TNT Dynamite

Todd agreed to share his good times and bad times with me. He agreed to stay with me forever, and to cherish and love me at all times — even in those moments when I can be a bit irritating. On Saturday, he gave me his name.

I guess this makes it official. We celebrated the day with a few family and friends.

He’s said for a long time that he couldn’t wait until we could be “TNT, dynamite.” For that reason, as soon as the preacher made the announcement (and minus a few technical difficulties), the AC/DC song rang out.

Other songs played that day, however, are a bit more symbolic of our relationship.

I walked in to the tune by the Zac Brown Band “Whatever It Is.”

With lyrics such as: “She got a gentle way that puts me at ease.”

The song explains that whatever it is, he can’t live without it. For years I wondered if anyone could find anything special about me. Todd does. He sees it every day and he reminds me of such.

“She’s got whatever it is. It blows me away. She’s everything I wanted to say to a woman but couldn’t find the words to say. She’s got whatever it is. I don’t know what to do because every time I try and tell her how I feel it comes out ‘I love you.’”

He sings the song to me all the time, noting that something changed when I walked into his life. “People ask me what it is, I tell them I don’t know. Just something about the woman makes my heart go haywire. She’s gonna be my wife.”

A dear friend also lent his guitar abilities and musical talent to the ceremony, performing “Making Memories of Us” as it began. It’s always been a favorite of mine as it talks about being a person of his/her word. And it shares how the sweetest part of love is making memories together.

After the vows, and during the greetings of the receiving line, we couldn’t resist and had to add in the Montgomery Gentry tune “What Do You Think About That?” Why? Just because our relationship seems to have been such a source of discussion for so many people. Funny. Why do others even care? It’s not them. But, in honor of all those times others have made our business their own, we tipped our hats with these words:

“Some people care about what other people think, worry about what they say. Let a little gossip coming from a loose lip ruin a perfect day, say, blah, blah, blah, just a jacking their jaws, got a let it roll off-a my back. I don’t give a dern what other people think. What do ya think about that?”

Of course, leaving it on that note wouldn’t be appropriate. I shared my favorite song to illustrate our relationship together.

“I wanna thank you for the love that you give me, and the sun that you put in my sky. You don’t know how much you’ve lifted me up, but I feel so alive that I could fly. There’s no way I could’ve made it this far without you.

You came to me just when I needed someone to believe that I could make it through. And you gave me back the love I had, the faith I’d lost, the life I knew.”

And, finally, we played a bit of “God’s Been Good To Me.”

And, He certainly has.