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.
Gingerbread men are Christmas? Not being snarky here, I just never associated gingerbread men with Christmas. Holiday, sure, just non-religious.
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.
I've never understood the fascination with Nutella.
Of course, "chocolate croissants" aren't chocolate croissants either but I've given up on that fight entirely.
Rev. Phelps & Co. are planning to picket Elizabeth Edwards' funeral. Why can't we kill them?
If Clark Howard wasn't on the radio collecting Christmas presents for foster children, I would have no hope for humanity at all. (It's his 20th year of getting people to buy the presents each child asks for, and he's worked his way up to presents for about half the foster children in Georgia.)
Gingerbread men are Christmas? Not being snarky here, I just never associated gingerbread men with Christmas. Holiday, sure, just non-religious.
Oh, I should have given gingerbread details. They were gingerbread men dancing around xmas trees.
I'm a big fan of general gingerbread men. They are deeeelish.
They were gingerbread men dancing around xmas trees.
It's a shame the founding fathers didn't come up with an amendment against tacky.
I don't know anything about New York geography, but I like this place: Harlem Renaissance House it's on West 139th St between 7th and 8th. I don't know if they have multiple bed rooms, but the people are nice, the rooms are beautiful, and the subway is only a few blocks away.
