I have been up since Satuurday morning at 6 a.m.  This is what happens when a person has not had solid sleep in 60 hours. A recap.

First of all, it is a wonderI can even type. I should NOT have been behind the wheel of a car today. In between the 6 a.m. show and the 9 a.m. pet show, I had to drive the 20 minutes from the QVC studios to home and pick up my son Ryan, and Sweetie Pie for the towel sell. I was barely able to keep my eyes open. At this point, I am WIRED on coffee, diet coke and more black coffee. I am craving sweets. My head hurts and I am eating the remnants of my 4 a.m. Newport Old fashioned Lemon Cream bar sell. Picking at the shortbread cookie crust.

ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I admitedly have one of THE cushiest schedules on the planet.  There are days like these past 2 when I am on schedule overload and in between airings and kid stuff, there is literally NO time to sleep.  You just keep moving, keep smiling, keep repeating your name over and over again and try to focus.  I would not have made a good intern in medicine. Trust me - NO ONE who wants to live would want me giving shots, calling shots or doing shots. A sleep deprived me is NOT a good thing.

So, here’s how my schedule came down last 2 days ~

6 a.m. saturday - up early. make coffee. go for powerwalk for an hour. Review sell with food stylist. Do NOTHING rest of day.Powerwalk an hour at 6 p.m. to rev up. Arrive at studio at 10 p.m. Meet with David Venable. I am on at 12:15 a.m. following TSV. Get make-up and hair done at 11ish. Wait. Discuss sell with producers and floor managers. Set up sell (Herb savor) in show kitchen set. Wait. In air at 12:15 a.m. Leave studio at 1 a.m. Home at 1:30 a.m.

WIDE AWAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Catch up on all of the overnight infomercials. Decide I need to colon cleanse, buy a shark steamer, fluidity my chunky body.

5 a.m. Getting sleepy. Almost incoherent. Pick up phone to order a Pasta and More. What a GREAT item. OMG. Dial. Stop myself. I used to sell them on QVC and I have 12 of them in the garage.

Cofffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arrive at studio to meet with Dave James at 6 a.m. because he goes on a 7 a.m. and I am not on until 9:15 .M.

Sit and wait ………………… visit with kitchen guests. Focus on NOT putting my head down or closing my eyes too long. make-up touch up … Robert, the extraordinaire make-up artist tells me to “Close” so he can do my eye liner. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. I slept a minute.

Coffee. DO NOT eat the cookies.

ON with Dave James and the Kuhn Rikon steak  knives. Sells fly by. Although I am tired, the second I hear the director say HELLO in my ear, I come to life by some Red Bull miracle. 

Home. Kids have to go back to their dad. I send Ryan with  my car because I vow to get some sleep. I have to get up at 2 a.m. for a 4 a.m. airing on Monday. I have the day. I am wired. Sleep? Fuggetaboutit. I watch movies. I clean. I put clothes away. I sort socks. I get in bed at 8 p.m. and fall asleep at 11:30 ish during news. Wake up at 1:00 and I am afraid I have overslept. Get up. get dressed. Drive to studio.

Meet with Dave James again. I am selling Kim and Scotts pretzels and Newport Desserts Old fashioned lemon cream bars. YUM on both. Yum. Yum. Yum. I am on first at third. Done by 4:30 and I am on again at 6:10. Try to stay awake.

Coffee.

Sell microplane grater at 6 a.m. Make mad dash for home to get Ryan and Sweetie for pet towel sell at 9 a.m. Meet my friend Chrissy and her dog, Summer, in Q lobby at 8 a.m. Prep her for sell. On air at 9:23 a.m. A loooooong hour wait trying to keep my dog from riping the lungs out of the little wire hair terriors from the Yap harness sell. The guest is feeding Sweetie homemade nutrition biscuits and she is snubbing them.  I am sleeping with my eyes open in a chair.

Sell over. Drive Ryan and Sweetie home.

10:00 a.m. and I have to be back at studio at 2 p.m. I crawl into bed. Close my eyes at 11:30.

11:35 phone rings … you guessed it. Did not go back to sleep.

Off to studio. Meet with Bob Bowersox who is back from three weeks in Italy and he is refreshed, relaxed and spilling the beans about the wonders of $taly.

2:30. ON at 4:39.

Coffee.

There is an issue with the microwaves and with 4 minutes to go, we get them all downloaded and running. NO break in between BOb Warden and me … BOb B saunters over and there we are. I am wide awake again. Selling this cool microwave cookware from Orka.

Home. I am wide awake. I feel wiped out. I need to sleep but I cannot.

I will eventually be knocked out and in 3 days, I will be back to normal.

So, if I do not blog, I am sleeping. And during that time, I hope all of that lemon cream dessert magically goes away. I just ate enough for a small country.

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