Marli Paige: A Pinner's Paradise: 2015

On my journey to health and overall better well being (weight loss would be a wonderful thing as well, but my main goal is health)...I've been trying a lot of things lately:

1. Food

Eating only local organic foods from local farmers markets or from our garden (mostly)

Meat, potatoes, and onions from farmers market

Lettuce from our garden

Quinoa salad. Quinoa from the store

Cukes, tomatoes, carrots, and eggs from farmer's market.

2. Drinks

I'm trying to drink more water. I've bought lots of flavor drops because I hate just water. And. If a few drops of something get me to drink more water I think it's worth the trade off. I'm going to start trying to go back to infused waters now that stuff is in season again.

Better drink choices (bought a REAL GINGER mix for making ginger ale with club soda at home. Also local)

You can buy online too: http://www.momintandthyme.com/

Drinking YourTea TinyTea.

http://america.yourtea.com/products/28dayteatox

I haven't been following the detox instructions well:

1 morning 30 min before breakfast

1 30 min before lunch

1 30 min before dinner

I've been getting in about: 1 per day

Day one I did two. Both were at my parents house. I steeped for the recommended 5-7 minutes. I gagged. It was AWFUL! Why had LoeyLane (https://m.youtube.com/user/LoeyLane )

steered me so wrong!?! How could she drink this terrible crap and call it "good." Why did I waste all that money!?!

When I was home and back to my fake keurig I opened a bag and (for the first time but not the last) it broke because it was stuck to the packaging. Upsetting. But. I popped the non broken side down into the single brew, and low and behold IT TASTED GOOD!

Just a spoon full of honey and brewing it like NORMAL tea...it tasted like normal tea. AMAZING!

This morning bag number two broke, but I repeated the same, and it worked fine. That's my main complaint with this. If I'm going to pay you almost $1 per bag can you make them NOT break? Thanks.

(Also got my mug free as a promotion)

3. Supplements.

On top of my normal pill regiment, I now take a One A Day Women's Multivitamin and Turmeric.

I got my turmeric while on sale at sams's club after doing a lot of research on this particular brand. Turmeric is highly recommended for inflammation and cancer prevention / healing. It's suggested that inflammation may be a major cause of a lot of problems and illnesses within the human body. So, getting that down or gone is good in my book.

http://m.samsclub.com/ip/inflamin-turmeric-120ct/prod16900235

I will report back when I've been taking it longer. It's only been a few days so...I don't think I can give any useful feedback except that I'm hopeful, and they are indeed horse pills.

4. Sleep.

I have struggled with sleep my WHOLE life. My body is naturally set to nocturnal. I wish it wasn't. But it is. I've tried resetting it many times, and while it may work for a few weeks, it always resets I've tried melatonin, sleeping pills, tea, Benadryl, yoga, stretching before bed, no technology one hour before, watching tv to drift to sleep...nothing helped.

FINALLY something seems to make a difference: ASMR.

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a neologism for a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or cognitive stimuli.

Aka ever got chills up your spine when something feels good? I get that when something SOUNDS good. The hand motions and such do nothing for me. I turn the screen off. It's all noise to me.

It's such a quiet, gentle sound that I drift to sleep.

My favorite ASMR-tists:

(I'm linking a good video of theirs (for me). Feel free to browse and see what you like).

GentleWhispering (Maria)

http://youtu.be/RVpfHgC3ye0

ASMRRequests (Alli):

http://youtu.be/k-VVYMsBFXM

Heather Feather:

http://youtu.be/7GwtmUnecII

There are TONS out there. So find your flavor (if you get the tingles or are merely relaxed by them). Enjoy a mind detox.

I really think that's why I respond so well. My head is over clouded with "stuff." And when I try to be still all the "stuff" gets louder and louder and won't let me rest. This declutters and detoxes my mind so it can drift off to sleep peacefully.

So after discovering ASMR my only issue was falling asleep with earbuds in HURT.

