I'LL BE A VERY BUSY BEAVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, BUT IN THE MEANTIME - A FLUFFY STORY

[red_satin_doll]

Tomorrow my sweetie and I are going to NYC - she wants to see the 100th Armory Show on the Westside; stay two nights at the Pod 39 Hotel; then we'll hopefully go to Chinatown, and then Friday spend the day at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. including the Elizabeth Sackler Gallery of Feminist Art on the 4th floor featuring Judy Chicago's installation

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[beer_good_foamy]

Awww.

And have a good trip! The Pod 39 is a good place - make sure to use the rooftop bar...

[red_satin_doll]

My sweetie stayed at the Pod51 a year ago and LOVED it - she called me to say that the bed was great. She has back pain and bilateral hip replacements. In the 17 years we've been together, travelling and staying at motels/hotels etc that's THE ONE AND ONLY time she ever reported that.

She did not mention a rooftop bar, however. (She'll probably want to go to bed early, I may have to sneak out...)

When did you stay in NYC?

[beer_good_foamy]

Check this out. I stayed there when I was in NYC last year, and barring any unforseen lottery wins, I plan to stay there next time I go; it's not exactly five-star standard, but very comfortable and clean, walking distance from Grand Central...

Oh, and glad to hear you're getting your old place back too. There's something about coming home.

[red_satin_doll]

Oh that's gorgeous! But then she stayed in March last year, and it's just now getting back into the fourties (fahrenheit) here - I wonder if it'll be closed? It's worth it just for the view. (That brickwork!)

And there's a restaurant there? Those pics look yummy and I am ALL ABOUT THE FOOD when I travel. How was the food when you tried it?

barring any unforseen lottery wins, I plan to stay there next time I go; it's not exactly five-star standard, but very comfortable and clean, walking distance from Grand Central...

We've stayed at hostels, at the YMCA in New York, at lousy motels; we've camped and slept in the back of our pickup truck (that ended with the hip replacements, thank goodness). So we're definitely not the folks who bitch if we can't eat off the floor; we just want reasonably clean and a decent mattress.

There's something about coming home.The first few times I went back into the apartment after the fire I felt weird, icky even - like something had been violated - and now I'm "It's gorgeous and I can't wait to get

[beer_good_foamy]

I didn't really try the food at the hotel; there's a good breakfast place down on Lexington if you're into diner food, though. (Apparently it's the local cop hangout, which is usually a good sign.)

I'm a long-haul apartment dweller. Sometimes I dream about a house, a garden... then I remember mowing the lawn and it passes. :)

[red_satin_doll]

then I remember mowing the lawn and it passes. :)

Tell me about it. I remember the old bungalow she owned in Asheville north carolina and sold so we could move to New England. We bought scaffolding, scraped, painted, powerwashed; she got up on the roof; pulled up half the yard, dug out the basement etc etc etc to sell it

And she said "I'm never owning a house ever again!"

Remember that sweetie, just remember that.

I think the urge to own a home is like the urges I get once a decade to bear children. totally hormonal. I just take a walk around the block and it goes away in a day or two. *lol*

[red_satin_doll]

UPDATE - we didn't find the diner you referring to (I don't think we did anyway) but we ate at the Delmonico Gourment Market on Lexington btwn 40 & 41st on Thursday, in the wells fargo bldg - EXCELLENT food at the hot bar. Some of the best baked salmon I've ever had eating out, including stuff I've order at fancy restaurants. I loaded my plate with that and a lot of other things for about $10 but my sweetie only spent $5; and everything was delicious.
(Weirdly enough their website only shows a 59th street location)

Alas, it was not open on Saturday for a return visit. I forgot the city operates differently on saturday.