Daddy Is Tired

I’m not usually one who remembers my dreams, unless they’re particularly strange or about something unusual.  One I had the other night apparently qualifies, because I still remember it very clearly.

In my dream Sharon was working late, the kids and I had finished dinner, and I was getting them ready for bed.  It was a typical evening, except it wasn’t any house we’ve ever really lived in…but it was definitely our house.  You know how it goes in dreams.  Much like our real house, this house was very disorganized.

Not much detail on the clutter specifically stood out – there was a lot of stuff around – but I do remember that our mixing bowls were scattered all around the house.  And the green one, which I use for popcorn in real life, was filled with water on the floor in the kids’ room.  Oh, and the bed was just a mattress on the ground with a flat sheet thrown on top, really messed up.  Hey, I just dream them, I don’t explain them.  I promise our house isn’t that bad!

Someone knocked on the door while we were reading on the bed.  That’s already unusual because we never have visitors.  (Antisocial or just losers?  I’m never sure which.)  I opened the door to find two people I’ve never actually met waiting for me:  Kyran, from Notes to Self, and Jillian Michaels, from 30 Day Shred.  Cue the boom-chicka-wow-wow music. I invited them in, and Kyran told me she and Jillian were here to…help me get organized.

Wait, what?  Cue the scratching-across-the-record noise!

Yes, they came over to make me get organized and declutter.  I must have some kind of problem.

They came in and Jillian played with the kids while Kyran and I went around the house organizing junk.  Although the organizing only consisted of us walking around finding the mixing bowls and stacking them correctly.  Jillian is the one who found the green bowl with the water, and she gave me a lot of crap about it.

I know where some of this comes from – I really need to get organized.   Kyran has written several posts about getting her new house decluttered and organized, and that’s motivated me to get organized in real life.  Well, maybe not completely motivated.  I did buy a labelmaker, though.  I guess I probably need to do more than that.

I’m not entirely sure what Jillian was doing there, besides entertaining the kids.  I guess I’ve been doing too many of her workout videos.  I mean, who dreams about Jillian Michaels coming over to your house to play with your kids?  Don’t worry Team Jillian, I’m not stopping doing the videos!

I guess it’s also possible that I ate way too many jellybeans over the weekend, and that my brain was confused by all the sugar.  Oh well…it doesn’t matter.

I have to get going to Target to buy some clear plastic bins for all my labels!

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