It Has Begun...

I guess our moving process is officially starting today - but not by our choice! Due to an unplanned situation involving water in some unwelcome places, we are cleaning out our storage closet. With cleaning comes (hopefully) getting rid of a few things that haven't seen the light of day since we moved in last May, and possibly putting some stuff in boxes! I am excited :)

Here's the story: We made it home from our Illinois visit yesterday (more on that later). I went to do a huge load of laundry but was greeted by this in our laundry closet:

Uh oh! We quickly called our landlord Joey and found out that the leak was coming from our upstairs neighbors' AC. He thought the problem had been fixed, but we kept seeing drips. To make a long story short, Joey made several visits to our apartment, and I got the following text at work today:

"Joey and the repair man came by the apartment. Bad news: there was water in the storage closet. Good news: nothing is ruined."

I also got this picture:

My mind jumped to my wedding dress, which is stored in that closet. When I got home, I was able to confirm that Eduardo was right; nothing was ruined - except a cardboard box labeled "Eduardo's childhood memories"! But no worries - his mom had plastic wrapped everything! Everything was dry but the box :)

Like I said earlier, we now have an excuse to empty out our storage closet to make sure everything else is okay. Our camping chairs are currently airing out on the patio. I'm not sure if we'll actually be able to pack up anything yet, but maybe we can get rid of a couple things. Mainly I want to take advantage of my eagerness to pack while it lasts!