Talk about going out with a bang.
Please try this link if you are looking for the cafe:
edit: I have removed the link to the original Cafe post for today. This post IS now the EX Cafe for today.
If it doesn't work, let's chat here folks.
This is the last EX Cafe anyway.
Care for a cuppa while I try to figure it out?
Thanks, Pati!
We might as well go out in style!
I brought some blueberry sconces for breakfast!
Yo Thomas3.20.2010. Who's the man?
People thank us baristas for the EX Cafe. You should head the list of people to thank - we opened our door at your suggestion! A million thanks, Buddy. Love the scones. Can I offer you a cuppa to go with that?
We are absolutely going out in style.
Hooray for the Baristas!
Hurray for friends! Hurray for EXbuddies, for they make the journey to smoke-freedom fun!
Feeling nostalgic already.
The real cafe appears to be in moderation.
Let's not even go there. Let's stay here for a while.
I am putting on more coffee as we speak.
EDIT: since this discussion was already being populated when the original EX Cafe post for today came out of moderation, this is the EX Cafe today.
Thanks Mark
A very good morning to you c2q and everyone on this awesome Hump Day morning, I'd love a coffee and a cinnamon roll please and thank you I'm going to sit out on the patio please come and join me friends and fellow Exers let's reminese on our fun times at the ex cafe because I for one have enjoyed the coffee, food and laughter that we've shared in the last couple of months, love and hugs. xoxo ♡
Did you say you're on the patio? I'll be right there to join you!
Here is your coffee and sweet roll, for a special, sweet friend.
Where there's a will, there's a way!
Thanks for getting the cafe open, Pati. You're the best!
No Susie-q, it is you that's the best! Thanks for the great times at the cafe.
When I am in a mood, I need music. Friends and EX family, I am in a mood today.
This is the last day of the EX Cafe. Will it be back? My crystal ball is out for repairs; I don't know what the future will bring. Some think it will.
So what went wrong?
Pati, you did nothing wrong with the cafe, and neither did the people that helped you. The moderation of the cafe today is a huge disappointment.
susan_m wrote:
Pati, you did nothing wrong with the cafe, and neither did the people that helped you. The moderation of the cafe today is a huge disappointment.
It's posted now. It's nothing I did. The automatic spam detection is being a little over zealous for some reason. I'm having a Jive engineer look into it.
Mark
EX Community Manager
What The Hay?
Okay, gang, this is now the official EX Cafe for today. There is now a link to it in Celebrations & Events.
Yeah!
A big Thank-you to everyone who donated their time and energy to make the Cafe a success! Good job everyone!
Thanks Jennifer_Quit_05-01-14. I appreciate it. And I appreciate all that you do on this site, like conducting the Freedom Train Freedom Train 4-19-17. It's a great site resource we can go to every day to celebrate our quits.
The EX Cafe is an awesome idea. Thank you to all the Baristas and c2q for what you did. While the doors are closing today I am doubting that they will be closed for good. I believe the doors will open again and the EX Team will be here in support of that. We'll continue to improve the site and smooth the wrinkles that have emerged recently that have introduced challenges to your EX Traditions Celebrations and Events.
Mark
EX Community Manager
Hi everyone! Boy, what a Mess! lol okay let me see if my copy & paste will work from one discussion to another...hmmm???
Good morning c2q Pati!!! Whew! what a mess huh? Only fitting that on the last day, this comes up lol. Gotta love technology....So I am hoping that we get "alot of participants today."
In the meantime, let me help you if I can....
How about some Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake!?
EUREKA!!!!!
@ Pops on Apr 19, 2017 10:25 AMGreat to see you this morning Pops. If you can't understand what I'm saying, it's because I have a face full of that cheesecake! Dee-am. I'd sit in line in the rain for some of that.
Good morning! Not a happy camper this morning. Its very challenging to move today. The joys of getting older!!! I am in need of some expresso and a white choc cafe mocha. That should set me for the day Happy Hump day to you all!
ShawnP I'm so sorry. I hope this does the trick. Glad you could make the last day of the cafe. Will this help? Cheers!
Oh, and thanks for the reminder. Happy Hump Day! Mike! Mike! Mike!
