{"id":370,"date":"2009-10-05T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/a-lovely-weekend\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:59:07","slug":"a-lovely-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/a-lovely-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lovely Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely weekend. My uncle Marcus and aunt Valerie took me to lunch on Friday in celebration of my birthday (yes, I believe in extending the celebration!). Friday evening, I performed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e22cafe.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">E-22 Caf\u00e9<\/a>, and felt good about my performance. I was in good voice and had abundant energy, thankfully! Thanks to OD for sitting in and playing congos with me all night! Thanks to Sundra and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amynix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy<\/a> (who\u2019s performing at the caf\u00e9 this Friday \u2013 check her out!), as well as Dave, Deborah and Kevin, and Mr. and Mrs. Pascual for coming to see me perform again!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After teaching Saturday morning, I had intended to drive to Sacramento, but thanks to insufficient sleep, didn\u2019t think it wise to make that drive alone. I wanted to go support my niece Naomi in her modeling debut! Naomi was invited to model in a fashion show fundraiser in support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childcancer.org\/chapters\/roseville\" target=\"_blank\">Keaton Raphael Memorial Foundation<\/a>, a charity devoted to helping families as the confront childhood cancer. Naomi has been a cover model for KRM and a recipient of their generosity. Although I wasn\u2019t able to attend, I got reports that Ms. Naomi was FIERCE! Knowing my precious angel of a niece as I do, I\u2019m certain that she WORKED the runway! ; &gt;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Saturday night, I was back at Marcello\u2019s in Danville. What a lively house it was this weekend! Familiar faces and new friends enjoyed themselves as I played and sang my usual wide variety of songs. I\u2019ve got to start incorporating some of my own songs into my set list. Maybe I\u2019ll start with 1 or 2 and see how it goes. Thanks to my steadfast supportes Michael and Evie, and Solomon, my new friends Roger, Katie, Calvin, Tina, Dan and his wife (oops, forgot her name\u2026chagrined am I), Matt, Jim, Carro, Gio, John and Linda. I had a great time and hope to see you all again soon!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After working all weekend, I celebrated my birthday again with Amy and her mom Marlene (ah, the celebration continues!). They treated me to lunch and invited me to a movie, but I had to get back into the studio to work on tracks. It\u2019s a busy studio week for me. Last night I finished 2 tracks! 3 more to go before Friday! I\u2019m so happy to be getting back into creative mode after a long, long, long hiatus. : &gt;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_CVEzz0Co-pg\/Ss46oKiDlgI\/AAAAAAAAAv8\/IJfXJ3eOAb0\/s200\/DSCN1721.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390310265705436674\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely weekend. My uncle Marcus and aunt Valerie took me to lunch on Friday in celebration of my birthday (yes, I believe in extending the celebration!). Friday evening, I performed at E-22 Caf\u00e9, and felt good about my performance. I was in good voice and had abundant energy, thankfully! Thanks to OD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}