Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Labor Day Weekend
I hope you all had a nice Labor Day Weekend!
Before I get into the actual events of the weekend I want to start with some words of thanks. One thing I really got a lot of this weekend was a true sense of community, people pitching in and helping out and making things just a bit easier for everyone. To everyone and anyone who pitched in and cleared tables, helped with the meals, towels, the fire out in the yard, folded blankets, emptied ash trays and garbage, and the million and one other things it takes to keep a weekend party going all weekend long, the entire staff and all of the host couples at the meeting place thank you. You all made a huge difference in making our lives a little easier and giving us a few extra moments of relaxation.
I'd also like to thank everyone who brought food and helped cook all the food all weekend long, S & R, C & C, R & S, C & D, C and L, thank you, you all helped keep everyone well fed all weekend long. To J & J, thank you as well for coming out and bringing us some Karaoke and extra entertainment, it was a blast. To our 3 couples who we're our team captains, S & R, D & C, and R & S, thank you so much, you we're a huge help in getting people organized and keeping things moving along. Finally to C thank you for the wax Demo. People really seemed to enjoy it and had a lot of fun with it. I know you yourself had a good time doing it for everyone, but you gave up quite a bit of your party time to share some of your talents with everyone else and it's very appreciated. To anyone I might have missed thanking, I am truly sorry, it was a very long weekend and I know I am missing some personal thank yous that are very deserved. We do truly appreciate all of the help each person gave and it personally means a lot to me to have so many people just pitch in and give a hand.
Ok now onto the party report......the first word that comes to my mind is WOW, my second thought is I think I need a nap.....lol. We had one hell of a weekend, this party just about blew away any party thus far this year. I can't really tell you how many new couples we had or what the numbers were per night, because personally one day sort of ran into the other for me and I'm not sure who came in when, I just know there were a heck of a lot of people there over the weekend and we had a ball. And as Dave put it, Labor Day sort of kicks us off into the swinging season, as the weather starts turning colder we all look for more activities to do indoors to keep us occupied and warm. Why not swing? So this usually sets the pace for our fall/winter parties. If Labor Day Weekend is any indication of the parties to come, then we are going to have one heck of a fall/winter.
I personally had some really great conversations this weekend, and so many laughs that my sides literally hurt. We really hope you all enjoyed the games on Saturday, we know for some of you that was a bit of a stretch to get you out there playing but you all did a great job and your all winners in my book. More importantly we hope the games got you all to know one another a little better and made everyone feel a little more comfortable about talking to others. The games themselves, while fun, are really meant to help break the ice and just get people up and talking and interacting. Since it seems so many of you were upstairs interacting later, I supposed the games served their purpose.
J broke out Karaoke for us on Saturday and Sunday night, and you know...... some of you all can actually sing. We had a lot of fun with that, and ok I may be a little prejudice just cause I'm married to one of them, but I think J and Dave did an excellent job on both nights of keeping us entertained with the music. I know Dave really appreciated J being there to help out and give him a break for a while. I also know between them and a few other people coaxing we got a few people to pop their Karaoke cherries......and see no one laughed and you were among friends so it wasn't so bad now was it? Maybe you even had a little fun with it? I would assume so because many of those same people got up to do more than one song....so congrats to all of you for stepping out of that box just a little bit more.
I really am at a loss for words in describing the rest of the weekend. It was a very long weekend but also a whole lot of fun. If you missed it, all I can say is you missed out on a lot of fun, and if you were there you know we all had a great time. So a few announcements and that's it for this week.
Happy Birthday to our 3 Birthday ladies from this weekend, we hope you all had a great time celebrating your birthdays at TMP.
I need to mention a word here about smoking and being upstairs, there aren't many rules at TMP, but one of them is NO smoking upstairs at all. While cleaning up on Saturday morning we came across an ashtray and a whole bunch of cigarette butts in one of the rooms. This will not be tolerated, it's a huge hazard and it's dangerous. We have plenty of areas for you to smoke in there is not excuse for smoking in an area that it's no permitted in. I myself am a smoker and if I can stick to those areas so can the rest of you. There is way to much bedding upstairs for everyone to have to worry about someone dropping a cigarette, possibly while others are sleeping. For this reason alone, no longer will anyone be able to even take their cigarette packs upstairs with them, we don't want to hear the excuse that your afraid someone will move them or take them from a table downstairs. If your that worried about them get a locker and put them away when you go to bed. We're all adults here and should be able to follow a few simple rules to make everyone's experience a little more enjoyable. These rules are posted at the club and there are signs on both of the stairways, so please don't try and use the excuse you didn't know. Not following the rules can terminate your membership with TMP, and while we'd hate to do that over something so small, we will to protect the safety of everyone else. So please if you don't know the rules, just ask and we can provide you with a card that has them all listed, or check out our website and read the rules, there's a whole page dedicated to just that.
