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Teds Woodworking® - 16,000 Woodworking Plans & Projects With Videos - Custom Woodworking Carpentry - Wood Plans

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Considering the excellent content, the quality of the plans itself, and the bonus software, this package is quite a bargain. "

You get to learn how to design, detailed photographs of the projects, exploded blueprints, materials list and step by step instruction.

It even shows you the different tools needed and how to use them and really explains the entire process to you.

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I hate seeing the word "guarantee" everywhere. What is it supposed to mean? Just words. Platitudes to…

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The Millionaire's Brain

"Winter… It’s Jason. And I just wanted to get in touch tell you that The Millionaire Brain has been the most rewarding experience of my life. I feel like I was tied up my whole life… and suddenly… I’m free.

Suddenly where I saw misery… I see opportunities. I have the motivation, the drive… my wife can’t believe I’m finally taking action on the business I’ve always wanted to start. And get this. I just made $6,486 in the past week… I have a clear chart to 1 million dollars… and I’m not stopping until I hit it. Winter, you just plain rock." "Winter! Thank you thank you thank you! I don’t know how to thank you… I have been promoted 2 times in the past 6 months… this is unheard of in my company.

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Get this: I was seeking out a living before the Millionaire’s Brain… After the course… I’m profitable on 72% of my trades. They’re now giving me the largest account in the firm! Everyone keeps trying to ask me what my secret is… But I’m keeping this one between you and me. I’m keeping the secret to myself…"

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36 Invaluable Pieces Of Relationship Advice

We learned the hard way so you don’t have to.

We recently asked members of BuzzFeed Community to tell us the best piece of relationship advice they’d ever received.

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Their responses ran the gamut from funny to sappy, from downright silly to totally practical, so it’s only fair that we share their nuggets of wisdom with you:

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1. “Admit when you’re wrong, shut up when you’re right.”

–submitted by Johnny Storm

2. “Date someone for a year before taking the next step, whether that be moving in together or getting engaged. People change with the seasons.”

–submitted by Tawny Elle Easterling

3. “There are two boxes in every relationship: hope and expectation.”

“Resentment builds when you put petty things into the expectation box (he needs to give me flowers, he needs to take me places, etc.). Put petty things in the hope box and be clear about what is in your expectation box.”

–submitted by Amber Malin

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—submitted by Mallory Johnston

5. “My dad told me: Don’t be interesting. Be interested. Actually listen to her. It’s by far the best thing you can do. You’d be surprised how many men don’t know this.”

–submitted by David Kasunick

6. “You are not in a movie, you are a real person — don’t expect other people to treat you like you’re always the star.”

–submitted by Alex Lisette

7. “Don’t fight about money because after you’ve fought and maybe said mean things to each other, the amount of money in the bank will be the same. “

–submitted by Shauna Durham

8. “Have separate checking accounts!”

“A couple should have a joint account for all household bills, but they should have their own accounts for personal expenses. As long as all the bills are paid and some money is going into a savings account, they should each have a little money to spend as they please.”

–submitted by John Thomas

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—submitted by gracejohnston92

10. “My father told me to look how my significant other interacts with other people, especially waiters and servers, while in the getting-to-know-each-other stages. He said it’s the best way to see a person’s true colors.”

–submitted by Roisin Kilroy

11. “Don’t marry someone you don’t want your children to be.”

–submitted by lucyc42c8b3828

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12. “Once someone told me: ‘Put your finger in your partner’s nose. If it disgusts you, it means you’re not in love.'”

–submitted by Dinora Agathe Kruja

13. “Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.”

–submitted by Becky Hobbs Haler

14. “Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it’s probably crap.”

–submitted by Courtney Danielle

15. “The best advice I’ve ever got was from my mum: ‘Everyone is at some point an asshole — it’s about finding an asshole you can put up with.'”

–submitted by sophies4da1cd301

16. “Choose your in-laws wisely!”

–submitted by esny528

17. “My mom once sat me down and very seriously told me: ‘The first few years of your relationship should be incredible.'”

“‘Not to say that you won’t fight, but you should not be fighting all the damn time. If your partner is upsetting you this much now, imagine what it is going to be like a marriage, two kids, and several years from now. Take your time: People’s tastes change, and it is much easier to throw out a couch than a husband.'”

–submitted by Meghan Elizabeth

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—submitted by Kimberly Sutton

19. “If your boyfriend is always making you cry, you have to ask yourself: Is he your boyfriend or is he an onion?”

–submitted by jodies4f46d2bf7

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20. “Remember, your spouse will still be there after your kids are gone.”

–submitted by Catie Hurley

21. “If you’re upset about something that won’t matter in five years, you should not be upset about it.”

–submitted by Kady Kidd

22. “Definitely go to bed mad. Everyone is an asshole when they’re tired and cranky. Find your perspective and your compassion tomorrow morning and then resume.”

–submitted by Melissa De Lory

23. “Always kiss after an argument.”

“Doesn’t have to be a big kiss, just a peck. It signifies the argument is over, you’re moving on, and you still love and appreciate your partner.”

–submitted by courtneyd10

24. “When you disagree, stick to the issue at hand. Don’t drag up old fights, old flames, or old issues.”

–submitted by laurenc21

25. “The best advice I ever got was from my grandmother. I asked her if she and my grandfather were still in love after all these years. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘We can argue about the little things because we agree on all of the big things.'”

–submitted by Casey Cooke

26. “Always sleep in the same bed, no matter how angry.”

