Dobleve

Our first year or so in Spain was in many ways exhausting. The simplest acts of shopping or doing any kind of transaction took amazing amounts of patience and energy. As we are settling in we are taking on increasingly difficult tasks in Spanish, like buying a car or going before a Spanish hearing officer with a consumer complaint, for example. But, with that increased confidence and relaxed vigilance still come some of the simplest mistakes. Just when you think you can stop paying such fierce attention all the time you realize, among other things, that you’ve been conditioning your hair with hand lotion for a week; you accidentally buy 4lbs. of fish (for 2 people) because you miscalculated the pounds to kilo conversion; and you figure out that you’ve renewed your dog’s antibiotics prescription instead of his pain pills, three times in a row…