Gareth got a job!

Just a week ago, Gareth was all discouraged because no one was calling him back about his job applications. Then suddenly today, TWO job offers came in! It's feast or famine out there people.

So starting Tuesday at 8:30am, Gareth is a service technician/odd job man for a fitness equipment company. It sounds like he's going to be working with really nice people in a small family business environment. He'll be able to ride his bike to work again, and will not have to do any traveling like he used to do. It should be a real nice fit for him.

The best thing about working in New Zealand, however, will be all the time off. In addition to the eleven (11!) statutory holidays, Gareth gets four weeks (4 weeks!!) of vacation and five days of sick leave. And his new boss also let him know that there will be ten minute tea breaks every morning. "It's the law..." We can get used to laws like this.

No sooner did Gareth get a job offer than we were at the mall spending his future income. We had been desperately wanting to buy a stereo, as we had been listening to music on the laptop computer since we moved out of our house in December. This is no way for music lovers to live. But we were trying to be conservative with our spending until at least one of us secured a job. So today, Gareth got a job offer at 2:00 and by 4:00, we had this:

Johnny Cash is singing to us right now. It's wonderful.