1. What was your best day of the week last week and why?

That would be a toss-up between Fur­lough Fri­day and Sat­ur­day. On Fri­day, I took a ride up into the foothills with a life­long friend. We stopped for lunch at a cute lit­tle pizze­ria called Paisano’s (it was our sec­ond visit there) before head­ing on to the pawn shop in Jack­son. I did not buy any bling this time, but my friend did. I also pur­chased a ring for a good friend who lives in another state but is in the process of mov­ing back to Cal­i­for­nia. She wanted to take advan­tage of the Feb­ru­ary sale — all prices are reduced by 25 per­cent! So they both got great buys. I did not see any­thing I really wanted. Besides, I am sav­ing all of my money for my upcom­ing trip to New York City where I will again be per­form­ing at Carnegie Hall with the Stock­ton Con­cert Band.

On Sat­ur­day, I had brunch with three very long-time friends at Mimi’s Cafe in Elk Grove. We had a deli­cious meal and great conversation.

2. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone with­out sleep?

Prob­a­bly two to three days. In col­lege, I was known as “The Queen of the All-Nighter.” I was noto­ri­ous for cut­ting class much of the semes­ter. Then I stayedg up all day and all night before the final in order to cram into my brain all of the infor­ma­tion I was sup­posed to have learned dur­ing the term. Then I would take the final exam, come home, and collapse.

That was a pretty suc­cess­ful strat­egy until I began law school. Then I had to study the old fash­ioned way, i.e., daily, and attend class regularly.

3. Is how old you look and/or how old you feel right now dif­fer­ent from your actual age?

Peo­ple tell me that I don’t look my age. Are they just flat­ter­ing me? Yeah, some­times I’m sure that they are. But I do have a hard time say­ing my real age out loud because I don’t feel that I look that old and I sure don’t feel it. From time to time I do look in the mir­ror and expe­ri­ence a jolt! I won­der who that old lady in the mir­ror is. Then I have to accept that I am, in fact, look­ing at my own reflection.

I cheer up when I con­tem­plate the obvi­ous: The alter­na­tive is worse.

4. Tell about a snow­ball fight you had.

Wow, what year would that have been? Prob­a­bly 1991 … that’s the last time I remem­ber being in snow. We took #1Son, who was almost four years old, to see and play in snow. Big­Bob spent the after­noon rid­ing down the hill on an inner tube with him. I felt unwell, so I stayed at the bot­tom of the hill snap­ping pic­tures and cap­tur­ing some video footage.

Not long after that, I dis­cov­ered the rea­son I didn’t feel well and lacked energy. Mat­tieBoo arrived on Novem­ber 16, 1991.

5. Where is the best hid­ing place you know of?

Right here in my cozy home. I am quite good at hid­ing out here when I want to relax, unwind, and not social­ize. The phone calls can go to voice mail and the emails read later.

6. What extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ties did you do while at school?

You could always find me in the music and drama depart­ments. Through­out my school years, I sang in the var­i­ous choirs, was a mem­ber of the band for sev­eral years (play­ing clar­inet), par­tic­i­pated in all of the tal­ent and vari­ety shows, and was some­how involved in most of the plays, work­ing back­stage if I was not per­form­ing. I was also an edi­tor of and con­trib­u­tor to both the high school news­pa­per and yearbook.

7. Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this pic­ture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

That reminds me of my boys. They like to feign shy­ness when they know that I am try­ing to snap a photo of them. Then we end up with pho­tos like this clas­sic from MattieBoo’s 16th birth­day din­ner at our favorite Mex­i­can restaurant:

Visit Manic Mon­day to see the list of other par­tic­i­pants and read their responses. Curi­ous as a Cat asks par­tic­i­pants to “Show and Tell” each week. Check out who else is playing!

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