Saturday, 21 February 2009

•  1. Who was your FIRST prom date? I asked David C. to my senior prom. He was a sophomore in college and had been in my church youth group. (We used to tease our youth leaders that I was going to have 13 kids and never get married and that David was going to father six of them. They kept an eye on us all year after that!) We had a good time, but rather than go to post-prom we came home and hung out with my mom. She was a lot more fun!

  
  2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? He just added me as a friend on Facebook. I hadn’t talked to him for eons before that.
  
  3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink? (Is there a statute of limitations on confessing such things at age 42 in the presence of your mother?) My first drink was a carbonated screwdriver with Sunkist orange soda and vodka when I was 15-16 and on an overnight trip with Highsteppers (drum and baton corps). I remember that the soda machine in the hotel kept dispensing two Sunkist for the price of one. One of the girls took the leftovers on the bus and we constructed a straw that reached across three seats (take a sip… pinch it off… take a sip… pinch it off). My dad was driving the bus and asked me what all the fuss was in the back of the bus. I am ashamed to say I lied right to his face and made up something on the spot. Needless to say, I was too terrified to participate in the shenanigans after that.
  
  4. What was your FIRST job? My first job was the job I had second longest (I worked in my families grocery store for 14 years). I got a paper route at age 9. Actually, between Marie and me we had three routes that we walked every morning, rain or shine, sleet or snow. We woke up at 4-4:30 and made it home by 6-6:30 to get ready for school. This job paid for my first car and my first two years of college. I quit the routes when I was 21. 
  
  5. What was your FIRST car? A black1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88. My friends referred to it as the Batmobile. I had black and white dice hanging from the rearview mirror, and a purple afghan in the rear window. My dad put in an awesome stereo system with an 8-track player! I listened to Loverboy’s “Get Lucky” and Air Supply’s “Ultimate Air Supply” on that 8-track until the tape broke.

  
  6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? The National Weather Service letting me know that Madison was under a winter storm warning… at 3am!
  
  7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? Steve. Always.
  
  8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? Miss Norris. She really liked me and I really liked her. I remember nothing other than that.

  
  9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? To meet Steve’s family in Oklahoma. It was snowing like crazy and there were six hours of delays caused for everything from ice on the wings, a lost crew, and another plane catching fire as it landed. And you wonder why I abhor flying today?
  
  10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? Tammy Hampton in junior high and high school. Thanks to the internet, she found me through my blog and now we keep in touch through email, Facebook, and blogs. I am incredibly blessed to still have her in my life.
  
  11. Where was your FIRST sleep over? I am assuming that staying at Bio-dad’s on the weekends don’t count, so I would have to say at Susan Strahan’s house. Her brother, Allen, kept trying to convince us that there were ghosts out in the backyard or in the basement. I remember we snuck out of bed and went ghost hunting.
  
  12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? Lisa called to see if the city plow had been by to cover up all the snow I had already plowed out and to let me know that Tom and Jordan were coming to dig me back out! Mondo blessing!
  
  13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time? My own. In a gazebo atop a mountain in Eureka Springs, AR.
  
  14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? Turned over and went back to sleep.
  
  15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? Probably a 26^th Street Singers concert at the high school.
  
  16. FIRST tattoo? Something out of a Cracker Jacks box.
  
  17. First piercing? My ears that have now closed up because my ears kept getting infected and I just gave up!
  
  18. First foreign country you've been to? Does Wisconsin count? I’ve never been out of the USA.
  
  19. FIRST movie you remember seeing? Herbie “The Love Bug” at the Indiana Theater with my mom.
  
  20. When was your FIRST detention? I don’t remember ever getting detention, but I did get put in Lazy Corner in third grade for neglecting to learn my multiplication tables in a timely manner.

  What firsts do you remember?
  

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