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)