–submitted by Stephanie West

27. “How do you know when it’s over? When you feel more in love with your memories than with the person in front of you.”

–submitted by Chelsg

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28. “Thank them for everything, even for the little things they do.”

“Saying ‘Thank you for emptying the dishwasher’ isn’t just about the dishes — it says ‘I notice you, I recognize that you work to make our home better, I value your efforts enough to call them out, and I do not take those same efforts for granted.’ No one will ever get tired of being thanked, and at the same time it fosters an atmosphere of gratitude in the home — you may find yourself being thanked more often in return.”

–submitted by Jess Ballinger

29. “Remember that the way you want to be loved is not always the same way that your partner does.”

–submitted by Amanda Hogan

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—submitted by Elizabeth Krevy

31. “Talk to each other. Talk about silly things, about serious topics, about anything and everything under the sun.”

–submitted by Arlene B. Nuestro

32. “My twin brother and his husband are the best. Husbands. Ever.”

“I watch them. Twin Bro is in medical school, Hubby is getting a Ph.D., so they’re super busy all the time. They have study dates at the library. They have a cleaning service come in once a month because a clean house is more relaxing than a dirty one. They talk about their feelings all the time. They ask for what they need. They changed their furniture — went from a couch and recliner to a sectional — so they’d be more likely to snuggle with each other since they know that’s important.“

–submitted by Jennifer Nelson

33. “My mom told me once that the secret of marriage is not to commit to someone for the rest of your life — it’s to commit to trying 100% every day.”

–submitted by katys4deff4ddd

34. “From my grandma: ‘Always remember the beginning.'”

–submitted by abigaillundt

35. “Fight like you’re both siblings, tend and tidy like parents, challenge ideas like strangers, laugh like best friends, and love and forgive like long-lost partners.”

–submitted by Dea Cothran

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—submitted by Casey Passarella

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Wal-Mart Raises Its Minimum Wage To $9 An Hour

The retailer is America’s biggest private employer. Its minimum wage will rise to $9 an hour this year, and $10 an hour in 2016.

Wal-Mart, America’s biggest private employer, is boosting wages for its workers.

The retailer said its minimum wage in U.S. stores will increase to $9 an hour in April, and rise to $10 an hour in 2016. Some department managers will see a pay raise to $13 an hour this summer and $15 next year. About 500,000 associates will get a raise from the change in the first half of this year, Wal-Mart said in a statement today.

CEO Doug McMillon alluded to worker dissatisfaction in a blog post announcing the changes today.

“We frequently get it right but sometimes we don’t,” he wrote. “When we don’t, we adjust.”

“In recent years we’ve had tough economic environments, a rapidly growing company, and fundamental shifts in how customers are shopping,” he continued. “We also made a few changes aimed at productivity and efficiency that undermined the feeling of ownership some of you have for your business. When we take a step back, it’s clear to me that one of our highest priorities must be to invest more in our people this year.”

Executives emphasized on a call today that the increase didn’t mean anything would be taken away from workers.

Wal-Mart’s decision, which compares to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, may influence other companies to boost their pay as well in order to remain competitive in a world where the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.7%. A lower unemployment rate means workers may have more options — offering higher pay, better benefits and training opportunities is a good way to keep them. Wal-Mart said it had almost 1.4 million U.S. associates in its annual report last year; it’s reasonable to expect the company’s decision to have a ripple effect.

Americans from the retail and fast-food industries have been fighting for a higher minimum wage in recent years, with many pushing for a floor of $15 an hour. Workers have coordinated strikes, walkouts and pickets in cities across the country and politicians on both sides of the aisle have vowed to focus on the plight of low-income Americans.

Once the changes hit in April, Wal-Mart said it will pay an average full-time hourly wage of $13 an hour from $12.85 an hour, and an average part-time wage of $10 an hour from $9.48 an hour.

Executives on today’s call also said that the changes will offer more career opportunities for Wal-Mart employees and lead to better customer service, and eventually benefit shareholders as well. Wal-Mart stock was trading down by about 2.7% on Thursday morning following the announcement.

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Here's The First Look At Elsa And Anna In The Brand-New "Frozen" Short

Get a sneak peek at Frozen Fever — an all-new animated short, debuting in theaters on March 13 with screenings of Cinderella.

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Disney’s 2013 movie Frozen went on to win two Academy Awards (for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song), dominated the box office, and became a full-fledged cultural force, spawning an omnipresent merchandising line, a national ice-skating tour, live-action incarnations on ABC’s Once Upon a Time, a weird baby-delivering app, lots of tattoos, and the newest addition, a short film, titled Frozen Fever, which will hit theaters with the live-action Cinderella on March 13.

While little is known of the plot, Disney has released five new images — and a short featurette — that have revealed a couple of new details!

Frozen Fever picks up a few months after the events of Frozen and Arendelle is a happy town once more.

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Elsa (Idina Menzel), Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), and Olaf (Josh Gad) are trying to throw Anna (Kristen Bell) a birthday party. The only hitch? Elsa has a cold.

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Elsa’s powers “may put more than just the party at risk,” per Disney…

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But thankfully, that fierce braid is still flawlessly intact.

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And she has a new dress that is very spring-y! Disney

Most importantly, Frozen Fever will feature a new song written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who penned “Let It Go.”

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And cake. There will be cake. Disney

So now your children will have two songs to play on a loop, for the rest of eternity!

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This Is What It’s Like To Watch Frozen For The First Time

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When Taking Anxiety Medication Is A Revolutionary Act

I had to learn how to love myself enough to take care of myself. It wasn’t easy.

