~ A Perfect 10 ~

It has never been EASY, although, I can't say it has been hard. Some days are easier than others, no doubt about it. Some years more eventful than others...and not always in good ways. Everything, no matter how bad, has always turned out good for us... no matter how we needed to spin it, in order to get there.

I would just consider all that good, bad and indifferent "stuff," icing on my, "proverbial" cake of life that I live.


10 years ago Tommy and I were married.


I am not gonna bore anyone with the typical "Oh... May 2, 1998 was the day I married my best friend..blah blah blah...." stuff. Everyone says that. Tommy will agree, I am not at all like Everyone or, anyone for that matter.


The truth is....

I married a hot cop that loved to: work out, ride motorcycles fast as fast can be, lay in bed all day on Mondays with me, hold my hand in public, kiss me long and hard like there was no one around (and if there was, he couldn't have cared less... he still doesn't and that is cool), Christmas shop.... on a whim...in July, wrestle me, clean our Glocks together, go shooting together, crash cars together, compete for stats with me, get dressed up together..and undress each other.... dance with me in kitchens... (didn't matter who the kitchen belonged to), snuggle in jacuzzi's, make grand entrances together, sit and do nothing together, work hard together, survive the impossible together, and best of all......

I made the first move... and he thought that was cool. Seriously, I made the first move...call it trashy, classy, cool, uncool, bad, good, awesome, progressive...... whatever. I knew I loved this man the first time I saw him. I waited for the most appropriately inappropriate time in both our lives and I went after him....in ways I have never gone after something or someone..... never fully expecting what I would get in return. Maybe he already knew what he was getting himself into.

You see, Tommy married a bad girl. There is really no way to sugar coat it so I will just admit it... and so will he. I went against the grain on everything a girl "usually" is and a wife "probably" should be and we fit together like a perfect puzzle.

We still do... even better I think.

Where these last 10 years have gone, I don't know. For all that we have been through together.....it seems like yesterday we were just starting down our own little road of life. I do know that we have come a long way in 10 VERY SHORT years.

We laugh, We love, We cry, We smile, We talk, We shout, We agree, We respect, We listen, We learn, We teach, We share, We give, We take, We scare, We surprise, We trust, We sigh, We live, We whisper, We tickle, We help, We hurt, We heal, We play, We kiss, We hold tight to what we have ........ and nothing is more important than US.

We have always kidded that for every single thing good that has happened to us, we have suffered a loss. While it may not be entirely true, it is 99% right on for us. We have lived and survived and become stronger for it all.

From year one to year ten, it has never seemed that hard, now that I look back on it. While things, at different times, may have seemed devastaing, sad, good, bad or they just down right sucked, today, for me, it just seems like it has been......

A Perfect 10!