My solution? (Thanks Maria) "Sleep Phones: Pajamas for you Ears." It's a band that goes around your head and has pockets for the little flat earphones. I used them last night, and my only complaint is that because they go over not IN my ear...I still hear my husband snoring. It's not nearly as immersive. But unless you have a ridiculously loud snorer in the bed with you. They should work great.

http://www.sleepphones.com/

5. Exercise

I'm still working on upping this. I've mostly been cleaning my house and gardening a lot. And carrying stuff up and down stairs. I'm trying to de-clutter my house, and so that requires a LOT of trips down the stairs to the basement. That's my current form of exercise, lol.

I'm hoping to get a more structured one going as well. Every time I start a new one it lasts less than a week. Then I hate it. And I don't do it. Also, I got an xbox1 for the purpose of using the kinect to play dance games...the Zumba game I bought never worked. So. I got pissed and didn't try again.

6. Decluttering

My new current "feel better" idea is...declutter my life. Every day I throw something away. Every day I move something downstairs. It's so FULL. I HATE it. I need openness. I need peace. I don't need all of this STUFF.

So that's my next big project. Making my

House homey but happy. Open. Free of unnecessary clutter.

So, that's my current routine of trying to be a happier, healthier me. I'll let you know how it goes. Feel free to try it and let me know how yours goes.

Many people struggle to write a "script" for their ceremonies. I took great care to compile mine from several sources as well as writing out some of it myself. I hope this may help at least someone with their writing of their own ceremony script. It also includes links to all of the songs used and pictures of things as they occurred.

Wedding of Marlissa Doss and Ian Cunningham

Prelude:

Four Tops	Baby I need your lovin'
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell	You're All I need to get by
Ray LaMontagne	You are the best thing
The Turtles	Happy Together

Processional

J. Benjamin

Marry Me (Violin Cover, originally performed by Train)

Officiate: Terri Schlag walks down aisle. Takes place at gazebo.

Ian Cunningham walks down aisle to place on gazebo

Tom Cunningham walks Rosemary Cunningham down aisle. Seats her. Takes place beside Ian.

Seth Wooten walks Phyllis Doss down aisle. Seats her. Takes place beside Tom.

Caleb Hutcheson walks with Bailey Cunningham and both take their places.

Sara Cunningham walks down aisle, takes place on far left.

Kayla Brown walks down aisle takes place in front of Sara.

Courtney Terry walks down aisle, takes place in front of Kayla

Aliya Johnson walks down aisle pulling Ivy Johnson in wagon. They take their places.

KJ Hagan throws petals down aisle and goes to stand beside Sara.

Bride’s Processional

Artist	Song Title
Vitamin String Quartet	Hallelujah

Glenn Doss walks Marlissa Doss down aisle. Both stand in front of Terri Schlag.

(I thought I would be so emotional. I was laughing and singing down the aisle with Dad)

TERRI You may all be seated.

Welcome, friends and family. Ian and Marli have invited us here today to share in the celebration of their marriage. We come together not to mark the start of a relationship, but to recognize a bond that already exists. This marriage is one expression of the many varieties of love. Love is one, though its expressions are infinite.

(To Marli) Marli, do you take this man to be your husband; to live together in the covenant of marriage? forsaking all others, be faithful to him as long as you both shall live?

MARLI I do.

TERRI (to Ian) Ian, do you take this woman to be your wife; to live together in the covenant of marriage, forsaking all others, be faithful to her as long as you both shall live?

IAN I do

TERRI Who gives this woman to be wedded to this man?

GLENN: Her mother and I do.

(kiss my cheek, put my hand in Ian’s, sits next to Phyllis)

TERRI 1 Corinthians 13 tells us “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” And so today we come to celebrate those traits that Ian and Marli have found in one another.