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If I had to describe what having anxiety feels like, I’d say that it’s kind of like walking through the world beneath tornadic skies without an umbrella, unsure if you’ll be able to find shelter if things get bad. When friends invite you out, you politely decline because while you’d like to enjoy their company, the sky could open up and wash you out to sea at any minute so it’s probably safer for you to stay at home. In the background of anything you do is the gentle hum of your nervous system as it tosses and turns, wondering when the deluge will hit, thinking about how unfortunate will be if you don’t survive it. And what kind of storm will it be? Something huge? Just enough raindrops to ruin your hair? Will the people you love be OK? Can you handle it? If you can’t, will people be able to witness you failing to handle it? How will you handle that?

Anxiety can be as exhausting physically as it is mentally — the tears that come from nowhere, the knotted stomach, the squeezing in the chest, the muscles that feel like they’ll snap if they get any tauter. As you move through the day, the only thing you can think of is getting to a safe space where all that doesn’t exist, where you can breathe and finally take your eyes off the sky and pay attention to something else.

This is why I spent so much of my time alone before I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder; alone was the only safe place that I knew. My apartment and my designated classrooms (and later the office where I worked) were the only places I would go, directly from one to the other. I ordered my groceries even though there was a store steps from my apartment. I wanted to get in shape but I couldn’t bring myself to do so in a gym with people to judge me and complicated machines to make me look like an idiot.

One day in 2008, when I was a 26-year-old grad school dropout living in Philadelphia (having moved there from Louisville, Kentucky), I looked at my bank account and looked in the mirror and decided that I was too cute and had too much money to burn to continue living the way I was. I also thought that the reason I was spending so much time alone in my apartment, hiding from people, was simply because I couldn’t get over my ex-boyfriend. So I found a therapist named Gail, a delightfully round, tiny sixtysomething lady who said her most important things in passionate whispers so you knew that she was serious.

After I spent 30 minutes trying to explain the feeling in the center of my chest that felt like a stone when I swallowed, Gail changed my life with seven words:

It sounds like you’re having some anxiety.

I felt a jolt in the pit of my stomach. I had no idea that there was a word that so perfectly encompassed the random, faceless worries I carried with me every day. I knew what the word meant, of course, but I never thought to ascribe it to my problems. I immediately became obsessed with it. As soon as I got home, I looked up the word’s exact definition and was in tears before I even got to the end of it:

An abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs (as sweating, tension, and increased pulse), by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one’s capacity to cope with it.

That was it. That was me. I read it over and over again, tears soaking the neck of my shirt.

Before I was formally introduced to my anxiety, I called it by a bunch of other names — nervousness, weakness, timidity. Employers called it laziness, distractedness, and “not being a team player.” My ex called it clinginess. My mother called it oversensitivity and immaturity. But we were all wrong, and learning that we were all wrong, that there was an actual medical thing going on, overwhelmed me because it meant that it wasn’t a tornado of character flaws that landed me where I was.

The problem was not that I simply chose not to be “normal,” that I allowed my fears, baseless as they may have been, to conquer and dictate so much of my life. The problem was my brain. It was a chemical imbalance, something physical, not imagined. My amygdala, the part of the brain that controls anxiety and fear, is essentially running in circles screaming “THE SKY IS FALLING!!” all the time. Knowing this, I stopped blaming myself for my shortcomings, because it felt to me like the equivalent of blaming yourself for having the flu. When you get sick, you don’t just will yourself to get better. You go see a doctor. You do what you need to do to feel better.

I buckled down and did every behavior-modifying exercise that Gail told me to do. I stopped ordering my groceries and actually went to the store. I actually went inside that gym I had my eye on (I didn’t work out, I just walked inside, which was actually a huge accomplishment). I pushed myself to go out with friends at least once a week. On top of that, I did everything the internet told me I needed to do to beat anxiety. I did yoga, tried to meditate, practiced Buddhism for a while (and by “practiced Buddhism” I mean I read three-quarters of Buddhism for Dummies). I took a multivitamin. I kept a journal. I eventually hit a good stride, and by the time I decided to move back home to Louisville, I felt very proud of the person I’d become. She was cockier, louder now that the boulder had been moved at least partly away.

And then I turned around and she was gone.

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There is no bigger foe in my world than change. I obsess over making the wrong decision. I have an active phobia of being asked where I want to go have dinner. No matter how stable I am at any point in my life, big life changes cause an explosion of anxiety for me, and I end up right back where I started, on the phone tearily missing my mother. When I moved back to Louisville from Philadelphia, it seemed that I’d left everything I learned from Gail right there in the chair I always sat in in her office (the one pressed against the wall facing the door, because sitting with my back to an open room makes me tremendously nervous). I tried to remember and employ some of the things she’d taught me and had some modicum of success, but once again, I found myself spending much of my time alone at home, the only place I felt safe, leaving only to eat and go to work.

I had to do something, and the next logical step seemed to be medicine. I had successfully overcome the stigma of going to see a therapist, but somehow the idea of seeing a psychiatrist and taking a pill for a mood disorder felt different. I asked my best friend if he’d think it weak of me to look into seeing a psychiatrist and getting a medicine to treat my anxiety, if it somehow meant that I have failed at being “normal.” He told me that the opposite was true: that it takes great bravery to admit that you need help.

