So this is a Cyber Cafe What'll be?

Counting calories means there is little room for wine for me. I have the occasional glass and enjoy it. IRL I've given up added sugar, red meat, pork, reduced fat ... Thank god that coffee has no calories to speak of. It's my last vice.

Now back to the cyber cafe. My favorite food is vegetarian pizza. I'd like a thin crust pizza please. I think by the our door fire place plese.

In the cyber cafe, do we get thinner when we walk in the door? I want to see if I can wear my smaller jeans here.

Vicky, you can do anything, be anything, eat anything at the cybercafe! If you can dream it . . .

Zzyyggy, the temperature in the Charlotte area was only two degrees warmer than Burlington’s today. Sweetie even wore his jacket this morning because the temperature was in the 30’s.

Viktor, I’m ready for my bedtime snack. I’d like a cup of tea and cinnamon toast, please. It’s just past 10 pm. Good night ladies.

Zzyyggy, I checked out your forecast. 🕵️‍♀️ Did you know that the day after Thanksgiving, daytime temperatures in Burlington will be to dropping into the low 30’s and stay that low. We’re supposed to have daytime temperatures in the mid 40’s after Thanksgiving. Here, in the Charlotte area that may be the only winter weather we have. Maybe this year we’ll see snow, but all the forecasts say the southeast will see a warm winter. 😢

It’s nice and toasty out on the terrace tonight. I ordered iced tea with my apple pie, ice cream, and caramel sauce.

With all that you got your post in before mine, Zzyyggy. It’s because Miss Nora called. Anyway, I forgot my order! I ordered one of those sandwiches from the Cybercafe Pub. The turkey and stuffing one. It comes with cranberry sauce and coleslaw on it, too. You don’t have to get it with everything, but it’s delicious if you do.

We had more rain today. It's not tht cold but the damp just creeps into your body. I'd like to sit by the fire and roast my tootsies with a cup of hot cocoa and oatmeal raisin cookies.

Hello? Gee, the cybercafe’s staff is wildly busy, but no one else is here. This may be the perfect time to grab a sandwich at the Pub and then spend some time in the library in my favorite chair with my book and cat in my lap. Viktor is sure to find me and bring cookies and coffee. I’ve spent much of the day prepping for Thanksgiving dinner. The vegetables are chopped, the gravy is done, everything is ready to go.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Happy almost Thanksgiving. Hubby and I are doing a Turkey Trot tomorrow. I'm walking and hubby is running. Then dinner with friends. Hope the weather cooperates for both of you tomorrow.

Zzyyggy, I’m having the apple pie, too. I had pumpkin pie earlier. It was just a small slice. We had lovely Thanksgiving. It rained a little bit in the morning, but then the sun came out and the temperature rose to 70 degrees. It got windy and cooler in the afternoon. We cooked most of dinner and took it over to the kids house. It worked out great.

Our neighborhood had a Turkey Trot, too, Vicky. When I was sautéing the onions, carrots, and celery for a chicken and stuffing casserole we all like, I could see our neighbors walking and running down the street.

Zzyyggy, it’s cold and although it’s only just after 9:00 pm, it’s already 37 degrees here. It was sunny today, but 53 degrees was the high today. It’s supposed to be 25 degrees tomorrow (Saturday) morning. I might just have to stay in bed because, even though the crawl space vents are closed, the floors are cold. Look at me complaining when you’re dealing with much colder temperatures. I see you’ll be having temperatures in the 30’s for the coming week and then those daytime temperatures start getting even colder and temperatures in the 30’s will begin to feel like warm weather. Not to me 🥶 —once the temperature goes under 60 degrees it’s cold. Sweetie says that’s just chilly weather.

Francois is making soups. The turkey soup looked good, but I opted for the lobster bisque with a warm, fresh from the oven baguette dripping with butter. It was delicious. I want something warm for dessert, but Sweetie says he’ll have an ice cream sundae with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge and chopped pecan pralines. I ordered the rice pudding served warm with hot half and half poured over it. I don’t usually go out of my way to eat rice, but lately it’s been on the menu. I make two cups of rice, measure out half a cup for dinner and mix it with at least half a cup of vegetables then Sweetie somehow manages to eat the rest of it between dinner one night and dinner the next night. Probably a good thing, right?

Toasting my hot chocolate and dahlia to you both. Happy holidays.

Zzyyggy, Francois’ Sunday Lasagna was delicious. It’s time for dessert and Francois promised to make some cheesy garlic bread for me and Viktor will make sure I have coffee. Sweetie can’t decide between lemon meringue pie and tuna noodle salad. There’s quite a dichotomy between the two. Maybe the tuna noodle and then the pie would be best. In the hobbit realm is there such a thing as second dinner? Or is it third dinner if you have dinner for lunch and then supper?

I managed to get some things done around the house and even did some laundry. I usually have a small breakfast with steamed vegetables and a protein, with dinner around 1:00 or 2:00 and then a small supper around 6:00. So today I chopped lots of onions and peppers to add to my sundried tomato chicken. It’s one of our favorite recipes. I make a whole mess of it so we can have some for breakfast and dinner the next day. You can add tons of other vegetables to it, which I love. I’ve made it with spinach, zucchini, carrots and broccoli. It would be fantastic with eggplant. Sweetie likes to have pasta, rice, or potatoes with the sundried tomato chicken. 😋