Sorry I missed it. I was making Murphy's breakfast, at home depot, walmart, another big store, laundry, shave and shower.
but, here's a roll for anyone who missed out.
Okay, who is this beautiful child? I'm sorry I haven't met Murphy before. Do tell more, Jonesy. Glad you could make the last day here at the cafe.
Is it my imagination, or were we all starting to look like each other anyway?
This is hysterical!!!
LOL!!!!! love it you are all rock stars my friend's and fellow Exers. c2q , I would love a cup of green tea and maybe a piece of that chocolate peanut butter cheese cake thanks.
I am here for a cup of coffee please on the Cafe's last day I was asked to come. and I am happy to be here! I will sit way over here in the corner, so I don't offend anyone with my sickerette stink! I am sorry to see the Cafe closing, I hope it will come back! ~Terrie~
Please don't sit in the corner. Just leave that stink-stick outside. You know the drill, once and future EX. Glad you are here! How do you take your cuppa, friend? Hope you like it like this.
That will work, thank you, Pati!
Hey Terrie,
Make yourself comfortable...and let me get you some great coffee....
this should liven you up a bit
Pops
I don't want to be anyplace that would not welcome you, TerrieQuit. You come right on in and sit with us.
As for struggling with your quit, there but for the Grace of God I go. Any of us that forget that are the ones that should sit in the corner.
xx
Susan
How did you like Patis Harpo pics!? lol
You're cracking me up. that looks just like Nancy @youngatheart. I wonder if she signed a release for that video?
OMG! I really am old you know...I remember watching this live when it first aired....you talk about funny!!! Life was so different back then, than now...nobody took things too seriously. Everything had a way of working itself out. Every once in awhile, you would see a fist fight break out in the parking lot, or a hair pulling contest between the girls...but for the most part, life was simple enough.
Thanks for bringing me back to that happy place....
Pops
I'll join you TerrieQuit , and I'll treat you to a piece of this delicious chocolate peanut butter cheese cake and maybe Nancy Youngatheart.7.4.12 will join us and I'll treat her too, let's go sit out on the patio, thanks c2q .
Thank you, Marilyn!
Humongous, ginormous, stupendous cyber hug, let's enjoy the chocolate peanut butter cheese cake TerrieQuit , maybe I'll cut us each a big chunk since our barristas are busy getting things prepared for all of us customers on this last day of the ex cafe which will be missed by each us.
I just got back from the rheumatologist with no magic bullet -
spent an
entire morning with no sure result. Have to go for an MRI which I can't
get until the 28th - and then my next apt. with the doctor not until 5/3.
I am beyond tired of this.
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Marilyn.H.July.14.14. <
Ouch! I know how much you were looking forward to some relief...sorry Nancy...those f*%$kers anyway...I mean don't they know who they are messing with? ok,ok,ok....let's calm down,...it will all work itself out...like they used to chant over the airwaves in Los Angeles during rush hour traffic, (when you had to travel 30 miles, and were gridlocked on the freeways....). The djs on am radio 640 would tell us all, okay everyone...take in a deep breath...no on the count of three, all of us are going to chant out EGBOK.....EGBOK...EGBOK...that always seemed to take some of the edge off. The acronym was "Everything's Gonna Be O.K." I was actually mailed my own coffee mug with an egbok logo on it...
Anyway, as you can see...we have been busy all day long...doing it up and having a party....I brought in some pretty good peanut butter cheesecake earlier....you gotta get you some of that....
Pops btw, notice the new handle...no more Pops8, just plain old Pops
I like that EGBOK! Gotta log that into my coping skills plans!
Dear Barista Sister Sooz. Thank you for letting me take hump day on the last day of the cafe. Thank you for always, always getting the vibe. Amen.
Good morning c2q and Pops and susan_m it does not want me to copy and paste your name, Susan. Thank all of you for running the cafe...in honor of the last day, I will have a vanilla latte with an extra shot of expresso and I am having a hard time deciding between a blueberry scone and a cinnamon roll...decisions, decisions. It's like when I work my son and daughter in law's cafe and people want half a sandwich of one thing and the other half of something else...sorry, we don't do that. I think I will go for the blueberry scone since I have not had a scone in a while. Love to all of you!
