Please read below all about some of my firsts... I don't know if each Thursday 13 is supposed to have a theme, but this one does...
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2. I took my first motorcycle riding lesson about two weeks ago. I did not drop the bike or even come close! I eventually even put my feet on the pegs! I tried to get into second gear, but neutral got in the way (damn green light!). I hope to be able to ride around the block by Leesburg. 3. I am going to Chicago this week to present a paper I wrote about political parties and the way they discuss women candidates and leaders in the parties’ news releases. I hope the paper is well received! Oh, and this is the first time I will be going to a conference REALLY ALONE—all the other ones at which I have presented I have had someone I know there. Yikes! 4. I got my second ear hole pierced last week. This is not technically a first, but a first in a long time seeing as I think I was 8 the last time I tried to pierce the second holes! 5. I purchased a bed for the first time ever this week. It is a king-size plush super pillow top and we are going to LOVE it! I was shocked to find out how much king-size sheets cost. 6. I put a blog roll on my blog this week. That was an accomplishment in and of itself. I thought I was going to have to e-mail someone who already had one and ask them how they got that. Luckily, I didn’t—I would have been VERY embarrassed to find out how easy it was. 7. Okay, the rest of these won’t be recent firsts because I just haven’t done any more new things lately… I took my first insulin shot at 13—February of 1995 (yeah, do the math). I have been insulin dependent the entire time I have been diabetic and have always administered my own meds. 8. My first car was a 1994 Ford Escort and my friends said it was pink, but I said it was magenta! It was a two-door five speed. I drove the hell out of that thing. I am still a terrible driver (see next first). 9. My first really bad wreck was Labor Day ’06. It was a hit and run in which the other car hit my driver’s side rear quarter panel (I was pulling out of my apartment complex to turn left, they were in the lane closest to me—would have been behind me if I had turned right). My car spun around 180 degrees. I thought it wasn’t that bad. I reversed to get out of the road, made sure I was OK, then drove back across the road into my complex. No one stopped to render aid. Luckily I was OK, but it has always bothered me that the other driver drove off and no one stopped. It was all so crazy that I couldn’t even tell the cops what the other car looked like other than white and four door… Maybe had someone stopped they could have helped me out there. So, then I called the hubbie and jim (my own personal first responder). They showed up just before the cops. Someone did call 911 for me, at least. I wouldn’t go in the ambulance because I thought I was OK… I was WRONG! Within the hour, I could barely move my neck and my back felt like it was moving not under my direction… So I went in the next day to find out I had whiplash and a sprained lumbar. They sent me to a chiropractor and I have been seeing the chiropractor since then. We have since discovered that, as a result of the wreck, I have a protruding disc at L4-L5. I will probably have back problems for the rest of my life. That pisses me off. 10. I don’t remember my first kiss. Isn’t that sad? I keep going back and fourth in my memory between the only two boys I kissed in all of junior high and can’t remember which one happened first. I think it was the boy from church, but then I really think it was the alterna-boy who really had a crush on my best friend. 11. My first job was at the local dry cleaners. My sister had worked there as her first job, too. They were the only people we knew willing to hire a 15-year-old. I took in clothes, tagged them, brought people their clean clothes… All in all it was pretty easy. 12. My first apartment was in the ghetto. Not just ghetto… GHETTO! I went to a small private school where most of the students were living off Mommy and Daddy. My mommy and daddy also supported me but did so with more limits than most people at my school… So I lived farther away from campus (thus avoiding $1,000/month rent) and lived in the ghetto. But I made the best of that place. Virtually everything in that apartment was given to me. My mom’s work friend gave me a couch, coffee table, side table, and vacuum. My sister gave me all sorts of kitchen stuff—including a kitchen table. My grandma gave me a bed, someone gave me a washer and dryer… Literally, I bought NOTHING to furnish that apartment. It rocked. I still have a lot of those freebies. I am sitting on the world’s greatest free couch as I type (I think it might not make the next move and that makes me sad). 13. This is my first Thursday Thirteen Post. Please tell me what you think. Am I getting the idea of them right? Please let me know. Links to other Thursday Thirteens!1. Lara (the only one I actually regularly read, so please let me know if you have one too) 2. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!) |
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