May 24, 2007

KikiLu in the Cayman…

Whew the ABC segment on Tuesday is over. I enjoy doing the TV segments quite a bit but they take a lot of work. You know those “behind the scenes” shows? You wouldn’t believe what goes into a four minute segment, at least from my end of it. Just a couple hours prior to the show, I got a phone call that the sofa I was using for the segment hadn’t been delivered. It was one of the main focal points of the segment. Needless to say, panic set in. Kind of like in college when I thought my term paper was due on Friday only to find out it was due in a couple of hours…something like that. Anyhow, Restoration Hardware went into overdrive to get me a sofa just in time for the segment. Poor guys had to run across the street from the North Ave. location to rent a van and bring me the floor sample to use. By the time 11.45 am rolled around, I was sitting pretty on that sofa for live TV. All is well that ends well, right? Load it up, move it out and on our way back to the burbs. The next morning I had a 4 AM wake up call for my ride to the airport.

My long awaited trip of total rest and relaxation with Prince Charming was finally here. Rest and relaxation, do I know how to do that? Honestly, I was stressing at the airport that I would not be able to slow down. Who the heck stresses about distressing! Prince Charming decided it would be best to find me a Starbucks and a good gossip magazine. It helped but I wasn’t there yet. Texting on my blackberry doesn’t help letting go either.

Later that afternoon we arrived at the resort. All I wanted to do was go sit on the beach and do NOTHING. Doing just that, I thought I saw a funnel cloud over the ocean. Nah, it couldn’t be. Oh, but it was. Obviously, this was going to threaten my attempt at relaxing. The lady next to us jumped up realizing that this funnel cloud was swelling and coming closer. It is just my luck I get to an island and a damn tornado follows me from the Midwest. Do you know how many tornado watches and warnings I have been through and not once seen an actual funnel cloud? After a few minutes the funnel got thinner and went off into the distance. I am quite sure my heart rate got to proper cardio level thus qualifying as my workout for the day.

We started to chat with the couple next to us since she was up in a panic like many on the beach. I quietly tried to convince Prince Charming that he looked familiar and had to be a race car driver considering the Ferrari shirt he was wearing. Prince Charming (PC) thought he looked familiar too but didn’t think it was from racing. PC asked if he raced and pointed at the horse on his shirt. In a very modest reply, he said no but he does drive one. Oh, you have no idea how that hurts Prince Charming…someone else gets to drive his Ferrari. I kept insisting he looked familiar. Normally, I am pretty good at picking up body language. Maybe it was that darn tornado that had me off kilter but I didn’t see them fidgeting as I taunted like I knew him. I even asked if he had ever been to Chicago, maybe I had met him there. Finally, he asked if we ever watched figure skating. Ding Dong. He was an Olympic figure skater on a belated honeymoon. I admitted what idiots we were and Prince Charming went right back to the Ferrari thing which I was very much over. It’s all about the car for him. They chatted for a few minutes and couldn’t have been nicer. Judging by the people wathcing, they seem to be the only normal couple around this compound. Funny how I consider myself to be the small fraction of normal!
Posted 3 years, 6 months ago on May 24, 2007