When: Saturday, December 13
Time: 11 AM
Location: Naperville Municipal Center
Room: UPDATE: 12/5: Rooms A, B and C
Who's invited?: EVERYONE! Whether you completed, started but weren't able to finish, didn't start or have never even heard about NaNoWriMo... Bring your friends and family! All are welcome!
What to bring: This is a pot luck lunch event, so if you can, please contribute something to the festivities. Also bring your previous Lulu/CreateSpace books (to show) and enough one page copies of an excerpt from your novel to share.
Click on this graphic to be taken to the attendance list
How to RSVP
Include in your response (and every subsequent post you make in this thread (only the most recent one will be counted), one or more of the following:
VOTE="yes"
(or VOTE="no" or VOTE="maybe")
OFFERING="whatever you are willing to bring"
GUESTS="names of any guests you are planning to bring"
Please be careful to use the exact form of the response with no extra spaces and with your answer enclosed in double quotes as shown. Thanks!
Activities
Besides a festive lunch, we will be playing games (feel free to bring word/writing-related games), singing our regional song (and hopefully enjoying our song sung by France!), handing out awards, and raffling off the official NaNoWriMo poster. The TGIO is a great time to relax and socialize. We will also be talking about updating and renewing the Pledge, our year-round writing group, for 2009. Those of you who have Lulu or CreateSpace printed copies of your past books, please bring those by to show everyone.
BRING YOUR STUFFED ANIMALS! ALSO BRING 25 COPIES OF A ONE-PAGE EXCERPT FROM YOUR NOVEL (must be PG-13 or safer)
Stuff
small plates and napkins (KatherineWriting)
plates, utensils, napkins (NewMexicoKid)
Drinks
some pop (TRRDEDEAN)
soda pop and ? (KathyB)
Diet pop (FinbarrMcG)
some cups and a bag of ice. (mhhammer)
Main courses
main course (KatherineWriting)
Fried chicken (TRRDEDEAN)
hot pizza dip with bread! (Dragonshadow)
slow cooker beef on a bun (NewMexicoKid)
Side dishes/appetizers
veggies and dip (babsy55)
appetizer (AMusing Mom)
crab dip (horatio)
veggie & dip (Sheeva?)
spanikopita (jenstasi)
chips (DJRM)
Taco dip. (mhhammer)
popcorn (Mary Jo)
Desserts
Cookies (ThePiratess)
dessert of some sort (Snaf00)
Blondies (CobaltSnow)
cookies (books)
Games
Apples to Apples (ThePiratess)
Other
Something from the store (missalynn730)
? (cableshaft)
? (danielcstarr)
not sure yet (mcemmi)
People (25 WriMos + ~ 9 guests)
ThePiratess
KatherineWriting
TRRDEDEAN
Dragonshadow/Jennifer_Ryukage + Brian (Daemon_Master)
Kathy B
missalynn730 + 5 yr old/3 yr old?
babsy55
AMusing Mom
FinbarrMcG
BookGrrl
cableshaft
danielcstarr
Snaf00
CobaltSnow
mcemmi
NewMexicoKid + Rob
books
horatio + Rae (chastrea) (possible)
Sheeva (maybe)
DJRM + friend Michael
jenstasi + 1-3 kids
mhhammer
Mary Jo + David + sister Jeannie (last is possible)
Program
Please arrive around 11 AM; we're planning to eat at 11:30 AM
- Icebreaker - to introduce people to other people
- The mp3 from our wordwar with France!
- Lunch (and discussion of the Pledge)
- Awards
- Group picture
- Dessert
- Game(s)
- Raffle! (people will be given one ticket for every event they've attended and for every family member doing NaNo)
- Songs
We hope to see everyone there!
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Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
co-ML, Illinois::Naperville
Fog Readability Analysis
Writing resources
61,558 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2008 - 12 15
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="some dessert yet to be determined + one main course"
GUESTS="Kristiana (books), maybe Rob (non-participant)"
50,301 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2008 - 12 46
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="Apples to Apples, and probably cookies"
GUESTS="none"
100,071 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2008 - 17 31
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="whatever is needed--probably a main course, also small plates and napkins (left from all-illinois write-in)"
Katherine
104,833 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2008 - 05 48
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="probalby fried chicken thanks to the Colonel and some pop"
GUESTS="just me"
56,080 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2008 - 09 18
Vote="no"
I'm super sad that I can't make it - I've got a big Christmas service project with my church that day.
Hope you all have a fabulous time though!
