Who needs light?

I feel like my house always has some kind of adventure going on, and today it just happened to be with the electricity (again). I got home from class around 11 and when I was about to shower the lights went out. At first I was thinking the breaker just had to be fixed, but after Anai tried to get the lights back on, we both knew the bill hadn't been paid. The first thought that came to my mind was, "great, now we're going to be without electricity again for another 3 days like what happened last time" (about a month ago). Anai called Norma explaining the issue...I guess they had thought the bill was paid, but it wasn't due to some "lack of funds" on the credit card. So after Anai and I took a shower, we headed downtown to the electricity place, paid, and asked when the electricity would be turned back on. The guy said probably not until tomorrow, so Anai did a little bit of begging so the guy gave us this number to call at 3:30 so this other guy would come and turn it back on.

Once we got home from downtown, we ate a really good lunch of milanesa, pasta, and salad and were anxiously waiting for 3:30 to arrive. There is seriously nothing to do here without electricity. So after lunch we sat out on the terraza and talked for a little while. Finally 3:30 rolled around and Anai called the guy, who happened to be in a meeting until 8 - oh shit is right. Luckily, the husband of the señora that works at our house knows how to fix the problem (illegally) without having someone from the company turn it back on. He couldn't come until around 6 so we again had more time to waste. It was good timing because Norma had just gotten done at work, so Anai, Miguel, and I went to go pick her up. She was so excited that we all came to get her...she was joking how there must be some reason that Anai & I came instead of watching TV or being on the computer...right away I told it was because there is nothing to do in the house haha. Seriously, not having electricity or anything to do definitely contributed to us eating all afternoon. We were sooo bored!

So thanks to illegal tricks, we now have electricity and I am able to entertain you with this post. Tonight, I was also supposed to meet with Sara and this girl from my class, Paulina, to talk about our upcoming presentation in our literature class. Paulina never showed up (luckily - because I didn't really feel like working on the project) so we left after waiting/talking for about a half hour. I forgot how much I missed walking around downtown Guanajuato at nighttime...it's really relaxing. That's about all my day consisted of. I didn't even think about writing a blog until Sarah told me to (we must be more consistent!). Turned out that I had quite the day ... oh Mexico... =]