🀩 in the [ not ] bleak mid winter

 🀩 ..... really only uncomfortable

we will be close to 40 [ little up / little down ]

again as in many previous Thursdays, A .. is meeting me for lunch

we are going to ' Magic Noodle '
A .. describes MN as more a cafeteria than restaurant
still might be worth the change from straight Dim Sum

... frosty winds do blow
Earth stood hard as iron
Water like a stone "

words by Christina Rosetti and music by Gustaf Holzst
originally, a commissioned piece for a prayer book, '' Bleak Midwinter " is now a staple in Church Yule music 

Christina is the sister of Dante Aliegheri 

Report: the Magic Noodle was

I wish to return

Then I was chauffeured hither and yon from Chinese grocery to Costco and back to Noodle 🍜

Spending $ 200 including a shower caddy, shrimp and veg