Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Say goodbye to 2007 & Hello to an exciting 2008
New Years Eve Weekend.......wow not sure where to begin.
This was a really big weekend for TMP, 4 nights of parties and each one different. So let's start at the beginning......
Friday night was a nice party, not too crowded, but we had a good sized group. We had a couple of new couples join us, and they were just awesome. Had a couple who hadn't been back for a long time, it was really nice to see them as well. Some regulars and some semi regulars made for a nice well rounded party.
Saturday nights party was very busy, we really weren't sure which would be more popular Saturday or Monday, but if Saturday's crowd was any indication, we figured Monday would be just as good if not better. Great group on Saturday, lots of laughs, great food, terrific music and dancing and everything else that makes a party fun.
Sunday night we did the Rocky Horror thing, no we didn't manage to get all dressed up, the majority of the people attending this party were those spending the whole weekend, so we mostly attended in our jammies and got comfy for the movie. We popped pop corn and threw rice and just had a lot of fun and laughs.
Monday night was standing room only, even with the additional space added before Halloween, we still had people standing, but no one was complaining either, this just gave people more of an opportunity to mingle and head upstairs early. At one point at the door we had 12 couples and it seemed like every time we'd get the door closed another couple followed right behind. The party actually got started fairly early too, and Dave kept us dancing all night. We served a catered dinner, and had lots of food and fun through out the night. We did our count down just before midnight and celebrated with a toast and champagne punch.
So that's the quick explanation of the parties. There was a lot of work though in throwing this party together, and not just from the staff and Phyllis either. So all of us at TMP have a lot of thank yous to go around. First to all of you who came out to spend the weekend or attended parties, thank you for supporting TMP and making it such a wonderful place to party. To everyone who stayed the entire weekend, all of you pitched in at one point or another and helped out cleaning up in between parties and after meals, a huge thank you from the staff for making our jobs that much easier. We all got to see the best example of how quickly a team of people can clean up a room after the Rocky Horror Show, it was so wonderful to just see everyone, and I mean everyone help clean up and move things around and get what needed to be done done. This is what TMP is about. Our staff volunteers their time to help make TMP a better place, but when you all jump in and help like that, it's just an awesome thing and makes us just glad to be apart of such a wonderful community. All of the people who spent the weekend, helped out all weekend long along the way, even the little things make a big difference, just keeping the coffee going was a huge help. So once again thank you to all of you who were there all weekend long.
To the TMP staff, full time and extra board, thank you all for pulling this all together and making things work so smoothly. You all helped with things all the way from planning to execution and beyond, so thank you all for putting in the time and effort to make sure everyone had a great time. I heard over and over again all weekend long just what a wonderful job we're all doing and it's just so nice to hear that, especially when it's coming from long time TMP members who've been there through all the changes over the years and have seen it at it's worst and best.
The staff at TMP works at the club because we love TMP, we love the people who come there and we love helping you all have a good time. We don't get paid, but we do it because we care about the club and Phyllis. We're very fortunate, we have an awesome staff and if you don't know who they are take time to meet them and talk with them, we all go to parties for the same reason you do, we just help out along the way.
So my personal thank you to all the staff: Lisa, Chris, Laurie, Larry, Don, Don (ATF), Mike & last but not least Dave......thank to you all for making New Years 2008 the best New Years Party TMP has seen in a long time. Thank you all for the help, the hugs, the laughs, the sweat and the tears this year! Here's to hoping 2008 brings us more laughs and maybe a little less sweat and tears! lol We all accomplished a lot this year in the way of changes to the club, and to think it all started with a little late Christmas gift to Phyllis last January with the purchase of the new carpet for downstairs. I know I never thought then, we'd not only be buying more of that carpet but making some major drastic changes to go along with it. We've worked hard though this year, and our downstairs renovations are just about complete and I know I for one am very excited.
I have a few more very special thank yous before I close this final edition of our blog for 2007, I want to thank all of you who've bought the raffle tickets, sold the tickets, torn the tickets, pulled the tickets and made donations to club improvements and the raffles, TMP is an expensive place to run and without your help everything we've accomplished would have taken a much longer time to complete.
We know we started the raffles to do the floor only, and we are, but we felt the necessity to expand downstairs and make a few changes before putting in the floor so that nothing would have to be redone again in the near future. TMP has expanded in membership a whole lot this year and we want everyone to be as comfortable as possible while your there. I think the expansion downstairs helped accomplish this and it does really look cool too.
When it's complete there will be a new bar, and I know you'll all be excited to know, you won't have to go under it anymore. There will be a new dance floor, and all of the seating areas will be carpeted. This will all be accomplished the first part of 2008, and it's because of all of you that it's possible, well that and some help from a contractor, our chief engineer and some more of that sweat and tears from the rest of the staff and volunteers.......lol.
So thank you, and we will continue the raffles in 2008 to make even more improvements in the club and hopefully make every one's experience at TMP that much better in the future.
