Music Thursday: Lookin' for Love in All the Wrong Places?

Lady Java, Mariuca's Perfume Gallery, and a bunch of my international blogging buddies have started posting "Music Mondays" and I know it's Thursday, but I'd like to put in my two cents for the week, along with a story about true love, Rex and me. Many of my Bay Head Blog and Roxiticus Desperate Housewives readers know that I've been a country music fan since the early 1990s, and my contribution to Music Thursday is called "Lookin' for Love" and comes from Johnny Lee:

"Well, I spent a lifetime lookin' for you
Single bars and good time lovers were never true
Playin' a fools game, hopin' to win
Tellin' those sweet lies and losin' again

I was lookin' for love in all the wrong places
Lookin' for love in too many faces
Searchin' their eyes, lookin' for traces
Of what I'm dreamin' of
Hopin' to find a friend and a lover
I'll bless the day I discover
Another heart lookin' for love

And I was alone then, no love in site
I did everything I could to get me through the night
I don''t know where it started or where it might end
I'd turn to a stranger just like a friend

'Cause I was lookin' for love
In all the wrong places
Lookin' for love in too many faces
Searchin' their eyes, lookin' for traces
Of what I'm dreamin' of
Hopin' to find a friend and a lover
I'll bless the day I discover
Another heart lookin' for love

And you came a knockin' at my heart's door
You're everything I've been lookin' for
There's no more lookin' for love
In all the wrong places
Lookin' for love in too many faces
Searchin' their eyes
Lookin' for traces
Of what I'm dreamin' of
Now that I found a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discovered you
Oh you, lookin' for love

(Lookin' for love) in all the wrong places
(Lookin' for love) in too many faces
Searchin' their eyes, lookin' for traces
Of what I'm dreamin' of
Now that I've found a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discovered you
Oh you, lookin' for love"

Although I've shared many happy family stories here about my idyllic life with Rex and our two girls, London and Maddie, I feel like I did spend a lifetime looking for love in all the wrong places (Jersey Shore bars, beach parties, and blind dates) before I discovered Rex. I remember the days when I would get dressed up and hopeful to go out with a new guy, only to have the evening turn into nothing more than a humorous (or painful) anecdote to share with my friends. Then, against all odds (take a look at me now...but that's a song for another Music Monday), Rex and I met at work, fell in love, and have lived happily ever after for almost thirteen years.

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