Next Saturday night is Gigolo night, always a fun night for everyone, let's see how much money we can get these guys to earn. There is also a festival in town over the weekend and some of us plan on going to see a free concert of Friday night. If anyone is interested in joining us for that and then heading to the club afterwards, we will meet at TMP to drop off our things and then head over together. The concert starts at 9, but we'd need to get there a bit early. Plan on getting to the club around 7 if you'd like to join us. We will also leave word with Phyllis about where we will be at and a way to reach us for anyone who arrives after we leave. Don't forget to take advantage of the Free Friday's and make a weekend of it, there will be other things going on at the Festival on Saturday during the day, so I'm sure you can find something to occupy your time in between parties.
Our next Pot Luck is on the 22nd, and we're already starting to get reservations and people telling us what they will bring. I will keep a list posted on the events page of the website so we all have an idea of what food is already spoken for. The club will be providing steaks and burgers, so we just ask that you bring the side dish. These pot luck dinners have brought a real sense of community to TMP and we will continue them on throughout the year, everyone who has attended one said they are just so much fun and you really get to know people a lot better just sharing a meal together. There's no sexual tension, no pressure to be on, just a bunch of open minded people sharing a meal together and forming some great friendships. We hear all of you when you give us comments and suggestions, and the feedback we get from all of you gives us the kind of information we need to provide the parties you all want. The Pot Luck you have all made quite clear is something you'd like us to keep up, so we will continue to do these at least once a month. We will always keep a sign up sheet on the bulletin board so check that out when you are at the club. We do need your help though, as these Pot Luck dinners keep growing in size, we do need a little advance notice about how many will be there for dinner. This does help us with planning for our part of the food, as well as helping you all with the amount of sides. Even if you don't know yet what you will be bringing, at least let us know your coming, this will help everyone plan accordingly. We can fill in the dishes later.
So I will leave you all with that. Thank you so much for making Labor Day Weekend just wonderful. Enjoy the rest of the week and hopefully we'll see many of you back at TMP real soon.
~Trish~
Before I get into the actual events of the weekend I want to start with some words of thanks. One thing I really got a lot of this weekend was a true sense of community, people pitching in and helping out and making things just a bit easier for everyone. To everyone and anyone who pitched in and cleared tables, helped with the meals, towels, the fire out in the yard, folded blankets, emptied ash trays and garbage, and the million and one other things it takes to keep a weekend party going all weekend long, the entire staff and all of the host couples at the meeting place thank you. You all made a huge difference in making our lives a little easier and giving us a few extra moments of relaxation.
I'd also like to thank everyone who brought food and helped cook all the food all weekend long, S & R, C & C, R & S, C & D, C and L, thank you, you all helped keep everyone well fed all weekend long. To J & J, thank you as well for coming out and bringing us some Karaoke and extra entertainment, it was a blast. To our 3 couples who we're our team captains, S & R, D & C, and R & S, thank you so much, you we're a huge help in getting people organized and keeping things moving along. Finally to C thank you for the wax Demo. People really seemed to enjoy it and had a lot of fun with it. I know you yourself had a good time doing it for everyone, but you gave up quite a bit of your party time to share some of your talents with everyone else and it's very appreciated. To anyone I might have missed thanking, I am truly sorry, it was a very long weekend and I know I am missing some personal thank yous that are very deserved. We do truly appreciate all of the help each person gave and it personally means a lot to me to have so many people just pitch in and give a hand.
Ok now onto the party report......the first word that comes to my mind is WOW, my second thought is I think I need a nap.....lol. We had one hell of a weekend, this party just about blew away any party thus far this year. I can't really tell you how many new couples we had or what the numbers were per night, because personally one day sort of ran into the other for me and I'm not sure who came in when, I just know there were a heck of a lot of people there over the weekend and we had a ball. And as Dave put it, Labor Day sort of kicks us off into the swinging season, as the weather starts turning colder we all look for more activities to do indoors to keep us occupied and warm. Why not swing? So this usually sets the pace for our fall/winter parties. If Labor Day Weekend is any indication of the parties to come, then we are going to have one heck of a fall/winter.
