You Like To Eat Here???

You know those kids who hate school lunches?
I loved them. Didn't mind most of them at all.
And recently, I've been wondering if that has made me a bit weird in the 'how things tatse' department.
Because there are so many places around here where people are going 'gah gah' 'I can't get enough of this!' and when I try it I'm like. O.o "You like to eat here?"

Seriously.
Café Rio.
Costa Vida.
Are dislikes in my book.

and I've added a new one to the list.
Panda Express.

*shakes head*

I don't get what all the fuss is about.
I went yesterday with my friends there because I couldn't ever recall trying it out.
And they were all "THIS IS THE BEST!"
"SO FILLING!"
"YUMMY!"
And I'm like.
*four bites* "Okay I'm full."
Seriously.
I don't get it.
Perhaps I'm really just a picky eater.
But I don't see what all the fuss is about. It was food. But the meat was too chewy, the noodles too spicy, about the only thing I liked about it was the rice......
*shakes head*
Perhaps I've been spoiled by other food places that make the food taste so much better.
....Or I'm just weird.
and end up not liking what other people love.
lol.
I suppose there are people who are like that with my favorite places.
Like Zupas!
I love that place!
But I'm sure some people are like O.o Why do we have to eat there?! No. Let's pick elsewhere.

Yep. To each their own. :)

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

My First Comic Con

There was a Comic Con over the weekend.
I wasn't sure I was going to go.
I mean, a ton of people, all dressed up, to visit a lot more people?
Not always my sort of thing. 
Crowds and I don't mix well.
But I was tempted,
Mostly because I knew a bunch of my friends went last year,
And they would be going this year.
So.
I thought about going,
But it would depend on work.
And since work likes to schedule me on the Comic Con days.
I didn't think I would be able to make it.
Since it wouldn't be worth it to go to the con for just a few hours.
I would need at least a day to do so.
And then.
I discovered that Stephen Amell was going to be coming on Saturday to our Comic Con!!
()_()
Talk about I WANTS TO GO!!!
Before I'd been like "Meeeeh." About the whole thing like "It could be fun."
But now I was like "I MUST GO THERE!"
Only, I always get scheduled on Saturdays.
And it was too late to put in a request to get the day off. :(
But maybe....I could work a morning shift.
Only...I'd been scheduled Evenings...
In any case.
I basically had written off that I wouldn't be able to go. :( Sad day.
And then. I looked at my schedule.
()_()
And found. That I'd randomly been given SATURDAY off!
The one day that Stephen Amell was going to be there. ()_()
*hallelujah music*
Oh, now there was no way I wasn't going now!!
A chance to see Stephen Amell in person? Totally going!

And so, I went. ^^
To my first comic con.
It was AWESOME!
Though totally crowded like expected,
BUT AWESOME!

I didn't see much of the con for the first three hours because I really wanted to see the panel that Stephen Amell was on,
So I went there early and sat through a panel to make sure I got a seat in.
And then sat through another panel afterwards.
Totally great!
All of them were fun. ^^

Then I got to explore the floor with all the shops and I was like ()_() SOOO MUCH STUFF!!
So hard to pick and choose and find things with people blocking most of the tables.
But it was great.
Costumes were great.
Everything was a ton of fun. ^^
Then to top it off
My friend, Fluffy was there!
And she had a pass to go get a photo with Stephen Amell and John Barrowman and invited me to come along!
*squee!!!!!*
Total fan moment. Got to take a picture, got to shake Stephen's hand!
GAH!!!
It was great! ^^ Totally happy for a while afterwards. ^^

All in all, even with all the crazy crowds and such,
I still had a great first time going to the con!
Probably would go again if everything aligns alright. ^^

Still soo happy!! ^^

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

Doggie Treat?

I did something today that I never thought I would do.

I ate a dog treat.

Yes. you read that right.
I ate a dog treat.

Why?
Because all my other coworkers had tried these treats.
Why?
Because they actually looked edible.
These 'marshmellow' and 'chocolate fudge' looking treats.
Placed in a plastic container with a lid, just like ones you would find in a fair to hold popcorn/shakes/pretzel bites.
It had just that 'EAT ME!' look to them.

And one such package ended up being broken.
So, one coworker decided to try it.
And somehow, she got everyone else to try it too.

But, they didn't go into this not knowing what they ate.
No, they only tried it because they read the ingredients...
And it was already stuff that humans eat anyway.
Flour.
Honey.
Etc. (this treat didn't contain meat.)

So, with gentle persuasion.
Seeing the coworker eat it with no hesitation.
I took one of the treats and popped it into my mouth.

It tasted a bit like a bland sugar cookie.
Not bad at all, though I would probably find some frosting to put on the things if I had to eat them again. lol. (not that I plan to.)

