How do we do this?

And understand I'm not just talking about one room, people, I'm referring to every room we live in - which is all but two of a three-bedroom house. How do we mess up every single one in the course of a day? Admittedly, Didgeridoo Boy and I are both a little challenged in the attention span department, so maybe we just forget about what we've taken out. Ha. We crave cool space. We live for the idea of having a cool space. But damned if we don't create tornado aftermath out of budding cool space (as in, just cleaned up) in the course of about eighteen hours.

I know, I know, it's not going to stay perfect. Things happen. We're both animated and a little clumsy, and we have two cats and a dog. Shit's going to fall over. But I swear some of this is happening all on its own - I think we have a poltergeist, hell bent on running me domestically insane. Either that, or Didge and I are simply dissociating for hours at a stretch, throwing things all about while in that state while leaping like mountain goats across the tops of the furniture. It's not that we don't put things away when we're finished, like all good children do. We do. Well, most of the time.

I am going to FlyLady Crisis Clean this place again today, while Didge continues to sleep through trying to quit smoking (hey, whatever works). I need bait of some kind, though, something to serve as motivation beyond the calm created by walking into a room that doesn't look like someone picked up the house and shook it. Hm. Got it:

I will not pack another bento until this house is flip-ready, with organized cabinets, completely finished laundry, and no more scary refrigerator. Actually, scrap that. I will not pack a bento in my new, hamburger-shaped bento box until...yatta yatta yatta. As soon as all of this is done and I've called Goodwill to pick up the monster shelf that we can't lift to get out the door, I can use that cute little bento box.

So. There. I've said it. I guess that means I should get to work - before I change my mind and Didge comes to and decides to build something.