HAPPY NEW YEAR and Thank You!!!!! - General Tiki

F Formikahini Tiki Socialite Houston, Texotica Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 1514	F Formikahini Posted posted on Tue, Jan 6, 2004 2:38 PM Ha! Johnny Dollar, she's right! We are like happy kids at school sometimes (but we have more fun together on weekends!). Derek, speaking as one of those strangers whom you invited to sleep in your home, I too wish you the very best New Year! And believe me, on the other side, some friends ask WHY I would "spend the night in the home of people whom you don't even know except over the INTERNET! Are you CRAZY?!". Of course, as it turns out, Monkeyman opened the door exclaiming excitedly, "Oh, I KNOW YOU! You sang at Tiki Oasis!" Ohana from then on. (And I want to adopt his two kids, if he and the wonderful Mrs. Monkeyman, Olga, ever wanted to trade 'em in!) Nothing but fun like that. I've gotten out to Basement Kahuna's KTPR twice now (and i PROUDLY remind everybody that I was the first TC-er to get there!). Again: "You're driving an hour and a half out into the North Georgia woods to see some guy from the INTERNET?! Are you CRAZY?" Damn, it's not a wife-swapping ring we're talking about here - more like mug-swapping! Rum-swapping! But nothing but wonderful experiences for me from some of the NICEST people I can ever imagine. I've roomed at tiki events with gals whom I didn't even know before (Tressa, Humuhumu), and it ONLY made the time more fun! Damn, it's practically what made the best memories! Humuhumu's right when she says people come out of the woodwork to show you a good time. SugarcaddyDaddy, Traderpup, and Mig all ensured that I saw the maximum number of tiki places/TC people on my trips to LA and SF. Werzmo Derenc and co. came in on their night off at the Purple Orchid to welcome me to California, and even saw that I got my inebriated little self home! The Conga Room in SF opened up on a closed night to allow a nice ending to my birthday that night, after great folks, some of whom I had only barely met before or not at all, joined me at Trader Vics overlooking the bay. That doesn't even begin touch all the sweet things TC folks did to make my time last summer in California one of the GREATEST trips there ever for me. Y'all are just the BEST. I'm getting all misty... (It still amazes me how much more we are than a group of strangers who post on the internet. Is there ANY group like us, who associate SO MUCH offline too? I have to so quickly TRY to explain about how we're not some conglomeration of cyberfreaks with no communication or lives, save "TikiWorld Online" or something. I mean, people here help each other MOVE!!!!)

Ha! Johnny Dollar, she's right! We are like happy kids at school sometimes (but we have more fun together on weekends!).

Derek, speaking as one of those strangers whom you invited to sleep in your home, I too wish you the very best New Year!

And believe me, on the other side, some friends ask WHY I would "spend the night in the home of people whom you don't even know except over the INTERNET! Are you CRAZY?!". Of course, as it turns out, Monkeyman opened the door exclaiming excitedly, "Oh, I KNOW YOU! You sang at Tiki Oasis!" Ohana from then on. (And I want to adopt his two kids, if he and the wonderful Mrs. Monkeyman, Olga, ever wanted to trade 'em in!)

Nothing but fun like that. I've gotten out to Basement Kahuna's KTPR twice now (and i PROUDLY remind everybody that I was the first TC-er to get there!). Again: "You're driving an hour and a half out into the North Georgia woods to see some guy from the INTERNET?! Are you CRAZY?" Damn, it's not a wife-swapping ring we're talking about here - more like mug-swapping! Rum-swapping!

But nothing but wonderful experiences for me from some of the NICEST people I can ever imagine. I've roomed at tiki events with gals whom I didn't even know before (Tressa, Humuhumu), and it ONLY made the time more fun! Damn, it's practically what made the best memories!

Humuhumu's right when she says people come out of the woodwork to show you a good time. SugarcaddyDaddy, Traderpup, and Mig all ensured that I saw the maximum number of tiki places/TC people on my trips to LA and SF. Werzmo Derenc and co. came in on their night off at the Purple Orchid to welcome me to California, and even saw that I got my inebriated little self home! The Conga Room in SF opened up on a closed night to allow a nice ending to my birthday that night, after great folks, some of whom I had only barely met before or not at all, joined me at Trader Vics overlooking the bay. That doesn't even begin touch all the sweet things TC folks did to make my time last summer in California one of the GREATEST trips there ever for me.

Y'all are just the BEST. I'm getting all misty...

(It still amazes me how much more we are than a group of strangers who post on the internet. Is there ANY group like us, who associate SO MUCH offline too? I have to so quickly TRY to explain about how we're not some conglomeration of cyberfreaks with no communication or lives, save "TikiWorld Online" or something. I mean, people here help each other MOVE!!!!)

Post #67945 by Formikahini on Tue, Jan 6, 2004 2:38 PM