Messy House

So, last night, my husband and I had a long talk about ghow we feel like our house has gotten very dirty.  He's heading into Finals week of the semester and I've bee n feeling overwhelmed at an increasingly mobile munchkin that is insanely developmentally advanced-- I'm talking about a 7 1/2 month old trying to walk. It definintly keeps me busy; and more busy babyproofing the house, feeding her, playing with her, and picking up after her, than busy cleaning the bathroom, doing dishes, or vacuuming.  Which is why I think my brain turned into THIS dream last night...

I was just walking around in our little basement apartment, thinking about what to clean.  Apparently we had a pet ant, jumbo sized, like size of my pinky finger jumbo sized that talked to us.  I mentioned to said ant (yes, thte little insect/bug thing) that I was glad that we only had a cluttered home, and it should be easy to clean since the munchkin was taking a nap.  To which little ant replies, "oh, you've got bugs.  cities of them!"

I couldn't walk around barefoot anymore; I immediately put on my shoes and decided I'd rather take a shower and them clean the tub.  There were creepy insects everywhere.  Brown clusters of dots all over the shower wall, which Brad informed me was fly poop.  Ewww.

There was a white snail-ish looking bug sleanking around the edge of the tub, and a flying, orange-feathered fish dressed in black leather.  And by flying, I don't mean it had wings.  No, instead, this fish had something shaped like helicoptor blades attacvhed to its back so it coulds fly.  (If I had any artistic ability, I would attempt to recreat what it looked like, but alas I don't, and you prolly don't want to see what it would look like if I tried.  I'll just tell you that it was freaky looking.)

I just use the bathroom and turn on the water.  Bugs that were previously invisable or not present start appearing, but I insist on taking a shower. When I get in, two little skinny snakes, one smaller than the other, come up out of the tub drain, each biting te other's tail.  I step into the tub, thinking, they won't bother me as long as I don't bother them.

WRONG!
As soon as I step in the tub, they let go of each others tails and come after me.  I try to dance and tiptoe out of their way but the little one bites my toe-- the one just to the right of my big toe on my right foot.  And it wrapps around my toe with the rest of it's little snake body.  I start screaming for my mommy.  She rushes into the room, looks at my foot i n terror, the look that says, "You're doomed." but instead she says, "It's only a pine snake."

And really, in my dream, this means death, because the snake begins to swallow my toe.  The further it gets up my foot, thew longer and bigger it gets. I can't feel my feeet anymore, and I know it's going tyo consume me. I thrash around, trying to get it off of me...

At which point, my husband shakes me awake because I really was thrashing around in my sleep.
Bah.  I gotta clean my apartment!

Oh, adn because I'm a little curious, here's some info on Pine Snakes.  they are pretty small and don't eat people, but they are very powerful constrictors. I didn't even know there was such a thing as pine snakes until today.