Jim's Cafe - Sunday 22nd January

[Freya]

Good morning beautiful café patrons! I hope that not everyone's Sunday is as grey as it is here.

This morning's breakfast will be @NYJmpMaster 's famous omelettes with a range of fillings and accompanied by spaghetti ohs (because I like them and I don't care that they are 'for kids')

Please be careful not to trail mud into the café today because @Petal is spending the day scrubbing the floors and she will certainly whop you with the mop if you make tracks on her nice clean floor. @DrownedFishOnFire is cleaning the oven and stove top and @cgh0991 is back on toilet duty since he shirked his responsibilities last time.

I did hear a rumour that @Acy is hand knitting a woolly hat and scarf for every café patron today to combat the cold - please let her know what colours you prefer so she can personalise accordingly. If someone could also find out why "woolly" needs to have a double L in there that would be excellent - what a silly way to spell a word!

Todays Challenge is to tell us one thing you like about yourself and one thing that you plan to 'work on' so you have one less thing to dislike.

I like that I am interested in many different things; it keeps me from being bored and means I can adapt quite quickly.

I would like to work on feeling less awkward about doing nice things / being affectionate toward people. I have cultivated British reserve to the point of stand-offish over the past decade and I would like to move back toward being more like the 20 year old me.

 

[JmpMster]

Good morning all - will happily do the omelettes this morning - and I apologize in advance to all on cleaning duty that the Merry Maids did not work out - turns out they are merry because you pay them and they do not have to clean who knew? Thanks for that heads up @Acy ....


For the challenge- I like that I am able to learn new things by myself and feel like I do a good job at self learning new skills. Things to work on- I wish I was better at time management and could manage to follow my self imposed deadlines (or get better at picking deadlines for myself...)

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[nobodyknows71]

Hello cafe peeps.
To answer your question @Freya

Usually in British English we double up the final 'l' when a word is more than one syllable and we add a vowel suffix - ing, -ation, -ed, -ous, -er.

@Acy can I please please have a purple hat and scarf. :p

The omelettes sound great! And I was very careful to wipe my feet on the way in! She can be scary that @Petal .

Today's challenge:
I like that I'm a naturally giving person, I'll do any favour for anyone. (As long as it's legal )
And I want to work on being more open with my thoughts and feelings with my family.

Have a great day everyone

Love and hugs x

 

[Acanthi]

I'd like a rainbow scarf please @Acy, and a unicorn-horn hat XD

I like that I'm well-spoken and outgoing, so I make friends quickly.

I dislike that I'm very insecure to the point that I read 100 meanings into the message "ok". I'd like to learn to love myself and be more secure.

 

[Innocent Forever]

Good afternoon all!
Thanks for opening the café so early @Freya !
I'll take the corner table and watch as everyone comes in. People watching is fun.
It began snowing here (if it counts as snow if it's light and didn't settle) for the first time this winter.
I was gonna answer that @nobodyknows71 ! Everyone always gets there first
I like blue @Acy - any shades will be fine, teal is best. Yay, can't wait!
I like that I love giving to others, I like that I can be patient at times. I don't like that I don't know/care for what I want. I want to care more about what I want, or, more like it, I want to even want stuff (for example, going out with others, I'll do what they want, but, because I don't even want anything. I want to get to a place of choosing for myself to do what they want, and not be resentful about it, and to know what I want. If that makes sense).

 

[WatchingPlanesFlyBy]

I'll take the corner table and watch as everyone comes in. People watching is fun.

Agreed, it's nice observing people going about their ways, getting brain mopped by @Petal because they can't read signs

It's nice and chilly here, never was fond of warm weather. Wish it would snow year round. I'd like a forest green wool cap very much please, thanks @Acy

I can't stop thinking about Dexter's Laboratory now, anyone remember that show? Omelette du fromage! I'll take mine with spinach, ham and gouda with lots of serrano hot sauce :p I love the variety of hot sauces coming out of Colorado, so many local companies and flavors to choose from!

Todays Challenge is to tell us one thing you like about yourself and one thing that you plan to 'work on' so you have one less thing to dislike.

I like that I'm agreeable and easy to approach. I could be having the worst day but helping others always makes me smile. I would hate myself if my bad attitude wrongly impacted someone else's day.

Something to work on? Much as I love helping others I quickly get impatient, not that I'd EVER let them see it but I do get stressed when the work keeps piling on and on and for those couple hours I feel helpless. Need to remind myself it's no different than everywhere else. Work work work work work.

 

[PhoenixFailed]

A custom made omelette and a homemade hat and scarf, what more could a girl want?

Today's challenge is hard. Everything I like about myself is also a negative. For example, I like that I am giving, but dislike that I am unable to say no to anything.o_O

But I am always up for a challenge so here goes:
I like that I provide safety for the students in my school and am the adult I needed when I was a student.
I need to work on my perfectionism because it eats me alive faster than I can repair the damage.

 

[SillyOldBear]

I like that I will help those I really love....like taking chicken to Ernie yesterday and visiting with him.
I need to give a damn about myself.

