Before....

Before I travel, I have a compulsion to clean. There are 2 reasons for this:

1. I don't like to pack until everything is put away because I can't decide what to pack until everything is where it belongs.
2. I don't like coming home to a messy house - it's just going to get messy when I unpack, so I don't want it to be messy to begin with. Besides, it's depressing to come home from vacation and have to clean.

Sadly, this is what our apartment looks like right now - we're flying out on Sunday.

We don't currently have a working dishwasher :(

The living room

The dining room

Clearly, we have some work to do. :(