This realization kind of blew me away because it went against the ingrained idea I had that medicine was for crazy people. In movies and on television shows, psychiatrists treated babbling, unwashed, self-harming, occasionally murderous lunatics who had psychotic breaks if they missed even a single pill. Since I was itty-bitty, my friends would ask “did you take your crazy pills today?” when we said silly things or got lost in a fit of giggles. Church taught me that if my spirit was unsettled or I was unhappy or something in my life just wasn’t right, then I wasn’t praying hard enough or tithing often enough. And my ex told me in so many words that someone who sought help for emotional troubles was weak and just not trying hard enough. I had to rearrange everything I knew to allow myself to look up the number for a psychiatrist, and rearrange even more to actually make the call. It takes courage and strength to look the stigma of being medicated in the face and push through it, to persist because you care about feeling whole and happy and calm more than you care about what other people think. Loving yourself enough to take care of yourself when it is easier not to is a revolutionary act.

And so I became a revolutionary. I was given a prescription for Celexa, an antidepressant also used to treat anxiety, and took one before work the next day. It worked. It worked too well. I didn’t feel anxious, but that was because I didn’t feel anything at all. At lunch I told my boss that I was leaving because I didn’t feel well. I had plenty of tasks that needed to be done and I knew that my boss was disappointed in me, but I didn’t care. I went home, sat on my couch, and stared at nothing until my best friend came to pick me up for dinner. He’s a stand-up comic and the funniest person I know, but I couldn’t laugh at anything he said. He’d tell a joke and I could only mechanically recognize and acknowledge its existence as an entity that fulfilled my predetermined requirements for “humor.”

“I want to cry,” I said. “I hate the way this feels and I want to cry, but I can’t cry and it makes me want to cry more. I don’t want to never cry again. This isn’t what I wanted.”

Nothing makes you feel more deliberately alive than feeling. Crying with someone you love because you can’t stand to see them hurt; swimming in the unbearable nirvana of eating your favorite meal; drowning in the hot wave that rushes over you when someone special holds your gaze a little too long — with all your senses rioting, you’re hyperaware of everything around you. Your pupils widen to let in as much light as they can and you can count the pebbles beneath the soles of your shoes and feel every fiber in your shirt and the blood in your ears pulses and crashes and in those moments you are so alive. I did not want to trade that for “normalcy.” There at the dinner table, I decided to flush each of those pills as soon as I got home that night, but my best friend eventually convinced me to wait at least a week.

I seemed a new person, literally overnight. I was surprised at how instant this change was, and I later learned that this is not at all typical of antidepressants or antianxiety medicines. Most take anywhere from a week to several months before the patient sees a change, but the very next morning I bounded out of the tangle of sheets on my bed rather than lying there trying to convince myself that I wouldn’t die if I got out of it. I went to work at a job that I absolutely hated without feeling like I was dragging seven burlap sacks full of dread and regret. I made it through the day without having to leave my desk to go catch my breath or cry in the bathroom and I didn’t walk in the opposite direction or quickly jump on the phone to pretend I was taking a call when a co-worker approached.

The best thing was that medicine didn’t turn me into a brand-new person; it didn’t give me any confidence, wit, or charm that wasn’t already there. It just moved the anxiety and constant worry out of the way so that everyone else could see what I always knew was in there, so that I could interact with it unimpeded. It’s also really important to note that it did not make my anxious feelings go away. There is no magic pill that instantly erases them all. I still walked through that same landscape with storms ever teetering on the horizon, but now I had an umbrella. I still thought that something terrible could happen at any minute, but that thought didn’t paralyze me. The need to control every single thing around me was lessened. I felt light enough to accept invitations to go out, to peel myself from my bed to run errands, to actually answer my phone to chat with friends when they’d call. I was given the room I needed to be my full, fantastic self.

I’m often mistaken for an outgoing, type A personality. It gets a laugh out of me every time.

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After a stretch of time on mood-balancing medication, many people feel happy, stable, productive, and “normal.” But rather than think to ourselves, Wow, I’m glad I have found a medicine that helps me to be an active participant in the good of my life, we think, Oh my god, I’m cured! I don’t need this medicine anymore! And so, being “cured,” we stop taking our medicines — often cold turkey, which is not a smart or healthy thing to do — and arm ourselves to the teeth with our newfound normalcy, ready to punch life squarely in the face. It may work for a day or two or even a couple of weeks or months. I’ve been here often enough to know that two weeks is typically my limit; after that, my body turns into lead and I’m back on my couch in a paralyzed frenzy, dealing with all the old feelings of frustration now coupled with the shame of having failed, of acknowledging a life chained to a pill, of never having been “normal” after all.

This is a space that I have been in at least four times since being diagnosed, and though I know that “normal” is a mirage, it doesn’t deter me from wanting to try again and again. I know that there is absolutely no shame in taking a medicine for my anxiety. It makes just as much sense as getting an allergy shot during allergy season. I know this in my heart, but I’d be lying if I said I never hunger to feel “normal” and not need my medicine. The pang lessens, but it never, ever goes completely away for me.

I moved to New York City in May 2014, and a month before that I decided it was time to try a life without medicine for the fifth time. My best friend, who knows my strength and stubbornness more than anyone else, myself included, sweetly told me that it was a horrible idea, but he’d support me however he could as I did this thing I felt like I had to do. The timing was horrendous. Shuffling through my stressors felt like running through the ocean against the tide. I wasn’t just preparing to leave my friends and family. I wasn’t just dealing with figuring out how to continue paying off my student loans while living in such an insanely expensive city. I was in mourning. I had lost two uncles on the same day a month before, and my mother and I were preparing to put my grandmother in a nursing home. I felt a tremendous load of guilt for leaving my mother after she had lost so much so quickly. I was in the middle of a storm that was definitely survivable with my medicine. To cast away my umbrella in the middle of it seemed and felt insane, but I was nearly powerless to decide otherwise.

