And now, since you didn’t ask, I will tell you the funny dream-related experience I had today. I reached into the closet for sweater that I just washed because last time I reached for it, it had some gunk on the front. (I blame my Mom, who is a slob and borrows clothes when she’s here.) And I felt like some time recently I dreamed that I took the sweater out of the wash and it was still gunky. Which it wasn’t, in real life.

Then I went downstairs and was making breakfast for my daughter and a jam-covered cracker flipped out of my hand and got gunk on the front of my sweater. So now I’m wondering: Dream? De ja vu? Premonition? All of the above?

(And also, am I still allowed to blame my Mom when I am demonstrably a slob myself? Keep in mind that I notice these things and wash them out right away, while she is oblivious.)