We Did It!

[rusty_halo]

We threw an awesome party! We made a zillion decorations, lugged them plus a ton of donated food to the bar, sold raffle tickets and got people to sign up for our mailing list, wore party hats and stupid nametags, got incredibly drunk, and watched as several hundred people filed in over the course of the night to devour the free food.

I think the free food was the key (and holy crap! it went fast!) but still, we raised a lot of awareness about our website, and we had an awesome time. Also, we got a drink named after us. "The SuperVegan." Basically a White Russian made with soymilk, but it was ours! People were going to the bar and asking for SuperVegans! When I'm on my deathbed, I can tell my grand-nieces and grand-nephews that once upon a time, I had a drink named after a website I made.

Don't laugh at me. It was really cool. The weather was nasty and we were terrified that only twenty people would show up, so it was just so cool that people actually came.

Check out the awesome photos in our Flickr group!



Team SuperVegan! Top: Jason Atkins, Roseann Marulli, April Salazar, Susie Cagle, Jason Das, me; Center: Olivia Lane


I spent four hours making this. Don't laugh. Also it's hard to tell because of the camera flash, but the whole thing glitters, not just the V. :)


(I got home around 3am. I'm so tired. And I can barely speak. I can't wait to sleep all weekend.)

Comments

[rockgoddes.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And btw, happy (late) anniversary to you! :)

[mahaliem.livejournal.com]

I'm so very glad it went well. Congratulations!

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'm glad to hear it went well. And if I were in NYC, I too would have shown up. :)

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I really appreciate it. :)

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed; putting on a big party is harder than it looks, and it sounds like you did a superb job. Congrats!

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) Yeah, it's crazy--I had no idea how much effort went into this stuff.

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had no clue until I started doing convention parties. It's like, scale up a typical house party by a factor of 10 or 20. So, so much more work. So I know intimately just how hard you worked to pull this off. Kudos to you!