Guest post written by Marissa Brodrick

I’m all about dressing for the weekends. See, I have to really dress up for work during the week, so I love to dress however I want on the weekends. You would think that I might just wear sweats during the weekend or something, but I’m really into fashion. So I like to take advantage of that on the weekends.

One thing that I knew that I wanted for my fall weekends as soon as they started popping up on fashion blogs was the oversized clutch for day. I just think that it looks so chic! I was online shopping for one a few days ago when I ran across some info on internet service providers. After I looked through it some, I showed it to my husband and we decided to sign up for one of the packages on there for our home service.

Once I spent a few hours looking for the perfect clutch online, I found a brown leather clutch that is just what I was imagining for myself. So I put in an order for it right away and I can’t wait to carry it around with me on the weekends!

I have a new favorite song that is stuck in my head so I figured I would talk about it in today’s blog post to help get it out of my system or maybe get it stuck in your head. The song is “Can’t Get Enough” by artist j cole. We were out at a club in downtown Phoenix when I first heard it and I kept singing it over and over it was so catchy.

Later that night when I got home I purchased the album on iTunes and put it on my phone so now I can hear it wherever I go. I just figure if I can’t get the song out of my head I might as well play it loud and sing along with j cole. My wife really likes the song too so she doesn’t mind that I play it so much, but she does think it’s a little strange how obsessed I am with the album now.

Do any of you have a song that just gets stuck in your head? Comment on this post and let me know which song you can’t get out of your head and what you do to try and shake it.

Last night Dustin and I did a much needed guys night out. We had dinner, hit the batting cages and planned a trip up to the casino. Before we headed out to the casino we checked out some online casinos to learn how to play some of the table games. I really liked Lucky Stud Casino if you want to check it out you can visit now. After an hour or two of playing we really felt ready to go try our luck at the tables. We did pretty well and left a head which is better than usual for us. I think I liked playing online better because we weren’t surrounded by smoke and other players who were giving us dirty looks cause we were “newbies.”

All in all the night was a success Dustin and I both stood in front of 70+ mph pitched and although I didn’t make as much contact as I would have liked to its still nice that you can get outdoors to the cages in the middle of December, you gotta love Arizona. I also highly recommend the Southwest Egg Rolls at Gorden Birshce they are zesty and taste amazing. I am heading out to the Coyotes game this weekend and there is one right next to the arena so I will definitely be hitting it up for a pre game snack.

We are heading up to Las Vegas for a work conference at the first part of January and we are gonna try our luck on the big boy tables and see if we have any success in Sin City.

Guest written by our friend Sergio Chaney

Some of the shows that come on these days are truly just ridiculous. There is no other way to put it. I know I might be a traitor to my generation, but I have to admit that I think most of the television we have been responsible for is just complete garbage. Case in point: Jersey Shore. Guys, come on. I understand that this show is supposed to be emblematic of the current generation. This makes me want to hide under a rock and also never, ever have children. If the current generation is this bad, what is it going to be like for future generations? There are already no morals or ethics, clearly…if it’s just going to get worse I seriously don’t think I’ll be able to handle it. The show makes me sick, and the fact that all of the “stars” are now completely famous for contributing nothing to society. Well, nothing other than public intoxication and terrible behavior, that is. Check it out the next time you see if on your www.directv.com. It will probably make you a little sick.

Yesterday we found this amazing Minneapolis Italian restaurant that our friends recommended. It was an early Friday evening and we decided to make the journey to Minneapolis to try some of these great pasta dishes we’ve heard so much about. To our surprise there was a wait. It was about 30 minutes before we got in and it was well worth the wait. Service was helpful since we had never been there. The bread was one of our favorite parts of the meal. The pasta was outstanding and cooked to perfection. We’re going back again soon.

I was recently offered a job up in Calgary, Alberta and although I love living in Arizona, we couldn’t pass up the chance for a new change of scenery. The company offered me a moving bonus as well as one of the finest places to live amongst the furnished Calgary apartments in the area.

