Differences and firsts
Finally, as promised – our first Different Kinds of Parents feature over at Parent Bloggers. You won’t be disappointed.
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Between Cheryl at Red Pens and Diapers and Smiling Mom at Beneath the Mask, I’m on the hook to reveal eighteen things about myself. Eighteen NEW things. Considering how much dirty laundry I’ve aired over the past two years, I’m a bit daunted.
So I’ll tell you some of my “firsts”. Hopefully no one will be too shocked or dismayed (that means you, Dad).
1. I took my first ballet lesson when I was four.
2. I took my first Chinese lesson when I was six.
3. I took my first piano lesson when I was seven.
4. I also took my first swimming lesson when I was seven.
5. I took my first harp lesson when I was twelve.
6. I got my ears pierced for the first time when I was thirteen.
7. I took my first ski lesson when I was fourteen.
8. I went on my first date when I was fourteen.
9. I had my first boyfriend when I was fifteen.
10. I got in my first car accident when I was sixteen.
11. I got my first D (Physics) when I was seventeen.
12. I threw up from excess alcohol consumption the first time when I was seventeen.
13. I was…um…deflowered when I was eighteen.
14. I got my first F (Linear Circuits) when I was nineteen.
15. I shot a gun and flew a plane for the first time when I was twenty-one.
16. I got my first college degree when I was twenty-three.
17. I had my first baby when I was thirty.
18. I started my first blog when I was thirty-three.
And while I’m not going to tag eighteen people, I’ll tag five:
Fairly Odd Mother
Get In the Car!
Life: The Ongoing Education
Mother Bumper
Quarter Rest
May 25th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Look how well-rounded you are, with your Chinese and your harp and your linear circuits! Color me impressed.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Oh my – I’ve been tagged. Let’s see if I retained enough enough brain cells since my first inhale to remember the rest of my firsts!
May 25th, 2007 at 6:54 am
And I would have gotten an F in Linear Circuits too, if I knew what that course was even about.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Holy cow! You have an impressive memory!
May 25th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I’ve got to compete with flying planes and harps? Christ….thinking of things to make up for Monday
May 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Wow, you have done a lot!!!!!
May 25th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
dang, that is an impressive list. i’d be curious to know when some of the “lasts” were. i mean, you took so many first lessons – do you still do all those things? i took lots of lessons, but usually my “last” lesson was only about a year after my “first” (it took me a long time to find the things i liked).
thanks for the tag!
May 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Linear Circuits? Dear God, why even sign up for that??
May 25th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Ooh, thank you, thank you!! Great list. When I was reading I thought you said you had your first baby at thirteen, not thirty. I did a double take.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Is it weird that I wanted to high five you and say, “Hey! I was deflowered at 18 TOO!” Yeah, I thought so.
OK, I’ll do my assignment shortly. Hope I don’t scare away the family members who read my blog.
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Done! : )
http://fairlyoddmother.blogspot.com/2007/06/feels-like-first-time.html
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
okay, um, you have to warn me! I got all technorati happy and found this *just now*! sad, sad, sad….
and that’s going to be a hard list to follow, even 2 months later – nice job