Date of birth: February 15th, 1972 (the day after Valentine's Day!)

Place of birth: Fort Benning, Georgia. (My family moved out three months later, and lived in Hawaii, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, then finally California.

Hair: Auburn (sort of redwood coloured)

Eyes: Brownish-hazel (once called "tiger eyes" by a cosmetician-cool!)

Height: 5'4"

Family Background: My father is from Vancouver, B.C. (now lives in Seattle). He used to be a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army. Mother: from the English-speaking region of Montreal. Works for Quantum.

Interests: travel, cats, cooking/recipe collecting, music, movies, art, fitness, stamp and coin collecting, nightclubs, browsing though the internet, etc.

Here is a picture of me and my mother, taken at a restaurant on my 23rd birthday.