Day in the life

Slowly getting into a normal schedule here. Last night and the night before I pretty much slept straight through, went to bed at 2am and woke up around 10/10:30. Somehow I'm still pretty tired all the time; T's coworker said it will take us about a week to get adjusted.

The days go by pretty fast here. We get up, go to breakfast, hang out in the room and watch TV or take a walk around the hotel grounds, then T goes to work and I start my work. Later in the afternoon once everyone's up in the States I usually Skype with my family/friends or chat on

IM/Facebook for a bit, eat dinner and then after T gets home we go to the gym. I've realized that if I go to bed too early I get up in the middle of the night so staying up later has worked so far.

Since we've been so tired and waking up late, there's no time to do any shopping or sightseeing before he has to go to work, and neither of us feel comfortable with me wandering on my own just yet, especially since I don't have a working cell phone (we're going to the store again this wknd to get the SIM card so I can actually use it). Once we are feeling better and getting up at a normal time we can do some short excursions during the week, even just to go outside of the hotel for lunch or something. I think I mentioned before that our hotel is kind of in the boonies; from what I can tell it's at least a 20 min cab ride to the city center so it's not like we can just pop out and go somewhere easily, especially when there's only a couple of hours between breakfast and when the car comes to pick him up for work. His company has everyone stay here because of the proximity to the office, but otherwise the location kind of suck

s. I can't complain though, because it is a really nice hotel.

I'm looking forward to the weekend when we'll have our driver all day Sat/Sun and can do some exploring. One of T's Indian coworkers also offered to take us out and show us around the city so that would be cool.

So yeah, I'm afraid there's nothing exciting to report since I've spent all week in the hotel, although I did go to the spa here yesterday. I got a neck and back massage and it was really cheap (equivalent of $33 with tip - crazy). I went through the spa menu and they have eyebrow threading for Rs 50, which is about a DOLLAR! I'm definitely getting mine done tomorrow or Friday. The masseuse did a great job, although she was wicked strong - wasn't really expecting that since she was so small! It was kind of random because they didn't play any music in the treatment room like they do in other spas I've been to, although they were playing the same instrumental version of "White Flag" in the lobby of the spa, hahaha. I thought I had escaped this song because they didn't play it at breakfast yesterday, but then I heard it at the spa and again this morning at breakfast, lol.

I went down to get a snack a little while ago and browsed through the little shop in the lobby. I had only went in once really quick but today I looked through everything and they have some really pretty table linens, purses and handmade journals. The prices were good but I know I can get things cheaper at the markets so I'm going to wait and compare. Plus the mosquitos were getting on my nerves (yes, there are mosquitos even during the day, and inside). However, I did end up buying a set of really pretty handpainted notecards. The photo doesn't do them justice.

So today I'll leave you with this: an interesting commercial they play all the time here, and one of my other fave Bollywood videos.