I needed to know that I could do this on my own. Something that always worried me is pregnancy. If I ever do have the occasion to have children, I wouldn’t want to take an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) while pregnant or breast-feeding. I needed this pill to not be a crutch; if there was going to be a day that I’d be without it, I needed to know that I would be OK. But I also felt like I needed to control something in this space of death and unstoppable change, where seemingly everything was out of my hands. I don’t recommend doing it this way for lots of reasons, mostly medical. Stopping an SSRI cold turkey and without talking to a doctor isn’t the safest thing in the world, and you run the risk of withdrawal syndrome, which can include flulike symptoms, headache, and stomach problems.

Luckily, I was spared the worst of it. Though I could and should have been smarter about stopping my medicine, I don’t regret it, in spite of how tough it got.

But making the move without the medicine was, of course, very, very difficult. Aside from the predictable stresses of uprooting your entire life and moving 700 miles away from everyone you love, I also felt waves of very baseless anxiety. I avoided doing big, necessary things (like packing) until the very last minute (literally the day before my move) because they stressed me out and I didn’t have the energy to do them, mentally or physically.

I resorted to some of my unproductive manners of coping when things got particularly hard. I’m a notorious stress napper, and when I get very overwhelmed the only thing I want to do is go to sleep to escape the anxiety of it all. I’m also an emotional eater, and with so many feelings to eat I’m sure I flirted with high blood pressure. I was also back to craving solitude, which I recognized as an immediate red flag, a sign that I was barrelling toward calling the whole thing off.

When I got to New York and was officially settled in my new apartment, my anxiety definitely swelled, but it didn’t shut me down the way it did when I moved to Philadelphia or when I moved back to Louisville. Knowing what a life with less anxiety looks like, knowing that it is even possible at all, gave me incentive to stay as positive as I could (which was not always very positive) and push through. Still, most of my energy was tied up in not drowning. I’d go out with friends but often would have preferred to stay home, alone, and rest. Negative self-talk increased and presented a huge hurdle to loving my new city, one that I wasn’t sure I could clear (I lamented to my best friend that this city just isn’t for me, that I should have listened to my gut and stayed at home. “I hear you,” he said, gently, “…but it’s only the first day”). My biggest worries surrounded my job performance, which I felt was absolutely abysmal, and I spent more time than I’d like to admit fantasizing about all the terrible poetry I’d write when I finally got fired.

But through all this, I noticed some amazing things too: I didn’t call the whole thing off. When I felt myself wanting to be alone, I made it a point to call friends or visit my mother. I cried when I needed to, but when I felt like breaking down I took a moment to tell myself that it was just the anxiety; it wasn’t weakness or fear, just the hiccuping alarm section of my brain. I reminded myself that in the course of trying not to feel anxious, being anxious is not a failure. I rewarded myself for things that “normal” people would find laughable, like getting out of bed and not napping when I have things to do and going to the grocery store, because I vividly remember a time when things like that were a struggle, if they were possible at all.

When I got to New York, I managed to stay on my feet. I went out with friends because I needed to, even when I didn’t want to. I didn’t call out of work and hide under my bed. I didn’t beat myself up for feeling scared or worried. It was exhausting, but I pushed, and I pushed because taking that pill showed me that a life without crippling anxiety is possible, something that I genuinely never knew or believed before, and something that I deserved to have. In my craziest moments, I know that there is an opposite because I lived that opposite, and what I have done once, I can do again. I can be OK.

After moving to New York, I decided to go back to my medicine because choosing “OK” when “fucking awesome” is an option just didn’t make a lot of sense. It is the difference between unavoidable stress and needless suffering (something I learned about during my month as a Buddhist). Sure, I could stay in that ocean and spend all my energy running through water to get to where I need to be. Or I could hop out, shake myself dry, and walk. Or run. Or skip or cartwheel or walk on my hands or twerk or whatever. I didn’t feel like a failure for popping that bottle open again. I felt like a woman with options who chose not to settle for a life limited by an overactive section of her brain and opted instead to be the bright and shining addition to this world that she has the potential to be when not locked inside of herself. I began to see the difference immediately. With the help of a tiny white pill, I wake up in a better mood. I am calmer, more focused. I actively crave the company of others, and when I notice it, I let it wash over me, rolling around in the way it feels to live after years and years of simply being alive.

Without the medicine, I live a life of “I can’t do this, but I’m somehow doing it anyway.” With it, it’s more “this is sometimes difficult, but I got it.”

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So There's This Genius Creation On An Island In Canada. And I Really, Really Want It.

What you see here isn’t the set of a futuristic movie (nor is it one of those super-fancy European prisons). It’s actually a studio created by Saunders Architecture, located on Fogo Island near Newfoundland, Canada. The island itself is a tranquil place, full of natural beauty. The Fogo Island studios is somehow beautiful, clean, crisp, functional and modern all at once. I want to go to there.

The Long Studio is a perfect combination of modern design and the gorgeous, silent island.

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Working or living here would be a dream come true for most designers.

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The studio somehow adds to the island instead of detracting from its natural splendor.

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Although, working at the studio and going out to lunch might pose a problem.

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There are so few people living on the island, it’s practically deserted.

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Long Studio is also full of natural light; it seems like it’s brighter than outside because of the white accents inside.

