Sunday Stealing

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Sunday Stealing: The (20) First (Questions) Meme

First Job: Houston Post telephone sales

First Real Job: Clinical Data Manager at a pharmaceutical research CRO

First Volunteer Job: My first "real" volunteer job was as a cancer information specialist at the American Cancer Society, when I first moved to Austin. I answered questions from people who called in on the 1-800 cancer info hotline.

First Car: a $1200 used maroon Mazda GLC (pictured later in this post, in a not-so-pristine state)

First Record: 1st album- Saturday Night Fever soundtrack  1st 45- "Happy Days" Theme

First Sport Played: school basketball team in 6th grade. Go Lions!

First Concert: At a major venue- The Summit in Houston (we saw tons of famous acts at Astroworld in middle school)- I say it was the Go-Go's, but Kimberly insists Hall & Oates was first. She's crazy. It was 9th grade though. Kimberly's dad took us and he wore ear plugs. I thought that was so hilarious.

First Country Visited: I'm pretty sure my grandpa and grandma were living in England at the time that we lived in Germany, when I was teensy, and we went to see them. Don't hold me to that.

First Kiss: FrankieB in third grade, for purposes of a kissing contest between another girl and me. Yeah, Frankie was pretty smooth for an 8-year-old.

First Speech: Hmm. My first speaking role in a school theater production was in third grade. First major public speaking was a work presentation on medical coding that I did at a huge investigators' meeting in Scottsdale. I think my only actual "speech" was the one I just did a few weeks ago when I won an award.

First Girlfriend/Boyfriend: JohnH when I was 15. We were together for a year-and-a-half.

First Encounter with a Famous Person: I was one of a small group of kids presenting a PISD award to Gordie Howe for his involvement with schools, center ice at a Houston Aeros game when I was in second grade. I happened to get to stand next to him, and he put his arm around me during the presentation.

1974. He was playing for the Aeros,
alongside his two sons, Mark and Marty.

First Brush With Death: In college, I hit a deer on a highway at high speed. It jumped right into my windshield and bounced off, thank goodness. Glass was all over me and everywhere in the car, but the deer did not end up in my front seat. WHEW.

Notice I stopped when I hit the deer. Just saying.

First House/Flat Owned: About a year after we were married, we bought a very cute house in Shady Hollow in southwest Austin.

First Film Seen at a Cinema: Benji

First Media Appearance (Radio, Newspaper, TV): The Gordie Howe presentation I mentioned before. TV and newspaper coverage.

First Hospital Stay: Tonsillectomy when I was a kid

First Book You Remember Reading: I'm wondering if this is a quick answer for most people. I don't remember a lot of books from when I was very little- other than The Velveteen Rabbit, but that was one that was read to me at bedtime. The first book I really fell in love with was Charlotte's Web, in elementary school. I read it over and over, and it made me cry every single time.

First Pet: orange tabby cat named Mickey

First Election You Voted In: 1985- nothing too exciting that year. Kathy Whitmire won the race for Houston mayor. My first presidential election vote was 1988, when I supported George H. W. Bush over No-Thanks-I-Don't-Dukakis. :)