This house goes through phases. It is gorgeously clean, perfectly organized, and good smelling one week. Then, it’s slightly cluttered, a little messy, and slightly amiss. It then transitions to an absolute disaster overnight. Suddenly there are dishes exploding from the sink, piles of paperwork everywhere, dirty laundry that even a laundromat would turn away, and a weird smell … not foul, not awful, but weird. Then I clean like a crazy person for three straight days, and we start over.

It’s interesting that this cycle seems to be direclty linked to when other people are here. If I were by myself all the time, I somehow doubt the cycle would continue as it’s ridiculous to think I would destroy a house I spend hours cleaning. Someone out there should consider that …