Have any of you come across Brickyard Buffalo yet?
BB is an awesome online shop dedicated to sharing the coolest and newest products made by individual companies. Most that I've seen are usually a "ma and pop", mostly ma, shop and are super unique. They also feature a blogger or mom-preneur each week that picks their favorites to be sold. I love that they promote the little guys, a lot of things are really, really reasonable and honestly just plain cool.
It's similar to Groupon in that you only have a certain amount of time to purchase a product and they can sell out. You also have to sign up to be a member but there is no fee and you don't get an absurd amount of emails. It's totally worth it.
I'm not so sure that everyone is a fan of Led Zeppelin but they are definitely worth a shot if you're not on board yet. I've loved them forever and I can thank my dad for that. We grew up with random music and lots of silly dancing as kids.
Surprise, surprise! Luke Bryan has another spring break album out. It's Here to Party. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate it. These are always his funnest jams.
Yes, funnest.
I wouldn't advise buying the entire album though because a few songs are repeats from other albums that you may already have. I only bought what I was missing.
I especially love this one because of all him "mmhmm-ing".
Justin Moore is definitely one of my favorites. He keeps it country. I also saw him in concert last summer and he was pretty darn good. I think he's releasing an album soon so keep him on your radar. His last few were really good.
I just realized I've already shared this one. Must mean I really like it? Here's a different one to make up for my lack of attention to detail.
Last week I was in the Big City for work. This week I'm in Dirty Jersey for work. Next week, I'm back in the Big City for work and the week after that, I'm in Beantown for a wedding.
I'm exhausted already.
So, I'm back tracking a bit. I wanted to share some pics and updates from last week.
I should be doing work, before work, instead of blogging but that just seems a bit ridiculous. I'll work tonight.
If you ever go to NYC, please, please go to this bagel place. Papa Bear hates it but it's literally the first thing I do when I get to town. I'm fairly certain I've mentioned this before.
Whatever you do, do not let them put your cup of coffee in the paper bag with your bagel.
This was taken on my walk to the office. I love the flag the most. Last week was a shitty one for America.
Hotel view.
I totally have a love/hate relationship with New York. I love it because I was there for my entire pregnancy with The King and when I stay there, I walk the same route to work as I did every day while I was pregnant. It's nostalgic.
They also have pretty spectacular food. Yes, I used the work spectacular. Not to mention you can pretty much have anything you want delivered to your doorstep. Anything. I did all of my grocery shopping online and had it delivered once a week. I also ate a lot of buffalo chicken, pizza and Mexican food.
I really, really hate it because it's busy and disgusting. There are people everywhere and the stench when it's warm is pretty unbearable. I'm also going to generalize here but there are a lot of the people that strut around with a huge ego. Sort of a "I'm so important because I live in Manhattan and work on Wall Street and wear suits every day" kind of attitude. Gross. And yes, I know there are a lot of people that aren't like that. I work with a number of them. But you can literally see the attitude oozing out of these people. It's like it's in their hair gel.
So after my short, pointless trip, I rushed home to catch the Miranda Lambert and Dierks show. Which I'll write about in another post. It was disappointing to say the least.
I finally got home around 11 on Thursday night and tiptoed through the house, using my phone as a flashlight when I stumbled upon this little bastard.
No. It's not real. But it sure does look it. I am TERRIFIED of spiders. I hate them more than I hate NYC and cooked spinach. I found him just barely sticking out from under the couch and I nearly shit my pants. With cell phone light, that little effer looked like it might jump on me and eat my eyeballs.
Papa Bear, of course, thought it was hilarious.
I have officially banned fake bugs, along with real ones, in the house.
And just because I always find myself singing this song in the cab ride from the airport every time I visit. Here you go.
I am deeply saddened for all of the victims, their families, friends and all of the people who were at the marathon yesterday. What an unbelievably selfish and ugly act. I'm sad for the city of Boston and the people that call it, and Massachusetts, home. I'm mostly sad that these sort of acts have sort of become "the norm".
For those of you that are unfamiliar, each year Massachusetts reserves a holiday for what's called Patriots Day and Marathon Monday. Most people take the day off, if not mandated, to celebrate and recognize America, the Marathon, the Red Sox, New England and anything they darn well feel like celebrating really. It's usually a day of great fun, laughs, sports, beer, good food and friends. If I had to guess, a good million or so flock to the city just for this day.
Boston is like a second home to me, where I've made a lot of great friends and memories, so I'm going to end my posts here today.
I feel kind of sick to my stomach that this is the second post of this kind in just about four months.
Try to keep these people in your thoughts and prayers as we get on with our lives. A lot of people don't have that luxury today. Maybe we can also hold onto hope that this nonsense will some day end. If we stay on this path, it's going to be a pretty scary world for The King.