50,485 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 14 00
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="Hot pizza dip with bread!"
GUESTS="My alter-ego and primary NaNo identity, Jennifer_Ryukage, and my husband Brian (a.k.a. Daemon_Master, who didn't try NaNo this year)
Can't wait to see everyone! Yeah, this is the first time I tried to do more than one novel. I don't think I'll be this dumb again. ^_^;
50,218 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2008 - 06 21
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="soda pop and ?"
GUESTS="None"
60,949 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 10 44
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="whatever looks good at the store that day :) I don't want to scare people with my attempts at cooking"
GUESTS="probably just myself. I do have a five and a three year old that I may need to bring along if I can't find a babysitter. Is that ok or are they a little too young still?"
58,972 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 12 15
Vote="yes"
Offering="veggies and dip"
Guest="myself, Lloyd Rakosnik (aka Grayraven)"
50,274 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 12 56
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="undetermined"
GUESTS="My daughter Ameliah. She helped me type."
57,397 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 13 30
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="appetizer of some sort"
GUESTS="probably none"
50,152 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 18 01
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="Diet Pop"
GUESTS="BookGrrl"
52,026 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 19 17
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="garden pizza (flaky dough with a cream cheese spread and veggies on top)"
GUESTS="none"
50,366 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 06 31
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="well it WAS going to be Garden Pizza until Tiinano beat me to it...i'll edit this later"
GUESTS="none"
55,277 / 50,000
Dec 2, 2008 - 09 32
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="Big batch of homemade Mac&Cheese"
GUESTS="Family: Maria, Philip the Great and the Mag Three"
50,123 / 50,000
Dec 2, 2008 - 09 39
yes
spanikopita (little feta and spinache filled fillo dough triangles)
50,123 / 50,000
Dec 2, 2008 - 09 42
I already voted yes for myself. I will be bringing at least one guest, and maybe three (probably just one or two--my kids, but it depends on if they will be at friends or not)
51,870 / 50,000
Dec 2, 2008 - 09 58
Vote = "maybe"
Guests = "none"
Offering = "I can't cook, but Jewel can so I'll stop and look for something munchie. probably veggies and a dip"
61,558 / 50,000
Dec 7, 2008 - 07 46
Don't forget to bring
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="some dessert yet to be determined + one main course (slow-cooker beef on a bun) + plates, utensils, napkins"
this recipe (haven't tried it before, but it looks straightforward)
GUESTS="Kristiana (books), maybe Rob (non-participant)"
55,462 / 50,000
Dec 7, 2008 - 16 31
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="TBA"
52,026 / 50,000
Dec 7, 2008 - 20 21
I feel miserable for having to do this because I wish I could go, but I'm swamped with everything that's going on. I hope everyone else has fun, though! :)
VOTE="no"
50,126 / 50,000
Dec 8, 2008 - 08 59
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="TBD - maybe a desert of some sort"
51,056 / 50,000
Dec 8, 2008 - 17 58
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="Blondies"
GUESTS="none"
See you all there!
50,217 / 50,000
Dec 10, 2008 - 05 45
VOTE yes i can come
OFFERING I am not sure what to bring. I could bring some chips or let me know if there is something you need i will let you know if i can bring it
GUESTS I might bring my freind Michael
50,766 / 50,000
Dec 10, 2008 - 07 36
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="Not sure yet"
GUESTS="Just me"
50,274 / 50,000
Dec 10, 2008 - 08 43
Sorry, I have to change!
vote= "no"
I broke my foot and getting around is beyond difficult!
50,274 / 50,000
Dec 10, 2008 - 08 43
Sorry, I have to change!
vote= "no"
I broke my foot and getting around is beyond difficult!
61,558 / 50,000
Dec 11, 2008 - 05 38
Here is the RSVP list -- looks like we have a pretty good distribution of food/drinks/supplies. Might still need ice, cups (appears that Barry and Kathy have diet pop and pop) and I think DJRM mentioned bringing chips.
Don't forget to bring
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="some dessert yet to be determined + one main course (slow-cooker beef on a bun) + plates, utensils, napkins"
this recipe (haven't tried it before, but it looks straightforward)
GUESTS="Kristiana (books), maybe Rob (non-participant)"
51,916 / 50,000
Dec 11, 2008 - 13 27
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="crab dip"
GUESTS=possibly my wife Rae (chastrea)
50,292 / 50,000
Dec 11, 2008 - 19 37
VOTE="yes"
OFFERING="Taco dip. I'll also grab some cups and a bag of ice."