Amanda Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 06:00AM 
Perhaps you've grown up and you're not planning on spending St. Patrick's Day downing 400 beers, but you'd still like to celebrate somehow. Embrace the vice of middle-aged women everywhere: chocolate.
These Toucan Guiness Truffles ($28, Vosges Haut Chocolat) are made with—you guessed it—Guiness beer, so you'll be able to fake partying down while eating up.
Amanda Monday, March 11, 2013 at 06:00AM 
Oh, hi. It's the week leading up to the weekend of debauchery that's known as St. Patrick's Day. Or, as Irish people call it: "just another excuse to get shitfaced, as if we needed one anyway."
With all of the beer you'll be consuming in honor of A RELIGIOUS SAINT WHO DIED FOR YOUR SINS (probably?), you might want to cool it and pick up something that reminds you of beer, but won't contribute to your inevitable confrontation with a stomach pump at your local ER, like this Irish Coffee Stout Candle ($28, Haberdash).
Amanda Friday, March 8, 2013 at 06:00AM 
If you travel a lot, your homebase airport can start to feel like home. You'll begin to fancy yourself as George Clooney's character from Up in the Air. Not so fast: you're not George Clooney, and also why would you want that character's life anyway? It was lonely and sad and horrifying. If that part was played by an unattractive actor—Paul Giammatti or Steve Buscemi, perhaps—you'd be all like, "Thank God I'm not that sad fucker."
ANYWAY, when you travel a lot—for business, especially—you become an expert in airports. You know which ones are good (JFK) and which ones are terrible (LA GUARDIA); the ones that have the cleanest bathrooms (JFK JetBlue Terminal) and the best bars (any airport located in a tropical location); the ones who have zero amenities but have country singers over the loudspeakers talking about the supposed great amenties (Nashville); the one that ignores the famous offerings of its city's cuisine to serve you "cajun cardboard" under claustrophobically low ceilings (Louis Armstrong Airport). You start referring to the airports not by their name, but by their call letters (I seriously have a friend who travels out of Newark so much he refers to it as "EWR").
Honor your obnoxious knowledge of airports the world over with Airport T-Shirts ($32, Pilot & Captain) from Pilot & Captain. They have different shirts for countless airports across the globe—JFK, ORD, LAX, and even TYO. Happy flying.
Amanda Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 06:00AM 
Here's a quick question: does your biggest nightmare in life involve having to be outdoors and away from any source of food, booze, or bathroom for an undeterminable period of time? Congratulations, you are my new best friend.
Not knowing where your next drink may be coming from is a terrifying thing, especially if you're also being forced to do some kind of active, adventurous thing like kayaking and hiking. Your hiking buddy will be all like, "LET'S GO HIKING UP THAT HILL, WOOOOOOOOO!" And you're like, "Why? Is there a bar up there?"
No, sadly, there is NOT a bar up there, but there is a bar in your backpack, with this Glacier Stainless Steel Flask ($42.95, GSI Outdoors). Swathed in leather, it'll make you look rugged, and when you're drinking straight alcohol out of a thermos-sized flask, maybe you actually are.
Amanda Friday, March 1, 2013 at 06:00AM 
Do you love candlelight but are frustrated by the way a cheap candle or a series of tealights look? Are you an uptight white lady with white people problems such as this one? OKAY, I'M SPEAKING TO YOU.
These Urbania Light Houses (Starting at $42, Harabu House) add soft mood lighting to your apartment while being decorative and not making your home look like a Yankee Candle Shop. Perfect.
