marriage is a $5 bottle of wine and velveeta macaroni on friday night...

This is the ridiculously intelligent conclusion Rob and I came to on Friday night, after returning from Home Depot to hang a shelf and finally set up lamps in our apartment. Also, we bought a vacuum cleaner on Friday. We live on the edge out here, obviously.

Okay, important things first, then on to our exciting weekend recap. I am an employed member of society again! In the past 4 days, I've managed to get hired at 2 different jobs! On Friday morning, I heard back from a tutoring service I'd applied to and was assigned my first student. I met with the owner at Starbucks on Sunday afternoon and we worked out all the details. Tomorrow evening is my first tutoring session with a 5th grade boy- so far I know that we are working on spelling, basic math and organizational skills. His teacher is already talking about holding him back, so I may have my work cut out for me. I'll be meeting with him 3 evenings each week and will hopefully pick up more students in time--the hourly pay works out to be higher than what I was making hourly at AHA! This afternoon, I also heard back from Rolly Pollies- the children's gym I was stalking for a while last week in hopes of a job. Luckily, they have sorted out their new management issues and I start tomorrow morning in training! I am helping teach an hour long class for kids that just started walking, followed by an hour long class for two-year olds. I also am working an open gym on Wednesday and then 3 birthday parties this weekend :)

Also, an update: later this week, Rob is retesting part of his stage check test that he took last week. There was some crazy failure in communication between the instructor that he flew with for the test and the chief flight instructor and it sounds like he is really looking forward to finishing this portion of the schooling out this week and getting it behind him.

Now, back to the weekend excitement. On Saturday, we drove down to Tucson to visit Evan, a friend from home who has been in Arizona for the past few months working at the Caterpillar test site (he is an engineer for the company). At one point on the drive down, the highway signs switched from miles to kilometers...apparently we were only 20 miles from the border! Evan took us to Mt. Lemon. We did a lot of driving up to the top and stopped at a few lookout points along the way. (Pictures to come as soon as we find Rob's camera!) It was beautiful...you would never think of ski slopes and pine trees in Arizona, but I promise you they were there. At the base of the mountain it was about 80 degrees and at the top about 50. (I think my blood is thinning already...I was cold!) It was about 10,000 feet elevation--and we passed a good number of people biking up along the road. Crazy!! We had dinner with Evan at an amazing pizza restaurant called Frog N Firkin on Arizona University's campus. It was in an area that reminded me a lot of Miami's uptown. Final conclusion to tie back to the title: even though we are cheap, we are still classier than we were in college. College is a box of wine; marriage is a bottle. :)