 

[QuantumLeap]

@cgh0991 is back on toilet duty since he shirked his responsibilities last time.

WTH??
I totally didn't You just made that up.
Can everyone please go to the loo at home before they visit the cafe today? I have my work cut out as it is...
PS @NYJmpMaster... we are totally out of toilet paper - I don't know what the patrons have been using for the past month??? :o

 

[Kiwi2016]

An Omelette sound perfect on this rainy cold day...will take one with everything ...
One thing like about myself - @PhoenixFailed I'm the same---as I like that I am sensitive to needs of others...but also have tendency to become a doormat...so that's linked to one of many things working on---- slow bur surely changing from passivity to assertiveness so can still reach out to help others but in way that is healthy choice/balance...

 

[Walker]

@cgh0991 I got you, cody. I'll give you a hand. I don't mind cleaning. We'll knock it out... and if you're tied up or not up to it I'll get it. I've got your back.

I can give you a hand too @Petal & @DrownedFishOnFire I'm pretty good with the floors. I'm sure the drive can't be that hard either. I don't have much going on today.

@Acy That's quite a "rumor". You gonna knock all those out? Haha I'm down. I'll take whatever you like. I'm easy. You pick colors. Just not too much pink, yellow or orange. Yuck.

Challenge: What do I like? Eh, I'm a pretty good person overall. I don't fuck people over. I'm loyal. I treat people well. I can make you laugh.

What to change: I'm a doormat. An absolute kicked puppy coming back for more.

 

[Brittless]

Good afternoon

It's raining... you might think that's a bad thing... but it's pouring-- in California. I didn't even do the rain dance.

Today's challenge:

I like my creative, artistic side and that I can (sometimes) think outside of the box when my mind isn't too occupied with anxiety.

I want to work on my anxious, nervous, insecure side that will ruin a good thing or two or a million. It sometimes hurts others and definitely hurts myself and I want to find the confidence to overcome the fear that tries to protect me but ends up hurting me.

Good day all, good day.

 

[Baywasp]

So for some reason my EBT/food stamp card was deactivated without them even telling me that it was happening, let alone why. I only found out when I tried to buy a little snack and it was declined at two separate stores. I was told when I called the EBT hotline that they're sending me a new one and I should get it in the mail before February 1st, but seeing as how I never even got the last one they supposedly sent me a while ago and had to go in to the office to get it, I doubt I'll receive it in that time. I'll probably have to go in again. I'm so angry. Plus I have to wrestle with some ridiculously stupid crossword puzzle homework where the professor seems to expect us to be able to read her mind and know exactly what word she was thinking of even when the answers aren't in the textbook. I already want to drop this damn class.

At least it was really nice weather when I was out earlier, and I even saw one of my good friends downtown.

I like how I'm nice to people and want to work on being able to talk to and meet others more easily.

 

[ChimeraMonster]

well, challenge accept.
i like my boobs! hahahaha
i pretend to work on my weight... 163lb (74kg) is just too much, i have just 5,3" (164cm)
im indeed feeling fat.

here is raining, for 16 days now.... it is just TOO LONG, people are DROWNING on the streets!! and it is not a weak rain.. noo... were talking about the amazonian "flying river" that occurs every year here on Brazil.
there are insects everywhere. fungus and mushrooms everywhere. i think i will transform into a rooting zombie... bleh

 

[cymbele]

I'll help in the cafe tidying things up.
My challenge: I need to get out and be with people. Seems easy huh? Except for the third time in a row I am skipping a Meetup to get together to watch a football team play. Instead I stay at home alone and sulk. Either go or be happy I tell myself. But it doesn't work either way...

 

[Acy]

Rumors can be a dangerous thing. :eek: Grrrr. I didn't get to do these in order of requests. All orders will be taken care of. Please give me some time if yours is not in my first post today.

For @Freya whoo whoo whoo loves owls. ---->

@NYJmpMaster "Heads up"...ROFL!
Just for that, a hat with room for a parachute? And a snazzy button up scarf. ---->

@nobodyknows71 You got lucky - pattern for fingerless gloves was included ---->

@WatchingPlanesFlyBy Thanks for being green! ---->

 

[Acy]

@Acanthi How fun! ---->

And a thick woolly scarf to to go with it ---->

@Innocent Forever Teal it is! ---->

Ooops. That's not yours.
Here we go. ---->

 

[PhoenixFailed]

WTH??
I totally didn't You just made that up.
Can everyone please go to the loo at home before they visit the cafe today? I have my work cut out as it is...
PS @NYJmpMaster... we are totally out of toilet paper - I don't know what the patrons have been using for the past month??? :eek:

Made a huge Costco run and bought toilet paper by the pallet. Problem solved. Now, where to put it all?

 

[QuantumLeap]

Made a huge Costco run and bought toilet paper by the pallet. Problem solved. Now, where to put it all?

Put it all in @Freya's office - she loves paperwork :p

 

[Acy]

@PhoenixFailed You didn't specify...I hope you like it! ---->

Hmmm. @SillyOldBear I won't make you use the muff unless your paws are really c-c-cold! ---->

This was fun, @cgh0991 ---->