Sunday Stealing: Firsts

These are several questions stolen from Durward Discussion:  a trip through time.

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Firsts

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?  Girl, this is going to be a ponytail day.

2. Where did you go on the very first vacation of your life? There may have been one before it, but the first one I remember was to Niagara Falls and then to Lancaster Co.

3. Open the door of your refrigerator. What is the first thing you see? Am I opening the small, outside access door or the whole door? If it's the little outside door I'll see milk, chocolate milk, and wine. If I open the whole door the first thing I'll see is the shelf at eye level with all the pickles, sauces, and condiments.

4. Tell us about your first kiss OR your last first date. My last first date was with my husband. He took me to a very fancy restaurant. We had to dress up and the waiter was in a jacket with a towel over his arm. Champagne was chilling beside the table, he ordered us filet mignon, and we got little chocolate cups of some kind of liquor between courses. He was definitely out to impress and sweep me off my feet. It worked!

5. If you had wings to fly about the universe, where is the first place you’d land? Wings or not, I wouldn't get very far without oxygen so I'll leave the space exploration to someone else. There are enough places to explore here on earth and I'd probably start with Australia. (I'd choose Israel and Egypt, but I don't know how safe those are these days.)

6. What is the first thing you do when you get in your car? I'm not sure without going out to the car and getting in...it's either put on my seatbelt or put the key in the ignition.

7. What is the first thing you ever said to your firstborn?  After 33 years I don't have a clue, but I'm sure it was some gushing motherly thing.

8. What is the last thing you heard about your first love? I don't know. I haven't heard anything about him in years.

9. If you had created the world in seven days yourself, what would you have created on the First Day?  I wouldn't change a thing. I think God did just fine.

10. What is the first song in your IPOD or song list?  IPOD? Does anyone still have one of those? I don't have a song list on my phone. I just search for whatever I'm in the mood to hear or what I need to play for work.

11. What is the first tangible thing you lost that you could never find again? I can't even guess what it might have been.

12. Who is your favorite First Lady of all time?  It's probably a tie between Jackie Kennedy and Barbara Bush. Very different ladies, I know, but both were very classy in their own styles.

13. Post a link to your first blog post. My very first blog post isn't in existence any more. I posted it way back in 2001 on a blog I titled Keep It Simple, Stupid. It was very much centered around my life in youth ministry at that time.

14. When was the last time you needed First Aid?  Last winter when my finger got infected and throbbed so much I couldn't sleep. I was lying there imagining what toxic bacteria I'd picked up at the nursing home and how it was brewing and multiplying in my finger and freaked myself out. So, I got up and went to the ER, who actually took it pretty seriously, and lanced it and drained all the goo out and gave me a prescription for a heavy duty antibiotic.

15. Can you explain what a first down is in football? I can. Football is my favorite sport. Am I going to? Nope, we've reached the point where my laziness has kicked in.