I personally had some really great conversations this weekend, and so many laughs that my sides literally hurt. We really hope you all enjoyed the games on Saturday, we know for some of you that was a bit of a stretch to get you out there playing but you all did a great job and your all winners in my book. More importantly we hope the games got you all to know one another a little better and made everyone feel a little more comfortable about talking to others. The games themselves, while fun, are really meant to help break the ice and just get people up and talking and interacting. Since it seems so many of you were upstairs interacting later, I supposed the games served their purpose.
J broke out Karaoke for us on Saturday and Sunday night, and you know...... some of you all can actually sing. We had a lot of fun with that, and ok I may be a little prejudice just cause I'm married to one of them, but I think J and Dave did an excellent job on both nights of keeping us entertained with the music. I know Dave really appreciated J being there to help out and give him a break for a while. I also know between them and a few other people coaxing we got a few people to pop their Karaoke cherries......and see no one laughed and you were among friends so it wasn't so bad now was it? Maybe you even had a little fun with it? I would assume so because many of those same people got up to do more than one song....so congrats to all of you for stepping out of that box just a little bit more.
I really am at a loss for words in describing the rest of the weekend. It was a very long weekend but also a whole lot of fun. If you missed it, all I can say is you missed out on a lot of fun, and if you were there you know we all had a great time. So a few announcements and that's it for this week.
Happy Birthday to our 3 Birthday ladies from this weekend, we hope you all had a great time celebrating your birthdays at TMP.
I need to mention a word here about smoking and being upstairs, there aren't many rules at TMP, but one of them is NO smoking upstairs at all. While cleaning up on Saturday morning we came across an ashtray and a whole bunch of cigarette butts in one of the rooms. This will not be tolerated, it's a huge hazard and it's dangerous. We have plenty of areas for you to smoke in there is not excuse for smoking in an area that it's no permitted in. I myself am a smoker and if I can stick to those areas so can the rest of you. There is way to much bedding upstairs for everyone to have to worry about someone dropping a cigarette, possibly while others are sleeping. For this reason alone, no longer will anyone be able to even take their cigarette packs upstairs with them, we don't want to hear the excuse that your afraid someone will move them or take them from a table downstairs. If your that worried about them get a locker and put them away when you go to bed. We're all adults here and should be able to follow a few simple rules to make everyone's experience a little more enjoyable. These rules are posted at the club and there are signs on both of the stairways, so please don't try and use the excuse you didn't know. Not following the rules can terminate your membership with TMP, and while we'd hate to do that over something so small, we will to protect the safety of everyone else. So please if you don't know the rules, just ask and we can provide you with a card that has them all listed, or check out our website and read the rules, there's a whole page dedicated to just that.
Next Saturday night is Gigolo night, always a fun night for everyone, let's see how much money we can get these guys to earn. There is also a festival in town over the weekend and some of us plan on going to see a free concert of Friday night. If anyone is interested in joining us for that and then heading to the club afterwards, we will meet at TMP to drop off our things and then head over together. The concert starts at 9, but we'd need to get there a bit early. Plan on getting to the club around 7 if you'd like to join us. We will also leave word with Phyllis about where we will be at and a way to reach us for anyone who arrives after we leave. Don't forget to take advantage of the Free Friday's and make a weekend of it, there will be other things going on at the Festival on Saturday during the day, so I'm sure you can find something to occupy your time in between parties.
Our next Pot Luck is on the 22nd, and we're already starting to get reservations and people telling us what they will bring. I will keep a list posted on the events page of the website so we all have an idea of what food is already spoken for. The club will be providing steaks and burgers, so we just ask that you bring the side dish. These pot luck dinners have brought a real sense of community to TMP and we will continue them on throughout the year, everyone who has attended one said they are just so much fun and you really get to know people a lot better just sharing a meal together. There's no sexual tension, no pressure to be on, just a bunch of open minded people sharing a meal together and forming some great friendships. We hear all of you when you give us comments and suggestions, and the feedback we get from all of you gives us the kind of information we need to provide the parties you all want. The Pot Luck you have all made quite clear is something you'd like us to keep up, so we will continue to do these at least once a month. We will always keep a sign up sheet on the bulletin board so check that out when you are at the club. We do need your help though, as these Pot Luck dinners keep growing in size, we do need a little advance notice about how many will be there for dinner. This does help us with planning for our part of the food, as well as helping you all with the amount of sides. Even if you don't know yet what you will be bringing, at least let us know your coming, this will help everyone plan accordingly. We can fill in the dishes later.
So I will leave you all with that. Thank you so much for making Labor Day Weekend just wonderful. Enjoy the rest of the week and hopefully we'll see many of you back at TMP real soon.
~Trish~
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