The 'First Time' Tag

This tag is one that has been going around Youtube quite a lot recently, and so basically what the tag is, is all of your 'first things', experiences or things you owned or said all for the first time. I don't think I described that very well, but you'll see now now. 

Here it goes...

1) FIRST PET

My first pet, that was mine, you know, like classified as my cat, not the family's, was my cat Fluffy. I got her from my parents for my sixth birthday, hence the terribly obvious name and she was a very sweet tortoiseshell. Or at least we thought. About 7 years ago (so I was around 11), she decided that she didn't like our family anymore and moved next door. That sounds bizarre but is completely true. She literally walked over there one day and refused to come back. And now she hisses at us if we go near her. So we basically 'gave' her to my neighbour and she is officially not mine anymore. But I'll always remember how exciting it was getting her on my birthday. My dad had fetched her the night before and then slept with her in his arms until my birthday the next morning, and I just thought that was so sweet, and she was one of my best birthday presents because she was a complete surprise. 

2) FIRST CONCERT

The first concert that I went to was Billy Joel. Its funny because I was very young (well to go to a concert of his), I think about 10/11 and at the time I didn't know any of his music really. And its weird because now I love him and would have loved to go to the concert when I could properly remember it and knew the songs. But anyway, that was it and I still enjoyed it. I felt very grown up and yeah, it was quite exciting I guess. 

3) FIRST CD

I have no idea what the first CD I ever listened to was, my mom used to make loads of mixed CDs with songs she liked and that's part of why I know so much old (60s-80s) music. But the first CD that I ever bought with my own money, was, as embarrassing as it is, a 'Barbie Summer Days' mixed Cd, or something like that. I don't remember a single song that was on it, but it was one of those general CDs (like the child equivalent to the 'Now's) with a whole lot of songs on it- songs by The Spice Girls, Hamster Dance, those type of thing are the only memories I have of what was on it, but I loved it to bits. My best friend had the 'pink' series and I had the 'blue' series and together we knew every song backwards. 

4) FIRST MOVIE (AT THE CINEMA) 

So the first movie I ever saw at the movies was when I was probably around 9, but I really can't be too sure. I went with my mom and again, felt very grown up watching a 'grown up' movie. The movie was Maid in Manhattan, which to date is still one that I really love, possibly because it was so special seeing it as my first movie. It had Jennifer Lopez in it, and was a pretty typical romcom, but I loved it and watched it numerous times after that. 

5) FIRST FEAR

As far as I remember, my first fear was being scared of the dark. It was pretty bad too. Until I was 7, I shared a room with my younger brother because we lived in a small house with my parents and us before my other two siblings were born. So going into my own room was something I remember being absolutely terrified of. The ceiling was dark wood, which is pretty normal, but for some reason I hated it and thought that snakes and bad things could hide there (yes, clearly a bit of a wild imagination). So I was scared to turn out the light and not see the ceiling or what was around me. Even after we painted the ceiling white, I still was scared of the dark. I literally fell asleep with the light outside my window on the patio, the passage light outside my door and my bed side lamp all on. That is soo bright, I honestly don't know how I fell asleep! It's weird because now, I am actually still a bit afraid of absolute pitch pitch darkness. I could never sleep in such light, but when I got to bed, I like to leave my door a crack open, or something like that. But being immersed in darkness so dark that you can't even see when you're holding your hand up in front of you, still kind of freaks me out a bit. 

6) FIRST GADGET

Hmm, I am not 100% sure, but as far as I remember it was one of those really really crap 'game boys' as we used to call them. The pixels were literally big squares on tiny screens and I think you just played games on them. My aunt brought them down from Canada, one for me, and one for my brother and we had a whole lot of games on stuffy disks, or that type of thing, that you put into them, and then you could play that game. What I remember of them, I spending most of my time trying to get it to work, and I am sure I'd go absolutely crazy if I were to use one now. This was way before we got things like cameras or cellphones or anything, in fact I think it was even before we got those 'walkman' things, like massive IPods that played a CD, yes this was older than those!

7) FIRST TOY

It was a knitted sailor doll called Sally that my grandpa (if I remember correctly) bought for me. I wouldn't quite call it a rag doll, and it was fairly big, but that type of thing. I was a girl dressed in a sailor outfit with a white hat, and yeah that's about all I remember of it, from what my mom tells me. We still actually have it hidden somewhere in the house, probably in a box of old things, but nonetheless, it is here somewhere. 

8) FIRST CELEB CRUSH

I don't know who it was like before the age of 12, but after that I think it was Alex Pettyfer. I can't say I disapprove of my younger self's attraction, although it would definitely not be him now. But anyway, I think it was him, I liked his British accent and loved the movie Wild Child, that he was in. 

9) FIRST BIG TRIP 

I was about 4 I think and my parents, younger brother (the others weren't born yet) and I went to England. I don't remember very much at all. I have faint memories of going to lego land, of staying at a very pretty house in Oxford that had a pond with ducks in the garden and also some recollection of being at the airport- but that's about all I remember. I also remember going on one of those canal boats, I think that was in Yorkshire... but not sure. Although looking through photos, it looks like we had a lot of fun, and it was our first proper family trip.