New Apartment

I've been here for a few weeks now - but never got around to sending out pictures.  I just reviewed them and think I may wait a few more weeks until the place is tidier.  Why I take photos when the mood strikes me rather than when it would look better is beyond me.  However, I do like the one of my new view.  This is from out of my bedroom window:

Of course, the lake is now frozen so the view is not as interesting.  Also, there is now no view at all out of my bedroom window -- as I was busy last weekend.  I call this picture "Sun Protection".

I know we are almost as far from the nights of sun as we can get - but I might as well get the full benfits of my labour.  Besides, this way I don't have to wear my eyemask.  However, I do have to take the phone off the charger and put a towel over the clock radio (pesky light spillage).  At least I don't have to put a towel under the door and hang my robe down the crack like I had to in Tasiujaq.  In this apartment the closet juts out and creates a barrier between the head of my bed and the door.
I thought I would try a combo of garbage bags and tinfoil.  I brought the garbage bags from off the window in the 8-plex (this new place is referred to by everyone as "the 12-plex") and some of them had fused together from the heat!  Any Northerners reading this can feel free to share their experiences.  I failed to look on the internet to see if there was an essay entitled "Plastic vs Tinfoil: Window Coverings in Canada's Arctic".  Hey - anyone out there in need of a thesis?  Science Fair project?


Cheers,
Cindy  (back to cleaning the stovetop; not like the old days in Montreal when I moved if it was time to clean the oven)