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

Without Hope

A few years ago, Sister Joyce Audrey Evans, a young mother in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was having trouble with a pregnancy.
She went to the hospital, where one of the nurses told her she would probably lose the baby.
Sister Evans replied: "But I can't give up.
... You have to give me hope."
Sister Evans later recalled: "I couldn't give up hope until all reason for hope was gone.
It was something I owed to my unborn child."

Three days later she had a miscarriage.
She wrote: "For one long moment, I felt nothing.
Then a profound feeling of peace flowed through me.
With the peace came understanding.
I knew now why I couldn't give up hope in spite of all the circumstances: you either live in hope or you live in despair.
Without hope, you cannot endure to the end.
I had looked for an answer to prayers and was not disappointed; I was healed in body and rewarded with a spirit of peace.
Never before had I felt so close to my Heavenly Father; never before had I felt such peace.

"The miracle of peace was not the only blessing to come from this experience.
Some weeks later, I fell to thinking about the child I had lost.
The Spirit brought to my mind the words from Genesis 4:25: 'And she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hat appointed me another seed.'

"A few months later, I became pregnant again.
When my son was born, he was declared to be 'perfect.'"
He was named Evan Seth.

-James E. Faust- Hope, an Anchor of the Soul -October 1999 General Conference

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

The Dream

There were people driving in a couple of different cars along a forested highway. The first car had a woman along with other people in it, she was the head of some sort of investigation agency. And as she looked into one of the side mirrors, she saw a man in a car behind a truck reading a newspaper as he drove. He looked familiar and the man cheekily grinned at her, drove a little bit crazy, caused an explosion that sent both her car and his car onto a railway track -two rails hanging in the air- that was over the river in the forest, they skidded and bumped into different metals merging them into a plane and a railcar where they finally ended up in a circle depot in the middle of a hidden jungle town in this abandoned amusement park sort of area. The cheeky fellow had planned it all elaborately so he could talk to her without it being seen by others. The guy had been part of a case a few years back -awkward he was- and the girl had had to rely on him, but now he needed her help....

Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)

-S.N.D

Smoken

There's something enjoyable about sitting around a campfire.
Feeling the heat.
Hearing the crackle of the flames.
Seeing huge logs slowly get consumed into ashes, or watch as other flammable objects disappear into the fire.

It's a favorite highlight of mine whenever I'm out in nature.
Just watching the flames.
Like a sort of meditation really.

But.
There is one thing I don't like about sitting by a campfire.
The fact that I smell like campfire afterwards. >.<

There's just something about it, where the smell of smoke in my hair,
is a recipe for a headache.
It just sets me on edge whenever I smell it on me.
Who knows why.
But it's not easily tolerated.

What's even more annoying,
is when you don't mean to end up smelling like campfire and yet I end up doing so.

For example.
Tonight when I got home from work,
The apartments were sitting in the middle of a huge cloud of smoke.
The wind or whatever was just right.
to send clouds of campfire swirling over the parking lot.
not a pleasant smell when it's that intense to carry hundreds of feet away.

And even the briefest of contact with it,
As far away as I was from the main fire.
I couldn't even see the fire!
Left my hair reeking of campfire.
And I'd been no where near it!
>.<
Talk about frustrating. >.<
And headache inducing.
Bleh.

>.<
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

Editor's Note: Post written on 9/4/14 due to getting distracted by a show and losing track of the time :S

And You Are?

What sort of roommate am I?
The question has been rolling around in my head since I posted about my new roomies and what kind of roommates I thought they are. (They're all Ghosts. Hardly here.)

What sort of roommate am I?

I'm the bad sort of roommate who doesn't do their dishes.
I'll let them pile up in the sink for days on end.

I'm the roommate who also never appears to eat a real meal, instead I snack most of the time.
(Which makes the dishes less of a problem.)

I'm the "Freeze-You-Out" roommate. Who will turn on the AC to the coolest setting possible so I can stay happy and sleep well.

I'm the "Night Stalker" Otherwise known as the Night Owl. (All the others are early to bedders.)
Where if you wake up in the middle of the night, chances are, I'm still up.
I'm wandering the halls.
Wide awake.
Happy to be in semi darkness, and able to navigate without lights on rather well.
(You know...unless I'm scheduled to work a morning shift, then I go to bed early too....)

I'm "Annoying Alarm"
Where when I do wake up early, my alarms can go on for a while as I let them play to keep myself awake, and to keep track of the time. If my roomies are light sleepers...this can get annoying quick.
Lucky for them, I'm breaking out of this roommateness. Thanks to having alarms too annoying to keep playing lol.

