parker rules & some other messed up stuff

when i was pregnant, i swore i wasn't gonna be one of those people who let having a kid slow them down.  i was gonna do a triathlon in august & we were gonna go to australia around new years.  although i think we do a pretty good job of still being on-the-go types, i am realizing now i was a bit naive.  go figger. 

this summer's triathlon didn't even make it on the calendar & now i'm wondering why i even thought we might want to attempt a fourteen hour flight down under with an eight month old. 

but having a kid isn't all about your life ending.  or not getting to do cool things like triathlons or traveling.  you just learn to adjust, adapt, & be flexible.  and yeah, maybe a few things get put on hold for a while, but it's a small price to pay.  totally worth it.  totes.

today was one of those days where that reality of my life isn't really just my life anymore set in a bit.  i had my day planned out the minute i woke up.  11:00 - go to gym, 12:00 - lunch with a friend, 1:00 - visit work friends, 2:00 - errands, 3:00 - go home, parker naps & amy blogs.  parker wasn't having it.  by 10:45, my day was completely rearranged & plans were shuffled all around.  a baby who really needed to take a nap in his own crib & not while being toted around by his mama was snoring away in the nursery.  that's just the way it goes.

and you know what?  that's ok.  i can adjust, adapt, & be flexible.  but that doesn't mean i'm gonna stop doing things either.  that triathlon will just have to wait til next summer, & our trip to australia has now morphed into a four hour flight to hawaii.  i think we can handle that.

and now, for some messed up stuff.

you guys.  you guys.  i joined twitter.  WHAT?  i know.  i never use caps & there i just did.  this is serious!  i have never understood what the big deal was with twitter, twittering, tweets, & tweeting.  what is the deal with all those @'s and #'s and why does it always look like everyone is just talking to themselves?  and really, i still don't get it.  but i'm trying.  but i have virtually no followers so i kinda feel like all this great tweeting material is getting wasted in space {or, just my new live tweet feed on my sidebar}. 

oh, & ya know how i said i have virtually no followers?  i actually have four.  two are spam, i'm pretty sure & the other two are both mandy from harper's happenings {technically one is kidlet, her newest venture}.  thank you mandy for taking me under your tweeting wing & having mercy on a newbie. 

so, if you're a twittering fool puh-lease add me so i'm no longer tweeting into no man's land!  i would love to get to know ya'll.  find me at:

@amy_agoodlife

wanna know something else messed up?  today i saw a hitch hiker wearing a top hat.  i really wanted to pick him up because i thought he might be an illusionist.  parker gave me the side eye & then i thought i'd better not, but ooooh the blog post that experience might have made.  or it coulda been the end of this blogger.

we'll never know.


i do know that i love your votes.  we're in the forties now & still climbing.  huzzah!