Half a Decade - Your 5th Year Wedding Anniversary

Dear FutureMe, If this website is still up and running in 2012, you will be receiving this email on your 5th-year Wedding Anniversary - that's Half A Decade!! and you are both still young:: you almost 25 (in an couple months) and him 26 (27 in a few-plus months). January 27th, 2007 we were wed in the Garden of Love (obviously, Las Vegas) by an older woman who spoke Cherokee Vows (even though I have a very small portion of Apache and neither of us Cherokee---we just didnt want vows under "god" nor the boring judicial vows that happens in a courthouse).... in the first year of our marriage I searched the web for our actual vows and found them - they were stored on my mac laptop which the Hard-drive just went out on... I search for it again only to find out that The Garden of Love was shut down in October 2007 (something about the employees using aggressive force against competitors---hello, it IS Vegas after all). this is the closet I have found: God in heaven above please protect the ones we love. We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. We honor mother-earth - and ask for our marriage to be abundant and grow stronger through the seasons; We honor fire - and ask that our union be warm and glowing with love in our hearts; We honor wind - and ask we sail though life safe and calm as in our father's arms; We honor water - to clean and soothe our relationship - that it may never thirsts for love; With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for harmony and true happiness as we forever grow young together. Amen. Even if they got their business license back, I am unsure if they would still have our envied Wedding Picture on their wall::: Husband with snakebite piercings + a foot-long Black Mohawk in a 3 piece Armani pinstriped suit and Wife in pinstriped miniskirt, long black hair, a clear septum piercing, and recently torn out lip piercings (they fell out as I was changing them, lost one, and I couldn't put them back in on the roadtrip to Vegas). so----------------------------------------------------------------- Now the current me writing the future me is 22yo, 2 yrs married, living (finally) in South Bay Cali (no, not to be mistaken for the Bay area - I'm talking REAL Southern Californian South Bay). I'm here where you came from, your home, which is now my home too. But there has been a lot that has changed in just some years since our first failed move here together in '06. Life's hardships led us to choose to stay the same kids or to grow up::: as a married couple we chose the latter. We started thinking about the future instead of our present. We nixed our unhealthy habits - smoking tobacco and the usual use of recreational drugs. Now before we put anything into our body - from smoke (including pollution + herbal) to caffeine & refined sugar to chemicals and other man-made evils such as Hydrogenated Fats and GMO's. So here we are, in the Cradle where South Bay punk was born - and I have chosen my other side - the Positive, the Light, instead of my previous going back and froth between the Light & the Dark (I mean did you ever hear about a drug addled teen who is an A-Honors student and doesn't drink soda or eat fast food?? kinda contradictory, yes?) In '06, before I met my future-husband I had my Tarot read for the first time after I got settled down in Seattle. It startled me, very graphic, and it basically showed me my choices::: to the Right-side I could follow the goddess of Light, to the Left-side I could follow the entity of Darkness.... But it was made clear that I was at the pivotal part of choosing either or, not just the both. I Chose the Light... and now I cannot go back..... I cannot use like I used to. We don't get along anymore, me and substance abuse. I used to be the little petite girl who was more hardcore than any of the others (well, of at least my friends and the ppl I knew) in the way of being able to take whatever and still be on top of it. but now,,,, the drugs are on top of me. I am no longer the god to them, they are the god to me, putting me in my place. So you can see how I feel all jumbled up right now - right place, wrong time... but me with my deep-rooted wanderlust and him with his forever "Cali's the best" to "I can't live here forever anymore (pollution is killing is asthma/allergies)".... we haven't moved to a place that we have enjoyed yet in the idea of staying here for a while... Well. lets hope everything is full of hope and greatness. You always pinpointed age 25 as the TURNING POINT in health... the last 5 years of getting your body under control before you reach your thirties (the years you are supposed to be most settled, young, healthy, happy, and successful), which is a decade until your forties (which should be full with health from your previous investment and even more success & settling down)..... so lets hope you have stayed on the Lighted path and are 3 years improved instead of 3 years degraded. With Light & Love (((you no longer need torches to see your way thru the dark path))), your past-self.