1) I grew up in Northern California
2) I don’t surf (that’s So Cal, yo!)
3) I can ski and snowboard, but not exceptionally well
4) I spent nine years on the east coast, but then moved back to CA
5) I did competitive dance from age 2.5 to 17
6) I performed in the 1988 World Expo as a dancer
7) I played piano for several years.
8) I can still play a few pieces and can pseudo-sight-read (easy pieces, that is)
9) I wish I could play the violin
10) I was on the swim team when I was little, but wasn’t a particularly good swimmer
11) In 1990, I had an “extra” role in an Argentine Soap Opera
12) I earned Girl Scout’s equivalent of the Eagle, called the Gold Award
13) At age 18, I took up recreational ice-hockey
14) My husband is from Maine, but cannot ice-skate
15) I met my husband through a co-ed Greek Society
16) The majority of our dating was online, which is good because for our first in-person date, I ended up with salsa on my butt since he set our nachos down on my seat when I got up to cheer at a hockey game.
17) We were engaged two months after we started dating
18) We have been married 5 years (May 2000)
19) We have two sons (The Cat was born Jan 2001, Spliggle in July 2004)
20) My extended family has 15 boys and 3 girls (and another boy is on the way)
21) As a result, my aunt as offered to pay for any of us to “spin” for a girl
22) I am undecided as to whether to take my aunt up on her offer
23) I love sushi, naan, Swiss cheese with baguette, salmon w/ cream cheese & caviar, and anything spicy
24) I prefer appetizers to entrees, and am a carb-o-holic. I could definitely live on bread, cheese, and wine.
25) On the dessert side, I like maple donuts, custard, and mint-chocolate-chip ice-cream
26) In my college cafeteria, I used to put soft-serve chocolate ice-cream in a glass, then fill it with orange juice and mix it up. Cheers!
27) I also used to take alfredo sauce and tomato sauce and mix those together to pour over my pasta
28) My favorite pizza in college was walnut-cheese sauce instead of tomato sauce, with asparagus and shrimp on top.
29) I am a Presbyterian, believe in God, pray every night, and go to a women’s group at Church
30) But I am liberal, pro-choice, pro-gay-rights, and respect the major world religions to the point where I have considered conversion.
31) When I was in high-school, I thought that I would be a novelist when I grew up
32) But then I had a fabulous biology teacher that encouraged me to go into science
33) I waffled among medicine, psychology, and research science
34) I have been published in scientific journals
35) I attended graduate school in neuroscience
36) I should have done something else
37) Now I do accounting for my younger brother’s company and do web-design for some of his clients. (My younger brother is my boss! Ack!)
38) I am shy initially, but when given the opportunity, will talk too much.
39) I used to be afraid of roller-coasters, but now I cannot get enough!
40) I have been to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Fiji
41) I want to go to Europe, especially Norway, as I have ancestry there.
42) I used to be able to speak Spanish, but I was so nervous about practicing in front of others that I forgot most of it
43) One of my best friends in high school was my Spanish teacher
44) I am a big reality show junkie
45) I love musicals (Rent and Wicked top my favorites right now, but Guys & Dolls, Fosse, Phantom of the Opera, and Chicago also hold a place in my heart.)
46) Celebrities I’ve met (meaning shook hands, talked to, or other close contact): Bart Conner, Hannah Storm, the late Alan Cranston, Matt Biondi, Natalie Coughlin, the late Jean Pierre Rampal (got a kiss from him!), Isaac Stern, Peter Coyote, Kate Kelly, Danny from NKOTB (back in the day!), Thora Birch (but I didn’t know it was she when I was actually talking to her. Duh.), Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Peter Lindbergh (the photographer: because he shot a Reebok ad that I was in with my hockey teammates.) Babysat for Art Thoms’ kids.
47) Celebrities I’ve been in the same room with (excluding concert halls and other super-large venues): Colin Powell, Gorbachev, Queen Noor, Barbara Boxer, Danny DeVito & Rhea Perlman (sat in back of them during a movie), Jeannine Garofolo, (same movie = Mystery, Alaska premiere), everyone in Mystery, Alaska like Russell Crowe & Scott Grimes, Gary Bettman (invited to Mystery, Alaska premiere.)
48) Concerts I’ve attended: NKOTB (dare I even admit it?), Bobby McFerrin, Vangelis, MC Lyte, George Michael, Eddie from Ohio, Dave Matthews, R.E.M., U-2 (with No Doubt as opener), Jimmy Buffet, Duran Duran, James Taylor, Peter Gabriel
49) I know there are more in the above 3 categories, but have to keep thinking!
50) Favorite perfume = Ralph Lauren’s Lauren Style
51) Favorite restaurants in NYC: Jackson Hole, Fire & Ice, Patsy’s Pizzeria. And I only went to it once – but Petrossian (featured on The Apprentice!) was amazing. Too bad I was pregnant at the time, so couldn’t have (much) caviar.
52) Favorite restaurants in Providence, RI : Adesso’s, Agora, Geoffrey’s sandwiches, Capital Grille
53) Favorite restaurants in San Francisco, CA: Macho Man Burgers (in the Castro), Patio Café, Boulevard, some random unnamed sushi place
54) Favorite restaurants in Ft. Lauderdale, FL: H2O, ZanZbar, Hooters
55) Favorite restaurants in Boston, MA: Elephant Walk, Rosebud Diner, Gargoyles
56) I have one cat
57) I used to have two; the other (my favorite: mellow, soft, black one) ran away one evening when the Cat had a night terror and was being screechy
58) We have two fish. Used to have four
59) The Cat wants a dog.
60) Husband wants a dog
61) I do not want a dog
62) Favorite color = dark bluish purple
63) Favorite color to wear = light pink (used to be black, but I’ve flipped a bit)
64) Eye color = brown and green
65) Hair color = um. Used to be (naturally) strawberry-blonde. Now a combination of dark brown and light blonde.
66) I have dyed my hair dark red before, but never darker.
67) Skin color = pasty white, with a bunt farmer’s tan (shudder!)
68) Two ex-boyfriends are on my BlogRoll
69) One doesn't know it yet
70) My least-favorite question is “What do you want for dinner?”
71) I want a Caspian Blue Metallic Mercedes SLK 350 Roadster with black leather
72) I drive a Desert Rock Metallic Honda Odyssey minivan with tan leather. I absolutely love it (despite dreaming of a convertible)
73) I tried hard to justify buying an SUV to be cool, but I couldn’t. The new Lexus Hybrid (400h), for example, doesn’t seat enough (I wanted to have kids, parents, and grandparents all in one vehicle) and the DVD player screen is smaller than in the Odyssey.
74) My cousins – who all have SUVs – tease me about the minivan
75) My cousins bought me a “cooler” diaper bag because I was embarrassing them with my “got it from the hospital free pastel bag”
76) I like golf polos (no checked pants, please!) but don’t play golf… yet.
77) I like the patterns on men’s shirts more than women’s, but am petite so cannot wear men’s sizes.
78) I look dopey in baseball caps when I have long hair, but they look pretty cute when I have short hair.
79) I thought calculus was really interesting in high school, but I was horrific at actually doing the problems

