Many of you know that my spiritual gift is making a short story long, so here goes! This is a story about my daughter, Ashley~At Christmas time she was home enjoying her family when she got a text from the restaurant where she works in LA saying that they were not going to reopen for the new year because the economy was so shaky! That made her more than a little shaky!
Luckily, she is good with money. (Being poor has its advantages. When you can’t buy everything for your kids, they learn to wait for things and to make do with less. Not a bad thing.) Ashley had some savings in the bank, and because the restaurant closed, she was able to get unemployment, which wouldn’t keep the wolf away from the door just keep her from having pups!
Ashley diligently went looking for jobs, but with current economic conditions, a lot of places weren’t hiring. Two months into her personal famine, I received a letter in the mail from her past employer notifying her that she was owed back wages of $675. The day I called her, she told me she was at an all-time low, which hardly happens to my positive-thinking youngest child.
“I was just praying,” she confided. “I told God I really needed His help because rent was due and I didn’t know how I was going to come up with it. It’s amazing I got this letter now, right when I really needed it. I haven’t worked for Weight Watchers in over 2 years. Mom,” she stated soberly, “Do you know how much I owe in rent? $675!”
Not only that, Ashley told her agent that without the restaurant she really needed to step up her auditions. Like so many people in LA, Ash was waiting tables hoping to break into the entertainment business and praying that her ship would come in before her teeth fell out! Her agent obliged and got her an audition for an Altoid commercial.
Ashley got the job!!! Here is the commercial, and it’s so cute! She’s the beautiful blond who “Likes A Lot,” a role that totally fits her. Last Friday it had 5K hits today it has 45K! That has a lot to do with me telling everyone in the free world to play it lots so she can quit eating ketchup sandwiches like Dolly Parton did before her big break!
http://www.facebook.com/l/232e2sCSDzdy55veVPSJpZSUQTw/www.youtube.com/user/Altoids
Let me know what you think!
Blessings~
Linda