Online Woes

I was very frustrated last night after spending the better part of the day online looking for things I can only get online. I did a great job of eating healthy until my mom called and said she and my dad and my one sister who was supposed to go to her house were coming over. It is my absolute favorite thing to have my family over to my house so we ordered my favorite food (Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza) and I made chocolate chip cookies. So by 9:30, I was too tired to walk on the treadmill but wanted to do something because I was feeling less than skinny. When I was online looking for Zumba dvds that were affordable, a thought struck me. YouTube! I could look for a video, try and do it or see how often I do it and start moving while seeing if it would be worth the money. The good news is I found a bunch of pretty good videos. The bad news is that the only connection I get is in my kitchen or my living room...both wide open to my neighbors. I can only imagine what it looked like I was doing and I will apologize to my three neighbors that can see right in my kitchen. It actually makes me laugh to think about what they saw (me with my arms flailing...looking like I was dancing like Elaine from Seinfeld). The other bad news was only bad for me...this computer freezes about every 5 minutes so just when I'd feel my heart rate raise, it would freeze and I'd have to reboot. Leo promised me that this week he is fixing my old, new computer but in the meantime...super frustrating.

Isabella is in dance. She loves, loves, loves it. It is expensive but if she loves it I am willing to pay (just like every travel sport we pay for that the boys love). The thing that bugs me is that we had to pay for her costume for the recital. I can't remember how much I paid for it because I am constantly shelling out money between the three kids but I do remember being mad about how much it was (I want to say it was $70 but could be wrong). Along with the note about paying for the costume was a note that said we had to get shoes that were $35 and tickets were $22 a piece. Bug, bug, bugged me. The only place to get the shoes is online at Target and when I went to get them, I clicked on a size 6 and they sent a 6.5M. I wanted Belle to just make do but they were too big. She tried on a 5.5 at her friend's and they were too small so she really did need the 6. I went back online yesterday, clicked on size 6 and saw that when it went in the shopping cart, it said 6.5M. How frustrating is that?? There was no size 5.5 for me to get in case that was how it worked. Click on a size and the size up is what you get. How ridiculous is that, though, if the website was like that? So today, I will be back online talking to someone at Target.com or looking at other sites for shoes she will probably wear once (saying a little prayer in hopes that Gia will love dance, too).

Again, the time change is wreaking havoc over here. It was so annoying that every time I told the kids that they had to go to bed (or to sleep), I was met with, "Well the clock says____ but it's really only____." Everyone was dragging their feet this morning and Gia, sweet, Gia is all messed up. It's like she doesn't know what hit her and is really crabby. On the upside, I might be able to get her to take two naps today. In any case, she is in for a day of Zumba on YouTube since it will probably take all day to get my computer to give me a full workout.