The Fear

"I've been having The Fear lately, which I find is quite different from The Panics. The Panics just make me run around, "Ah! Ah! Ah! What if! What if! Shaky hands! Shaky heart."


But The Fear is a real b*tch. It just sits there in front of your path like a boulder, and says, "I'm not going to move AT ALL, because god only knows what's on the other side." So then you just have to sit there, puzzling how to get around it."

(via Peonies and Polaroids)

Summer.

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesan

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SOCO is back!

Someone please buy me this shirt.

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Thoughts v 2.0

So after all my obsessing over birdcages, I stopped at Garden Ridge this past weekend and found the perfect one for a mere $14 including tax (instead of the $50+ ones I'd been eying!).   Here it is:

It's perfect. :)

In other news, I feel like every time I start to get ahead something gets in the way.  I had finally managed to get a positive net worth... and now I'm back at -$3,000.  I finally appear to be making headway on my retirement savings and student loan repayment... and I get huge setback.  I want to do so much... yet I feel stressed out all the time about money.  Sigh.  I guess this is the real world.

Timeout Tuesday

Still looking for a birdcage... and a LOT of other things for my new apartment.  While searching birdcages on Etsy today, ran across these beautiful birdcage related works of art.

(Twisting vines birdhouse, sculpture)

(Flown, print)

(Bread and Butterfly, sculpture)

(Choose Hope, print)

Birdcages

I have been thinking about adding a birdcage to the hook already in my new living room.  Here are a couple of my favorites so far...

(from Anthropologie)

(from Seaglass Vintage's Etsy)

Kor Hydration Vessels

I have to confess.  I don't yet own one of these Kor Hydration Vessels, but I did buy one for my sister.  She got the Orchid Pink - Global Water Crisis, but I personally would love this Sunrise Orange - Container Recycling.  The cap features great little changeable quotes like, "Better Me, Better World" and "Laugh Often."

Right now, I have a 15% off coupon code for anyone who is interested in one these bottles.  All you have to do is enter code: KWS-12380 at checkout at the Kor Water!

(via Kor Water)