From: Diva Las Vegas organizers (dlvorg@geekbabe.com)
Date: Wed Sep 14 2005 - 09:37:35 CDT
In this mailing:
Org List
Bachelorette Party
Getting together
Getting together
NSD and such
Wedding and various
Administrivia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Org List:
This is the DLV 2006 Organizational Mailing List (dlvorg@geekbabe.com)
Replies to this message will be forwarded to the DLVORG list and not
the DLV-Announce or DLV-Discuss list.
Ongoing activity database appears on the web at:
http://www.geekbabe.com/annie/org05arc/acts.html
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bachelorette Party:
Nora writes:
>>Since Nora is our go-between, let's ask her if she thinks that would
>>be an idea that the couple would like.
>I am still waiting to hear from Cheryl and will ask her about the
>bachelorette party.
Ok, thanks. If they want to go ahead with things, we should probably
put this on the schedule to reserve the timeslot ASAP.
Nora, am I correct to assume that this will be a "double gown" wedding?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Getting together:
Nora writes:
>I will be leaving 9/24. If you are here on the 18th it is definitely
>doable.
If you and/or anybody else local wants to get together prior to the
24th some evening, I'm all for it. I should be off most evenings
except for a couple of 0-dark-30 turn-up sessions. I have your phone
number. Anybody else interested in a brief get-together earlier next
week, let me know by e-mail and I'll let you know the plans. :)
I'll be sending out a note/reminder for the thing on the 24th,
which unless something totally unexpected happens will be 6:00pm
at Suede, which is the old Tramps/Sashas.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Getting together:
Mindy writes:
>i think i will be off or off early on the 24th.. count me in.
Ok, you're counted in. :)
If I've got some time and I'm on the south end of the Strip, I'll try to
drop in the BW and say hi.
>oh and
>Densie a wedding sounds like fun to me..
I agree. :)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
NSD and such:
LeeAnna writes:
>I was just reading the latest and greatest on the DLV Online Gazette
>(the list) and saw the chit chat about this years NSD outing. I agree
>that it was a bit of a let down as compared to last years event.
>The mixing with the girls inside the front reception area the first
>year was a total hoot to say the least. There were just way to many of
>us this year and it was to planned out, like a wedding reception dinner
>around the pool. For the amount of us girls that descended on the
>Chicken Ranch, they did do a good job....but the intimacy of the first
>one was missed.
I think the big problem was that the first NSD was SO great and
everybody talked it up so much, there was no way it could have met the
expectations, particularly of those who attended last year and expected
something equal to or exceeding the first.
I had a good time socializing, and it was a nice get-away from the usual
LV atmosphere.
Had NSD 2004 never happened, and our first one was NSD 2005 and it
happened just as it did, I'm sure it would have been rated very highly.
NSD 2004 was just an impossible act to follow.
>It would be nice to do something like it again, but maybe have 2
>smaller groups go to 2 different places. There is the Cherry Patch 1
>and 2 (no, I have never worked there as rumors suggest, giggle) for
>those of us that have been to the Chicken Ranch already. The others
>that have not been there could go and see The Chick Ranch at its full
>splendor.
As of this day, hour, minute, and second, there are no plans, even
tentative, for such an activity this coming year, so it's all greenfield
so to speak.
All it's gonna take is for our volunteers (that's us, gang) to make
the arrangements and make it happen.
If it's to be at 2 locations simultaneously, that means roughly twice
the hoop-jumping to make it happen.
>Has anyone ever seen any of the photos from this years NSD? I know
>there were well over 100 taken by at least 3 persons (Tony was the
>best...) and yet we have not seen any.
I still have not received the OK to release them. There's a place for it
ready to go on the web site. Aiko, do you know when we can be expecting
this. Thanks.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wedding and various:
Densie writes:
>>>My wife does Passion Parties. If you are not familiar, they sell all
>>>types of romance products, sex toys, rubs, etc. Lots of neat stuff.
>Maybe we could have her set up a table in the conference room.
>>Uh, don't you go to a wedding to meet chicks? (Wedding Crasher.) :)
>Not this wedding!
Well, depending on how you define "chicks", there will be quite a few
of them present at this wedding. :)
>>a wedding is something that I'm sure many of our people would like to
>>do in their preferred mode but seldom get the opportunity to do.
