Better Late...

My week has been replete with ups and downs, I must admit. I have streamlined some things and confused still others. I've looked forward to my birthday and been scared ****less by it, for the first time.

The first amazing "up" of the week was that I found Björk's CD, Volta, at the Dollar Tree dollar store for (obviously) a dollar! One of my favorite songs of her newer works is "Dull Flame of Desire" and the song is from the Volta CD. They only had two copies and I bought both. I didn't even know the Dollar Tree sold CDs!

The second amazing "up" occurred the very next day. I was in Big Lots just looking around, talking to my sister on the phone and I look down and see the movie "Graffiti Bridge" for $3! Now I've talked about Prince on the blog before and I've seen the movie six million times but I never bought it before because I never saw it on DVD and I figured if I did it would be $15-$20, which goes against everything I stand for (ha-ha) but $3 was quite doable!

My sister is of course the person who shares the love of Prince (I'm sure hers exceeds my love for him even) but I could only find the one copy. She reminded me how I'd said I wanted it and how she'd said it wasn't so important to her a few months ago so I gratefully stopped looking (I was searching pretty desperately by this point) and bought my coveted copy. Now if I see Under the Cherry Moon on DVD somewhere for that sort of price it's on! Not to mention the Sign O the Times concert on DVD!

There were some lows but they never really matter if you can live past them. I realized over the last few days that even though I'm all over the place and scared of the future and sometimes regretful of the past (to a degree), I am quite at peace at present. I am feeling blessed looking at the year I just lived and hopeful looking at the year I'm about to conquer and that's a beautiful thing.

What's even better is that though I know there were some lows this week, they were vague when I started this post and forgotten once I wrote about my "ups" of the week. And I just can't ask for anything more.