Rain Check

Sometimes laziness is a good thing. For instance my delaying on going outside and hanging my laundry was a particularly good thing as it has now started raining with some considerable force. It has accompanying thunder and lightning and is quite impressive given that last Sunday was outright hot. It is however disappointing. I had wanted to take another long walk tomorrow and it looks like I’ll have to wait on that.

I wasn’t feeling all that lazy on Monday and managed to walk from Deia to Soller which involves going over something the locals refer to as a mountain. People from Seattle would probably argue, but it went up very high none the less and was incredibly beautiful.

I’m getting restless. Deia is peaceful and lovely and idyllic and all these words are increasingly sounding like synonyms for the word ‘boring’. This may be caused by the hours I’ve been spending on my computer trying to update my resume and find some kind of lead on a job… but actually I think it’s what is inspiring the effort rather than the other way around. I suppose when one has children and a life built in it’s rather nice, even great, but when you have none of these things and really aren’t party person even if the party season were here, well Deia offers little more than scenery.

I finally made it to Valldemossa today. In a fit of ‘oh dear god I must get out of here’ I ran and caught the bus just as it was about to leave Deia. In the process I forgot to hang my laundry and grab my camera. I had been told it was a beautiful town but what caught my attention was the endless tourist shops with their sestas (woven bags) that didn’t have shoulder straps (unheard of) and so many expensive but crappy nock offs of the things actually made and used here that it made my head hurt including racks and racks of pearls that were so cheap I had to believe that they were plastic. However I finally did find a ‘pearl’ necklace and bracelet set in pink. Exactly the color that I had been looking for in order to give a certain three year old who has been known to call me Au-tie Ros-a-lind. So after realizing that I had half an hour before the bus and didn’t want to wait the four hours for the one after that, I went to the cash machine only to discover that it wasn’t going to let me near my money… neither was the next place and so, panicking slightly, I counted my change and after putting together enough for the bus home headed straight to the bus stop. This was fortunate as the bus decided to be twenty minutes early. I got home and had enough time to again not hang up the laundry while going online to find out what on earth was going on with my bank account (easily solved) before the skies opened up and POURED water onto the ground. It was accompanied by much wind as well as thunder and lightning.

I closed up all the storm shutters except the ones in the living room. Instead of closing them I just turned up the heater and sat and watched the storm roll out.