All is not well in Terrapinia....

If your kids ask you to buy them UB Funkeys, I say run away as fast as you can from that store aisle! You don't know what I'm talking about? Consider yourself lucky!

Here is the official description of these little guys that I got from the Mattel website:

U.B. Funkeys™ - the collectable figures that unlock a virtual world filled with games and items. Each Funkey that you collect unlocks new zones.
Play the games in the zones you unlock to earn coins to
buy items you can customize your “crib” with.
Post your virtual world crib online for all of your friends to see!

Sounds like loads of fun, right? Not if you are a parent with limited computer skills. (And on a side note, that last line of the description talking about posting online, we don't do that in this household. We just play the games. They also have chat rooms for these things. Another big no-no here!)

Okay back to why I was about to pull my hair out this morning over these things. Those little guys cost around $5 each. The boys like to buy them with their allowance money every now and then. We were at Target last night, and Connor bought one with some of his Christmas money. The problem is that each time they come out with a new "set", they don't work. You have to call their customer service line and download new "portals." Yep, you heard me....portals. So I have done this a few times now, and each time it takes me an hour or so to get it to work. It is a major pain, but I have got them to work each time. Not today. That little guy front and center in my picture just doesn't want to cooperate. I was on the phone with customer service for over an hour this morning trying to get this new portal to download. Won't work. After my last 30 minutes of doing who knows what on my computer the guy told me I would have to uninstall the program and then reinstall it. Sounds not too difficult right? Well if I do this, the boys could lose all of their progress in all the other games they have played on this thing. Plus there are 23 pages of download instructions to follow. 23 Pages!!!! Needless to say I hung up the phone and announced to Connor that we will not be able to welcome any new Funkeys in our house. We can only play the old ones. The new ones won't work anymore for the simple fact that your mother can not handle the stress of trying to get these downloads to work anymore.
I. JUST. CAN'T. DO. IT.

So how is your day going?

(And a note to all my scrapping friends out there, yes this is my 365 picture for today. One day I will look back on this and laugh. Right?)