I have no idea why I’m doing two memes in the same year, let alone the same month, but I needed a break in between chick movies to cleanse the proverbial palette. So… yeah.

1. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
   Ehhh… I honestly am not sure who my first love really was.  Not to get all soft focus, but I’m not sure I knew what love was until I was much older.  But if we’re talking first “like, oh my god, I’m totally going to lie to my parents and invite him over for Chinese food when they’re out of town, choke on some baby corn, pray that we make out and then totally cry when he leaves because the dog shit in the room right when he was going to kiss me” love… then, uh, no.
2. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
   A Manhattan on the rocks.  My dad let me eat the cherries from his drink, so I assumed it all tasted like that and drank half of one of this cocktails before he realized that I’d done it — and I realized that man, that was no Roy Rogers.
3. What was your FIRST job?
   If you don’t count babysitter, then perfume ninja for The Broadway department store. Also, Pizza Hut cook.
4. What was your FIRST car?
   A 1984 silver Camaro Berlinetta with T-tops and Mag wheels which my stepmother picked out for me. A few days later I gave her some lip when I couldn’t find a scrunchee for her hair or some other ridiculous thing we fought about in hindsight and she sold it to our housekeeper.   Then I watched our housekeeper drive “my” car to work every day for a year and a half.  While I realize not everyone had the luxury of a housekeeper, or got a car for their 16th birthday, it’s a nice example of the dynamic relationship we had.
5. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
   Hmmm… you know, I don’t think I received one text yet today.
6. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
   Lulu!  Do rabbits count?
7. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
   Sister Consuela at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School.
   
8. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
   I’m not really sure. It could have been Los Angeles to visit my grandparents when I lived in Foster City or… I vaguely recall a trip to Dallas to visit one of my mom’s friends, but… I’m not really sure.
9. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?
   I think I’d have to go with Jennifer Blackwell. I haven’t spoken to her in years, though I do wonder sometimes what became of her.  She’s the first person I remember calling my best friend. She lived on the next street over and was two years older than me.  Everything was fun until she hit puberty and my dad thought she was too old for me.  But I remember watching MTV for the first time in her living room.
10. Where was your FIRST sleep over?
    Oh, I have no idea. It was probably at my cousin Angelique’s house in Capistrano Beach.  My aunt had (has?) a house on the cliff over looking the beach.  I’d sleep on this square corner 70′s-esque “couch” thing and listen to the ocean to fall asleep.
11. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
    mikey, I do believe.  Assuming we’re not counting rabbits or people we’ve spoken to online.
    
12. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
    I think it was my cousin Kathleen’s wedding.  Though, I don’t think I was technically in the wedding. I remember I had a peach dress on that my grandmother bought from some fancy shop in Mexico and I felt weird about being there because I didn’t even know my cousin Kathleen. I think if I were to confirm a wedding I was truly in, it would be my friend Anne’s wedding back in… uh… 1994?  I remember she had fire & ice roses, I wore a forest green velvet and taffeta dress and my bangs were way too short.
13. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
    Snuggled a bun. Are you sensing a theme?
14. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
    Some people might not count this as a real “concert”, but I saw Paul Anka in Vegas when I was 8 or so. If you want to go with real live grown-up, no parents, wine coolers in the parking lot concert, I suppose it would be The Cramps, Ziggy Marley, They Might Be Giants and The B-52′s at XFest in 1990.
15. FIRST tattoo?
    Ah, the unfortunate first tattoo. I went in with an old friend Ali on Father’s Day in 1998.  We’d come from the beach, were totally sunburned and the only place on my body that wasn’t red was my left ankle. I wanted “chi” in Kanji  on my left ankle, very small. Very small, like nickel-sized.  This was before everyone on this great wide planet had a Kanji tattoo, yet I’m still not sure why I chose that particular thing.  Alas, Ali talked me into getting “friend”, as well so we could both have the same tattoo.  She got hers on her stomach, I got mine next to the ‘chi’ tattoo.  So, reading my tattoo makes absolutely no sense.  And the cherry on top, the guy made them more like the size of quarters… maybe half dollars.  While I sometimes wish I didn’t have them, I often forget they’re there and they don’t bother me that much.
16. First piercing?
    First piercing? Really? That’s the big finale?  *sigh* Ok… well.  This isn’t terribly exciting, but my ears.  I was thirteen years old and my dad wouldn’t let me get my ears pierced. He said I’d look like a hooker from Idaho. I’m not sure why my dad was familiar with Idaho hookers, but that was his stance. My stepmom, however, took me to get them pierced at the mall on my 13th birthday.  She made me promise to wear tiny studs and perhaps not show my dad until they had healed up more.  Of course, as a headstrong teenager, do you think I just wore tiny studs?  Hell no. As soon as those lobes healed, I would put hoops on or big Debbie Gibson-looking earrings when I got to school.  Sometimes I would forget to take them out when I got home and uh… yeah, he figured it out. Guess who looked like a hooker from Idaho?

I think the last question on this is weak. you can’t close with “first piercing”! Please. If you think of a better closer, let me know, but in the meantime, and in honor of the holiday, I pose this question:

Who made you your first “mix tape” and what was on it, from what you can recall?  (Or, vice versa, if you gave a mix tape, who did you give it to and what was on it?)