I have been working diligently on my new website as well as doing a wonderful amount of speaking engagements for the last three months. I am so happy with my work right now. I think I forgot how old I am, having fun is hard.
I was fortunate to get a free pass to the party of the season, the Kentucky Derby, two weeks ago. This was between some intense prep for speaking and trying to work on two online classes I’m taking to be a better speaker, a booked speaker and an entertaining speaker. Steve Martin is one of my teachers. I got an email from Steve today asking me where the hell have I been? How do you expect to be funny if you don’t show up for Steve’s class? I was working on it while having fun. I did my best at the Kentucky Derby to be hilarious. Just ask my friend Jim, who saw me trip in front of 158,000 people and still keep my hat on.
Last night at a dinner party, I was doing my best to wow the crowd with the antics of my mother and her kleptomania.
You can’t be trying out new material while taking a class, Steve.
I’m procrastinating right this minute as I’m supposed to be practicing my talk for tonight. In an effort to ramp up my hilarity, I have changed my talk completely, added props and new stories, mostly because the venue doesn’t have PowerPoint capability so I had to come up with some new crutches. Since Steve is my mentor now, I thought emulating him would be my best effort.
I don’t know how to make balloon animals and I didn’t have time to go find an arrow like Steve’s but these turkey legs were just hanging around my house. I hope I can find just the right words to integrate this into a talk about the legal and practical issues confronting caregivers.
Perhaps it will be funny enough that I will bring a free package of Depends as a door prize for the participant who laughs the hardest.
See why I’m tired? Having fun is really hard.
By the way, that picture is with Jim’s mom. At least I have two fans!
“You Just have to Laugh…..”
©2017 Cathy Sikorski
Ha! Thanks for the shout out Cathy! You had awesome seats. I’m just glad you didn’t get hurt when you tripped at the Derby. I’m so glad you stopped down to the pauper’s section to see us! LOL. I hope my mother behaved when you visited. I hope to see you soon!
Your mother is a hoot! And if she had behaved too much, I would have been disappointed. Thanks for not telling the world about my prat fall….it will likely be a Story Slam one day!
You look adorable in the hat, Cathy, and I’m so impressed with your ventures into public speaking. I want to know more about it and how you have evolved into this arena. And yes, I bet it is hard and exhausting to have all that fun! I think the chicken legs will be a hit.
The chicken legs had a very successful first outing! I would love to tell you my story, but you will need wine…it’s not that exciting. Hope to chat with you soon!
What a great piece. I’m sure you dot just the right amount of humor into any talk you do. It’s in your blood. Take that, Steve!
Oh Steve, if only he could see me in person, he’d be so enamored, right? I know you feel the same way…I mean if Steve could see you. You’ve already seen me and I’m pretty sure you were wowed! hahaha.