VALENTINE'S DAY '23

Song(s): Somebody to Love & Haven't Met You Yet

Artist(s): Queen & Michael Buble

What. A. Day.

I recently started a "new job." It's another one day a week, 7.5-8 hour day, babysitting "job" but at least I'm making money again and kind of starting to do something with my life, right? It's exhausting. 😫 Your girl's gettin' old and it shows! 8 hours with 3 kids 5 and under and I'm so tired by the end of the day I sleep in until 10 the next day! I can't even imagine taking care of three kids day in and day out without getting paid or having days' long breaks in between! How can I even dream of being a mother if I can't handle this??

Anyway, here's how I spent my Valentine's Day: babysat from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM where there were plenty of stressful moments but I survived. Then I came home and ate dinner with my parents and watched a (non-romantic) movie with my mom (I didn't feel like rubbing my pathetic singleness in my face anymore than I needed too...especially after watching my baby brother and younger sister take off with their boos earlier that evening...). Just another, typical Valentine's Day for this girl. 😭🙈 

But you know what?? I decided something last night as I was prepping myself for the inevitable depression I was going to feel today: I am bound and determined that this will be my LAST year celebrating Valentine's Day single! I'm putting it out in the universe! Next year, at 31 years old I will FINALLY spend my FIRST VALENTINE'S DAY EVER with someone special! I will finally have a VALENTINE!! 💖😤 OK. There. I've said it. Now, comes the hard, scary part of putting in the work and getting myself out there...knowing me I'm gonna need a whole year to prepare! 😬

I don't mean to make it sound like spending the evening with my parents was bad and awful. I love my parents and am so, so grateful for them and all they do for me! I'm grateful I wasn't totally alone. I'm grateful my mom didn't even suggest watching a chick flick because she probably knew I was feeling down. And I was...it did seem to sting a little more this year. I think this was the first time I really was the only single one left. My parents were nice and didn't even go out to eat so they could be home with me. And my sweet dad bought me a bouquet of flowers and my sweet mom gave me chocolate 🌹💝 They're too good to me! I don't deserve them! 😭💕

OK, wow. Ranting pity-party section DONE. On to my...

VALENTINE 2023 SONG SELECTIONS! 💝💘💋

Somebody to Love

I featured this song during my Single Girl's Valentine Tribute posts a hundred years ago. It was the Glee version (which I still love to this day). This song is PERFECT for a single person celebrating the holiday of love and romance alone. It captures that desperate longing we feel for love perfectly! I have never realized how much I relate to this song until now!! 💔😭🥺

Can anybody find me

Somebody to love?

Ooh, each morning I get up I die a little

Can barely stand on my feet

Take a look at yourself in the mirror and cry

Take a look in the mirror and cry

Lord, what you're doing to me? (Yeah, yeah)

I have spent all my years in believin' you

But I just can't get no relief, Lord

Somebody (Somebody)

Ooh, somebody (Somebody)

Can anybody find me

Somebody to love?

Yeah

I work hard (He works hard) every day of my life

I work 'till I ache my bones

At the end (At the end of the day) I take home

My hard-earned pay all on my own

(Goes home, goes home on his own)

I get down (Down) on my knees (Knees) and I start to pray (Praise the Lord)

'Till the tears run down from my eyes, Lord

Somebody (Somebody)

Ooh, somebody (Please)

Can anybody find me

Somebody to love?

Oh

(He works hard) everyday (Everyday)

I try and I try and I try

But everybody wants to put me down

They say I'm going crazy

They say I got a lot of water in my brain

I got no common sense

(He's got) I got nobody left to believe

No, no, no, no

(Ooh, ooh, ooh, Lord)

Ooh, somebody

Ooh (Somebody)

Anybody find me

Somebody to love

Can anybody find me

Someone to love?

Got no feel, I got no rhythm

I just keep losing my beat (You just keep losing and losing)

I'm okay, I'm alright (He's alright, he's alright)

I ain't gonna face no defeat (Yeah, yeah)

I just gotta get out of this prison cell

(One day) Someday I'm gonna be free, Lord

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

(Find me, find me)

Find me somebody to love (Find me)

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love-ove-ove

(Ooh, find me, find me)

Find me somebody to love

(Somebody to love)

Find me somebody to love

Somebody (Somebody)

Somebody (Somebody)

Somebody (Find me)

(Somebody find me somebody to love)

Can anybody find me

Somebody to love?

(Find me somebody to love) Ooh

(Find me somebody to love)

Find me somebody

(Find me somebody to love)

Somebody, somebody, somebody to love

(Find me somebody to love)

Find me, find me

Find me, find me, find me

(Find me somebody to love)

Ooh, somebody to love

(Find me somebody to love)

Ooh, find me, find me

Find me somebody to love

(Find me somebody to love)

Anybody, anywhere, anybody

Find me somebody to love, love

Find me, find me, find me, find me

Haven't Met You Yet

While the first song is the aching, desperate, feeling like your losing hope, longing for love, this song has a more optimistic spin. It's accepting the fact that you're single but believing that love is out there and you'll find that special someone some day...it just hasn't happened yet. But it will. Today I may relate more to Somebody to Love but starting tomorrow, I'm going to try to live my Michael's hopeful sentiment 😊

*I don't know if it surprises you that I don't often post "power" single lady songs (i.e. Single Ladies, any Taylor Swift break-up-I'm-so-mush-better-without-you type song or the new "happily single" anthem right now Flowers). It's because I don't relate to those songs. I tried listening to some yesterday to get me in that headspace but I realized I don't relate to them...because those songs are all about getting over someone and embracing that single life. I've never had a relationship. I don't know what it's like to be heartbroken (in that sense). I don't know what it's like to be cheated on (thankfully! 🙏) and want revenge. So yeah. That's why you don't see those types of songs from me.*

I'm not surprised, not everything lasts

I've broken my heart so many times I stopped keeping track

Talk myself in, I talk myself out

I get all worked up then I let myself down

I tried so very hard not to lose it

I came up with a million excuses

I thought, I thought of every possibility

And I know some day that it'll all turn out

You'll make me work so we can work to work it out

And I promise you kid that I'll give so much more than I get

I just haven't met you yet

Hmm... hmm

I might have to wait, I'll never give up

I guess it's half timing and the other half's luck

Wherever you are, whenever it's right

You'll come out of nowhere and into my life

And I know that we can be so amazing

And baby your love is gonna change me

And now I can see every possibility

Somehow I know that it'll all turn out

You'll make me work so we can work to work it out

And promise you kid I'll give so much more than I get

I just haven't met you yet

They say all's fair in love and war

But I won't need to fight it

We'll get it right and we'll be united

And I know that we can be so amazing

And being in your life is gonna change me

And now I can see every single possibility

And someday I know it'll all turn out

And I'll work to work it out

Promise you kid I'll give more than I get, than I get, than I get, than I get

Oh you know it'll all turn out

And you'll make me work so we can work to work it out

And promise you kid to give so much more than I get yeah

I just haven't met you yet

I just haven't met you yet

Oh promise you kid to give so much more than I get

I said love love love love love love love

I just haven't met you yet

Yeah, I just haven't met you yet

HAPPY "FINAL SINGLE" VALENTINE'S DAY!!

YOU DESERVE IT! 

💔🤞✨💖