.. is to keep my house as nice as it looks now! Well, except for my bedroom, which is buried in boxes. And the fact that I still need to vacuum, but that'll have to wait until in the morning right before my new roommate arrives--I have a super tolerant neighbor, but I doubt that tolerance extends to running the vacuum, and thus running the yapping dog, at three in the morning!

Okay, and there's still an excess of crap on my kitchen table. But overall, it looks like somebody lives here instead of camping out in the ruins! For me, this is progress. Of course, I did the same thing about this time last year ... and a few short months later ended up moving. Crud.