waiting at costco.

this is super random, i'm warning you.

sam got his wisdom teeth out today so elliot & i picked up his prescriptions on the way home from the dentist while sam & parker waited in the car.  is there a better time for a photo shoot than when you have 20 minutes to kill in costco?  probably not.  so here it is.

also, i'm still doin the photo a day thing {day 99, say whaat?!} which means there are a lot of pictures that don't make the cut.  i'm trying to get better about only saving my very very very favorites but when every freaking picture of your kid makes you smile?  how do you delete them.  so this project is resulting in a backlog of at least 20 photos a day i don't want to delete.  they're piling up quick without a lot of time to edit or organize 'em.  whattya do?  post a few on your blog, i guess.

also, before we get to the photos, two more things:  1) i'm now watching x-files on hulu from beginning to end.  when i was little & this was on tv mulder & scully were so old.  now?  they're young.  so that's funny.  also, i thought this show wouldn't be creepy because it's all old & the effects are cheesy?  wrong.  but maybe watching it right before bed isn't the smartest either.

and 2) i'm back on twitter!  started a new account from square one today... if you tweet, read tweets or retweet tweets, check me out, say hi & follow!  i'm at https://twitter.com/amynielsonphoto with the new name @amynielsonphoto.  seriously, come find me because it's no fun tweeting if no one's there to catch your tweets.

^^ bribery will get me an extra 10 minutes.

^^ dropped it.  not happy about it.

^^prescription pager thing... aka: cell phone.

^^keeper of the list.

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!