Times and Places

Nice alarm clock, eh? It's my gift from Staples for being the "Super Person of the Month" for December. There's also an official certificate around somewhere with my name on it, potentially hanging up in a place of honour, but I haven't found that place yet. Not that I've really looked or anything, but if I ever get my hands on the certificate, I'll have to pick a wall in our home to display it on, and perhaps at the same time I'll get my Bachelor of Science diploma framed and hung beside it. Yup, I'll have a sequential display of my Calvin Christian School diploma, my HDCH diploma, my Redeemer diploma, and next in line will be my Super Person of the Month diploma.
I appreciate that my managers appreciate the stress that defined December for me. I think they appreciated that I didn't quit on them.
I like how my new alarm clock tells the temperature. As you can tell in the picture, it was 20.9 degrees in our living room. However, I also took a picture of the thermometer in our bedroom, which reads quite a different temperature:
I think Mike is trying to prepare me for living in Alaska. He was on a bit of a kick for a while, wanting to move to Alaska because he likes the snow. Then we were going to move to BC to a remote (as in, fly in with a helicopter) community in the dense forest, where Mike would teach all the commune children. I believe we were also at one point going to move to Iowa, but I'm not sure what the main attraction there was supposed to be, unless it was the corn. Who knows where we will actually end up settling, but I have a feeling it won't be Alaska, BC, or Iowa.