Sunday Stealing: The Twenty Firsts Meme

This is a tough meme for me. The perfectionist in me wants to answer all these questions accurately. Unfortunately I'm having a hard time remembering for sure in all cases what the first one of something was. Refusing to give up altogether I will just issue this disclaimer up front: All of these are the firsts as I remember them as I write this post. Accuracy is not guaranteed. There, now the perfectionist in me can allow me to move on with the answers without feeling like a complete failure.

First Job: Other than babysitting in high school, washing test tubes in a medical lab.

First Real Job: Regulatory auditor

First Favorite Politician: Jimmy Carter

First Car: 1968 Buick Lesabre

First Record/CD: Elton John's Rock of the Westies

First Sport Played: Softball

First Concert: Styx

First Foreign Country Visited: The Bahamas

First Favorite TV Show: Batman (the old one with Adam West)

First Favorite Actor: Andy Griffith (I always thought his Andy Taylor and my dad were a lot alike. At least they talked a lot alike and seemed to have a similar background and philosophy)

First Favorite Actress: Carol Burnett (loved her weekly show and her role in Once Upon a Mattress)

First Girlfriend/Boyfriend: Tim, in sixth grade, but only because I knew Joe would never be interested in me. If Joe had been interested in me Tim wouldn't have stood a chance.

First Encounter with a Famous Person: Ted Knight (played Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show). I saw him in Baker's Square in Santa Monica on Thanksgiving morning. I recognized him and kept looking over at him. His eyes met mine at one point, and he smiled and nodded at me in a gesture that I'm sure he was used to doing when he was recognized in public. I wanted to go over and say hi, but I also didn't want to bother him so I just smiled back and went back to eating my breakfast.

First Brush With Death: I don't know just how close a brush with death this was, but it seems that it could have been fairly close when I was in a car accident when I was three. Of course, I wasn't strapped in like kids are now, but just loose in the car. I was sitting on the floor of the front seat coloring when my mom ran off a small bridge over a creek. The car flipped and landed on its roof. I was knocked out and don't remember anything until I awoke in the ER and screamed bloody murder because I was scared and didn't know where I was or who all those people were surrounding me poking and prodding at me (doctors and nurses checking for injuries).

First House/Condo Owned: A double wide mobile home that W and I lived in for a few years until we could save up to buy a "real" house.

First Film Seen: The Sting

First Favorite Recording Artist: The Partridge Family (yeah, lame I know, but I thought they were the best)

First Favorite Radio Station: WLS, back in the day when they played music instead of talk

First Book I Remember Reading: Dick and Jane when I was in first grade

First Meme You Answered on Your Blog: Ok, at least this one I could do a little research to figure out the correct answer. First thing I found was that I have 58(!) posts tagged "Meme" which just blew me away. I had no clue I'd done that many. Clearly I've shared more than anyone could ever want to know about me. The first one was posted on June 2, 2006. I don't know the name of the meme, but I entitled my post Too Much Information, and looking it over that seems to fit pretty well.