Howdy all!

Sooooooo... either someone I don't know renewed my membership or SG has a random selection process whereby it identifies old members and sends them a message saying that an anonymous member renewed their dormant account.

If the former is true, thank you and identify yo-self, foo! If the latter, ummmmm, sup peepz! Been a while (awkward smile).

So if the powers that be offered me some free time back here, i'll gallantly accept. Annnnnd, i'm kinda happy cuz there was some really cool people here that i completely lost touch with.

That all being said, my profile needs some updating... and i'll get to that when time allows. In the meantime, for those still on my friend list, I say 'Hello, how are you?.

Hopefully, this time will be different!

My membership is expired and i've decided to not renew it...

I've met some amazingly awesome peepz on this web-bizzo and also shared some good times via comments, etc. with other....

I've simply been a shitty member and don't really care much to put the time and effort into being the active member i once was...

Beautiful members and good friends, you may add me on my facebook or email....
frenette_patrick@hotmail.com
Patrick Frenette (on FB)

I leave you with some pics....























Love you peepz, but i'm outty.......

Tricks

Leaving tomorrow on my adventure...

I'm a little nervous... well, we'll call it anxious.... been trying to be creative on how i'm gonna survive for 2 weeks on the budget that i have.... this will def be an experience...

I bit the bullet....



This is Biarritz in Southern France, on the border of Spain... It will be my first destination of my two-week adventure i shall embark on the two first weeks in August.

I have been really irritable and bored with my social life here at home. I have great friends and all, but being the only 'single' one of my crew... the idea of a good time being a night of drinking in a suburban backyard just doesn't cut it for me anymore...

I had two weeks of vacation scheduled for the beginning of august this year (with the option of a third) and NO ONE was willing to do ANYTHING... I have come to a point now where i really don't require any dependence on anyone and so...... two weeks of back-packing in Southern France, but mostly Spain seemed like a good remedy for my situation.

My plan was just Spain, but it is much cheaper to fly to France, so I booked the cheapest flight I could to Bordeaux, and made a very general itenarary of my two weeks there.... Land in Bordeaux...... get to a beach near Spain (ie Biarritz) and take it from there. Biarritz is considered one of the best spots in Europe to surf, and so I booked my first couple of nights at a place called the Biarritz Surf House... dirt cheap... surfing, drinking and just chilling....

From there, I plan on making my way to San Sebastian, Spain for a couple of similar days... and then cross the Pyrenees mountains, direction Barcelona... where i plan on spending a couple more nights... and then proceed to go up the Mediterranean Coast (beaches again) and make my way (eventually) back to Bordeaux for my return, mid-august.

I purposely refrained from making a detailed itenerary, as i really just want to go with the flow and enjoy this unique time of my life...

Buddy is so stoked and just itching now...

Aside from that....... new pad....... love it! It's effin perfect!

Catch y'all on the flip side.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.... just realized (thanks Lee that I haven't posted a new blog in close to two months.... really?!?!?!!!?!!

Despite my untimely banter, much has been happening in my life over this time (excuse, of course!)!!!

I don't even remember where i was in terms of the craziness that has been happening last time I posted!?! Well... I think it was a rant regarding someone i had been seeing... well... scratch that!!!! I think I saw that one coming way before I realized how ridiculous it was! No harm no foul though.... we all digress! Being single, happy and independent is TRULY awesome.... something that doesn't come automatically... but after a bit of time.

Something that helps such a thing... the return of my best buddy!!!!!! After 8 months in Afghanistan, he returned home safe a couple of weeks ago!!! I can't even begin to describe the awesome feeling I had seeing him again. We've definitely been making up for lost time since his return!!! Amazing news for him... he's gonna be a daddy in October too!!!! Something I've learned from him being away.... you don't know how truly strong you are as person until you are left without those that love you most to help you through the rough patches... I have always had the opportunity to have close friends nearby in times of distress, but I must say GOD DAMN... having made it through the past winter i had alone... I am damn proud of myself and I am better person for it...

I got the promotion..... gonna be an Industrial Engineering Specialist for a leading Aerospace company.... sounds about right... haha... for those who know me, you might chuckle at that... i know i have chuckled repeatedly about it since i've found out... Funny how things happen sometimes!!!???

Moving in a month... I can't wait to leave this appartment. I am moving literally with a minute of walking distance from here, but the place is a true bachelor pad and it will be amazing!!! Plus.......... $200 cheaper a month on rent... free cable... how could I go wrong!?!?! Have I ever mentioned that I love Montreal and I can never imagine myself leaving this great city??!?!