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You would never feel like you’re at work, or even on Planet Earth, if you got to be here every day.

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It’s called the Long Studio and not only does the space serve its purpose, but it also highlights the natural beauty surrounding it on the island: The concept of the long studio responds to the transition of the seasons. The studio is organized in a linear from that consists of three different spaces. An open but covered area representing the spring marks the entrance to the studio and the beginning of the seasonal activity. The central portion is left open and mostly exposed to be fully immersed in all that is offered by the long summer days on Fogo Island. The end and main body of the studio is fully enclosed to provide an area of protection and solitude from the outside environment while still providing a connection to the landscape through a strategically framed view of the dramatic surrounding. The long linear structure of this artist studio maximizes the amount of open wall and floor space. Large windows at either end and a skylight on the roof of the studio allows the maximum amount of natural light to flood the space. We have made one of the walls 1m deep to house storage, toilets and washbasins, with doors that are flush to the wall, thus avoiding any visual distraction inside the space. The studios are placed on pillars at the end towards the sea, while the entrance area has a small concrete foundation for anchoring the construction to the landscape. With this type of construction, the studios can be placed in almost any place on the island. In addition, this allows for the studios to be pre-fabricated in a local workshop during the winter months, and then placed in the landscape in the spring. There are multiple studios created on Fogo Island, each with a distinctive character. However, I prefer Long Studio simply because you can feel outside just by being indoors. Source: contemporist.com Share this impressive piece of architecture with others.

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These 17 Cocky People Celebrated Way Too Early. This Will Make You Cringe, Especially #6.

Have you ever been in a situation where you thought you were going to come out on top, but celebrated way too early and ended up with major egg on your face? If you know that sinking, awful feeling… don’t worry. No matter how much you made people cringe or how embarrassed you felt, it happens to a lot of people. Thanks to good folks at the /r/PrematureCelebrations sub-Reddit, now you can see some of the most cringe-worthy premature celebrations that have ever happened. I’m not sure how these people were ever able to go out in public again. Yiiiiiiiiiiikes (and that’s an understatement).

1.) HE WON! HE WON! … He… won? Right?

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2.) Try not to get cocky… for this reason.

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3.) Give it your all UNTIL THE VERY END. Otherwise, this happens.

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4.) Even NFL players make the mistake of celebrating too early.

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Ouch.

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5.) Oops. Maybe you should just pretend to be hurt.

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22 Celebrities Who Slayed The World With Their Locs

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1. Ava DuVernay

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Known for: Directing the 2014 Oscar-nominated film Selma.

2. Stevie Wonder

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Known for: Well, how about “Superstition” and “Ribbon in the Sky” for starters.

3. Zendaya

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Known for: The Disney Channel show Shake It Up.

4. Valerie June

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Known for: Her Americana/folk/gospel style of music.

5. Ledisi

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Known for: Her five albums, which have netted her nine Grammy nominations.

6. Future

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Known for: His two rap albums including Pluto.

7. Lalah Hathaway

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Known for: Her success as a soul and jazz musician. She was even given the nickname, “First Daughter of Soul.”

8. Bob Marley

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Known for: Selling more than 20 million records.

9. India.Arie

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Known for: Selling over 10 million records and winning four Grammys.

10. Richard Sherman

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Known for: Dominating the NFL as a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks.

11. Whoopi Goldberg

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Known for: Being a comedian, talk show host, and Oscar winner.

12. Lauryn Hill

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Known for: Becoming the first woman and hip-hop artist to win five Grammy Awards in one year.

13. Alice Walker

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Known for: Writing The Color Purple and winning a Pulitzer in the process.

14. Lisa Bonet

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Known for: Playing Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show and A Different World.

15. Toni Morrison

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Known for: Writing novels such as Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon.

16. Tracy Chapman

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Known for: Classic hits such as “Fast Car” and “Give Me One Reason.”

17. Terence Trent D’Arby (now known as Sananda Maitreya)

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Known for: His dozen albums including Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby.

18. Cassandra Wilson

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Known for: Winning two Grammys for her contributions to the world of jazz.

19. Nile Rodgers

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Known for: His many contributions to music, including as a member of the band Chic.

20. Shanola Hampton

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Known for: Acting on television shows such as Shameless and Criminal Minds.

21. Thelma Houston

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Known for: Her success as a soul artist (and R&B and gospel and…)

22. And of course, vintage Lenny Kravitz.

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Known for: Being Lenny freakin’ Kravitz… duh.

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A Young Widower Retakes His Wedding Photos. The Way He Did It Is Tragically Beautiful.

In 2011, a man named Ben Nunery lost his wife Ali to lung cancer. She was only 31 years-old and together they had a 1 year-old girl. For the past two years, Ben and his daughter have had to overcome some emotional hurdles most of us couldn’t dream of enduring. As he and Olivia healed, the house they lived in became less of a painful reminder of what they lost… and a comforting presence. The house, bought as a fixer-upper before their wedding, was where this young couple started their life. They designed every nook and cranny and spent wonderful years there. Now, Ben and Olivia are packing up and moving on with their lives, but before they did, Ben decided to do something so beautiful.

Together, Ben and Olivia re-created his wedding photos.

Ali and Ben took their wedding photos in their new home, eager to start their new life together.

They were so full of love and joy.

What Ali and Ben started, Olivia and Ben will continue: their loving family.

It already took so long to say goodbye to Ali once…

Now, as they pack up their lives and take these last photos…

They’re saying goodbye again to Ali, a loving wife and mother.

