As requested, more detail on the leisurely life....

Well, I am, almost at the end of week 2 "at the spa", and I am managing to not yet be bored! Generally my day consists of getting up when Jamie does, going down for breakfast with him and having either a small omelette or scrambled eggs and a leisurely read of the paper (not that it's hugely interesting - I find the USA Today is more like a news summary for school-age children than anything deep. I find it quite intriguing that the main headline of the day is usually not a news story but something else like 'foods that make you fat', 'everything you need to know about stem cell research' or 'why the current fascination with whether Hollywood stars are pregnant'). The paper-reading session usually lasts about half an hour after he has gone on his way and then I take a plastic bowl of fruit salad (today was mangoes and watermelon, yesterday was nectarines and pineapple) - I think it is a frozen mix as it is more mushy-tasting than super-fresh - and a blueberry yoghut and off I go back up to the room. Then to the e-mail or maybe some reading and about 10-ish I go to the gym for treadmilling and biking. At that time the morning rush is over and I can try and miss the weird super-skinny guy that comes in his lunchtime at 12 o'clock exactly, weighs himself, and then puts his legs that are about 1/4 the size of mine on the stepper-machine for 45minutes having changed the TV channel to 'Women's Entertainment'. I try and be out of there and into the pool by the time he gets there. There is another woman who comes about the same time as me and she says that this guy always changes the channel whereas her and I are both happy with CNN, Travel, FoodNetwork, talk shows or anything the other one wants but not WE and their 1940s slow, black and white movies! She works in a bar at a hotel across the road so I might have to drop by sometime and see how creative she is at making a non-alcoholic cocktail with no orange juice (boring) and no banana (yuk!). By the time I get back to the room the housekeeping people have made the bed (yay!) and it's about 1pm so more e-mail checking/work/reading/sorting out computer/paperwork/mail follow-up etc and a long leisurely bath to get rid of the pool chlorine. Lunch is the aforementioned snacks acquired from the breakfast buffet and appropriately chilled in the room fridge. There's generally some tidying, chores etc etc of some sort to be done somewhere along the line (but remember I'm trying to slow down and not be so hard-out as I used to be in my previous life in Auckland so these things can take a while!) and then it's almost time for Jamie to be back again (seeing as he finishes after 8 hours rather than like the other job where an 8 hour day was never 8 hours and could stretch to 10, 12 or 14 hours. So that's the current routine! Next week I will probably be out and about more as we met some of Jamie's colleagues' wives last night and they are planning some social events for me! Every day I am quite amazed that I actually have this opportunity to take 'time out' and be leisurely - these kind of times dont come too often in one's life so I am definitely enjoying it for now!!!