I would like the record to show that I like to sleep. I love snuggling into fresh sheets, getting comfy and refusing to open my eyes. However, it’s true that there can be too much of a good thing. For the past few weeks, I have been exhausted. I am sleeping close to 15 hours a night (day?) on my days off. I’m struggling to stay awake when I am at work. After the 4th day of me sleeping until 2pm after going to bed at 11, Dan finally made me call the doctor.

I talked to a nurse practitioner who evaluated my symptoms and suggested I try an easy remedy before making an appointment. The most probably cause is that I am low on iron. So I bought some vitamins, we’ve been eating red meat for dinner every single day and I’ve been having spinach salads for lunch. It’s only been 5 days and I am sick of red meat and spinach. Since Dan has to work tonight and I’m on my own for dinner, I plan on having chicken, corn and iceburg lettuce. No iron, whatsoever! Mwah ha ha! 

I feel like such a  rebel.

Dan often sometimes does things that annoy me. When I tell him that it’s a pet peeve of mine, he’ll remind me that everything can’t be a pet peeve. Good point. But what you just did? That one’s a pet peeve. So stop it.

Anyway, Jen Z. posted on Facebook the provocative question: what is your pet peeve? This makes it sound like you can only have one. Oh silly Jen. Haven’t we met? You should know that I have lots and lots of weird pet peeves.

For example, when *someone* goes to change the roll of toilet paper. He grabs a new roll and then places that roll RIGHT ON TOP OF THE EMPTY ONE, STILL ON THE HOLDER. Satisfied, he goes on with his day. Once, I decided to test him and see how long it would sit there until he finally tossed the empty roll and replaced it. Then we ended up with two empty rolls in the bathroom.

I also hate it when drivers turn on their turn signal as they are halfway in the next lane, or as they are completing their turn. Hello? I don’t need the signal by then. It’s pretty obvious that you are turning.

When people pronounce fondant as “fon-dawnt.” Stop it, especially you people on the Food Network.

People who go into the express lane when they clearly have way more than the limit. I can deal if they have 1-10 items more. But those people with a full cart heading towards the 10 items or less lane? Please stop. It makes it worse when I’m standing behind them with one item in my hands and they just glance at me and keep unloading their cart.

When people say a’ight instead of alright. It makes my eye twitch.

People who swear in Disneyland. I wanted to turn around in line and say something to the guy who kept saying things like “before we go home let’s effing pick up a gd pack of beer. I’m tried of the effing sh– that is in our effing fridge.” Dan kept me from smacking the guy on the head with a light up fairy wand and screaming “Happiest Place on Earth” at him. Angrily screaming about Disney magic is probably not in line with Walt’s dream.

The list could go on and on but then I would sound like a crazy person. These do not. These are totally normal pet peeves.

Does anyone have pet peeves to share?

Mr. E Comics premiered over the weekend! The first episode was launched on various sites from Facebook to You Tube. Check out the official site HERE! There will be a new episode released every 2 weeks. Be sure to pause it when you see “Wardrobe” to see the name of yours truly. Have your people contact my people for autograph requests.

I just signed on to be Key Wardrobe and Production Designer for a short film. We begin shooting in August in various parts of Arizona. There will be one day when we are filming at the border of AZ and Mexico…in the middle of the day… Did I mention it will be August? In Arizona? Be prepared for Facebook and Twitter updates similar to “I think I’m dying” and “My brain is melting out of my head.”

Dan and I are fighting Verizon right now. I made the mistake of telling him that I wanted to upgrade to a Blackberry. Whenever I’m on a shoot, I get a sudden influx of emails. Some of the senders have a tendency to freak out if I don’t reply within 30 minutes and then will call with the same message. So Dan researched getting us Blackberry phones. Long story short, the customer service rep lied to him and offered us a deal that should only be available to new customers, Verizon won’t honor her price quote, they were rude and no one will return phone calls. Whenever we do find someone to call directly, their number mysteriously becomes invalid the next day. I finally contacted our Verizon rep at work who was going to handle it for me, but then he got sick. I worried at first that he was trying to sidestep me/the situation, but his phone is being forwarded to another rep in his absence. So I guess it’s only fair to give him more time since he’s been out of the office for almost a full week. I was so tired of hearing Dan get angry about this that I made him promise to not mention cell phones or Verizon for 2 full days. We stopped at Game Stop over the weekend, which happens to be right next door to a Verizon store, and I could feel the anger radiating from Dan. Kudos to him though; he honored his promise and didn’t utter a word. I’ve decided that if we can’t come to some sort of compromise with Verizon, I’m going to force Dan to cancel our account and switch to AT&T or Sprint. By now, I would pay the $200 contract termination fee just to be free of the horrid customer service. 

…I should warn Dan not to read the blog today. I don’t want him to get angry all over again.