Jim's Café - Thursday Feb 23

[Rockclimbinggirl]

So today @Acanthi will be making the food. I have put the kettle on for tea.

@ghosTea @Innocent Forever will be on cleaning duty

@cgh0991 @baywasp will be waiting on tables

The challenge for today is to think about an unhealthy habit that you want to change.

For me that would be self harming. I am trying to use distractions instead of giving in.

 

[nico_justnico]

goodmorning everybody. I seem to be the first one here, so let me just get an espresso with a cookie and wait for some company

 

[nobodyknows71]

Hi @nico_justnico ive come to keep you company! The cookie looks lovely, can I have one?

Challenge.... wow that's a tough one. There's many and priorities change but right now I'm really beating myself up about being inadequate. So trying to cut myself some slack (not always succeeding) and treat myself to some empathy.

Have a great everyone

 

[Acanthi]

Hello everyone! I slaved away alllll night to prepare this spread, so please enjoy!!

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First up is a Chinese buffet, this is served with rice. You can choose any dishes you like from here. (Fun Fact: There are actually plenty of Chinese buffet shops dotted where I live, but we just call them Economic Rice stalls, because they're quite affordable.)

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Then we have some Japanese fare here, some of it is raw, but I'm sure everyone will find something they like.

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Finally, a dessert bar. These are not handmade because I didn't have enough time, but I hope they're alright...

Please tuck in! I hope everyone here has an absolutely amazing day.

 

[nico_justnico]

Hi @nico_justnico ive come to keep you company! The cookie looks lovely, can I have one?

Challenge.... wow that's a tough one. There's many and priorities change but right now I'm really beating myself up about being inadequate. So trying to cut myself some slack (not always succeeding) and treat myself to some empathy.

Have a great everyone

Sure you can have some, what's yours is mine

 

[Baywasp]

I'm on the phone with Social Security. Hopefully I'll be able to get things cleared up so I can get my income next month. I waited a little long to do it so I might be kind of late to school, but I don't think my professor cares much. I could still get it done on time though. I'll check back in later after I've lived more of my day.

But for now, I have two unhealthy habits I'd like to fix. One is physical, and one is emotional. The physical health goal is stop eating junk food every day. The goal for my mental health is to stop apologizing for everything (I've literally apologized in the middle of touch rugby games at practice, which my teammates find kind of ridiculous...)

 

[nico_justnico]

I'm on the phone with Social Security. Hopefully I'll be able to get things cleared up so I can get my income next month. I waited a little long to do it so I might be kind of late to school, but I don't think my professor cares much. I could still get it done on time though. I'll check back in later after I've lived more of my day.

But for now, I have two unhealthy habits I'd like to fix. One is physical, and one is emotional. The physical health goal is stop eating junk food every day. The goal for my mental health is to stop apologizing for everything (I've literally apologized in the middle of touch rugby games at practice, which my teammates find kind of ridiculous...)

well, with all the food @Acanthi prepared, I don't think there will be any room left for junk food the next days, so that will work out fine

 

[Acanthi]

Oh pardon, i forgot the challenge...

My unhealthy habit I want is fix is being so defensive all the time. My colleague pointed it out to me the other day when I said i sent someone a friend request on fb and he didn't accept it, so I cancelled it after 2 days. My colleague said that's just me being defensive because the guy probably hadn't even checked his fb yet, so I added him as a friend again, and he accepted. So, stop being so defensive. I realise it's making me quite unhappy too. I don't want to assume the worst of people anymore.

 

[Kiwi2016]

Wow an amazing amount of food thanks @Acanthi and thanks for the sushi one of my favorites.. As for the challenge---stick with quitting smoking.

 

[Innocent Forever]

The food looks fabulous, thanks @Acanthi
Me, cleaning? I think we need to hire some maids. Oh, you know how they say, I'm working really hard for I'm delegating....... @nico_justnico and @Becky2016 will clear the plastic plates, @nobodyknows71 and @Kira75 will put the real plates that are about in the dishwasher (we have a dishwasher here, right?) @walkerbait95 and @Kiwi2016 will remind people to put their rubbish (garbage) in the bin (trash?), the rest will be left to @ghosTea to do or delegate. The floor, seats et al.
I'm tired today. Very. And confused. And upset.
Need to stay too busy to mess up and can't face doing anything.
Something unhealthy I want to change - escaping to unhealthy things. Can't write what as the list is too long.

