Ideal Bite

• My first tricycle.  Apparently I was 3 when I got it, but I remember riding it - brand new with a bow on it - around the linoleum on the kitchen floor.
• Being sick while still in a crib.
• First kiss/handholds/etc. Of course.
• The birthday of every ex-boyfriend I've ever had.  Middle names, too - in fact, these items take up space in my brain that I'd really like to have back - I need that room for more important data, please (don't you sometimes wish you could "clear the cache" on your harddrive that way?).
• How I made a good Thanksgiving cornucopia during art in kindergarten and the teacher showed the whole class.
• The first time I ate sushi, in college, and thought I'd throw up, but choked it down so I could seem cool (with my near constant sushi fetish these days, this memory always makes me laugh).
• Every word in the entire freakin' poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Longfellow, which I memorized JUST FOR FUN (???) one summer as a kid.

But for whatever reason, I have NO idea when/where/or how I learned to use chopsticks.

-Heather... off to contemplate more grand forgotten mysteries of life, like remembering when I learned to whistle...

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