So as we say goodbye to 2007, we are really looking forward to 2008 and all the exciting parties and hopefully a lot more of those laughs and good times we all shared in 2007.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Trish
This was a really big weekend for TMP, 4 nights of parties and each one different. So let's start at the beginning......
Friday night was a nice party, not too crowded, but we had a good sized group. We had a couple of new couples join us, and they were just awesome. Had a couple who hadn't been back for a long time, it was really nice to see them as well. Some regulars and some semi regulars made for a nice well rounded party.
Saturday nights party was very busy, we really weren't sure which would be more popular Saturday or Monday, but if Saturday's crowd was any indication, we figured Monday would be just as good if not better. Great group on Saturday, lots of laughs, great food, terrific music and dancing and everything else that makes a party fun.
Sunday night we did the Rocky Horror thing, no we didn't manage to get all dressed up, the majority of the people attending this party were those spending the whole weekend, so we mostly attended in our jammies and got comfy for the movie. We popped pop corn and threw rice and just had a lot of fun and laughs.
Monday night was standing room only, even with the additional space added before Halloween, we still had people standing, but no one was complaining either, this just gave people more of an opportunity to mingle and head upstairs early. At one point at the door we had 12 couples and it seemed like every time we'd get the door closed another couple followed right behind. The party actually got started fairly early too, and Dave kept us dancing all night. We served a catered dinner, and had lots of food and fun through out the night. We did our count down just before midnight and celebrated with a toast and champagne punch.
So that's the quick explanation of the parties. There was a lot of work though in throwing this party together, and not just from the staff and Phyllis either. So all of us at TMP have a lot of thank yous to go around. First to all of you who came out to spend the weekend or attended parties, thank you for supporting TMP and making it such a wonderful place to party. To everyone who stayed the entire weekend, all of you pitched in at one point or another and helped out cleaning up in between parties and after meals, a huge thank you from the staff for making our jobs that much easier. We all got to see the best example of how quickly a team of people can clean up a room after the Rocky Horror Show, it was so wonderful to just see everyone, and I mean everyone help clean up and move things around and get what needed to be done done. This is what TMP is about. Our staff volunteers their time to help make TMP a better place, but when you all jump in and help like that, it's just an awesome thing and makes us just glad to be apart of such a wonderful community. All of the people who spent the weekend, helped out all weekend long along the way, even the little things make a big difference, just keeping the coffee going was a huge help. So once again thank you to all of you who were there all weekend long.
To the TMP staff, full time and extra board, thank you all for pulling this all together and making things work so smoothly. You all helped with things all the way from planning to execution and beyond, so thank you all for putting in the time and effort to make sure everyone had a great time. I heard over and over again all weekend long just what a wonderful job we're all doing and it's just so nice to hear that, especially when it's coming from long time TMP members who've been there through all the changes over the years and have seen it at it's worst and best.
The staff at TMP works at the club because we love TMP, we love the people who come there and we love helping you all have a good time. We don't get paid, but we do it because we care about the club and Phyllis. We're very fortunate, we have an awesome staff and if you don't know who they are take time to meet them and talk with them, we all go to parties for the same reason you do, we just help out along the way.
So my personal thank you to all the staff: Lisa, Chris, Laurie, Larry, Don, Don (ATF), Mike & last but not least Dave......thank to you all for making New Years 2008 the best New Years Party TMP has seen in a long time. Thank you all for the help, the hugs, the laughs, the sweat and the tears this year! Here's to hoping 2008 brings us more laughs and maybe a little less sweat and tears! lol We all accomplished a lot this year in the way of changes to the club, and to think it all started with a little late Christmas gift to Phyllis last January with the purchase of the new carpet for downstairs. I know I never thought then, we'd not only be buying more of that carpet but making some major drastic changes to go along with it. We've worked hard though this year, and our downstairs renovations are just about complete and I know I for one am very excited.
I have a few more very special thank yous before I close this final edition of our blog for 2007, I want to thank all of you who've bought the raffle tickets, sold the tickets, torn the tickets, pulled the tickets and made donations to club improvements and the raffles, TMP is an expensive place to run and without your help everything we've accomplished would have taken a much longer time to complete.
We know we started the raffles to do the floor only, and we are, but we felt the necessity to expand downstairs and make a few changes before putting in the floor so that nothing would have to be redone again in the near future. TMP has expanded in membership a whole lot this year and we want everyone to be as comfortable as possible while your there. I think the expansion downstairs helped accomplish this and it does really look cool too.
When it's complete there will be a new bar, and I know you'll all be excited to know, you won't have to go under it anymore. There will be a new dance floor, and all of the seating areas will be carpeted. This will all be accomplished the first part of 2008, and it's because of all of you that it's possible, well that and some help from a contractor, our chief engineer and some more of that sweat and tears from the rest of the staff and volunteers.......lol.
So thank you, and we will continue the raffles in 2008 to make even more improvements in the club and hopefully make every one's experience at TMP that much better in the future.
So as we say goodbye to 2007, we are really looking forward to 2008 and all the exciting parties and hopefully a lot more of those laughs and good times we all shared in 2007.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Trish
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