Jim's Cafe- Monday 21st December 💖

[MosesY]

Thank you @Champagne for opening the cafe and inviting me.

Today is my last day of work this week, I have a 5 day weekend. I plan on reorganizing my work bench and fixing a couple lanterns and just spending a lot of time on Netflix relaxing with Hennessy, Black Velvet, and Coors Light.

1. What’s something enjoyable you get to experience every day that you’ve come to take for granted?
2. Vaping.
3. What’s a hard lesson that you were grateful to learn?
4. I wish I had done more of the cooking and cleaning when I was married. I was raised Amish so it was the women's job to do all of that; I never learned how. When I was divorced and taking care of myself I either had to learn how to do it or die trying. I found out I really enjoy cooking. I am making a big Christmas dinner for my friend and I, I bought an 8 pound ham. I am making mashed potatoes for the first time and I think I will have some of my tuna casserole to go with it, also some potato salad maybe. If I was to live with a woman again I would have dinner waiting and the house cleaned and the laundry done when she got home from work.
5. What about today has been better than yesterday?
6. Well if this is the Monday cafe then yesterday was Sunday; today sucked.
7. What’s an aspect of your physical health that you feel grateful for?
8. I am very healthy physically. My blood pressure is good, heart and lungs are good, my liver function is good, and my prostate is normal. Mentally I am also doing well now, my medication is working great.
9. What happened today/yesterday/this week/this month/this year that you’re grateful for?
10. Last Friday my company gave everyone a $1000 bonus. The government took out their share of course but really made Christmas a better day for me.
11. What’s an aspect of your personality that you’re grateful for?
12. I am patient and kind, slow to anger.

 

[Dante]

Heh... the last few Jims Cafe threads (this one included) have had some questions I have found awkward or difficult to answer, but if I just keep waiting for the easy questions I will probably stop getting invited...

1. What’s something enjoyable you get to experience every day that you’ve come to take for granted?

I have multiple libraries of TV and film at my fingertips, Netflix, Amazon Prime and my own personal libraries, as well as 2 other Plex libraries (1 from a friend and 1 from my brother) all immediately available. Its remarkably pleasant to be able to just say "I feel like watching episode 2 of season 4 of XXXXX" and just be able to do that, but its also something I now feel accustomed and even entitled to.

2. What’s a hard lesson that you were grateful to learn?

Every hard lesson is a mixed blessing, but I suppose the knowledge that pain has a purpose, that pain, in moderation, and properly processed by the recipient, is one of life's most valuable learning and growing experiences. I count the time I got clinical depression as the first time I consider myself to be "grown up", and both my aunt and dad both noticeably softened and matured after their own personal tragedies. (For my aunt it was when her brother died, for my dad it was when my mum left him). My brother is the only one in the nuclear who hasn't experienced great pain, and though I consider him very responsible once he had taken up a task, there isnt that depth of tolerance and appreciation that the rest of the family shows that makes me trust their judgement on moral matters more than his (except for my mum, she is just a vapid, gullible moron, no helping her)

3. What about today has been better than yesterday?

Nothing. Today and yesterday are almost carbon copies of one another.

4. What’s an aspect of your physical health that you feel grateful for?

Despite the fact that the damage is beginning to show a little (2 permanently weakened joints, a touchy thumb muscles and 3 fingers which don't move quite right) my body has always been able to take a whole hell of a lot of punishment for very little maintenance.
Spend all day playing video games -> Go run 2k
Don't exercise for a few years -> hold up 60kg screen for a 2nd guy to mount (took him a couple minutes to get the screws in... shitty mount)
Get pushed down a flight of stairs -> get up at the bottom, dust myself off and ask "what the fuck?"

5. What happened today/yesterday/this week/this month/this year that you’re grateful for?

My boss continues to offer to pay for maintenance on my car (my own car, not company) I havent paid for an MOT for a while, he even paid to have my brakes changes (pads and discs)

6. What’s an aspect of your personality that you’re grateful for?

MY GLORIOUS AND ENVIABLE HUMILITY! Oh how everyone should be so lucky as to be as humble as me!

Go ahead, bask in the glow of my awesome humbleness.

 

[1964dodge]

Heh... the last few Jims Cafe threads (this one included) have had some questions I have found awkward or difficult to answer, but if I just keep waiting for the easy questions I will probably stop getting invited...


I have multiple libraries of TV and film at my fingertips, Netflix, Amazon Prime and my own personal libraries, as well as 2 other Plex libraries (1 from a friend and 1 from my brother) all immediately available. Its remarkably pleasant to be able to just say "I feel like watching episode 2 of season 4 of XXXXX" and just be able to do that, but its also something I now feel accustomed and even entitled to.

Every hard lesson is a mixed blessing, but I suppose the knowledge that pain has a purpose, that pain, in moderation, and properly processed by the recipient, is one of life's most valuable learning and growing experiences. I count the time I got clinical depression as the first time I consider myself to be "grown up", and both my aunt and dad both noticeably softened and matured after their own personal tragedies. (For my aunt it was when her brother died, for my dad it was when my mum left him). My brother is the only one in the nuclear who hasn't experienced great pain, and though I consider him very responsible once he had taken up a task, there isnt that depth of tolerance and appreciation that the rest of the family shows that makes me trust their judgement on moral matters more than his (except for my mum, she is just a vapid, gullible moron, no helping her)

Nothing. Today and yesterday are almost carbon copies of one another.

Despite the fact that the damage is beginning to show a little (2 permanently weakened joints, a touchy thumb muscles and 3 fingers which don't move quite right) my body has always been able to take a whole hell of a lot of punishment for very little maintenance.
Spend all day playing video games -> Go run 2k
Don't exercise for a few years -> hold up 60kg screen for a 2nd guy to mount (took him a couple minutes to get the screws in... shitty mount)
Get pushed down a flight of stairs -> get up at the bottom, dust myself off and ask "what the fuck?"

My boss continues to offer to pay for maintenance on my car (my own car, not company) I havent paid for an MOT for a while, he even paid to have my brakes changes (pads and discs)

MY GLORIOUS AND ENVIABLE HUMILITY! Oh how everyone should be so lucky as to be as humble as me!

Go ahead, bask in the glow of my awesome humbleness.

please know that you are always invited to jim's cafe if you are tagged or not. we enjoy having you...mike...