Heavy Handed Advice is exactly what it sounds like — opinions you didn’t ask for but probably need. This is the corner of the internet where I tell you what I’d tell my best friend, which is sometimes “you’re right” and sometimes “you’re being ridiculous.”
What kind of advice is on TTB?
Life stuff. Money stuff. Relationship stuff. Parenting stuff. The kind of advice that doesn’t come with a 17-step plan or a $99 download. Just honest takes from someone who’s made every mistake worth making and lived to write about it.
Who writes the advice posts?
I do. Jamie Slack — blogger since the AOL days, currently raising one kid and several houseplants. If I write it, I mean it.
Got a question that isn’t covered here?
If it’s the kind of question you’d ask at midnight when nobody else is awake — love, work, the weird dreams — that’s exactly what I built Elementually for. No scripts, no judgment, just answers.
Every new year comes with a few new resolutions written down on a sheet of paper.
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And whether your resolutions are to workout more often, changing your diet, spending more time with family, or to save money, this clear money saving jar is the perfect piggy bank to save more green!
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So if one of your new year’s resolutions does include saving more money, this acrylic jar is the perfect money saving hack to make one of your new year’s resolutions a reality.
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A clear jar made from acrylic, this jar features a small slit at the top that allows you to drop in cash and coins, but there’s just one catch.
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While you can deposit money into the jar, this piggy bank doesn’t allow you to take money out, unless you break it entirely.
You can drink it straight up as a shot, pour it over ice, top it with a dollop of whipped cream, add it to a mug of hot coffee for a tasty Cookie Butter creation — gah!!
In the 4th episode of the current season of Emily in Paris, Emily, Luc, and Julien are seen toasting the good life below a Ferris wheel at the Place de la Concorde.
Much like the Mimosa — which is made with orange juice and champagne — you simply pour the Creme de Cassis into a champagne flute and top it with the bubbly of your choice.
ICYMI, a pretty gnarly snowstorm pummeled New York last week, covering dang near everything in multiple feet of snow.
Some people found themselves in a pretty scary situation, trapped in their cars with nowhere to go. Their gas slowly running out — and thereby, the heat.
Jay Withey was one of the stranded, and according to CNN, he was stuck in just about the worst of it.
I mean, he was trapped. And, he knew he had to take drastic measures to save his life.
See, Jay, being a mechanic, had gone out to help a friend who was stuck in the wintery mess.
BUT, instead of helping his friend, he got his truck stuck in the snow — trapped in the middle of it.
He tried to call the police, but they said it was impossible to get to him with the dangerous storm barreling down on the city.
Unable to get himself out of the horrific situation, he tried unsuccessfully to beg help from 10 different houses that were close by.
Who in the world would turn someone away who was completely trapped in the ice and snow?!?
I plead with them, ‘Please, please can I sleep on the floor, I’m in fear for my life,’ and they say, ‘No I’m sorry.’
As a last-ditch effort to basically save his life, he committed one final act of desperation that would end up saving him — and nearly 20 others — from the life-threatening blizzard.
Jay grabbed his phone, and flipped to the GPS. It was then that he noticed a school was close by.
I say, ‘I’m going to that school, and I’m going to break into that school, because I know they have heat and a bathroom.’
He acted fast, grabbed a set of brake pads, and headed for the school.
Jay smashed a window, giving him access to the inside of the school.
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Once inside, he could let the others — about 20 people — in through the front doors.
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With security alarms blaring, they were able to get heat, use the bathroom, and even find food in the school kitchen.
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I walk outside in the immediate area and there are a lot of older people that are stranded in their cars, — One person had a dog — and I get them all into the school.
Figure skater, Kamila Valieva, put on an ice skating outfit worthy of Wednesday — that princess of goth, herself — and channeled her perfectly in a dance routine on the ice.
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She entertained the audience with Jenna Ortega’s original choreography, as The Cramps song “Goo Goo Muck” echoed around the arena.
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Kamila was able to incorporate the exact dance from Wednesday into an awesome routine that included jumps and gorgeous footwork as she floated around the ice.
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She is absolutely AMAZING, dang near perfection!
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Like, I could watch this routine on repeat.
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ICYMI, Jenna Ortega actually choreographed the dance herself!!
She watched hours of vintage footage of dancing 80s goth teens, incorporated a bit of Lisa Loring’s Wednesday character — the OG Wednesday — and channeled Siouxsie Sioux and Bob Fosse’s Rich Man’s Frug.
When it comes to soda, the beverage industry isn’t afraid to try new flavors.
Considering there was even a time where Pepsi told the public to mix milk with their iconic carbonated soda, we also can’t forget about Mountain Dew’s Pitch Black flavor or the Cracker Jack Pepsi!
Netflix has officially picked up the rights to make new movies and shows based on the Narnia series, and I can’t wait!!
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Thanks to The Hollywood Reporter, we know that Matthew Aldrich, the genius who co-writer Pixar’s Coco, has been plucked up to oversee Netflix’s version of The Chronicles of Narnia series.
Netflix has 7 Narnia books to work with: The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Horse and His Boy; The Voyage of The Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; and The Last Battle.
The most recent — and by far the most expensive — adaptation of the Narnia series happened in the 2000s when Disney took us to Narnia in a trio of massively popular films.
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Hold on to your seatbelts, because it’s going to be a fun ride when we head back to Narnia with Netflix.
Nostradamus doesn’t stop there. He goes on to talk about climate disasters — floods and famines.
For forty years the rainbow will not be seen. For forty years it will be seen every day. The dry earth will grow more parched, and there will be great floods when it is seen.
Then, with all these disasters and catastrophes, Nostradamus hints at civil unrest like we’ve never seen before.
The trumpet shakes with great discord. An agreement broken: lifting the face to heaven: the bloody mouth will swim with blood; the face anointed with milk and honey lies on the ground.
The dude is so much a part of pop culture, that he’s made cameos in things like Big Bang Theory, Entourage, Heroes, Chuck, The Simpsons, and — my personal favorite — Mallrats.
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He’s also shown up in just about every Marvel movie. It’s kind of a thing to try and find Stan — a sort of comic book Where’s Waldo.
