47: When you spent more money on your birds this christmas than you did on your partner (that's me )

48. When you're known as the "budgie lady" at work

 

49. When you take different budgies to work all the time to hand tame them for pets

 

50. When you discover bird poop on your shoulder or a feather in your hair, and you just dont care anymore, cause thats just life!

51. When at the mere mention of an upcoming budgie auction your partner blanches and complains of chest pains

 

52. When your partner no longer lets you go alone to a budgie auction and doesn't let you out of his sight

 

53. When at said budgie auction he insists on keeping the money for 'safe keeping'

 

54. When he no longer argues about leaving the auction mid-way to withdraw more money for budgies

 

55. When he considers it a 'good' day if you have $20 left at the end of it all

56. when your perants bann you from talking about budgies because you talk for hours about them.

57. when you sleep walk to where your budgies are

Edited December 11, 200816 yr by KAZ

58. When the kids can't find there mum and the first place they look is the bird room.

 

59. When you travel halfway across Australia to get new birds

 

59. When you take more photos of your birds than your kids

60. When friends and family no longer comment on the large number of birds you have now, they just roll their eyes

61. When you carry a spare cage or carrybox in your car at all times....just in case.

 

62. When you carry spare seed and water in the car in case you get new birds to go in the carrybox or cage you also have in the car.

 

62. When you know the location of every bird store/ bird dealer in the metropolitan area.

 

64. When the best vacuum cleaner you own belongs to the birdroom and not the house.

Edited December 11, 200816 yr by KAZ

65. When everyone at work calls you Budgie Boy.

66. When you drive though the streets and notice all the people who have aviaries in the back yard.

67. Like today when a lady says I don't remember your name but I know you as the bird lady,

 

68. When your partner reckons all you talk about is birds, Do I ?

 

69. When it is pretty bad when you get up and come home from work all you think about is checking this forum.

 

70. When you go to bed and think about your birds hours on end.

 

God I am a birdnut

71. when you sit up past midnight making beaded birdie swings with another complete birdnut, just to make more money for budgies at the auction

 

72. When threading the exact right beads in the exact right order makes a difference to you and how the bird likes its future swing.

 

73. When the manufacture of just 5 new birdswings may buy you another budgie

 

74. When you are cruising around a very quiet BBC very very late at night and suddenly realise you are all alone....except for google and the inktomi spider

Edited December 11, 200816 yr by KAZ

75 when youtalk to your birds if something goes wrong or brings you down and it actually makes you happy

 

76 when you put your avirys outside every window so where ever you look your looking at your little friends

 

78 when your not only refured to as the bird lady but the CRAZZZZY bird lady

 

79 when you bath an egg bound bird in a peppermint and lavender bath to relax and relese her stress ( it worked )

thats when you know your really bird crazzzzzzy

80. When you drive the kids to school and notice a broken branch on the side of the road..... you do a mental note to pick it up on the way home for the aviary, then realise you just went through a round about ...... Did you give way?

 

81. When you can never walk past a vacant block without scanning for grass seeds or milk weed.

 

82. When you walk outside and hear silence .... you have to check that all is well in the aviary.

 

83. When weeding your garden takes twice as long, because every worm or grub must be kept for the quail.

 

84. When the last thing you think about when you lay your head on your pillow at night is "which budgies to pair up next".

 

85. When you start using "birds" as currency between friends

Edited December 12, 200816 yr by Kazzy

86. when you call your friends and the first words you say are you know my yellow face....

87. when you elf your birds dancing with your self ..lol

Edited December 12, 200816 yr by KAZ

88. When you start hanging around in places you are likely to meet other bird nuts in the hope you'll just bump into one!

 

89. When you tell yourself "I know I set a limit, but this bird is too good to miss...one more won't hurt!"

Edited December 12, 200816 yr by KAZ

90. When all your clothes end up on the floor because you used all the coat hangers as wire for the birds :party0011:

91. When you end up with a heap of loose seed in your handbag!

 

92. When there's a seed suck under the diamond in your engagement ring, but you don't even bother to try and get it out because you figure another one will just end up getting suck there.

Edited December 12, 200816 yr by Budgielover13

93. When your brand new car is left sitting out in marble sized hail stones because your garage was turned into a bird room so you have no where to put it under cover.

94. When you go to the bathroom after watching the aviary, only to realise you have wire imprints on your forehead when you look at yourself in the mirror.

95. When the messy house bothers you less than a messy cage or birdroom.

96. You spend all day on the budgie forum and you run out of topics to respond to..

97. When your back room 'storage room' is a total pigsty but you spend the day reorganising the bird room and getting rid of stuff you had stored in there...

 

98. When you are saving to buy a house in the country just so you have space for more aviaries

Edited December 14, 200816 yr by KAZ

99. When you work out in the scorching hot sun to make a new aviary for your birds.

100. When you keep going back and forth to the hardware store to buy things to make the birds lives better.

101. When the new aviary you just made looks so good you think about sleeping in there :rofl:

Edited January 11, 200916 yr by KAZ

102. When everyone else thinks they need to grow feathers to get any attention from you.......

103. When you wake up at 10am to squawking angry budgies and think, "Oh God, I haven't fed the budgies!" then run and start grating carrot so fast that it goes up the walls