Yah...
I can be a lot of types of roommates.
Like, if we actually had cable in our apt, I would be the one constantly on the couch with the tv on to some random show.

*shakes head*

I've just found it interesting, to see how I fit into this whole "New Set of Roommates" schematic..... :)

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

April 2001 General Conference Priesthood Session

Henry B. Eyring -"Watch with Me"

• "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
• We must watch over ourselves as well as others.
• We will be tempted to go near the edges of sin. But sin in any form offends the Holy Ghost. You must not do anything or go anywhere that offends the Spirit. You cannot afford that risk. Should sin cause you to fail, you would not only be responsible for your own sins but for the sorrow you might have prevented in the lives of others had you been worthy to hear and obey the whisperings of the Spirit.

David E. Sorensen -You Can't Pet a Rattlesnake

• Tonight I would like to talk to you about the dangers of petting poisonous snakes. The ones I refer to do not have long, slithering bodies but come in many other forms. Often the world makes these dangers look harmless--even exciting and interesting. But petting such snakes fills the mind with poison--poison that drives away the Holy Spirit.
• Decide now, before you face a challenge, where to draw the line.
• Knowingly petting poisonous spiritual snakes is doubly dangerous. Those who do remind me of the little boy who was overheard praying, "Heavenly Father, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am."

John H. Groberg -Priesthood Power

• Just as clean wires, properly connected, are required to carry electrical power, so clean hands and pure hearts are required to carry priesthood power. Filth and grime slow or prevent the flow of electrical power. Unclean thoughts and actions interfere with individual priesthood power. When we are humble, clean, and pure of hand, heart, and mind, nothing righteous is impossible.
• "If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."
• There is no individual power in the priesthood outside of individual purity.
• Since there is nothing Satan can do about the power of the priesthood, he concentrates his energy on trying to limit our individual power in the priesthood by attempting to dirty our hands, hearts, and minds.
• He knows if he can sufficiently soil us individually, he can, to that degree, keep us from the purity needed to properly exercise the priesthood and thus bring more light, life, and love to this earth and all the inhabitants thereof--past, present, and future.

James E. Faust -"Them That Honour Me I Will Honour"

• For you to achieve your potential, you will need to honor four sacred principles in your lives. These four are:
• 1. Reverence for Deity
• 2. Respecting and honoring family relationships.
• 3. Reverence for and obedience to the ordinances and covenants of the holy priesthood.
• 4. Respect for yourself as a son of God.
• All mothers go down into the valley of the shadow of death as they labor in birth to give us life.
• Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.
• A father should never consciously disappoint his wife.
• "When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve."

Thomas S. Monson -To the Rescue

• Amidst the storms of life, danger lurks; and men, like boats, find themselves stranded and facing destruction. Who will man the lifeboats, leaving behind the comforts of home and family, and go to the rescue?
• "If you do not magnify your callings, God will hold you responsible for those whom  you might have saved had you done your duty."
• "If we don't try, then we don't do; and if we don't do, then why are we here?"
• Wishing will not  make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.
• Men cannot really long rest content with mediocrity once they see excellence is within their reach.
• Another principle of truth which will guide us in our determination is that boys and men can change.
• I'm reminded of the words of a prison warden who taught this fact. A critic who knew of Warden Duffy's efforts to rehabilitate men said, "Don't you know that leopards can't change their spots?" Warden Duffy responded, "You should know I don't work with leopards. I work with men, and men change every day."
• "If you would win a man to your cause first convince him that you are his sincere friend."
• A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.
• Acquire the language of the Spirit. It is not learned from textbooks written by men of letters, nor is it acquired through reading and memorization. The language of the Spirit comes to him who seeks with all his heart to know God and keep His divine commandments. Proficiency in this "language" permits one to breach barriers, overcome obstacles, and touch the human heart.

Gordon B. Hinckley -The Perpetual Education Fund

• There is an old saying that if you give a man a fish, he will have a meal for a day. But if you teach him how to fish, he will eat for the remainder of his life.
• Participation in the program will carry with it no stigma of any kind, but rather a sense of pride in what is happening. It will not be a welfare effort, commendable as those efforts are, but rather an education opportunity. The beneficiaries will repay the money, and when they do so, they will enjoy a wonderful sense of freedom because they have improved their lives not through a grant or gift, but through borrowing and then repaying. They can hold their heads high in a spirit of independence. The likelihood of their remaining faithful and active throughout their lives will be very high.
• There is nothing that the priesthood cannot accomplish if we will work unitedly together in moving forward a program designed to bless the people.
• I believe the Lord does not wish to see His people condemned to live in poverty. I believe He would have the faithful enjoy the good things of the earth. He would have us do these things to help them. And He will bless us as we do so.

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi