Try to see things from my point of view.
Answer:
Today I woke up and got dressed. I had to hurry and eat breakfast so that I wasn't late for the bus. Thankfully, I made it in time.
(If that's not exactly what the prompt was asking, just write three sentences using "I" and "my")
Answer: The way to write the sentence: "The store was freezin" as an absolute frase would be: The store freezing, we need to leave it quickly. Or We need to leave quickly, the store freezing.
An absolute phrase consists on a phrase that modifies a noun in a sentence, but it is not connected to the sentence by a conjunction. It is separated with a comma only, and it could be removed from the sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence. An absolute phrase tends to contain a participial.
I hope i helped!! <3
I think the answer is this is an example of personification. Sorry if this isn't correct.