mom came by today. i had intended to ransack-clean the house in preparation...but yeah, getting home around 4am kinda killed my motivation. so instead, i woke up and put an ad on craigs list for a house keeper http://nh.craigslist.org/hss/493453928.html.

Hopfully I can find someone that will turn into my house sitter for the spring when i go away again. If I'm *really* lucky, he/she will take a liking to critters too and I can save some $$ on boarding costs and whatnot.