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Late Saturday night: Dean and I were driving home after seeing Vanessa. We drop her off in her home town and on our way to ours, we ended up hitting an icy patch and slid into a deep, snow-filled ditch, and barely missing a pole. So here we were in the middle of nowhere, in a 45 degree angle, on a not well travelled country highway and it's -30 degrees celsius outside.

Our attempts to get ourselves out were fruitless. Dean tried to push us out but all it did was make him wet with snow and freeze his legs. He came back into the car and I gave him my leggings to wear while he took his pants off and put them on the dash and allow the heater to dry them. I had brought my snowsuit along so I ended up wearing that. We were able to warm his legs and avoided any kind of hypothermia. He then put his pants overtop of my pants so a least he had two layers. If you're wondering, I had stretchy leggings on and his waist is only two inches bigger than mine, so us swapping pants is realistic.

No cars were passing at all so we were faced with walking somewhere or sitting there the entire night. It would probably take an hour to walk to Vanessa's. So we opted to go to the nearest house. Dean scouts it first, and no answer. He came back and we waited to see if anyone else would drive by.

No one..

After gearing up, we set foot and lucky for us it wasn't too long before we got to a house. We knocked and rang the bell on both doors. No answer again. Should we keep walking and go to Vanessa's? Dean decided to let ourselves in.

Good ol' Canada. If you saw Bowling For Columbine, you might remember a sequence where Michael Moore comes to Canada and opens people's doors because nobody locks them. Well, it's true! There are people that lock them, but not that many! So we let ourselves in. We first try to call Vanessa but she was on the internet so we couldn't get through. We called a tow truck and they said it was a 3-4 hour wait. So we watched some DVDs (Sinbad cartoon and Robin Williams doing stand up) and Dean played with the little kitty that lived there.

The tow truck came and got us out quickly and without hassle. We decided to leave behind a note telling the home owners we were there as well as a bit of cash and three boxes of cookies and chocolates Vanessa's mom gave us.

We didn't end up getting home until 8am. The car is fine. I am fine. Dean has a bit of the sniffles and a cough on Sunday. Sorta sucks because he just got over a flu so being out like that was probably no good for him.

It worked out okay since we had shelter and a phone and were uninjured. Maybe it's my over- positive thinking but honestly, I feel relieved everything turned out okay.


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Saturday, January 29, 2005 Katamari Damacy Paper Doll http://fccafe.fc2web.com/ptamacy.html Posted by Steph at 02:39 MT [ link to this entry ] [ 0 comments ] Monday, January 17, 2005 Ditched Late Saturday night: Dean and I were driving home after seeing Vanessa. We drop her off in her home town and on our way to ours, we ended up hitting an icy patch and slid into a deep, snow-filled ditch, and barely missing a pole. So here we were in the middle of nowhere, in a 45 degree angle, on a not well travelled country highway and it's -30 degrees celsius outside. Our attempts to get ourselves out were fruitless. Dean tried to push us out but all it did was make him wet with snow and freeze his legs. He came back into the car and I gave him my leggings to wear while he took his pants off and put them on the dash and allow the heater to dry them. I had brought my snowsuit along so I ended up wearing that. We were able to warm his legs and avoided any kind of hypothermia. He then put his pants overtop of my pants so a least he had two layers. If you're wondering, I had stretchy leggings on and his waist is only two inches bigger than mine, so us swapping pants is realistic. No cars were passing at all so we were faced with walking somewhere or sitting there the entire night. It would probably take an hour to walk to Vanessa's. So we opted to go to the nearest house. Dean scouts it first, and no answer. He came back and we waited to see if anyone else would drive by. No one.. After gearing up, we set foot and lucky for us it wasn't too long before we got to a house. We knocked and rang the bell on both doors. No answer again. Should we keep walking and go to Vanessa's? Dean decided to let ourselves in. Good ol' Canada. If you saw Bowling For Columbine, you might remember a sequence where Michael Moore comes to Canada and opens people's doors because nobody locks them. Well, it's true! There are people that lock them, but not that many! So we let ourselves in. We first try to call Vanessa but she was on the internet so we couldn't get through. We called a tow truck and they said it was a 3-4 hour wait. So we watched some DVDs (Sinbad cartoon and Robin Williams doing stand up) and Dean played with the little kitty that lived there. The tow truck came and got us out quickly and without hassle. We decided to leave behind a note telling the home owners we were there as well as a bit of cash and three boxes of cookies and chocolates Vanessa's mom gave us. We didn't end up getting home until 8am. The car is fine. I am fine. Dean has a bit of the sniffles and a cough on Sunday. Sorta sucks because he just got over a flu so being out like that was probably no good for him. It worked out okay since we had shelter and a phone and were uninjured. Maybe it's my over- positive thinking but honestly, I feel relieved everything turned out okay. Posted by Steph at 16:51 MT [ link to this entry ] [ 2 comments ] Wednesday, January 05, 2005 Happy New Year Resolutions: Update blog explaning how frickin' busy I have been the last two weeks Spend more time on my websites and update more frequently keep better contact with friends Art more Bake something weekly Try a new recipe more often Take Dean to the hospital tomorrow. He now has a 39.06ºC fever and basically hasn't gotten out of bed since Sunday. :( Change the font or figure out my blog so when I use special characters like ¥ or º or © it looks correct in all browsers Posted by Steph at 01:32 MT [ link to this entry ] [ 0 comments ] Tuesday, January 04, 2005 What I got for Christmas Eggplant shaped oil bottle Flask & two beakers Mandoline Hand Blender Alberts' Restaurants Chef's Jacket Cheese serving set Deep Non-stick Skillet Dim Sum steamer for the microwave Penguin Booties Isotoner slippers Assorted fun socks Supergirl slipper socks I'm Here for More Food book by Alton Brown Better Homes & Garden Cookbook Canadian Food Inspection Agency Cookbook Katamari Darmacy (PS2) Bombastic (aka Devil Dice 2) (PS2) Street Fighter the Movie DVD Barbie Keychain Cy Girl Dress Cutie Honey Capsule Toy "Born to Perform" shirt "Idol" nightshirt Black shirt with buckle A really long scarf Blue sweater A Techno Christmas Carol CD ¥2500 credit on Yahoo Japan Auctions Posted by Steph at 23:06 MT [ link to this entry ] [ 0 comments ]	StephCam Main Page About Me Image Gallery Food Stuff The ComicBookGirl.com Network Pulp Arcade video game comics 'zine Swingin' Web Space a space channel 5 fansite Related Sites Dean Welsh.com Vegreville.net Buy Stuff from Plastik Wrap Family Liquid Foundation Chachachan Penguin Warrior Suzette Chan.com Communities Gutterzombie Idolism Blog Roll Boing Boing Can't Afford Film Dave McCaig's Blog Drowning in a Daydream Fanboy Ramapge Gizmodo Gregg Beever.com Heaping Plateful Hulk's Diary Jason Pyle's Thoughts Mizuguchi's Blog Pipedreamer Alley Post-Crisis Procastinating Overachiever Raven Mysterium Steak Jello Superfluous.Banter_v.2.08e Trash Heap Friends' Webpages Electronic Geisha Jawa Force Katheryn's Snuffles Site Laurie Kronenberg Nightshade Corsets Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Archived Blog Entries: July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 RSS Feed me this site!