Ellen
This should do your vanilla latte taste buds well....
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can never get too much vanilla.
Hi Ellen! Nobody can copy and paste susan.m with the @mention menu at the moment. Mark said somewhere that it has to do with the underscore in the name. Pretty easy work around is to go up to where she has posted, right click on her name and copy the link to her.
Here is a vanilla latte the way you like it, Girl Friend.
WOW two vanilla lattes...I DID say I can never get too much vanilla. Thanks, Pati.
Thank goodness, elvan...... Ellen - I have been really worried about you eating that darn dry toast. I began to think maybe it was just me, but I caught Nigel Farage trying your icky breakfast, too.
elvan wrote:
I am having a hard time deciding between a blueberry scone and a cinnamon roll...decisions, decisions. It's like when I work my son and daughter in law's cafe and people want half a sandwich of one thing and the other half of something else...sorry, we don't do that. I think I will go for the blueberry scone since I have not had a scone in a while. Love to all of you!
Ellen
Would you taste these blueberry scone rolls for me? Maybe they will fulfill both your cravings.
Good morning sorry I'm late but it's been a sluggish morning I fixed a energy drink now I'm almost halfway human again. Not sure what's going on there I went to bed early and sleep really good I guess it's just one of those days. I'm very happy to join you guys at the cafe today I often read but hardly ever comment thank you for the great vibes sent through this awesome cafe! I'll sit on the patio with you guys maybe some sun will remove this heaviness from my eyes lol I was reading the Virginia beach blog and kinda got a little heartbroken because I couldn't join I just simply can't afford it with the kids and a fixed income but I know there will be plenty of pictures and I'll be looking out and smiling with you guys from Mississippi! TerrieQuit put that thing outside and come join your friends and family here don't treat yourself like an outcast girl you are more than welcome!
Hi Kimberly MePlus3. So glad you're here. I think they're getting a volleyball game together over on the sand court that Barista Mortalzeus put in when the EX Cafe first opened.
Want to come watch with me? Maybe someone will let us play.
Sure I'd love to watch I've never been good at playing any sport lol but I watch and cheer!
surely you jest!!!!
:-)
Will you look at that. Our aprons finally came in.
Look @ those!!!!! Where were those when we were knee deep in grounds and chocolate? Way too cool...I love em!
Pops
Well Loves, I've had all the good cheer I can handle today. Thanks, everyone for a great last day at the cafe. We will be open till the wee hours today, and then no more.
This barista is in need of a respite. I've been here 7 hours straight.
When the stars align, there are more people able to man the counters, the aliens are done invading, somebody gets my coffee/dark coffee memes ... perhaps we will be back.
In the meantime, there are many resources here at becomeanex to help us maintain our quits. Pick one. Pick two. I'm sure one will fit.
I wish there was a love button. <3
Thanks to our wonderful baristas, Pops, C2q, and Susan M.
I'll take anything to explore me focused, working on us get for next year already...so I've cranked up my classic rock station, jammin to Jimmy page and Robert Plant.
Break is OVER....time to hit the debits and credits, and hopefully come up with a convincing budget, always goes up.
Thanks again for a awesome café and all the time you put into it!
Kathy
You have NO idea how many memories that one brought to my lucid cerebral anatomy! I think that was one of my first albums I purchased. My beautiful Lawrence Welk loving mother just bout had a stroke when she heard that song blaring from my bedroom...she thought for SURE I was on every drug a 'hippie' could be on, and would be going hell in a hand basket! The generation gap was certainly in full force in my house! It was my younger Donny Osmond loving sister she had to worry about..lmao, thanks for a super psychodelic memory!!!
My mom bought a stereo for my bedroom. I think she really got tired of listening tp Led Zeppelin 1&2 on her Hi Fi in the Livingroom (:
My fellow baristas and I can't thank you all enough for the great time today. The EX Cafe is closed. See you around the EX.
Hi Pati--
Good morning! I had trouble finding the cafe'. I kept getting an unauthorized message. Anyways I will take a cup of black coffee when you get a chance. Thanks much-
Rachel