rice as my sides.

The whole time I was ordering I was thinking to myself, what is wrong with me?  This is not going to go well.  You know you are going to be sick after eating this.  This is not a healthy option.  And to make matters worse I was ordering Chinese at the grocery store….so I decided to pick up few other items.  Jim is out of town this weekend, so I thought I needed some snack foods.  I picked up a bag of whole wheat tortilla chips and some queso too. 

Anyway, I got home and ate my dinner.  I only ate about half of it and I was immediately regretting my decision.  I threw the rest of my dinner away and almost forgot about the fortune cookie (I don’t like the taste of fortune cookies and I never eat them…but I do like to read my fortune).  I opened the fortune cookie and it read “Your body is for use; not abuse”.  Seriously!!  Holy Crap!  I couldn’t believe it.  Why didn’t I read that before dinner?  This is one of the best fortunes ever and so completely true.  I had just abused my body and I knew it.  There was nothing healthy in that food, and I knew after not eating meat for months it was not going to agree with me, but I did it anyway, because I was “craving” it.  This is my new motto….thank you Mr. Universe, or Confucius or whoever….I got the message.  I felt bad the rest of the night and still felt like poo this morning.  I fought the urge to throw up during my entire 1 hour bike this morning.  No more Chinese for me.

Along with this message from the universe I also learned how to asked where the bathroom is in Chinese....maybe that will come in handy some day.

This is not the first time I have received a message from the universe.  When will I ever learn?  In January I was "craving" some chocolate so I purchased some M&Ms at my work cafeteria only to have the cash register display read that I had purchased “1 King Sized Ass”.  This is not a joke.  I’m serious.  Jim even blogged about it.  You can read the story here if you want to (it’s a short one).

So, ever received a message from the Universe?  Did you listen?