I absolutely love Icon’s Field Armor line, and my only regret is that a woman can’t wear the vest. If I could squash my boobs underneath it you better believe I’d have one to wear under my jacket. Unfortunately I can’t turn my melons into nothing, so I have to keep dreaming about that vest instead.

Now I’m happy to say I finally have a Field Armor type option though. Icon just came out with the Women’s Bombshell Vest. It’s a cut down version of the Bombshell Leather Jacket that I’m already so in love with. Sure there are other women’s vests out there, but not with the Field Armor back plate that I want, and that’s exactly what has been added to the Bombshell Vest. You’ll never catch me riding around with just the vest on, but I would definitely love to have it as extra protection under my jacket, especially on days I choose to wear my textile jacket.

It’s definitely going to cost me a pretty penny to pick it up though. The Bombshell Vest retails for $250. That’s more expensive than the home theater furniture Hubby tried to convince me to buy when he wanted to turn the guest room into our own movie theater.

Men that is. Apparently my Hubby sure doesn’t! Like I said before Hubby has been using the guest room for his “bike shop”. I’m perfectly fine with that. In fact, I suggested it. I had previously been using it as storage since most of our guests prefer to sleep on the couch or the pull out bed instead of the old falling apart day bed I have in the guest room. My only rule was that Hubby was to leave my stuff alone. Just push all the boxes of storage stuff over to the corner, and leave them be.

I gave him a few bags and old moving boxes to use for bike parts. The last time I went in that room was when we moved the bike out to take it to the welder. At that time Hubby had his parts all stacked and labeled in boxes on the other side of the room.

I had to go in there again today to look for one of my suitcases that wasn’t under my bed like I thought it was. I fully planned on having to search through my own boxes of crap to find it, but I wasn’t very happy when I saw it sitting in the corner with the bike parts. He’s using my practically brand new suitcase to store greasy parts! Why? I mean seriously does he think I’d ever think that is okay? That’s what the old boxes are for! Get them greasy, then throw them out!

Ugh! Men!

Man I am totally stressing, and for once it’s not because I’m worried about the bike. I know exactly what’s going on with the bike. It’s safely tucked away in the welding shop where it will soon come to life again. As for me, I’m freaking out so much I feel like I might need to invest in some extra term life insurance just in case I keel over from all this stress and anxiety.

Never in my life did I think it would take so much energy and effort for 2 people to take a measly 4 day vacation. I guess it doesn’t help that Hubby has absolutely no desire to help me back. I pulled out a few of his favorite t-shirts, most of which are motorcycle related, then I dared him to touch them this week. I went to pack them this morning only to find half of them in the dirty clothes pile. Ugh.

I got an interesting note from Alexa Hernandez of IRWIN Industrial Tools and BernzOmatic. She wanted me to mention a contest that’s going on right now, and I definitely think it’s something that could be of interest to a few of you.

IRWIN launched a contest this week called “Tell Us Your IRWIN VISE-GRIP Story”. All you have to do is share some of the interesting ways you have used VISE-GRIP locking pliers or wrenches around your house or job. The contest runs through October 31, 2008, and you can enter or see other entries by clicking here.

Why should you enter? The grand prize is an IRWIN VISE-GRIP custom branded chopper worth over $25,000. It’s custom build by East Coast Custom Cycles.

I definitely think I’ll try to talk Hubby into entering. After all he is a carpenter, and I’ve seen him use Vise-Grips in many interesting ways. I should talk my dad into entering, too. He keeps Vice-Grips everywhere, even in his barn with his horse supplies because there are just so many uses for them. Heck I remember using a pair of VISE-GRIP pliers to hold part of my stirrups strap together when it broke on me.