 

[nico_justnico]

The food looks fabulous, thanks @Acanthi
Me, cleaning? I think we need to hire some maids. Oh, you know how they say, I'm working really hard for I'm delegating....... @nico_justnico and @Becky2016 will clear the plastic plates, @nobodyknows71 and @Kira75 will put the real plates that are about in the dishwasher (we have a dishwasher here, right?) @walkerbait95 and @Kiwi2016 will remind people to put their rubbish (garbage) in the bin (trash?), the rest will be left to @ghosTea to do or delegate. The floor, seats et al.
I'm tired today. Very. And confused. And upset.
Need to stay too busy to mess up and can't face doing anything.
Something unhealthy I want to change - escaping to unhealthy things. Can't write what as the list is too long.

Plastic plates? aren't we gonna be careful for the environment?

 

[nobodyknows71]

The food looks fabulous, thanks @Acanthi
Me, cleaning? I think we need to hire some maids. Oh, you know how they say, I'm working really hard for I'm delegating....... @nico_justnico and @Becky2016 will clear the plastic plates, @nobodyknows71 and @Kira75 will put the real plates that are about in the dishwasher (we have a dishwasher here, right?) @walkerbait95 and @Kiwi2016 will remind people to put their rubbish (garbage) in the bin (trash?), the rest will be left to @ghosTea to do or delegate. The floor, seats et al.
I'm tired today. Very. And confused. And upset.
Need to stay too busy to mess up and can't face doing anything.
Something unhealthy I want to change - escaping to unhealthy things. Can't write what as the list is too long.

I'm sorry @Innocent Forever but erm no! I don't think so!!
For someone who wants to keep busy, you don't seem to be doing much! So I will not be doing your cleaning duty, you may even find it therapeutic. So get those sleeve rolled up!

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And I urge @nico_justnico @Becky2016 @Kira75 @walkerbait95 and @Kiwi2016 to rebel against the tyranny that is @Innocent Forever :p

 

[Kiwi2016]

One and all please think of @ghosTea ....

 

[ghosTea]

What a huge meal! All the work you put in @Acanthi!! Cleaning duty again it just feels like it was yesterday. How dirty do we get in here lol

I use to work as a Janitor at the office where my mother work and they had the sign up "Your Mother is Not Here Please Clean Your Own Mess" So I put a sticky note underneath asking if that means I need to do any work at all or am OK to leave it up to her lol.

Time to change one bad habit hmmm... Sorry I am flawless Muahahaha... Maybe work on my out of control ego today

 

[Kira]

Hello Café peep!
@Acanthi 's spread of food looks amaaazzing!! Having said that, there's going to be lots of dishes to clean Not happy about that! Can everyone please rinse their plates before they go into the dishwasher. Running low on dishwashing washing powder so I'll grab some more later.

Todays challenge. Mmmm... there's a few things but I need to go to the Doctor's more often when I hurt myself. I've had gout in my left knee for over 2 weeks now and it's not getting any better. The pain has spread into my leg too. My darling son keeps telling me to go to the doctor's to get it checked out but, meh. Whatever. Can't be bothered. One of my favourite doctor's just left last week so I'm bummed about that. He was really, really good. He had to go back to the UK as his father is really sick.

Anyway, I hope you are all well ox

 

[Acy]

Thanks, @Rockclimbinggirl, for opening today!

The Challenge: I need more exercise.

@Acanthi, oh my goodness, what a feast! No wonder I need more exercise! :p

It's been a busy week. Things will slow down a bit tomorrow evening. Glad I got most of the housework done today. Have a happy night everyone!

 

[Baywasp]

I had a rather uneventful day at school. Watched a video about Husserl in my first class and had a test in my second. It was multiple choice and some of the choices were joke answers but others were really hard decisions. But I got done really quickly. After that I had my therapy session, and my service coordinator came along. Kind of made me uncomfortable, but I was too polite to say anything. I felt just okay about therapy, but my service coordinator said she was the best therapist she'd encountered, at least in a long while. Afterwards, I just felt like I was crumbling, but then I went to the gym and my friend B was working today. I had a little conversation, something silly, about hair, which was interesting because over text I'd just been telling him how depressed I was. That interaction made me feel a bit better and I completed an hour workout without just giving up like I wanted to. Then I went home and my roommate's friend wanted to go to McDonald's for ice cream, so we did that and went grocery shopping for ingredients for what she wanted to cook.. Now I'm chilling in the kitchen while she cooks, and I'm feeling better for now.