I am really into the wearable tech craze. Living in NYC, I have always wondered how much I walk, since I hoof it from place to place all over the boroughs. After reading every article comparing the fitness bands out there, I settled on the fitbit, and have been so so happy with the brand. Their accuracy always matches my phone’s gps readings, and their customer service is unrivaled. I lost my band due to a faulty clasp, and they sent me a new one, with only a few questions asked. The only problem I have?

The wrist band is pretttttty ugly. It looks OK at first, in the rubberized color of your choice, and I get it. They’re not a fashion company, fitness is their game. But the black bracelet is just not cute enough to be my accessory of choice in the summer months when I am all exposed arms and wrists. I have purchased a couple bangles that nicely hide it underneath, but have been hoping someone would come up with a pretty bracelet that the fitbit can snap into, and now they have!

Tory Burch is partnering with fitbit to produce a fashion friendly bracelet, and with her classic style I am sure it will match every outfit!

I resisted joining SnapChat for a very very long time. In my mind, no matter how many friends told me differently, it was for creepers to send inappropriate pics. Then a few weeks ago, I finally just decided to try it out. My curiosity got the better of me, and I downloaded it. Now I cannot get enough. It’s so easy to send quick updates on what you’re up to, and little photos of the funny things you encounter throughout your day to friends far and wide. I’m more up to date on my friend’s lives than ever before, and have gotten hilarious videos of them doing funny things, adorable pics of their kids, and hilarious moments that we couldn’t previously share from a distance (like that person doing a really weird dance in front of me at a concert).

Now my only concern? That I wish I had joined a little bit sooner.

Standing up straight will make you look thinner, taller, and conveys an air of confidence to everyone you meet. And, as your mom always told you, it will keep you from developing a humpback in your older age. But in case you need another, less-appearance based reason to stop slouching already, a feature in the Wall Street Journal (that I read about on New York Mag) says that it might block you from thinking clearly. When you slouch, you put your body in a defensive position, which signals to your body to ramp up cortisol production and decrease testosterone. Both of these reactions can limit your problem solving ability and stunt your creative thinking. So follow your mom’s advice already, and stop slumping over your desk.

Everyone has a least favorite chore. For me, I don’t really mind cleaning the toilet. Mopping the floor doesn’t bother me at all. Scraping the crusty stuff off the stove top is just a challenge. I semi-dislike laundry. But if there was a chore I could never have to do for the rest of my life? It definitely be cleaning the drain. Be it bathroom, shower, or the kitchen sink, they are all MEGA gross. I often dry heave while I’m doing it.

Not for much longer! Kickstarter has brought a tiny tool called the Tweak to us all that is designed specifically to keep you from touching the stuff in the drain while you clean it out. You can check it out, and get yours here.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) was one of my favorite book club reads. Several years later, I literally still joke with friends about the chapter that goes over how long men take to put on their shows. And with the debut of The Mindy Project, my love for the author/actress/writer/comedienne has only grown. Now this lovely lady is gracing us all with another book that will be called, Why Not Me?, which Mindy Kaling told the LA Times has been her personal motto throughout life. I, for one, can’t wait to read it!

Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve been drawn to the look we used to call punk when growing up in the 90’s. Piercings? Yes. Neon-colored streaks? I owned several colors of Manic Panic. Tattoos? They were pretty cool, even though I never went out of my way to get one. Now that the trends of the 90’s are cycling back around, these looks have become more mainstream, common-place even rather than counter-culture. But in client-facing jobs, the tatted up – neon hair might not go over too well. Which is exactly why I love things like hair chalk that let you sass up your highlights for the weekend, and wash it out come Monday morning. If you crave pierced ears, snag a fancy ear cuff. But if a neck tattoo is more your style, the options out there were fairly limited, and geared towards little children.

Thanks to a collaboration between Tattly (a tempoary tatts site), and Rifle Paper Co. (the most adorable stationary brand), you can add tatted up on the weekends to your outfit options. The combination of artistic flowers and swirling script gives you a truly adult temporary tattoo that is beautiful enough to be real for a few days. Try your punk on for size.

So you got a little carried away at Thursday happy hour, and now you’re struggling through Friday just wishing a grilled cheese would drop from the sky and ease your suffering for a bit. Any hungover person has thought this very same thing (though maybe they wished for a bacon egg and cheese, or a diet Pepsi). The only thing that has now changed is what was previously a daydream is now a reality thanks to an adventurous Australian pop-up restaurant called Jafflechutes. Basically, these fun-loving Aussies like jumping out of planes, and they like jaffles (the word down under for grilled cheese). They are not in it for the money, but the sheer whimsical-ness of receiving a sandwich from the heavens.

They are bringing their operation to NYC sometime soon. If you’re interested in taking part in the fun, all you have to do is follow them on facebook and twitter where they will announce the day before they’ll be dropping snacks out of planes. Then you order your sandwich ($5 for cheese and tomato and $6 for cheese and ham), and find the secret location of an X marked on the ground where a parachuter will arrive with your meal in it’s own mini parachute for the effect. Sounds like a fun way to get lunch!

Sometimes I struggle with making decisions. For many years, I even needed several opinions on what to wear each day before settling on an outfit. When it comes to bigger decisions? I pull out all the stops, creating pros vs. cons lists, surveying every friend/relative that I think won’t tell the other I already asked them, and struggling internally until I often just flip a coin to make the choice or collapse wondering how I will ever choooooooosssee. Picking an option, especially when it can have far reaching consequences in your life, can be hard. And finally, as apple products have trained me to think, there’s an app for that. In this case, it’s a free web tool created by Ben Gimpert. He’s calling it Something Pop, and it’s the result of a hobby (a pretty useful one, I might add). It’s motto is that it helps you make better decisions by making your priorities pop.

Basically how it works is that it quantifies everything that you list as important to the decision to provide a mathematical, objective outlay of which is the actual best decision, not just the decision you bullied your best friend into telling you was the right one. There are big categories already entered for you like, which job to take, which apartment to rent/buy, which city to move to, leaving academia, but then there is the more ambiguous choice of “something else” that you’re deciding, like which kind of couch to buy. I know I agonized over that choice this past summer.

Once you know the decision you have to make, you input your priorities. In the case of my couch, I was looking at color, price, softness, and removable cushions. You give each a percentage rating of how important it is to you. Then, step two is listing all the options available. There’s the couch at Macy’s, Jennifer Convertibles, and my dream Crate and Barrel couch. Each field has prompts in case you’re unsure of what to add.

Step three is to rank how your options stack up against the priorities you set on a D- through A+ scale. In my case, I would need to see if the color is right at Macy’s, but the price was WAY TOO HIGH at Crate and Barrel. Then they make you a chart that averages how your couch stacks up. Thought the Crate and Barrel couch was a dream come true, it got a D- on affordability (an important priority), and thus, ranked below the couch I actually ended up buying. It’s a list-maker’s dream. Input all the variables you want, and then look at how they rate. The charts don’t lie.