>I often forget that many people go to the activities because, "I've
>never been to a [insert event here] dressed before", whereas I just go
>for the vacation.
Like it or not, for a good portion of our people (I daresay the majority
of our attendees) the primary reason for attending is the opportunity to
dress.
Speaking very freely, my impression is that quite a few of our people,
even though they strongly profess to be "out", "mainstream", and jumping
aboard the transition track, have relatively few opportunities to
express themselves in the course of their everyday lives.
So yes, a wedding, a reception, and a bachelorette party I believe
would all be well attended, partly for that reason.
There is the desire for more activities where it's appropriate to
dress up a bit more, and yes the wedding and the reception would
be such things.
>So why don't we do a funeral? Has anyone been to a funeral "dressed"
>before?
>In fact, put that down as my sponsored activity, the DLV Funeral.
Ya know, most of the people on this list are probably expecting me to
poo-poo this, but I'm not gonna do that. IMAO it's no farther off
the edge than an outing to visit a cathouse.
I think that if done right, an activity with a "funeral" theme, an
Evening On The Dark Side or something could very well be a hit.
As we have the desire to have more dress-up activities, there is also a
desire to have activities where it's appropriate to dress in more exotic
outfits, and a funeral/dark/goth/etc. themed activity crosses very well
into that realm.
. . .
>>My guess is, however, that there will be more of our people at the
>>reception than at the Ceremony. :)
>There always are.
Yes, the Pope is Catholic and I will never win a "Best Vocalist"
competition. :)
. . . . .
>>>likely be the weekend of the 23-24-25 of September.
>>It's on my calendar as tentative.
>Unfortunately, something else came up and I'm going to be in Phoenix
>on the 24th. I guess we'll have to wait until next time you're in
>Vegas, unless you're staying another weekend?
The way it looks, this project will quite possibly continue well into
the next week, so the weekend of Sep. 30 and Oct 1 is most definitely
possible. I'll know more by next week.
. . . . .
>>Seriously, I do think we need to come up with ideas that are new and
>>different.
>Like a funeral?
Yes, like a funeral. Think outside of the (pine) box! :)
>The more I think about it, a bachelorette party has the potential of
>>a very fun time! :)
>What is the difference between a bachelorette party and a bridal
>shower? The amount of booze that is consumed?
Yes, the amount of booze tends to be greater at a bachelorette party
than at a shower. :) The bachelorette party tends to happen right before
the wedding (I have been to a total of one in my life) and is a girls'
night out type of thing and can get a bit rowdy in a way. It tends to
involve things like a male stripper, gifts that can't be unwrapped in
mixed company, enough food to blow everyone's diet, and enough alcohol
to pollute the East River. :) When everybody gets well lubricated and
things start to wind down, it will often adjourn to a location with more
of a mixed crowd. :)
(Did you really expect a serious answer there?) :) :)
. . .
>>Another one I think we ought to try again is the Night Of The Soiled
>>Doves, or something similar.
>I don't think that another NSD is a good idea. It seemed that we were
>imposing on them last year. It should have been a one-time thing, for
>a small group.
I don't think we will have a rewind-replay of NSD 2005. I think
everybody agrees that it was not what was expected. Yes, the larger
crowd was one thing, but there were other factors such as the number of
regular customers present.
The idea for a split-session NSD would help this out, or maybe something
like NSD with a limit on the number of people who can go would work.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Administrivia:
This is the Diva Las Vegas 2006 organizational list.
This mailing was addressed to: annie@annie.net
One address for all items regarding this list, additions, removals,
changes, submissions, questions, etc.:
dlvorg@geekbabe.com <--- NOTE: all lower case
Please do not send binary attachments (photos, etc.) directly to the
list, as the list processor will not properly handle them. If you want
to send photos and the like, mail to: annie@annie.net
Diva Las Vegas 2006
April 23 - 29, 2006
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Archives of this list appear on the web at:
http://www.geekbabe.com/annie/org06arc/
To unsubscribe: Simply reply to this message with the word UNSUBSCRIBE
in either the Subject: field or the first line of an OTHERWISE BLANK
message body. The word "unsubscribe" (case is insignificant) should be
the only item in the subject field or the first line of the message,
justified to the left.
To send material to this list: Send submission as regular e-mail to
the address: dlvorg@geekbabe.com
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Jun 06 2006 - 16:16:51 CDT