I dreamt I was having lunch with Michelle Obama. She was wearing the purple dress she wore to the State of the Union. She was asking me to read this page of an article so I could write an article about women and politics. However, in the middle of reading it and talking to her, I got distracted and wasn’t paying attention and then wasn’t sure what she wanted me to do. Because it was the First Lady, it was awkward for me to explain that I hadn’t paid attention and wasn’t sure. Not listening to her directives was just not something you did.

Then I am at my Mom’s. I wake up super early and realize my Mom hasn’t come home. I am anxious not knowing where she is and also anxious about sleeping in the house while I am alone. I know I have to get up and let the pets out. We have a lot of cats and dogs.

I try to get Smokey and the other cats to out in the front of the house so I can let the dogs out the back. But the cats won’t follow. I am trying to keep the big dogs, some of them, separated from the cats so they don’t go after them.

Then I dream I am at my Mom’s trying to get ready to go home. My laundry is all over the house and I’m trying to pack and Mom has hung a clothes line right by the door.
Michelle and I both tell her that using the old pole from the swingset for a laundry line is not a good idea. If there is a storm it could get blown in and smash the new door.

Then I go into the room I stay in and the landscaping guys have been in there to blow the floor clean like they do with the leaves and cuttings. They have moved my things and I think they’ve maybe stolen something but they’ve just moved everything.

Then a Japanese girl is laughing looking at the cover of one of the DVDs I produced and a magazine cover. She is laughing because she’s a fan and wants to show me that she did her hair spiky and short the same way as the guy on the cover of the DVD. She’s excited but I don’t understand a word she is saying and I just sit there wishing she wouldn’t be so loud.