I gave him away today.  Had him since November to keep Sam company, but over the past few weeks we reached a breaking point.  Budgies are extremely hyperactive and very social and his craziness was too much for the cockatiels to take.  They attempted to ignore him, but Nugget would get frustrated and start pulling feathers and biting their feet.  When he started drawing blood…I posted an ad on craigslist to find him a new home.  Found him one, with a nice hispanic couple who have over a dozen other birds.  I think he’ll be much happier as part of a flock.  Going to miss the little guy.

Since I was in Round Rock anyways to drop him off, I stopped at IKEA.  Bought some casserole dishes, shakers, grease splatter shield, lingonberry preserves, and a 2.5lb bag of frozen Swedish meatballs.

Yes, those meatballs are one of my guilty pleasures.  At first I thought having an restaurant in IKEA was insanity, but they have some pretty decent food for cheap.  This is how they serve the meatball platter, sometimes with a mini Swedish flag stuck in the potatoes:

I was tempted to buy a lot more crap I don’t need, but thought better of it this trip.  Maybe next time when I have a nice juicy paycheck in the bank.