Happy New Year!! I spent the last week of 2004 drunk, hungover, snowed in, snowed out, shovelling out and shovelling in, freezing, and watching movies. Sounds like fun eh? Only some of it was fun.... Boxing Day was a blast, our core group of friends got together and went out for a night on the town...fortunately there were no embarrassing episodes. Although I was completely taken by surprise when we arrived at the show and made our way to the dance floor, that as I scoped out the scene I was standing beside the one and only Gas Station Boy! GAK! I totally tried to ignore him....and succeeded for the most part (I did tell E not to talk to him anymore, which was completely childish....but I can blame it on the drunkenness). Once the show was over, we headed back to Party Central (aka E's house), and continued our celebration, which included for me, herbal tea with echinacea, and a large feed of bacon and eggs. Only with these great people, can you get home at 4 am and proceed to have a breakfast of bacon and eggs, made with love by the domestic goddess herself E. We woke up the next day to a winter wonderland, or a raging blizzard, whichever you prefer. So we were snowed in. 3 movies, 2 boxes of chocolates, and 1 sausage burger dinner later we settled in well to our little snowglobe. Watching such heartwarming films as Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was kinda worried about things at home, as it was just the cat there holding down the fort, and I hadn't been home since Christmas Eve. Other than a dead cat, I was worried about the house freezing, as the power was out, and no one was sure when it would be back on. Lindz was heading home early the next morning, and I decided that I would follow her home and then come back into town once everything was looked after. Sometimes I surprise myself with my naivete...here it was the day after a huge blizzard, and I was heading home to the Cape...I entertained various scenarios of what could be happening at home without really thinking that they would actually happen. I was fairly certain that I was probably going to have to shovel the driveway a bit to get in(although secretly I was hoping that some really nice neighbor had taken pity on the Orphan Girl and plowed her out). The reality was that my driveway was NOT plowed, and there was more snow in the driveway than I had ever seen in my life. This could be an exaggeration, but I am not a shoveller... and I had about 80 feet of driveway to get through. Very close to tears, I went and got the shovel from the garage, as I was in a race against time (time is also known here as the snowplow) I had to get the car off the road before the plow came and took the car away (as it already had taken the mailbox and tossed it in the ditch on the opposite side of the road! No more innocent lives could be lost!) So I spent a good part of my morning/afternoon crying in the driveway as I attempted to shovel it out. I managed to clear a spot big enough to get the car in and away from the Killer Plow (but funnily enough, not far enough away to prevent it from being buried as I witnessed later that night). My mental state was fragile enough at this point, but the Gods must have been laughing at me, because they just kept throwing things at me. Apparently, when I went inside to get a different jacket, and a hat and mitts, I hadn't shut the door tight, and the wind blew it open....and with the wind came large drifts of snow. IN THE HOUSE!! While I was out shovelling the GD driveway. So I managed to clear my basement stairs of this snow while screaming and crying. I was never closer to a mental breakdown in my life. To me, it was bad enough that I had to shovel the driveway, only to come in, and see that due to my stupidity, I had a foot of snow covering my basement stairs. Shoot me now. Let's recap: -driveway full of snow -inside staircase full of snow. -no power, and there hadn't been power since the previous morning. -the no power also meant that I had no phone, as I originally thought that it would be SOOO much more convenient to just have a cordless phone. Stupid, stupid, stupid. -oh, and because of the no power, there wasn't any water either, as the f-ing pipes froze. I had to walk to a neighbor's and ask for help...all we could do was start the woodstove and hope that things would defrost on their own....thankfully nothing had burst. Ugh. Now I just don't think that I can live on my own anymore and keep that house in running order... Responsibility sucks ass. Well that was the bitching entry for today... I promise that I will be back with the really fun stuff....and there was lots of it!