I went to get my earrings changed this week by the wonderful Lee who tortured me trying to stretch them... literally four attempts to go from a measliy 8 gauge to a 6 gauge.... and i guess my ears weren't cooperating.... well... end result... it didn't happen... because the blood and pain was just too much.... at least for now!!!! ; ) I'd show you a pic of the new plugs, but my camera is dead... at a later date!!!!

With summer upon us... I am totally stoked at what's in store and I can't wait for the endless amounts of fun that will be had.......... I have two forced weeks of vacation (with an option for three) in August that I have yet to make plans for yet... any ideas???????????? I really want to do something awesome.... I figure this might be one of the last times in my life that I can go all out and do something memorable.... with no strings attached....

Hope you're all doing well!!!!

I love Sundays. It's always been a day of rest and reflection for me. No matter the life circumstance i find myself in, sundays (mostly nights) have always been a constant day of assessing my life.

Like so many other Sundays, today is no different. To follow up on my previous blog, wherest I outlined a comical circumstance i recently fell into, i find myself in a more stable situation now. I have been with this girl for about a month now. We've been spending a lot of time together too. You know that feeling that you get when something is new and amazing and just want to spend all your time enjoying it... well, that's sorta what's happening... or at least what's 'been' happening.

And then there's today.... where i assess things. Im starting to wonder if this is really what i want or need right now in my life. I have absolutely nothing to complain about with her. Things are awesome.... amazing. But for whatever reason, the familiarity of it is cause for concern. I mean, we've been together for about a month and, correct me if i'm misinterpretating, but should familiarity become normal after a month??? You know... a certain decrease in passion? Where we can spend an entire weeken together without any 'real' intimacy? Please give me your feedback on this.

We haven't really discussed what our 'situation' is or anything and I don't really care to know either. I know that we both enjoy our time together and that she really likes me, but she hasn't been in a relationship in many years, whereas I have and she has told me that what i have showed is new to her and that she doesn't want to screw anything up... but she was also drunk when she said that... so.... not quite sure what that really means.

Not quite sure where i'm getting with this, but think i just needed to extrovert it. I will continue to go with the flow of things and i'm quite confident that things will become more clear as time passes. I just think I that I think too much... (notice the irony of that sentence...)

In other unrelated news, I was approached at work for a new position. An old boss of mine asked to meet with me on Friday and expressed interest in my services as an Industrial Engineer in his team. This would be a big promotion for me. Curious thing is that I am not an engineer, but he insisted that no technical experience is required for the job. It would be a big step for me in my career if it works out. It would also be a huge challenge... and fortunately for me... I'm a sucker for challenges. I am never quite content with my day-to-day and always seem to think that i can do better than what i do..... So, if things go well, i can possibly be in a new sweet position in the next little while.

Life is so strange.... ups and downs... I'm all over the place.

Hello Land of SG!!!!!!!!

Things have picked up quite a bit since the last little while!!! I'm happy to say that nothing retardedly 'out-of-the-ordinary' has happened to me like that one week a couple of weeks ago....

The whole appartment issue has been resolved and I'll be moving to a sweet 31/2 come june or july!!! Best part about it.......... i'll be paying $200 less than what i'm paying now and the place is perfect... and in the part of the city that I learned to love and can't quite leave just yet...

Aside from that... been having some very interesting dating related stories occur to me of late... The whole scene is so ridiculous... but interesting.... I've never been the 'dating-scene' type of guy... and by no means have i been seeking to be apart of it... but it's all just been falling in my lap.... completely ridiculous....

In a nutshell (and i'll really try to keep it brief, because it's a lot more fucked than it sounds...):

- There was a moment only a couple of weeks ago that I found myself in a situation where there were 4 potential women that were interested.....

- We'll call them 'The About to turn 30 and seems desperate One', 'The Indie Professional Creative One', 'The Shy Anxious Small Town One' and 'The City Party Hot One'

- Spent a bit of time with 'The About to turn 30 and seems desperate One'... dropped that like it was going outta style.......... the last thing i need now is to settle.......

- Went out a couple of times with 'The Indie Professional Creative One'..... and while it was fun and interesting... wasn't feeling it......

- Which leaves us with the two polar opposites.....

- Spent a lot of time with 'The Shy Anxious Small Town One' and while i thought i was interested.... I think i was more into it for the sole reason that it was complicated and 'not easy'.... there was that whole 'chase' thing where I felt like i needed to crack a code or something... but as time passed, the sheer time and energy i was putting into it made me realize how much i don't need to deal with this.... being single and all....