But, they know that she is smiling down on them every day.

He posted the series of photos on his blog (the images were taken by photographers in his family).

Comparing this last photo session in the house to the first hit Ben hard:

“…this time I would have a different partner, although one just as beautiful. It was fun and strange and sad and comforting and just about every other emotion you can think of. And, it wasn’t until I drove away that the significance of what we had just done hit me like a ton of bricks. These would be the last memories in that house.”

These photos are full of loss, full of hope and full of beauty.

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These 28 People Failed So Hard That You'll Cringe. These Get Better And Better... LOL.

Humans make mistakes. That’s normal. Although, some of us are unfortunate enough to have our mistake caught on film. Those are the kinds of slip-ups that never die because they have become immortalized. And now, we’re sharing some of the best fails that were recorded with you. Some of them are so bad, they’re kinda genius.

1.) A wildlife photographer who missed his shot.

2.) This beginner paintball fan.

3.) The person who completed this excellent parking job.

4.) This kid who just wanted to practice parkour.

5.) An over-zealous Rihanna fan.

6.) A Men in Black wannabe.

7.) This guy who really wanted to try a backflip.

8.) Aw, a centaur-human wedding.

9.) This practical joker.

10.) The stuntman in training you see here.

11.) These humans that lost at a cross-species race.

12.) The brilliant and honest kid behind this answer.

13.) He should never be an NFL kicker.

14.) The guy who thought getting his blackbelt would be easy.

15.) This geography whiz.

16.) The guy who just wanted to be a kingpin.

17.) This guy that got what was coming to him.

18.) The guy who didn’t know how an automatic car wash worked.

19.) He just wanted to take the polar bear plunge.

20.) He just isn’t a history buff.

21.) This guy learned his lesson about vandalism.

22.) SO CLOSE.

23.) This case of instant karma.

24.) Showing off never ends well. Especially when stoves are involved.

25.) The employee who designed this front page.

26.) The guy who just refused to have common sense.

27.) What goes around, comes around.

28.) This is NOT how you rob a store.

Don’t feel bad if you’ve ever done anything in this list. At least you don’t have it up on the internet (and if you’re one of these people, don’t worry, you’re famous now). (H/T BuzzFeed) Share these hilarious photos with others by clicking on the button below.

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Here's What The Cast Of "Even Stevens" Looks Like Now

The bunny in my brain goes hip, hop, hip, hop.

1. Christy Carlson Romano as Ren Stevens

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  Since Even Stevens ended in 2003, Christy has been busy with Broadway (Beauty and the Beast, Avenue Q), voiceover work (Kim Possible, hello!), TV movies, and going to school — she’s currently studying directing at Barnard College.

Christy, now 30, is very active on social media, and recently lost a Fifty Shades of Grey-themed bet to her husband.

2. Shia LaBeouf as Louis Stevens

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  Shia, now 28, skyrocketed to superstardom thanks to his turn in 2007’s Transformers. He followed that up with other blockbusters, including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Fury. A series of strange public appearances overshadowed his career in 2014, but he started 2015 with a bang by starring in Sia’s music video for “Elastic Heart.”

3. Nick Spano as Donnie Stevens

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  After Even Stevens, Nick guest-starred on episodes of Cold Case, NCIS, and Without a Trace. Nick, now 38, seemingly stopped acting in 2011 to focus on other projects, including starting the farmers market program City Farm and yoga community Re/creation LA. You can keep up with Nick’s daily adventures on Instagram.

4. Tom Virtue as Steve Stevens

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  Tom, 57, has been very busy since his days as Steve Stevens. He’s made appearances on Malcolm in the Middle, Desperate Housewives, The Comeback, Drake & Josh, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Two and a Half Men, and about a dozen other shows.

Tom reunited with TV son Shia in 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon and recently popped up in The Wedding Ringer.

5. Donna Pescow as Eileen Stevens

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  Donna, now 60, was known for her work on The Love Boat and Out of This World before starring on Even Stevens. Since the show, she’s booked guest spots on The Sopranos and Body of Proof, and starred in a couple TV movies for the Hallmark Channel.

6. A.J. Trauth as Alan Twitty

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  After serving his time as Louis’ sidekick, A.J. moved on to more adult roles on Ghost Whisperer, CSI, Numb3rs, Bones, and Franklin & Bash. A.J., 28, has a couple movies currently in production, and recently married fellow former Disney Channel star/current The Originals actor Leah Pipes.

7. Margo Harshman as Tawny Dean

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  Margo, 28, has worked consistently on TV since the end of Even Stevens, with guest spots on Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, and Bones. She’s also had recurring roles on NCIS, as McGee’s girlfriend, and The Big Bang Theory, as Sheldon’s assistant. Margo is on Twitter, but hasn’t tweeted since 2013.

8. Steven Anthony Lawrence as Bernard “Beans” Aranguren

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  Steven, now 24, followed up Even Stevens with parts in the movies Cheaper by the Dozen, Kicking & Screaming, and Bratz. He also appeared in ads for T-Mobile and Old Spice and went viral in 2013 when Tyler The Creator used Steven’s headshot as his Twitter avatar. He most recently starred in the music video for indie band Dear Blanca’s song “Boulders.”

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See This Room? What One Guy Did With It Made His Fiance Leave Him... But I Say It's Totally Worth It.

