i'm so tired i didn't sleep a wink last night. why? let me tell you the highly amusing, yet to be over story behind why i didn't sleep last night.

not last night but the night before, the water went out. someone told us the city had run out of water and the reservoir was slowly filling. i dunno where they got this. but everyone filled buckets of water from the pool for the toilets and hector and henry sat out there and watched as the pool slowly emptied. i couldn't have a shower, and not being able to have a shower in this climate makes me grumpy. especially since i usually have two a day here. so the next morning i woke up hopeful that i could have a shower, but there was still no water. 7 yr old andre next door let it slip that denato had not paid his water bill and that was why there was no water. this made a bit more sense than the city running out of water thing. especially since everyone else had water but our building. so i had to wait it out, sat at my computer and went to check my email. i'd just sent out over 6000 emails the night before, email marketing campaign (spam) and usually i get about a hundred responses from a mailing of 1000, not to mention all the auto-replies and bounce-back messages. i didn't get a single piece of mail. i was like, what the fuck? checked all my other work accounts and none of them had had mail since the 24th. so i got on the phone with my hosting company and tried to tell them what the problem was but the phone kept cutting out because it's voice over ip and relies on the internet and our internet is all but reliable. there is reliable cable internet here in playa but for some reason cablemas refuses to install in this building. i think it might have something to do with denato. so we have the shit internet that we paid $600 for installation and the guy, from oklahoma, promised us that our voice over IP phones would work. they don't. so i can't get hold of my hosting company because they can't hear me on the phone. my mom calls the internet company, playawireless, and mr. oklahoma is on vacation in veracruz (who the fuck vacations away from playa del carmen, to the city of veracruz, i dunno) but his secretary will get him a message. so then finally the water comes back on, and i am so desperate to do laundry because the sand here clings to clothes like velcro, so i throw a load in the washing machine and go to the beach. johan and magalis are with us, staying for 6 days. they are from switzerland, i met them with john in july. so i put off my shower cause i will need one after swimming in the ocean anyway. we are at the beach for two hours and i came home to try calling my hosting company again and i finally get through and they say they will look into it. then i go to put my laundry in the dryer, and it turns out the laundry machine is broken. i have to manually fill it with water for the rinse cycle and turn it to the rinse cycle and it finally finishes and i throw it in the dryer. and hour later johan, magalis, my mom and dad are back from the beach and i'm about to make dinner and go to light the oven and there's no gas. i'm just fuming at this point and we decide to go out for dinner instead. i want to have a shower before we leave and was waiting for my clothes to dry so i could change into clean clothes. i checked them in the dryer, and they were still as wet as they'd been when i put them in the dryer an hour earlier. so the dryer is broken too. i'm like what the fuck next? i go to take a shower and of course there's only cold water because there is no gas with which to heat the water. i'm shivering when i get out, get into my only clean clothes which is a pair of kahky pants on some giant shirt i usually only wear to bed. and it was a hot day, not a day for pants at all. whatever. we all go out for dinner and come back and get drunk on the beach and then i come home and we notice the water is off again. i just threw up my arms and said "the water, the email, the phones, the washer and the dryer, the gas, what's next? the electricity?" and sure enough, as i sat down to write this last night, the electricity went out all night and i couldn't sleep because it was too hot without the A/C and the fan.

so now we still have no water, no gas and our washer and dryer are broken and my email sill isnt working. it was one of those incredible days, just beyond belief.

meanwhile, my brother met and hung out with mike boogie from big brother in cancun. blah.

to just a girl from LA, doggy pics will come soon, i've had some issues with my camera.

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