80) I like sunsets better than sunrises
81) I like campfires, but not camping
82) I love hockey, but don’t really have a die-hard team that I root for. I currently support the Sharks.
83) I enjoy baseball, but usually only in person
84) I have only been to one NFL game, though I watch many on TV, play fantasy football, and have gone to lunch in the players’ cafeteria at a football training camp (49ers, long long time ago, when they were actually good.) I was invited to go to a SuperBowl with the Niners, but my dad said I had to stay home to study for finals. My dad went. (His brother worked for the Niners.)
85) I like McDonalds for burgers, In N Out for shakes, Jack in the Box for their Monster Taco and onion rings, Del Taco for fish tacos, Round Table for pizza, and KFC for chicken littles (when they have them) and biscuits.
86) I have had four surgeries under GA, four more under Local, all for varying and unrelated reasons, none of them serious.

87) Three local surgeries were within 2 months of each other. So I ended up with a cast on my arm (from digital nerve repair after slicing my finger while cooking) and walking funny (from two surgeries to remove abnormal moles on my upper legs, one of which later became very infected.)
88) One of my scariest moments was holding the Cat while he went under GA for some dental work. It was frightening to see him start to hallucinate, then his body collapse.
89) Labor with the Cat was hellacious




90) Labor with Spliggle was significantly better
91) I don’t have any tattoos
92) I don’t have piercings other than my ears
93) I wish I were skinny enough to have a bellybutton ring
94) And a small-of-the-back tattoo
95) But am not sure what the tattoo would be of (which is why I have none!)
96) My first kiss was with a boy from whom I got chicken pox
97) My junior prom date turned out to be gay
98) I was the first to call the fire department when the hill behind our house caught fire when I was small
99) I once awakened to a cow at my window with others grazing on our front yard. We do not live on or near a farm.
100) I convinced a friend to poop in our backyard because we were having so much fun playing that to go inside to use the restroom would have ruined everything. (We were probably around 7.)