act eight: a day in the life
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Ugh, what a crazy day this was. It was great, just incredibly busy. Woke up at 6 this morning to Ehno crying in his cradle... not the worst alarm clock in the world admittedly, but still a chaotic way to start the day. Suki woke up too, after we changed him we figured he was hungry so she went ahead and fed him while I started getting myself together for the day. Left at around... 8 or so, I just remember Ehno grabbing at my nose when I was saying goodbye to him and Suki. Definitely the highlight of my morning.
After that I drove for about half an hour to the airport, caught a three-hour flight to NLCW's headquarters and got in around noon from there. Met up with Isaac for a meeting with the board-- decent guy, he is... gonna have to make the time sometime to hang out with him, see how his career's going for him. From what I've seen, he's got potential to be one of the NLCW's hall of famers one day. Should be fun tagging up with him as champions from now on... we'll make one hell of a dynamic.
Meeting was about an hour long, just discussing the state of tag wrestling in NLCW and how we would be handled for the time being. Reynolds and I have our own singles endeavours we're still dealing with right now, and that coupled with my current Sultan victory giving me the opportunity to cash in whenever I want makes the board a bit nervous about the two of us dominating the majority of the titles in the federation. No big deal that they're concerned, considering the last guy who did that was considered to be an NLCW faithful and, ultimately, he just walked with the straps.
Isaac was level-headed throughout the whole thing, handled himself professionally... all around, it was an average meeting that went better then it probably should have. Still, the tension in the room was a bit much on the board's side, you'd think after everything I'd done with them for the company they'd trust me, but I figure their trust in multi-title situations is a bit strained thanks to the past. Can't say I blame them.
Caught lunch with Champ around 2... he was in town checking in with a few folks and figured he'd shoot the shit with me at a nearby restaurant. I got myself a steak, baked potato and some shrimp skewers... hell of a lunch, more like a dinner really. Still, I was hungry, didn't actually think to grab myself breakfast when I'd left earlier in the morning and I was a bit nervous to try the airline's lunch myself, so I figured I'd wait. Waiting was a good choice.
Cesar's growing up incredibly fast, Champ was showing my pictures towards the end of the meal. A few years ago, I'd never have imagined Champ to be the guy leaning across the table from me, playing the proud father role and showing me pictures of his kid... but you know, I can't really put to words how glad I am for him. The guy deserves this new life more than anyone I know, and he really is making the best of it.
Of course, being Chris, he couldn't help but ruin his fatherly moment by making a homosexual joke about me and our waiter. Should have known better by now, really.
He had to head off at 3:30... was surprising that we were there for an hour and a half, considering it didn't seem like it took very long to find a seat in the place. Guess time just flies like that sometimes. I had time to kill... there was a brief meet & greet with fans going on at 6PM and then I'd have to catch my 8PM flight back home, so I figured I'd find the nearest mall and do some browsing, see if I couldn't find Suki something.
Got to the mall around 4. Discovered the mall's Victoria's Secret at 4:30. Looks like I found something for Suki after-all, fantastic.
The rest of my visit to the mall was rather uneventful. Had plenty of fans stopping me along the way, took some pictures, shook hands, signed autographs... it was honestly nice, nothing too out-of-hand. Saw some kid working at Spencers nearly drop a box of hair dye when he saw me walking by, so I figured I'd go over and help him out. Wound up signing his shirt before leaving. I got out of the mall around 5:30 and managed to make it to the meet & greet with five minutes to spare before it started.
The whole thing went great, we had a number of other NLCW wrestlers there with me, and all of us had a blast with the fans. Just all around a great time really, though I think one female fan got a little too friendly with Texas Tim. I don't think the poor guy's used to that kind-of attention from people, he's just sort-of... there, most of the time. Still, quality act that guy is, for all the shit he puts up with around the NLCW he still knows how to have fun and he's got quite the cult following. There were a lot of goth-type kids that for God knows what reason hung around wearing cowboy hats in support of him.
Anyway, when the whole thing wrapped up I took my rental back to the airport and wound up waiting about half an hour before boarding my plane. The ride was uneventful, though I do love window seats... it's beautiful, flying into a city lit up with lights at night. Got home around 12 from the airport, Suki was up and half-asleep while cradling Ehno when I got home. It was adorable, I went ahead and took the little fella so she could get some rest and I wound up rocking him to sleep.
Going to sleep here shortly myself, actually... just figured I'd wrap this up before I do. Like I said, it's been a crazy day, but it's been a great one all the same. Though I do figure from now on I'll just do my updates in short bursts rather than put them all at the end of the day in one huge block of text. Probably will take less time of me, really.