- Which leaves us with the 'The City Party Hot One'.... a girl i hadn't seen in like 12 years... and we decided to go out one night and BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! instant chemistry!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like so ridiculously in touch with the whole chemistry thing and we got along so easily and well... The first night in 12 years we had seen each other.... and we ended up spending the entire weekend together... she is truly what i think i need right now... it's just very easy and fun and we have an awesome time together...

- So........... that is where I am right now....... been spending time with her since then and it's eerily nice and most importantly, i am myself with her and she digs that... and she lives like 5 mins away.... so... very convenient and awesome!!!!!

I have been so amused with being in this situation as i find it completely ludacris.... but i guess that is what comes with being single! I find myself literally laughing about it all at times... so fucked!

Aside from that, living alone is awesome now!!!! I love it and wish i could've enjoyed it longer. At 28, this is the first time i've had the pleasure of only having to answer to myself... and this after 7 years of living away from home and 3 roomates later... and retartedly enough, living alone has made me appreciate so many more things than i used to and my place is clean all the time... i eat better... i'm happy 95% of the time now... but... i drink quite a bit more.... but that ain't so bad, right???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Life is good, yall!!!!

In this episode of the Twilight Zone.....................................

What a week this has been...

So, my social life is very much back in control and has become a tad chaotic of late. This past weekend was a little too much trying to please a lot of people... and not enough down time... but I figure that I have had more than enough 'down time' lately and I need to get out as much as possible.... so, yours truly has truly turned over a new leaf and I have been feeling truly happy... but very tired...

To add to the ridiculous w-e I had (which was pretty awesome in so many senses), my week started off with so many 'out-of-the-ordinary' experiences... and note to all.... while the following experiences may seem ridiculous, they're 100% true and i am still trying to make sense of some of them... Just to name a few of the things that have occured to me (and by a few, I am limiting it from about 10 weird things to about 3...)

- I was caught in the middle of a high speed car chase on a bridge... where i was very nearly clipped and nailed by a douche out-running three cop cars.... and this bridge was not a bridge you would've like to be clipped on...

- A building across the street from my appartment burned down in raging flames..... and i mean like a big fire....

- Was driving down a rural road in a snow-storm this evening... when i very nearly hit a wolf that was trotting down the road... oblivious to me.... yes........... a WOLF.......... like in The Shining.... (or was it The Wolf)?!?!??! some Jack Nicholson movie anyways...... I swerved... the wolf didn't move... we both kept our cool... and that was that...

All these things in the past 24 hours alone... and this is the censored version!!!!!!!!

Nevertheless... I am feeling very good lately. I gave the appartment a huge scrubbing and a small make-over.. and i am keeping busy.... so much so that a night at home alone lately has been a gift. I think I have made up my mind on the living situation.... I am 99% sure that i will be moving down the road to my bro's appartment after he moves in his new condo.. i just couldn't justify moving back home after soooo long.

Life is good again... just in a different way!

Tricks

So apparently the New Year brought mad mood swings......... I think I might be pregnant or something?!?!?!!?!



For real though... I have just been on roller-coaster ride of mood swings of late and it's annoying...

Lee recently moved out and living alone has its definite pluses and minuses......

PLUSES
- I can do what I want when I want
- I can make my place my own
- I get to watch movies all the time
- I started reading books a lot more
- I can sprawl out in my bed and sleep for hours and hours
- I put my music on all the time and justify whatever I house work I do as being fun because of the music

MINUSES
- I get lonely
- I think about things wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too much.........
- I am tight as hell financially
- I drink way more
- I spend saturday / friday nights doing nothing
- I try to justify moving back the suburban slum that i promised myself i would never move back to

Aside from that.............. Rock n' Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been watching and reading a lot of Bret Easton Ellis' work... which is kinda fucked up.... no.. wait... it is very fucked up.......... I get amazed by how fucked up people can be. It helps justify the crazy side of me.

I recently bought a 16G I-Pod Touch...... it is ridculous....... it was a gift i gave myself for working during the holidays... oh yeah....... someone has to f-ing spoil me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've also been quite distant from this site... and while I have met someone aweseme peepz here, I really feel like I have little to no connection anymore to people. (that might just be the mood swing kicking in though).

I have to move soon. I am debating taking my bros place which is just down the street (but $200 cheaper) or move back home....... which is something I promised myself I would never do... but financially, it makes sense....

I miss my brother from a different mother, who is thankfully in Australia right now, on a vacation from the crap going on in Afghanistan. He has been gone since September and I have never needed him to be around more than these days... but life can hand us all a much larger plate of shit, as he has put it. So... I digressss..........

Just thought a sign of life was justified.....

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Ever get the feeling that beeing the nice guy just doesn't pay off.....

I want to send a BIG FUCK YOU to so many people it is crazy.....