The Meeting Place

HI Everyone,

I know I missed the last few parties here and I apologize. We've been making a lot of changes at TMP and I just haven't had the time to just sit and write. I did want to get in something about the Halloween party though because we just had an awesome time, not that the other parties weren't just as great, but with all the website work, expansion at the club and Halloween party planning I've been doing there's just not enough hours in the day to get everything in.

So with that said onto the new stuff. Friday night we had about 12 couples, we had a really nice time even though we didn't get a whole lot of sleep.

Saturday was the biggest party to ever hit TMP, and it was well worth the wait. To everyone who made reservations, thank you that helped us out so much in our planning. So our start with the fun stuff, welcome to all of our new members who joined us for Halloween, there were 5 new couples and 1 new single lady. We hope you all had a ball, and will keep coming back for future parties.

Pirates and Priests seemed to be the running theme for Halloween this year, so where were all you pirates during the treasure hunt??? LOL Anyway we had a few originals, the John and Lorianna Bobbit was great, and apparently everyone else thought so because that costume won them a free party. Kristina who writes occasionally for the blog here won for The sexiest costume, you made a lovely nurse Kristina, but I'm pretty sure I heard Dave asking for a Therapist. I think that was because of C's costume, he was a priest with a twist and I'm not sure I care to explain that any further, but he won for Scariest. B rounded out our winners for the night for his Most Original Puppy dog, he kept telling me all night he wanted to bury his bone, I dunno was kind of strange, not sure if he ever got it buried or not.

This party continued on late into the night, and I think everyone had a ball or maybe even 2 depending on what you spent your time doing. We did discuss not letting the DJ and KJ drink anymore before we let them do Karaoke, but everyone still had a lot of laughs and got a lot of dancing in.

I was so glad we were able to get more space in the meeting area, it did really help make everything not feel so crowded, we hope you all enjoy the new space. We've grown so much over the past year as a community and every once in a while you just have to let a seem out here and there. Our goal is to have the meeting area finished by New Years, it's a goal at this point though and since all of us have other jobs and the holidays are coming on quickly, we will try our best to keep that goal, but are not making any promises. We are putting that raffle money to good use though, and you can already see major differences, we will keep doing those raffles and putting in even more to your club.

Ok so I have a lot of thanks to give out over this party and if I miss anyone I apologize ahead of time, but we had a whole lot of help and I know I at one time or another thanked you all personally so please don't be too offended if I miss anyone. First starting out the week before the party, thank B for staying late on Sunday and helping us decorate, The cove looked great and you had such a great idea with all the pumpkins.

C & D, thank you so much for all of the extra work you put in as well as the tours, you are one awesome host couple and not sure things would have gone as well with out you. To G & S and P & R , thanks for assisting our new couples as well. Our host couples do a fantastic job of making the new people as comfortable as possible and we truly appreciate them.

To C, thank you many many times for those great sandwiches, everyone raved about them and you just did an awesome job.

To J & J as always thanks for bringing out the Karaoke, it's always a blast and I know Dave really appreciates the bit of a break here and there in the booth.

To everyone that picked up tables, towels, restocked paper products and anything else around there, on behalf of the staff we thank you, any little thing you do means one less thing we have to take care of.

To the rest of the TMP staff, I don't have to tell you how great I think you all are you already know that and together we pulled off one hell of a party. All the food you made and the pre-party cleaning and set up just went so well for such a big crowd. So when you at the club and you see the other staff members: L & L, C, L & D let them know just how awesome they are.

We already received a few very nice letters about the Halloween party as well as the party before. I am re posting them here, only removing the authors full name to protect their privacy.

Hi Trish, L, Dave and L,,,, thanks for approving me last week and making me feel welcome.....sure is different than 1989,,,, the activities,Dave's DJ set up encourage meeting and mingling.... I met bunch of nice people that nite,,,, and would have been very happy with just that,,,,, even if no one wanted to take a chance with the 'new guy'.......although things changed later in the evening,,,and i ended up staying til 4 am (pretty busy i might add.....lol).... I will be having shoulder surgery Oct 29,,, so probably won't be back til after the first of the year.... But, again,,, thanks for your faith in me and your great club...... R in Kalamazoo

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Halloween was great! It felt good to be back and see old friends! Thanks to everyone for such a great time and the club looks great! Smily and Kristina

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we had a blast sat night for the halloween party..me and my wife was the John and Lauranna Bobbit outfits....my name is B and my wife's name is C and we are new members to the club and so i just wanted to let you know that we had a blast and we look forward to another party...We enjoyed your club you guys make it very friendly and comfortable place to come and play and hang out you guys definitely know how to throw a party...Thanks againB & C

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hi trish. we had a ball saturday night. we appreciate all your hard work to make everything nice for us. we will be at phyllis' birthday. thanks r and t

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So there you have this weeks adventure folks. Those that took pictures I will have them e-mailed to you this week. Those that agreed to let us post them on the website those will be up this week as well.

Next week we are celebrating Phyllis' Birthday and we're kicking it off with a Pot Luck Dinner starting at 5:00, we already have some people who've told us what they are bringing, you can find that on the events page of the website. Phyllis has been throwing parties every weekend in her home for all of us for 21 years, it's only right we throw one for her once in a while. Since this is her 65th, Birthday we are leaving all the Halloween stuff up and throwing in some over the hill as well. She doesn't know we're celebrating her birthday, I know you think she would have figured it out, but she hasn't, she thinks it's just a party party, so come help us celebrate her birthday with her and have a good time yourselves.

See you all at the club.

Trish