My First....

1. Who was your first prom date? Since I wasn’t popular enough to get invited to every body and they mama’s prom before my own, I only went to mine and I went with my gay best friend G and we clowned the entire night. I was kinda salty that he ended up pulling more numbers than I did when we hit the “after parties” *and from both teams at that*. I broke up with JDUBB months before and I was too lazy to look for a suitable date so we decided to just go together.

2. Who was your first roommate? My first roomie was my best friend ICEE. We were roomies the two years I lived in the dorms. Ah fun times those were…

3. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got drunk the first time? Some E&J *lol* Got pissy drunk the night before my ACT. Went to an study party which turned into a drinking party. Damn friends turned me into the *now reformed* alkie that I am today. Is E&J the signature “first” drink?

4. What was your first job? Ticket Master. I had so much fun working at that job considering I was always late and had the habit of calling off of work BUT coming up to the job to get my check *yeah how hood right?* Saturdays were the worst because this was during the peak of Britney, N’Sync, Backstreet and we received calls from all over about their concerts.

5. What was your first car? I’m still waiting on that one…*lol* Damn shame I’m 23 and have never owned a car. I’m getting my Acura by Christmas.

6. When did you go to your first funeral? The first funeral that I personally remember was when I was 6 or 7, one of my mother’s friends. My mother is a self-professed funeral whore, she goes to everyone’s funeral regardless of who the person is so I was dragged to a lot of her “associates” funerals. But the first funeral that I went to and realized the comedy of Black funerals was my grandfather’s and my two great-aunts got into an argument over who cooked the potato salad at the repast and of course the shit folks will say about a person after they’re dead. That day was a comedy and a half which of course you know I was banned from the funeral hom *had to wait in the limo* not to mention the two lectures I received for “laughing” when someone fell out at the funeral. Who knew comedic gold were at funerals? And my mother wonders why my sense of humor is fucked up.

7. How old were you when you first moved away from your hometown? *lol* When I went to college in Champaign, IL when I was 18. Now I’m in Arlington.

8. Who was your first grade teacher? Good old Mrs. Gay. Always made me sit in the corner for not using my “in door” voice and disrupting the class. Could I help if I was reading chapter books by the first grade thus bored by the “Trumpet” school book.

9. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane? Apparently I was on a plane at 3 for my first trip to Disneyland which I don’t remember. I went to Vegas at 17 with my mother, grandmother and their friends. Yeah I couldn’t get into any casinos but I did have fun. I remember there were a LOT of cute men in the hotel, if I wasn’t underage...

10. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with? It would have been with FH or TWIN but I never had to sneak out of the house. I had to sneak back in. I just couldn’t do the early curfew on the weekends not when Southside Prep had their infamous “house parties”…

11. Who was your first Best Friend and are you still friends with them? My first best friends was Karen. We were best friends from pre-k until 2nd grade she moved away to Kansas and lost touch.

12. Where did you live the first time you moved out of your parents house? In Trelease Hall at UIUC with ICEE, techincally I was out the house b/c my room was quickly converted to a “guest room” but officially it’s now here in Arlington with the fiance.

13. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day? It was FH, now it’s the fiance. When it’s really bad I call on Mama Dukes.

14. Who's wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid or a groomsmen? My father’s when I was 10 and I hated every minute of it.

15. What is the first thing you do in the morning? Curse at the alarm clock. Wipe the cold out my eye.

16. What was the first concert you ever went to? Immature *lol* In the 7th grade you couldn’t tell me nothing about Immature, they were my obsession. I lost my voice screaming so loud at Batman, Romeo and LDB. I had the posters and everything, back when Right On! was the shit…is that magazine even around any more?

17. First tattoo or piercing? My first *and only so far* tattoo was at 17…my name on my left shoulder blade. Of course like many Black mothers I’ve had my ears pierced since I was a few weeks old. At 18 I got my tongue pierced. 19 my nipples and at 20 my navel. Only the ears and navel is left.

18. First celebrity crush? Morris Chestnut, I cried when he got shot in Boys in the Hood. I loved BJ Armstrong, Penny Hardaway, and of course Michael Jordan. It’s funny how much of a sports fanatic I was when I was younger and I couldn’t even tell you the Bulls lineup right now…hell any line-up. Shit I barely know the teams in cities let alone their names.