My husband Jeff and I live in the boondocks......30 miles north of Sacramento, at the base of the world's smallest mountain range: the Sutter Buttes. Nothing is close except a pack of coyotes that we hear nightly. So when we learned that a new Chinese restaurant was opening in Wheatland (population 2300) we were excited to try it out.

The won ton soup and Kung Pao chicken were excellent. And, the fortune cookies had real fortunes.....not mini lectures or vague promises, like so many fortune cookies disappointingly hold nowadays.

My fortune was: You will be unusually successful in business.

The key words, of course, are: unusually successful. The fortune did not say financially successful or famously successful.

Wow! That fortune was right on. Anyone who does voiceovers for a living has an unusual life.....by most standards.

I do not to sit in an office, I do not work 8 to 5 , nor do I answer to a supervisor, but most importantly: I do not have someone else deciding how much money I am going to earn.

Success is living life on your own terms and being a voiceover talent has afforded me the opportunity to be unusually successful.

Check out the great food and fortune cookies at Wonderful Chinese Restaurant on Highway 65 in Wheatland. You won't be disappointed.