National Waiters and Waitresses Day May 21st !

Greetings!

Today is the day set aside to remember and celebrate those wonderful people who work so hard to serve you food and drink and fun times, 365 day a year! They work on all the Holidays and for the majority, their vacations are not paid time off. Most of them really do like or love their job, and they try to do what it takes to make you happy. They are in the largest non-government industry in America. They are your waiters and waitresses! (I would include bartenders here as well!)

I wanted to have this here yesterday when it was May 21st where I am . but I wanted to make sure that our promotional special was here before I did this and it is! Click here to see the great deal on the movie! I was thinking about this special day a lot yesterday and when I get back I am going to look into seeing what it takes to make this a known day on a bigger scale. It seems like it might be impossible to do, but I really think that making a movie was almost impossible too, but I did it with what I believe was truly Divine intervention--after all, it wasn't my idea to make a movie! But I jumped in and there it is. I love the emails that I get that say the story of the movie has inspired them to do something that they had put off!! Yippee!

I seem to just jump into things in my life and that brings me to want to say again why I am here in New Zealand. You might think that I made a lot of money on the movie or someone is supporting me to travel all around... Nothing is farther from the truth! I will still have to work to hit broke, but as anyone who knows me will testify, I am the Queen and I mean the Queen of frugality--did you know that you can get over 10 meals from one chicken? But I digress... I saw that there were opportunities here and since I absolutely loved it when I was here for a month 10 years ago (flexible schedule... ), I jumped in. If not for my air miles that were going to expire, I would still be on the farm in Wisconsin in my camper. But I thought what the heck and I'm here. It really is amazing here with all the resources to do work in exchange for room and board. You can work on organic farms or in hostels or in so many other places, and be fed and have a roof over your head! It's great! I am going to be moving on from here and will miss these wonderful people and their farm. But I will keep in touch. Wwoofing and work exchange is the only way I am here-- as I said before prices are through the roof and many of the Kiwis are even having trouble making ends meet. It's pretty interesting how they handle things though and I love so much about this place.

I have no idea about where I am headed to next, but I know that it will be wonderful. With the beauty and scenery, how could it not be! Even as I sit on a rainy and cold day in fall, I know that something great will show up and I will have more fun adventures! Well, I hope that you are especially nice to your waiters and waitresses and bartenders today and what the heck, make it a habit! (And nice doesn't always mean just a bigger tip, be creative and do something special!) I think we might even put a place on the site where you can tell about those special people who mean somthing more than just a server to you! Well have a great day and remember the Golden Rule!

Kia Ora,