Well, that's a first!

Turning 21 is one of those milestone birthdays. It's been over a decade since that particular milestone for me, but I was challenged to share "21 firsts" from my life and it's made me nostalgic for those good old days when we still looked forward to those impending milestone birthdays, instead of dreading them... At the [ahem] ripe old age of 33, what do I have to look forward to? Turning 35 when my fertility starts nose-diving? Turning 40 and officially being the age when it's appropriate to start receiving cards that joke about getting older? Turning 50 and all the "over the hill" gag gifts? Nope, nothing to look forward to except retirement, which seems to be getting further and further away... 65, no wait, 67, or is it even later than that now?

Anyway, enough looking forward... let's look back, shall we?

1. First friend: Aimie Mikhelle Taylor – from grade school
2. First pet: Yorkie named Winston who died very young of the Parvo virus when I was still in grade school
3. First movie that scared me silly: Raiders of the Lost Ark (not the snakes, but the flying evil spirit things at the end when they opened the ark)
4. First record I ever bought: a 45 of Styx - Mr. Roboto (ugh!)
5. First pair of glasses: sixth grade, clunky plastic frames
6. First kiss: Scott somebody, he was the cousin of a friend, we were in middle school and it was a horrible, slobbery disappointment
7. First Car: Silver 1979 Pontiac Firebird
8. First boyfriend: P@ul, the troubled older bad boy
9. First formal dance: Junior Prom with aforementioned P@ul
10. First love: J@mez
11. First ‘good’ jewelry: tiny diamond stud earrings from my daddy on my 18th birthday
12. First concert: ZZ Top, opened by the Black Crowes 1991
13. First inebriation: at a Univ of Mo-Rolla frat party on cheap pineapple rum
14. First job out of college: Temping at an insurance company, processing auto collision claims
15. First NEW car I ever bought: 98 Acura CL
16. First Travel outside of US: Winnipeg, MB Canada spring 2000
17. First true love: My hubby!
18. First house purchased: Aug 2000, 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath, never-EVER buy a Pulte house, 2 story with finished basement and fenced yard
19. First child: Miss M, 22 months now
20. First thought this morning: “You didn’t go to bed until 11 pm last night, my daughter. How can you be ready to get up this early!!!!! It’s not even 8 am yet!”
21. First thought upon starting this list: “I’ll never be able to come up with 21 firsts.”