The Marriott Courtyard on the UES is about $250/night.

This looks interesting, too.

I got TJ's frozen chocolate croissants to try for Christmas morning. Apparently you let them rise overnight, so I have high hopes.

I was going to ask how they turned out, but it looks like they have been vouched for! I see them all the time and wonder if they are really awesome, and now I want to give them a try for reals.

How does the doctor think you're doing, other-health-wise? Are you healing up okay? How do you feel?

Everything's on track. I do have some extra redness around my incisions that he doesn't like, so I'm now on some antibiotics for a bit. Also, I'm starting an anti-gallstone medication for the next three months. I guess there's an increased chance of gallstones for those who are experiencing rapid weight loss. So, now I'm up to four meds a day, the most I've ever had, plus occasional use of something to help with my constipation (I have to go back to Walgreens and get some Milk of Magnesia for more help). (Whitefont for TMI.)

The blood pressure hasn't started going down yet, but that'll probably happen soon between the meds and the weight loss. It's averaging around 155/90, and it'd always been a steady 120/80 before.

Personally, I'm feeling fine, even though I sometimes get the urge to take a nap in the late afternoon. Of course, I did that before the surgery, but at least now I have an excuse! My incisions do occasionally sting a bit, but that'll stop after some more healing.

I think Priceline can get cheaper rooms at that Marriott. And, seriously, if that guest house has rooms with multiple beds (which I doubt) that would be perfect. But I'm not sharing a bed with her.

Cool.

Thanks.

ita, my in-laws really like The Stanford. It's on 32nd/Park so you'd be a pretty quick subway ride from the UES where the wedding is.

We're back from the ER - x-ray showed no broken bones and the doc decided putting one stitch in would be more trouble than it was worth so we were sent home with a big bandage and extra tubes of Bacitracin.

Yeah, I always recommend Priceline or Hotwire for NYC hotels, unless you have really specific needs.

For people who like San Francisco, typography or maps: San Francisco Typographic Map

Sometimes I just get screwed with clashing tastes in party planning stuff. If you give me a budget of a grand to feed 70 people and decorate a place, I'm going to go bananas on as much dim sum as possible, bake the damn cookies myself, and bargain shop the hell out of table decorations.

I'm doing chinese take-out boxes for centerpieces, filled with candies and fortune cookies. Since my table coverings are tacky cheap plastic, I'm disguising them with sparkly table scatters and felt runners. I'm doing green and silver for colors. Simple. That's it.

That means no "cute country gingerbread men!" patterns on shit. It's supposed to be a holiday party. I'm your atheist-jew planner. If you want an xmas party, put a big old "no jews allowed" sign on the door and have the carolers sing Silent Night (which some ass just claimed wasn't a religious song).

Oh, yeah. It's just about a cold night with angels and a virgin.

Also, Nutella is not chocolate - I got burned WAY too many time in Paris by crepe stands offering "chocolate" crepes which turned out to be filled with that hazelnut tainted abomination. Nutella inside a crescent roll may be a very nice treat for people who don't think Nutella tastes like dirt, but it is NOT A CHOCOLATE CROISSANT.