After reading a book called Ready Player One, video game enthusiast Chris Kooluris decided to renovate his New York City apartment. He wanted to transform his bedroom into an 1980s-themed arcade. The book made him realize something important: life is short, so you should surround yourself with things you love. So, after moving into his fiancee’s apartment in Brooklyn, Chris decided to redesign his own. He listed it after moving, but wasn’t getting any offers. Once he settled on keeping it, his video game obsession took over. The room ended up being awesome, but he had to sacrifice some things along the way… Like when he lost his fiancee.

Chris never expected his fiancee to leave him, but she gave him back the ring.

After his bedroom’s video game renovation was finished, so was she.

He meant for both of them to enjoy it, but now he sleeps on a futon alone.

“There’s a fine line between a hobby and an obsession, and I think what happened is I just got so consumed by it all,” Chris said.

The construction of this man cave put tension on the relationship.

The transformed bedroom includes games like Street Fighter II, The Kong Off, Punch-Out!, Tron and Fix It Felix Jr., the fictional game seen in Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph.

It’s a gamer’s dream come true.

This is what the bedroom looked like beforehand.

Having a passion is important, but it shouldn’t destroy the other things in your life.

(H/T Daily Mail) You should follow your dreams and do what you love, but sometimes that will have consequences. However, his fiancee left him for doing what he loved, so maybe he will be better off without her in the end. Your wife should be a partner, not an adversary. Support Chris and his dreams by sharing this with others.

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George R.R. Martin Thinks We're Going To Hate The New Season Of "Game Of Thrones"

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2. According to The Independent, George R. R. Martin warned that even fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series may be shocked by the upcoming fifth season of Game of Thrones.

George RR Martin has dropped a bombshell on Game of Thrones fans ahead of the season five premiere, warning them to “be on their toes” and expect some big shocks.

The US author has hinted that even those who read his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series will be surprised by the TV storyline, with not one, not two, but four characters set to meet their makers.

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3. GRRM stated that the show will feature deaths that aren’t in the books.

“People are going to die who don’t die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy,” he said at the Writers Guild West Awards on Saturday.

“Everybody better be on their toes. [Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss] are even bloodier than I am.”

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4. (Speaking of the books, no word on when the next one will be released either.)

5. Game of Thrones will return in its fifth season on April 12. Valar Morghulis indeed.

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Imagine Looking Into The Sky And Seeing THIS. It Would Take Your Breath Away.

During the autumn and winter months when the sun rises farther to the south, Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano near Tacoma, Washington, blocks the first rays of the Sun as it rises, casting an incredible shadow in the morning clouds, tinged in beautiful hues of orange and yellow.

Mount Rainier is a massive volcanic peak located 54 miles southeast of Seattle in Washington state.

It has a summit elevation of 14,411 ft, and with no other mountains in the area near that height it makes it a very prominent sight on the horizon.

During cloudy mornings in the fall or winter, when the cloud heights are just right, the rising Sun can frame the peak from below and cast a long shadow on the underside of the clouds.

On clear days the mountain peak dominates the southeastern horizon and can be seen from as far away as Portland, Oregon and Victoria, British Columbia.

Such a beautiful display of nature… Personally, I kinda like to think it’s the underside of the bridge that leads to Asgard. But that’s just me.

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You Need To See This Enchanting Emoji Version Of "Frozen"

Do you want to text a snowman?

1. So you’ve probably seen Frozen, or at least HEARD someone humming “Let It Go” a million times.

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It’s inescapable, but also fabulous.

2. Thankfully for everyone who stans for Anna and Elsa, Frozen-mania is FAR from over. Disney has released an emojis-only version of Frozen and it is so COOL.

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3. It includes all your favorite moments from the movie in emoji form…

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4. …most important of all, “Let It Go.”

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The emojis never bothered me anyway.

5. Check out the full magical video here:

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qjycf7h4KZM.

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What Does Your Future Hold, According To The Dress?

Bye horoscopes. It’s all about The Dress now.

1. The Dress has taken over the world. It will now determine your future. Choose carefully.

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You got: Becoming a billionaire superhero

What you saw in the dress has unlocked your inner powers and from this day forward your world will change. You’ll use your enhanced skills to get rich, but one day you’ll want to give back. That day, you’ll don your superhero alter ego and become The Dress Maker. You’ll heal the world after the great war that began on 26 February 2015.

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You got: Space travel to Mars

The dress has unlocked the wonders of the universe for you. The world can no longer contain you and you’ll say buh-bye to friends, family and your dog to take the first ship to Mars. There you’ll run into some aliens who’ll insist The Dress is green and pink, and you’ll turn straight back around and come back to Earth.

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You got: A career in fashion design

No longer content with any clothes that currently exist, you’re going to devote all your time to designing something that rocks your world as much as The One True Dress. You’ll create beautiful clothes and win plenty of awards, but nothing will make you feel the way you did on D-Day, 26 February 2015.

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You got: Winning at the Olympics

Something changed inside of you on 26 February 2015, and you don’t know what or how but you won’t look back. You’ll compete at the next Olympics and win. You’ll step up to the podium, receive your medal, and stare at it lovingly. Then you’ll turn to the person next to you and say, “sorry, but is this medal black or gold?”

You got: Becoming Oprah

The Dress will lead you down a path of discovery that will unlock the secret of the universe: that Oprah actually retired 30 years ago and has been living on a yacht somewhere off the coast of New Zealand. You will join the long tradition of Oprah’s disciples who ensure the world will never be without Her. You will literally be the new Oprah.

You got: Time travel

You will achieve what no genius has achieved before: the ability to time travel. You will go back to 25 February 2015 and burn the damn dress before anyone lays their godforsaken eyes on the thing. KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

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