We also got Calgary Flame jerseys with our names on the backs of them and are really looking forward to catching some Canadian NHL hockey. I know how Canadian fans get and the place is going to be rocking. My brother lives in Edmonton so that was another major factor in our decision to move up there. We visited last November and although it was really cold we loved the seasons and scenery up there in Canada.

We are working on getting our passports up to date and finalizing our moving arrangements right now and I am flying up for my first meeting with the team next Monday. It should be an exciting time for us and we couldn’t be happier. The job contract is for a year with the ability to stay on as long as I want so it allows us the flexibility to leave after a year if we do not adjust to the culture/weather right away. I have a feeling this could be our new permanent home fingers crossed.

My wife had been searching for fur vests for a while now and it seemed like the few that we found in the mall we not the kinds that were on trend. We decided to take our search online by searching for keywords like fur vests for sale and fur jackets for sale we found MLFurs.com and they were exactly the styles she was looking for. Talk about a huge variety of furs in all different animals, colors and cuts. We probably spent over an hour looking at all the different furs they had to offer before she finally decided on a Coyote Sections Vest and a Rabbit Fur.

We got the vest just in time for our trip to New York City for fashion week and she definitely got a lot of compliments throughout the night. Plus the weather was a lot cooler in New York than here in Phoenix so not only did the vest look good, but it was very practical. She looked amazing and overall the trip was a success. Here is to feeling and looking good.

Cheers

My sister just completed her bachelors degree in nursing and after the pinning ceremony we all went out to eat dinner. I was asking her some questions about nursing and asked her where she got her scrub uniforms from. As far as I knew there was a Scrubs-R-Us or something. She told me she orders them online from http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/. They have a huge selection of scrubs and nursing uniforms like pullover, shoes, tops and bottoms. She told me they are supper durable which in her profession is important cause they last longer and they also can protect you from chemicals and even blades and needles in some extreme cases.

My sister has a slim frame and that is another thing she mentioned was that they scrubs were slim fitting and very modern looking. It’s not that they look that different just a little more cutting edge and flattering than the baggy scrubs that you see at Walmart and other scrub shops around. I didn’t even think they made scrubs like that anymore. All I do know is that if I ever end up in the hospital it is very reassuring that I will be taken care of by very competent and caring nurses and doctors like my sister.

Thanks for the post, Kathy Shelton

My wife and I recently decided to take the kids on a trip to Disney World in Orlando Florida. We had been thinking about taking this trip for a long time but we always concluded that the kids were just too young to enjoy a weeklong trip to Disney. There is so much to do at the park and once you’ve purchased a weeks worth of tickets, a hotel room, and plane travel it is an expensive vacation so I wanted to make sure that the kids would have a great time and more importantly actually be able to remember it. My parents took me the Disney when I was about ten years old and it remains one of the best trips I’ve ever taken with my family. I hope that this experience can mean as much to them one day as it does to me. A friend of mine takes his family on great vacation every year and I asked him things we should do while in the Orlando area. Although, he gave me some great advice he also mentioned cable tv deals which wasn’t vacation related but made the entire conversation worth it.

This past weekend some buddies and I played our first round of Airsoft. We got tired of laser tag and paintball and wanted to step up our game to a new level that was more like the real thing. Now I suppose you are wondering, What is Airsoft? Airsoft a recreational activity similar to paintball but instead of paintball you shoot plastic BB’s. You have replica firearms that are just like the real thing to give you that feeling of using a real firearm. Airsoft is a lot less sever as an air gun like some police officers and security guards use. You still know when you get hit.

I had a blast, there is something about running around with a firearm that give you such a rush or high feeling. Now you can play several different scenarios when you are out on the course. We did a few games where a few of us were robbers and the others were police officers. We also did several games kind of similar to a war game or capture the flag. I will tell you one thing though, the BB’s hurt a lot more than a paintball but it’s like they say… “no pain, no gain”.