As you have all been a part of their lives in some way in the past, I ask now that you give your affirmation to continue to be so in the future. To lift them up both as individuals and as the new united pair they become today. Will all of you here as witnessing to these promises made in love, do all in your power to uphold these two persons in their marriage? If so, please answer, “We will.”

Audience answers “we will”

(one of my favorite shots of the whole day)

TERRI Ian and Marli, the symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, “You know all those things we’ve promised and hoped and dreamed- well, I meant it all, every word.” Look at one another and remember this moment in time.

Pause to take in the moment

Before this moment you have been many things to one another- acquaintance, friend, lover, companion [maybe add more here]

You have learned much from one another in this time since deciding to meet a stranger off the internet and take a chance at love.

(pause for laughs)

Now you shall say a few words that take you across a threshold of life, and things will never quite be the same between you. For after these vows, you shall say to the world, this – is my husband, this – is my wife.

Please join hands

(I pass off bouquet and take his other hand in mine)

Ian, repeat after me. I Ian Raymond Cunningham

IAN I Ian Raymond Cunningham

TERRI Take you, Marlissa Paige Doss

IAN Take you, Marlissa Paige Doss

TERRI As my lawfully wedded wife.

IAN As my lawfully wedded wife.

TERRI To have and to hold.

IAN To have and to hold.

TERRI From this day forward.

IAN From this day forward.

TERRI For better or worse

IAN For better or worse

TERRI For richer or poorer.

IAN For richer or poorer.

TERRI In sickness and in health

IAN In sickness and in health

TERRI To love, honor, and cherish until death do us part

IAN To love, honor, and cherish until death do us part

TERRI Marli, Repeat after me. I Marlissa Paige Doss

MARLI I Marlissa Paige Doss

TERRI Take you, Ian Raymond Cunningham

MARLI Take you, Ian Raymond Cunningham

TERRI As my lawfully wedded husband

MARLI As my lawfully wedded husband

TERRI To have and to hold.

MARLI To have and to hold.

TERRI From this day forward.

MARLI From this day forward.

TERRI For better or worse

MARLI For better or worse

TERRI For richer or poorer.

MARLI For richer or poorer.

TERRI In sickness and in health

MARLI In sickness and in health

TERRI To love, honor, and cherish until death do us part

MARLI To love, honor, and cherish until death do us part

TERRI May we have the rings?

(Marli crouches down and calls Bailey. Bailey eagerly trots over to Mommy. After a quick kiss she removes the rings from his collar. He goes to sit with Phyllis and Glenn)

TERRI Ian, please place the ring on Marli’s finger, and repeat after me: “I give you this ring as a daily reminder of my love for you.”

IAN I give you this ring as a daily reminder of my love for you.

TERRI Marli, please place the ring on Ian’s finger, and repeat after me: “I give you this ring as a daily reminder of my love for you.”

MARLI I give you this ring as a daily reminder of my love for you.

TERRI (gets out handfasting chords)

Handfasting is an old Celtic tradition, and Ian and Marli have chosen to use it to be an outward sign of the commitment they make here. The Chord is made of many strands of ribbon, and intertwined are pieces from each of their respective families, signifying that not only do two people become one today, but two families become one.

Ian and Marli as your hands are bound together now,

so your lives and spirits are joined in a union of love and trust.

Above you are the sun and stars and below you is the earth.

Like the sun and stars your love should be a constant source of light,

and like the earth, a firm foundation from which to grow.

Please hold the chord between your ringed hands.

(Groom palm up, holding chord, Brides hand resting in his)

Ian and Marli, this chord is a symbol of the life you have chosen to live together. Until this moment you have been separate in thought, word, and deed. But as this chord is tied together, so shall your lives become intertwined. With this chord, I bind you to the vows that you have made to one another. With this knot, I tie you, heart to heart, together as one.

May this love knot always be a reminder of the binding together of two hands, two hearts, and two souls into one. And so you are bound to one another, for all the days of your lives.

(Officiate ties love knot)