Frozen Nowhere

Immediately upon finishing her pizza G announced she was going to go start her car. I cleaned up after the kids, made sure everything was put in garbage cans and such, wiped up sticky children-types, and tidied up as much as I could, then I went out to start MY car (which hadn’t been plugged in since noon, and at that time the temperature was dropping) and RGG’s car as well, to keep them from freezing up. RGG’s car (SUV, really) started quickly with no protest… so whatever he and his father had done to his battery had done the trick. 
 
My car, on the other hand, was patently NOT IMPRESSED with me and refused to start, despite my frantic attempts to get it to

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Can you tell that I am crazy about this guy? I mean, right from the first time I met him in person (since we had talked online, due to family circumstances and schedules, for a month before we met, and I had already really clicked with him that way so I knew that at the VERY least we’d be friends… and I am glad that we are friends and MORE now), and we clicked right from the start. I have been so much happier with everything since I met him, and now that I think that we are committed to only seeing each other I feel so much more relaxed in my life too — I like who I am now, and I

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So… we settled in the room for a bit. Since i had spent 2 days wandering the city and not managing to hit either a Tim Hortons OR a Starbucks (even though I waited for my parents outside Tim’s for 15 mins!) G and I decided to make coffee while we got everything in order. I realized, pretty quickly, that I had forgotten GirlChild’s bathing suit at home… along with the toothbrushes and toothpaste and hairbrushes… and my contact things… so I turned on the tv for the kids, found a kid show, and trundled off into the absolutely terrifyingly COLD weather to pick up the remaining stuff from my house.
 
I grabbed everything I thought I could possibly

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