Getting Ready

I'm going on vacation. I leave Thursday for 13 days. It seems getting ready to go on vacation is a huge job in and of itself. Why? Every time I go away from home, I spend several days straightening up the house. Why? I live in it the way it is when I am here. Why does it have to be cleaned up (so to speak) when I am getting ready to leave? Maybe I'm getting ready in case I don't come back? I don't know. I only know this is my M.O. whenever I am going away.

Now I am thinking......maybe I should go away more often. I just might have a spectacularly clean house all the time.