Learning more about each other day by day, that's marriage and travel. Some things previously private now shared : bodily functions and female beauty routines - Mark is learning waxing skills ( underarms), how to react to a french hair cut that wasn't exactly what I asked for and lastly but not by any means least how to spend joint money .( Oh dear i might be too old for this one or too set in my ways, help! )
A couple of tense moments which is to be expected considering we eat, sleep, work and travel together. Challenges have been small and around levels of patience when shopping and trying to find baking soda and cream cheese in a French supermarket only to discover that they don't exist! Driving ....the cause of many a divorce and a test of many a relationship in a foreign country when driving on the right hand side of the road in a left hand drive vehicle. To date Mark has taken on the task of driving so I will say nothing until such time I get up the courage to drive which will be soon as Jon wants us to do the pastry run in the morning to the local Patisserie before breakfast.
Being organised and directed by two men .... well what more can I say...... autonomy lost .... Initially it was a little foreign to me having been a woman who has worked for herself for numerous several years . All part of the experience and at the end of the day there is always compromise...isn't there ? :) Seriously though Jon is very flexible, easy going and easy to work for. Mark on the other hand...tee he ....
The ability to escape has been limited up until recently during the settling in phase and defining of roles . Private , individual time can be hard to slot in but now that we take turns at doing the breakfast we can both enjoy a lie in on alternate days or some time to ourselves whilst waiting on the guests for breakfast or waiting for them to get up to eat breakfast. As time passes we are both finding our niche and some individual space .
We have both started exercising to relieve the tension ( Mark more so than me!) , no not at all...to keep fit of course . Jon has loaned me a rowing machine which is mindless exercise with a picturesque view , looking out at the Chateau. Mark has set up a work out area with bricks, tree stumps, branches of tree's and what ever else he can find on the property to lift, punch , kick ! Some of the guests children just spotted Mark in his shorts only, ipod in , doing pull ups on a tree branch ...funny!
Generally speaking we are living and working together harmoniously being the easy going people we are !
Perhaps this posting may spur Mark into writing a post for the blog.
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