Drinking in the Park

There is no better weekend than taking some beer, some snacks and the most important thing of all - a blanket - to Jeanne Mance parc. We live very close to it, so going home to the bathroom is no biggie. I mention the bathroom because essentially that's really all that park is. That's why the blanket is the most important thing... people and dogs piss and shit (okay, I don't know for sure if people shit, but it'd be stupid to think otherwise) everywhere in that park. If you can have several layers of blankets, it's even better. Maybe a plastic sheet to lay down first, as a precaution.
Also if you have a good idea of where the most popular pissing spots are, you can avoid those areas.
But I think it's really funny when we see a bunch of done up girls and guys in the trendiest clothes rolling and frolicking in the grass in an attempt to get some attention.
All I can think, is "yeah, you're real cute, but you're rolling in piss and shit my friend. It is a dog park after all!"

So, we were going to check out the beer festival, although the last time we went it pretty much sucked. It mostly seems to be for people whose idea of acting crazy is having one beer, maybe two. Not that there's anything wrong with that (actually there is everything wrong with that).
But when we saw the prices for beer tasting, there was no way. No thanks. Beer isn't that good. It's tastes best when you can drink it really fast, and in great quantities!
Also, me thinks (today I am pretending to be a pirate), that the beer festival tends to attract a lot of yuppy guppies, or whatever the preps are being called these days.
Remember when it used to be "preps"... or what about "squares".
Ah, good words.
Don't forget about spazz and grody! Those were classics.

I get nervous when I'm around too many squares... I don't reallly know how to explain what I mean... I guess if you know, you know and if you don't, you don't.

Which reminds me of this commercial I was watching; it was for a home renovation place and they were showing all these rooms and how easy it is to have plates and curtains and floors that match and compliment. For a second I became really wrapped up in the commercial because I was looking around our apartment thinking, "geez, nothing in here matches or compliments, I wonder if should get on that..."
And then I realized just how easy it is to distract people. There are actually people who think that it's important for all our stuff to match, when in reality we don't even look at half the stuff we have. Do the people who have matching glasses and plates actually take them out and look at it and think, " I am so great because my life matches!"
It's so easy to get wrapped up in stuff that is just distraction, meant to make us consume needlessly, instead of doing stuff that has more to do with living.
I mean, it's okay to decorate, but if it becomes more important than anything else, you've got a problem. If you aren't happy because you don't have that last vase that compliments the rug, than you've got some shit priorities.
There's unhappiness (oh no I broke a nail) and then there's unhappiness (my whole family died and I am so poor I have no hope of eating in the next few weeks).

On another completely different note, I've been doing volunteering at a few places recently and what I have come to know is that if you want to become QUICKLY disillusioned with something, volunteer for it!!

But I was warned by a few people that finding the right place to volunteer isn't that easy. It takes a few attempts... so I guess I'll keep looking.
If you any ideas, let me know.